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Orchestre classique de Montréal
The Orchestre classique de Montréal is celebrating its 85th season this year. Their first performance of the season honours their history of orchestral excellence, while also championing the future of Canadian opera. In partnership with the Opéra de Montréal’s Atelier lyrique, they will present both Giovanni Battista Pergolesi’s intermezzo La Serva Padrona and Gian Carlo Menotti’s one-act opera The Medium. La Serva Padrona will star Jamal Al Titi, Sophie Naubert, and Angelo Moretti, while The Medium will feature Bridget Esler, Ian Sabourin, Camila Montefusco, Chelsea Kolić, Mikelis Rogers, and Justine Ledoux. Simon Rivard conducts, with stage direction by François Racine. This one-night-only operatic double feature will take place at Pierre-Mercure Hall (Oct. 8). www.en.orchestre.ca
Musica Camerata
One of Canada’s premier chamber-music ensembles, Musica Camerata has been treating Montreal’s Côte-Saint-Luc neighbourhood for 55 years. Performing in the 2024-25 year are musicians Elie Boissinot, Marc Djokic, Victor Fournelle, Leo Grinhauz, Luis Grunhauz, Berta Rosenohl, and Bruno Tobon. This anniversary season kicks off with an evening of Ottorino Respighi’s Six Pieces for Violin and Piano and Antonin Dvořák’s Piano Quintet, Op. 81 (Sept. 21). www.cameratamontreal.com
La Nef
Although La Nef has yet to announce their full 2024-25 program, they have provided their loyal audience with a sneak preview of what is to come. This will include an opening concert titled Pulsations of breath and rhythm, which will see recorder-player Vincent Lauzer and multi-percussionist Ziya Tabassian take centre stage at the Chapelle Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours (Oct. 9). www.la-nef.com
Ziya Tabassian
Orchestre symphonique de Laval
Adam Johnson will conduct the Orchestre symphonique de Laval in their season-opening concert this year. Alongside the popular Pictures at an Exhibition by Modest Mussorgsky, orchestrated by Ravel; and Felix Mendelssohn’s Concerto for Violin in E minor, Op. 64, which will be played by violinist Antoine Bareil, the orchestra will bring Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel’s lesser-known Overture in C major to life (Oct. 30). www.osl.ca
Jeunesses Musicales Canada
Innu soprano Elisabeth St-Gelais is the artist in residence at Jeunesses Musicales Canada for the 2024-25 season’s Happy Hour Concerts series. She will use this as an opportunity to share the stage with colleagues she enjoys collaborating with, and to present rarely-performed repertoire. For her first Happy Hour Concert, she has invited soprano Mary Jane Egan to join her, alongside pianist and longtime collaborator, Louise Pelletier. They will present a program of Russian and Czech music, including selections by Tchaïkovsky, and Dvorák. www.jmcanada.ca
Elisabeth St. Gelais
Molinari Quartet
Join the Molinari Quartet as they celebrate their 9th annual International Composition Competition. The Winners’ Concert will feature this year’s four winning works, after which the jury will deliberate and finally determine the order of the winners (September 27). www.quatuormolinari.qc.ca
Canadian Opera Company
The Canadian Opera Company (COC) will launch the 2024-25 performance season with the opera that kickstarted Verdi’s career: Nabucco. Starring Roland Wood in the titular role, Tamara Wilson as Abigaille, Rihab Chaieb as Fenena, Matthew Cairns as Ismaele, and Simon Lim as Zaccaria, the production will be directed by Katherine M. Carter, and conducted by Paolo Carignani (Oct. 3-25). The COC’s run of Charles Gounod’s Faust opens not long after, with Long Long as Faust, Kyle Ketelsen singing Méphistophélès, Guanqun Yu as Marguerite, Szymon Mechlinski as Valentin, Alex Hetherington as Siebel, and Megan Latham as Marthe. This co-production with the Malmö Opera is to be conducted by Johannes Debus and directed by Amy Lane (opens Oct.11). www.coc.ca
Roland Wood
Royal Conservatory of Music
Conducted by tech entrepreneur Mandle Cheung, the Mandle Philharmonic will take to the stage at Koerner Hall for an exciting performance of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5, and Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 (Sept. 20). The Amici Chamber Ensemble, joined by soprano Beste Kalender, violinist Erika Raum, and students of The Glenn Gould School (GGS), will explore the music of Leonard Bernstein this fall at Trinity St. Paul’s Church (Oct. 6). On the same night, pianist Emanuel Ax will celebrate his 75th birthday with Toronto audiences, in recital at Koerner Hall. On the program are works by Beethoven and Schoenberg (Oct. 6). GGS alumni and Grand Prize winner of the The Robert W. and G. Ann Corcoran Concerto Competition, violinist Isabella Perron will reunite with the Royal Conservatory Orchestra for a performance of Berlioz’s Roman Carnival Overture, Brahms’s Violin Concerto in D major, and Sibelius’s Symphony No. 1 in E minor (Oct. 10). www.rcmusic.ca
Toronto Symphony Orchestra
The Toronto Symphony Orchestra opens their season with a program that combines old favourites with new works. Along with Beethoven’s Triple Concerto and Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, the orchestra will present the Canadian première of Carlos Simon’s Wake Up! Concerto for Orchestra. Gustavo Gimeno will conduct the orchestra, alongside pianist and TSO Spotlight Artist Jan Lisiecki, concertmaster Jonathan Cow, and cellist Joseph Johnson (Sept. 25-28). Up next, a program of orchestral overtures. Violinist Renaud Capuçon will join the orchestra for the overture to Rossini’s The Barber of Seville, and Strauss’s Die Fledermaus, Stravinsky’s Jeu de cartes, and Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 3 (Oct. 4-6). Gimeno will then pass the baton to Jukka-Pekka Saraste for Mozart’s Requiem, and Brahms’s Symphony No. 3. He will be joined by the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir, soprano Siobhan Stagg, mezzo-soprano Karen Cargill, tenor Frédéric Antoun, and bass-baritone Dashon Burton (Oct. 9-12). www.tso.ca
Tafelmusik
The Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra welcomes violinist Rachel Podger as their new Principal Guest Director this season. To celebrate the start of her appointment, they will kick things off with an all-Mozart evening. This will include Thamos, King of Egypt, a work new to Podger and the orchestra; Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 2 in D major, and Symphony No. 41 in C major, the “Jupiter” symphony (Sept. 27-29). www.tafelmusik.org
Vancouver Recital Society
The multi-talented Rachel Fenlon, at once a soprano and pianist, will open the 45th season at the Vancouver Recital Society (VRS) with a performance of Schubert’s Winterreise (Sept. 8). Pianist Schaghajegh Nostrati, 2014 winner of the International Bach Competition in Leipzig, will then perform works by Bach, Mendelssohn, Haydn, and Alkan, in the second concert of the VRS’s season. www.vanrecital.com
Rachel Fenlon
Calgary Philharmonic
The Calgary Phil will start their season off with an evening of musical innovation. Conducted and devised by Steve Hackman, the orchestra will perform a fusion of Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony with more than 20 songs by Canadian popular artist, Drake (Sept. 7). The orchestra will then step outside of the concert hall for Phil in the Park, which will feature works by Beethoven, Strauss, Rodgers & Hammerstein, Copland, and John Williams (Sept. 8). Conductor Rune Bergmann will lead soprano Holly Flack, countertenor Daniel Taylor, and baritone Phillip Addis as they join the orchestra in a performance of Orff’s Carmina Burana (Sept. 14). The Pops season will then begin with a celebration of the music of Pink Floyd (Sept. 20, 21). Pianist Jonathan Biss will play Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5 on a program that includes Canadian composer Kati Agócs’s A Hero’s Welcome, and Brahms’s Symphony No. 4 (Sept. 27, 28). www.calgaryphil.com
Edmonton Symphony Orchestra
Award-winning Canadian pianist Jaeden Izik-Dzurjo makes his Edmonton Symphony Orchestra debut this fall. Conducted by Jean-Marie Zeitouni, he will perform Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3. Also on the program are Prokofiev’s Lieutenant Kijé Suite, and Kodály’s Peacock Variations (Oct. 4, 5). www.winspearcentre.com
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