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New Year’s Concert 2019 with conductor Xincao Li

Newswire | Li Delun Music Foundation Announces 2026 “East-Meets-West New Year’s Concert”

Celebrate the arrival of the New Year with the Li Delun Music Foundation’s unforgettable musical celebration—an artistic, cultural, and emotional journey that has become a cherished Toronto tradition. Since its establishment in 2003, the annual New Year’s Concert has become one of the most anticipated cultural celebrations for overseas Chinese communities and is part of the global Happy Chinese New Year celebrations. The 2026 performance marks the 19th edition of this signature event, continuing its mission of showcasing cultural harmony through music. This 2026 Concert Celebrates the Year of the Horse with musical selections connecting historical, cultural, and mythical imagery…

CD Review | ARC Ensemble: The Chamber Works of Ernest Kanitz

By Heather Weinreb on 13 November 2025 CD and Book Reviews, Chamber Music, Classical Music

ARC Ensemble: The Chamber Works of Ernest Kanitz ARC Ensemble: Erika Raum & Marie Bérard, violins; Steven Dann, viola; Thomas Wiebe, cello; Joaquin Valdepeñas clarinet; Kevin Ahfat, piano Guests: Wallace Halladay, saxophone; Anna Štube, violin; Joel Quarrington, double bass Chandos, 2025 ARC Ensemble’s Music in Exile series continues to unearth the lost musical treasures of a war-torn 20th century. In its latest instalment, the ensemble has revived the strikingly varied and enigmatic chamber works of Ernest Kanitz—a composer exiled from his native Vienna following the German annexation of Austria. Though Kanitz’s move to the United States was marked by multiple…

Upcoming Concerts | Montréal

By Emma Yee on 11 November 2025 Chamber Music, Classical Music, Montreal, Opera, Orchestral

Opera McGill Opera McGill’s season is off to a busy start. On Nov. 6, 8, and 9 at the Segal Centre, the school presents a double bill of Bernstein’s Trouble in Tahiti and Mozart’s The Impresario directed by Opera McGill Artistic Director Patrick Hansen in his own new English adaptation. On Nov. 23, at the Wirth Opera Studio, a double bill of student-led projects will be unveiled: Vaughan Williams’s Riders to the Sea directed by Emma Yee, and Weill’s Down in the Valley directed by Tristan Pritham. After a short break, Opera McGill returns Jan. 30 through Feb. 1 with…

Upcoming Concerts | Toronto & Ottawa

By Gianmarco Segato on 11 November 2025 Chamber Music, Classical Music, Opera, Orchestral, Ottawa, Toronto

Toronto Aga Khan Museum The 11th annual Duende International Flamenco Festival features international headliners from Spain as well as family and community dance workshops. Performances include Oscuro Brillante with renowned flamenco dancer Eva Yerbabuena (Nov. 20); Cruces which brings together the four voices of flamenco: dance, song, guitar, and percussion (Nov. 21); Flamenco: Made in Canada featuring flamenco artists from diverse cultures (Nov. 22); and Alter Ego, an acclaimed contemporary flamenco creation (Nov. 23). www.agakhanmuseum.org Koerner Hall Koerner’s piano recital series continues on Nov. 16 with superstar Canadian Jan Lisiecki in a program of preludes by Chopin, Bach, Szymanowski, Messiaen…

Newswire | 13th Edition Of 21C Music Line-Up Announced

By Newswire on 11 November 2025 Canadian Music, Chamber Music, Classical Music, Contemporary, Jazz, Newswire, Piano, Toronto

Toronto, ON, November 11, 2025 – This season the 21C Music series, now in its 13th edition, includes five concerts in late January and an additional one in May 2026. The series features music composed mostly during the 21st century, which often crosses boundaries and genres. With this newly-minted music, audiences have an opportunity to experience fresh new sounds and ideas from the greatest musical minds of today and experience works by Canadian as well as international composers, and musicians who are mining new musical territories, breaking down barriers, and introducing us to new virtuosic music creations. In total, the Festival will include more than 7 premieres: 2 world (Alison Yun-Fei…

Photo: Bill Blackstone

Mécénat Musica | Matthias Maute: Ambassador-in-residence

By Justin Bernard on 28 October 2025 Arts Industry, Chamber Music, Classical Music, Winds

Mécénat Musica Ambassador-in-Residence presents Mécénat Musica in the cultural community and helps cultural organizations join Mécénat Musica. The Ambassador encourages organizations to expand the circle of donors and to help create a culture of permanent capital in the community. Matthias Maute’s collaborative efforts have resulted in 15 cultural organizations joining Mécénat Musica since 2013. Maute is a two-time Juno Award winner, choir and orchestral conductor, composer and flutist. His Montreal orchestra, Ensemble Caprice, has been described by the New York Times as “an ensemble that invites the listener to rehear the world.” When he left his native Germany for Quebec…

Photo: Brent Calis

Mécénat Musica | Jaap Nico Hamburger: Composer-in-residence

By Wah Keung Chan on 28 October 2025 Arts Industry, Canadian Music, Chamber Music, Classical Music, Contemporary, Opera, Orchestral

Scores and notes of Mécénat Musica Composer-in-Residence and Mécénat Musica Prix 3 Femmes composers and librettists are offered to emerging Quebec and Canadian artists royalty-free, forever! Juno-nominated Jaap Nico Hamburger has composed or is composing 112 movements of Mécénat Musica Compositions featuring symphonies, concertos, chamber music, oratorios, and opera, including multiple recordings with the Orchestre Métropolitain, Ensemble Caprice, Ensemble ArtChoral, the Residentie Orkest (Netherlands) and the Jerusalem Baroque Orchestra. “The music just comes to me. I just write down what I hear,” says Hamburger. Only seven years after leaving a full-time career as a cardiologist to devote his life to…

Matthias Maute et Sophie Larivière, flûtes. Photo: Tam Photography

Ensemble Caprice : Two Flutes, One Direction

By Justin Bernard on 3 October 2025 Baroque and Early, Chamber Music, World Music

Since its creation in 1989, Ensemble Caprice has lived several lives, crossed continents, and continually reached ever-greater heights, reaching the size of a large orchestra that, depending on the project, is also capable of returning to more intimate dimensions, similar to the spirit of its beginnings. Their 2025-26 season perfectly illustrates these multiple facets, often reflecting their two contrasting venues. Performances at the large Maison symphonique and the intimate Le 9e, a new hall on the Montreal Eaton Centre’s art-deco style restored ninth floor, are symbolic of the musical treasures that this versatile ensemble seeks to bring to light. Ensemble…

Stewart Goodyear. Photo: Andrew Garn

Preview | Stewart Goodyear Opens Edmonton Chamber Music Society 2025-26 Season

By Hal Kowalewski on 2 October 2025 Chamber Music, Classical Music, Interviews, Piano, West

With its 2025-26 season, the Edmonton Chamber Music Society (ECMS) presents a series of intimate performances that bring exceptional international talent to Alberta. Pianist Stewart Goodyear’s opening recital on Oct. 3, one of the highlights of the organization’s seven-show season, is a creative program that combines classic Beethoven sonatas with Goodyear’s own celebrated compositions. Though volunteer-run, ECMS holds itself to the same high administrative and programming standards as would any of its professional counterparts. Its volunteers are experts in the field of music, many having dedicated decades of their lives to ECMS’s mandate of bringing international talent to Edmonton. One…

The Isidore String Quartet. Photo: Jiyang Chen

Review | Isidore String Quartet Steps on Some Toes at LMMC

By Jan Krejcar on 1 October 2025 Chamber Music, Classical Music, Concert Reviews, Montreal, Strings

The Ladies’ Morning Music Club (LMMC) has a somewhat anachronistic name, betraying its founding more than 100 years ago. It grew out of a need to satisfy Montreal’s thirst for music, and the organization has long shepherded the musical taste of the metropolis by bringing in major solo artists and chamber groups. Their concert series have been particularly important in facilitating this city’s relationship with the string quartet, and the Sunday afternoon performance of the Isidore String Quartet on Sept. 28th in Oscar Peterson Hall was another page in that story. The quartet, returning to Montreal after their success here…

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