dimanche, 29 juillet 2018 @ 10:00 – 12:00 – We are excited to present the National Youth Orchestra of Canada as part of the 2018 Festival on July 29 at 7:30pm at Koerner Hall. Featuring the top young talents in the country under the baton of renowned conductor Jonathan Darlington, the NYO’s Toronto concert will certainly be one of the most in-demand performances of […]
jeudi, 19 juillet 2018 @ 19:30 – Two works composed during the primary wars of the twentieth century make up this intriguing program. Igor Stravinsky’s L’Histoire du Soldat (1918) retells the Faust legend, in which the hero sells his soul to the Devil in exchange for the promise of wisdom and good fortune. Stravinsky called for a chamber ensemble and a narrator.
vendredi, 3 août 2018 @ 19:30 – 21:30 – Leoš Janáček’s Violin Sonata (1914-21) is a typically passionate and quirky piece by this unpredictable Moravian master. In the words of the composer, Chan Ka Nin’s Our Finest Hour (1999, winner of the 2006 JUNO award for classical composition of the year), pays tribute to “the achievements of mankind” and “the power of the citizens […]
jeudi, 2 août 2018 @ 19:30 – 21:30 – During World War II the big band music of Benny Goodman, Count Basie, Glenn Miller and others was the soundtrack of life on the home front, and these familiar tunes became a metaphor for the way of life soldiers were fighting to preserve. Join us for an uplifting evening of the best of the Big […]
mercredi, 1 août 2018 @ 19:30 – 21:30 – Music shadowed by war makes up this intriguing program. Maurice Ravel began his Piano Trio in 1914, just before the First World War broke out. The grim events of that conflict cast a shadow upon this otherwise elegant composition. The Second World War cut short the promising career of Moravian composer Gideon Klein. Confined to […]
mardi, 31 juillet 2018 @ 19:30 – 21:30 – Gold medalist of the Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Masters Competition, and hailed as “enthralling” in the Globe and Mail, Angela Cheng is one of Canada’s national musical treasures. Her solo repertoire for this recital includes Beethoven’s next-to-last piano sonata (an intensely beautiful piece that he composed in 1821), and a stormy ballade by Chopin (1835-36). […]
lundi, 30 juillet 2018 @ 19:30 – 21:30 – Join us for a very special homage to one of the world’s greatest violinists, Yehudi Menuhin. A highlight of TSM Artistic Director Jonathan Crow’s early career came when he performed, at age 20, the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto with Menuhin conducting the Victoria Symphony Orchestra. This program is based on concerts Menuhin performed at concentration camps […]
dimanche, 29 juillet 2018 @ 19:30 – 21:30 – After touring across the nation as a part of the Canada 150 celebrations in 2017, NYO Canada (National Youth Orchestra) returns to Koerner Hall as a part of their Migrations 2018 TD Tour. Presented as a part of Toronto Summer Music’s first-ever Community Day, come hear the 95-musician Orchestra perform works by Strauss, John Estacio […]
dimanche, 29 juillet 2018 @ 10:00 – 12:00 – Join us for a full afternoon of events with a feature performance by the Canadian National Brass Project at Toronto’s most exciting new outdoor concert venue, The Bentway. The Canadian National Brass Project is a group of the best brass players across Canada who join forces each summer from orchestras across North America. Programme will […]
jeudi, 26 juillet 2018 @ 19:30 – 21:30 – Ben Heppner and the Toronto Mass Choir join forces to perform Gospel favourites. You won’t want to miss this beautiful and heartfelt evening.
mercredi, 25 juillet 2018 @ 19:30 – 21:30 – Perhaps the most popular of all Baroque-period orchestral compositions, the four vivid and immensely colourful violin concertos that make up Antonio Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons are a primary example of program music, the kind that takes inspiration from such outside influences as stories, places, atmospheres and philosophical ideas.
mardi, 24 juillet 2018 @ 19:30 – 21:30 – The New Orford Quartet brings two contemporary American string quartet classics vibrantly to life. Reich’s Grammy-winning composition Different Trains (1988) presents a highly imaginative collage that combines taped speech and sound effects with music both live and pre-recorded.
lundi, 23 juillet 2018 @ 19:30 – 21:30 – You won’t want to miss this multi-disciplinary musical journey into the life of the renowned Ojibwe WWI sniper and decorated officer of the Canadian military, Francis Pegahmagabow. Sounding Thunder uses film, chamber music, dance and drumming and draws upon the memoirs of Pegahmagabow himself, family memories, and historical sources to introduce you to a little-known […]
vendredi, 20 juillet 2018 @ 19:30 – 21:30 – One of the most joyous of all chamber compositions – it dates from a carefree holiday in the Austrian Alps during the summer of 1819 – Schubert’s sunny “Trout” Quintet anchors this enchanting program.
jeudi, 19 juillet 2018 @ 19:30 – Interned in a Nazi camp during the Second World War, French composer Olivier Messiaen wrote a piece for the only four instruments available to him: clarinet, violin, cello and piano.
mercredi, 18 juillet 2018 @ 19:30 – Clarinetist and composer Kinan Azmeh (of Silk Road Ensemble fame) has wowed audiences in Europe, the Middle East, and the US. Join us for this not-to-be missed evening of classical music, jazz, and the music of Syria.
mardi, 17 juillet 2018 @ 19:30 – Revered German singer Christoph Prégardien, rarely heard in Toronto but of whom the New York Times has written, “His lyric tenor voice had a youthful glow, yet he sang with plaintive beauty and piercing insight,” appears in recital with pianist Julius Drake.
lundi, 16 juillet 2018 @ 19:30 – In the 7th century before Jesus Christ, Jerusalem was conquered by Nebuchadnezzar II, king of Babylon. The destruction of the Temple of Solomon, the ruin of the Kingdom of Judah, and the captivity of the Jews in Babylon were depicted in the Lamentations of the prophet Jeremiah
vendredi, 13 juillet 2018 @ 19:30 – Russian pianist Lukas Geniušas – a major prize-winner at the prestigious Tchaikovsky and Chopin Competitions – takes the spotlight for this program of treasures from the Russian tradition.
jeudi, 12 juillet 2018 @ 19:30 – Haydn: String Quartet No. 31 in B minor, Op. 33, No. 1, Hob.III:37
jeudi, 13 juillet 2017 @ All Day – Toronto Summer Music Festival brings outstanding classical music experiences to the city in the summer with a program featuring renowned Canadian and international artists in 26 mainstage concerts, plus masterclasses, free outreach concerts, lectures, and workshops. The 2017 Festival theme, Celebrating Canada’s Sesquicentennial explores the music of Canada and features some of the country’s renowned […]
