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Friday, May 10, 2024 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm – A new song by a Grade five student, a specially commissioned work with words by three famous Canadian poets, and two other world premieres are just some of the pleasures in store as the Upper Canada Choristers and co-founder/director Laurie Evan Fraser celebrate their 30th anniversary with a concert titled “New Beginnings”. Featured guests are […]
Friday, December 1, 2023 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm – Navidad Nuestra, Argentinian composer Ariel Ramirez’s 1963 folk drama telling the story of the Nativity through the rhythms and traditions of Hispanic America, is the centrepiece of a holiday concert that explores the music of different cultures. Laurie Evan Fraser conducts the Upper Canada Choristers and their accomplished Latin ensemble Cantemos, with pianist Hye Won […]
Friday, May 10, 2024 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm – Laurie Evan Fraser conducts the Upper Canada Choristers and their accomplished Latin ensemble Cantemos, with pianist Hye Won (Cecilia) Lee, as they celebrate the Choristers’ 30th anniversary. The program will include the premiere of Heartshine, a new song composed by director Laurie Evan Fraser, with lyrics by Jacqui Atkin and Jacinto Salcedo. Other repertoire includes […]
Friday, May 12, 2023 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm – The accomplished Latin ensemble Cantemos celebrates its 15th anniversary as part of the Upper Canada Choristers’ spring concert. Conducted by founder Laurie Evan Fraser and with Hye Won (Cecilia) Lee as pianist, the concert features pieces created for the UCC and Cantemos through commissions and collaborations, along with a sampling of favorites from the Cantemos […]
Saturday, March 4, 2023 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm – African, Jewish and Muslim musical traditions come together in one-night-only musical experience when Toronto’s Jubilate Singers and soprano Denise Williams of Walk Together Children join forces for Roots and Intersections. Denise Williams earned a following with her Walk Together Children concerts, which she began in the early 1990s to bring the African and Jewish communities […]
Friday, December 3, 2021 @ 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm – Celebrating Christmas, Hanukkah and Kwanzaa in a diversity of languages and styles. This concert features excerpts from Bach’s Christmas Oratorio and Handel’s Messiah; words by poet Sarah Williams sung to a Haydn canon; Morten Lauridsen’s Sure on This Shining Night (to a poem of James Agee), two Christmas songs by John Rutter; carols, and the […]
Friday, May 21, 2021 @ 10:00 am – 5:00 pm – For reasons of public health safety in Ontario, this event has been postponed until the Fall of 2021, at a date yet to be determined. The International Resource Centre for Performing Artists (IRCPA) is holding a one day Encounter with Theodore Baerg, one of Canada’s leading baritones. With Andrea Grant at the piano, he will […]
Friday, June 4, 2021 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm – For reasons of public health safety, this event has been postponed till the Fall of 2021, at a date yet to be determined, The International Resource Centre for Performing Artists (IRCPA) presents a concert by 10 singers in a concert of operatic arias and art songs with pianist Andrea Grant. All have taken received mentorship in […]
Friday, October 1, 2021 @ 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm – In Person and Online – A concert highlighting women composers and hoping for a better future. Laurie Evan Fraser conducts the 35-voice mixed choir and its accomplished Latin ensemble Cantemos, with pianist Hye Won Cecilia Lee. The program ranges from 12th century Gregorian chant to Renaissance madrigals, choral works inspired by the folk rhythms of […]
Friday, November 6, 2020 @ 12:30 pm – 1:00 pm – The International Resource Centre for Performing Artists presents world renowned Canadian pianist, songwriter, playwright and novelist Tomson Highway in conversation with Debra Chandler. He describes how his talents were discovered and developed, challenges he has faced, and important influences on his life and career, and discusses changing attitudes amongst the non-indigenous towards First Nations people. […]
Friday, December 4, 2020 @ 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm – The Upper Canada Choristers and their accomplished Latin ensemble Cantemos celebrate the holiday season in a live-streaming concert of Renaissance and Baroque choral works. The program features Vivaldi’s ever-inspiring Gloria, along with along with three Villancicos de Navidad (Christmas carols) from Spain, written in 1556, and the world premiere of Comfort and Joy composed by […]
Monday, May 4, 2020 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm – ***EVENT POSTPONED DUE TO COVID-19. CHECK WEBSITE FOR UPDATES*** The International Resource Centre for Performing Artists presents an evening of operatic arias and art songs in the concert/live broadcast Ten Singing Stars – New Generation. Singers who have taken part in the IRCPA’s April 17 “Encounter with Theodore Baerg” will perform with pianist Rachel Andrist. A post-concert […]
Thursday, January 16, 2020 @ 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm – The most talked about candidate in the 2015 International Tchaikovsky Competition, Lucas Debargue was unanimously chosen the winner of the Moscow Critics’ Prize, given an artist whose “incredible gift, artistic vision, and creative freedom have impressed the critics as well as the audience.” Immediately after, he began performing around the world in solo recitals in […]
Friday, November 8, 2019 @ 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm – Skataris, a duo concerto by Larysa Kuzmenko, receives its world premiere in a concert that also features Mozart’s Salzburg Symphony K. 138; Tchaikovsky’s Serenade, and the North American premiere of Letter from an Unknown Woman by Airat Ichmouratov. The Kuzmenko concerto was written for pianist Christina Petrowska Quilico, who joins violinist Marc Djokic and Sinfonia […]
Sunday, December 1, 2019 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm – Echo Women’s Choir offers a rousing and inspiring alternative to holiday season fare in its December concert). Special guests are the Latin American band Las Brujas del Barrio (The Witches of the Neighbourhood). The program features stirring marches, anthems and songs of determination and encouragement in the struggle for rights and justice. With its spirited […]
Sunday, November 3, 2019 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm – Soprano Hibla Gerzmava, star of the Metropolitan Opera, La Scala, Covent Garden and other major halls, makes her Toronto recital debut, in a program of deeply affecting Russian romances. French art songs, and heart-stopping arias from Anna Bolena, La forza del destino and Norma, with pianist Ekaterina Ganelina. Ms. Gerzmava stunned critics and her audience […]
Friday, December 6, 2019 @ 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm – A Christmas Fantasy opens the Upper Canada Choristers’ 26th season, following a successful and memorable tour of Japan to cap off their 25th anniversary celebrations. The 40-voice mixed choir performs five centuries of Christmas music, in a wide range of carols dating back as far as the 15th century in addition to some more modern […]
Friday, May 10, 2019 @ 7:30 pm – 10:00 pm – The Upper Canada Choristers, a mixed choir founded in 1994, celebrate a quarter century of bringing joy to audiences in concert halls, churches, hospitals, chronic care facilities, seniors’ residences and many other spaces. The choir has commissioned and premiered new music, collaborated with many artists, and encouraged music in the schools. Co-founder Laurie Evan […]
Saturday, May 25, 2019 @ 9:00 pm – 10:00 pm – Montreal baroque cellist Elinor Frey presents solo works on the five-string cello, including Bach’s Suite No. 6 in D major, and two works recently written for her by Canadian composers Scott Edward Godin (Guided by Voices – the title track on her new Analekta CD) and Isaiah Ceccarelli (With Concord of Sweet Sounds). A laidback […]
Sunday, May 26, 2019 @ 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm – The Toronto Bach Festival concludes with two of the shorter Lutheran masses Bach wrote before undertaking his masterpiece, the Mass in B minor. For this concert, John Abberger directs the Toronto Bach Festival Orchestra and Singers. All-Bach Program: Mass in G major, BWV 236; Sanctus in D major, BWV 238; Mass in F major, BWV […]
Friday, May 24, 2019 @ 8:00 pm – 9:45 pm – Opening concert in a three-day festival of historically informed performances celebrating one of the world’s most prolific and best loved composers, Johann Sebastian Bach. All-Bach program: Tritt auf die Glaubensbahn, BWV 152; Brandenburg Concerto No. 5, BWV 1050; Concerto in A minor for violin, BWV 1041; Du wahrer Gott und Davids Sohn, BWV 23 The […]
Saturday, May 25, 2019 @ 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm – Engaging and witty music historian Dr. Ellen Exner (New England Conservatory of Music) shares her knowledge, insight and humour while revealing how Bach’s approach to writing music was shaped by his exposure to the French Style as a young musician.
Saturday, May 25, 2019 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm – Award-winning Montreal harpsichordist Luc Beauséjour draws from some of J.S. Bach’s most beautiful and inventive music for solo keyboard, to perform French and English suites in an intimate Toronto setting. Strongly influenced by Bach’s study of French masters, this concert is a perfect mix of the composer’s virtuosic performance, and divinely inspired melodies.
Monday, November 5, 2018 @ 7:15 pm – 9:30 pm – Ten young professional singers perform operatic arias with pianist Rachel Andrist, in this concert presented by the International Resource Centre for Performing Artists. At the conclusion, one singer will be named recipient of the Career Blueprint, a coveted singer’s “tool kit” – three days at the National Opera Center in New York, where new […]
Friday, December 7, 2018 @ 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm – The Upper Canada Choristers and conductor Laurie Evan Fraser perform holiday favorites and less familiar repertoire – among them Hodie Christus Natus Est from Benjamin Britten’s A Ceremony of Carols, and a set of Christmas selections by John Rutter, including his delightful musical fable Brother Heinrich’s Christmas, with narrator Valerie Abels; bassoonist Christian Sharpe and pianist […]
Sunday, April 15, 2018 @ 3:15 pm – 5:00 pm – Mooredale Concerts concludes its season and pays homage to Canada’s sesquicentennial with a guitar extravaganza. Québec-based ensemble Forestare comprises 12 guitars and two double basses. Since its 2002 inception, Forestare has participated in the creation of 50 original works and adapted nearly another 100 for its unique configuration – as a result creating the largest […]
Sunday, February 18, 2018 @ 1:15 pm – 2:15 pm – Violinist Paul Huang, recipient of an Avery Fisher Career Grant and Lincoln Center Award for Emerging Artists, performs an inspiring, interactive concert for young people age 5-11, joined by pianist Helen Huang, who made her debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra at age eight, and two years later with the New York Philharmonic. Host Joanna […]
Sunday, February 18, 2018 @ 3:15 pm – 5:00 pm – Recipient of an Avery Fisher Career Grant and Lincoln Center Award for Emerging Artists, violinist Paul Huang is already recognized for his intensely expressive music making and effortless virtuosity. Following his Kennedy Center debut, The Washington Post proclaimed: “Huang is definitely an artist with the goods for a significant career.” He plays on the 1742 ex-Wieniawski […]
Sunday, January 14, 2018 @ 3:15 pm – 5:00 pm – Back by popular demand, two acclaimed Canadian pianists David Jalbert and Wonny Song (Mooredale’s artistic director) pool their virtuosic talents and contrasting styles in shimmering 20th Century grand works for two pianos. They will perform Rachmaninoff’s Suite No. 1 (Fantasie-tableaux) in G minor, Op. 5 and the Sleeping Beauty Waltz, as well as Darius Milhaud’s […]
Sunday, January 14, 2018 @ 1:15 pm – 2:15 pm – Pianists David Jalbert and Wonny Song will delight young people age 5-11 with a special concert. Host Joanna explores the music and chats with the artists, facilitating some audience involvement. Adults wishing to learn more about music and music-making are also welcome. Everyone receives a Lindt chocolate truffle at the end.
Sunday, October 29, 2017 @ 3:15 pm – 5:00 pm – Named after the Canadian national park, the Philadelphia-based Jasper String Quartet has scaled the musical peaks, winning the prestigious CMA (Chamber Music America) Cleveland Quartet Award and other chamber music competitions. Professional Quartet in Residence at Temple University’s Center for Gifted Young Musicians, the ensemble formed in 2006 at Oberlin Conservatory in Ohio, and has performed […]
Sunday, November 26, 2017 @ 1:15 pm – 2:15 pm – Young audiences age 5-11 will be treated to a one-hour interactive concert by a quartet of four leading Canadian string soloists and violinist Mai Tategami, winner of the inaugural (2016) Orford Music Award. Host Joanna explores the music with the audience. Adults are also welcome, to learn more about the music and music-making. Everyone […]
Sunday, November 26, 2017 @ 3:15 pm – 5:00 pm – The newly formed Rebelheart Collective, four of Canada’s most accomplished string players, and alumni of Mooredale Concerts and Orchestras, join forces with the winner of the 2016 Orford Music Award. The four players perform Haydn’s String Quartet Op. 33, No. 2 (The Joke) and Dvorák’s String Quartet No. 12 in F Major, Op. 96 […]
Sunday, September 24, 2017 @ 3:15 pm – 5:00 pm – The Toronto Symphony Orchestra Chamber Soloists came together in 2014 with a mission to create programming that features a diverse and varied range of instruments. Acclaimed as an ensemble of distinguished virtuosi, the Chamber Soloists have the flexibility to present a wide range of unusual and infrequently performed repertoire, along with some of the best-loved […]
Sunday, October 29, 2017 @ 1:15 pm – 2:15 pm – Jasper String Quartet launches the 15th season of Music & Truffles, five classical concerts for young people age 5-11. This concert also celebrates Halloween. Everyone, adults included, is invited to come in costume, take their picture in a photo booth in the lobby, and parade their costumes on stage. Host Joanna explores the music and […]
