Friday, 8 May 2026 @ 19:30 – 21:00 – A plea and guiding map for humanity, expressed in music, receives its world premiere when the Upper Canada Choristers and their accomplished Latin ensemble Cantemos premiere Common Ground, a six-movement cycle written for them by their music director, Laurie Evan Fraser. The new work is dedicated to the insightful and widely followed U.S. historian Heather […]
Friday, 5 December 2025 @ 19:30 – 21:00 – Benjamin Britten’s A Ceremony of Carols gets the holiday season off to a jubilant start! Laurie Evan Fraser conducts the Upper Canada Choristers and their accomplished Latin ensemble, Cantemos, joined by pianist Hye Won (Cecilia) Lee and guest harpist Liane James, with Nora Dunn as narrator. The concert features music ranging from a 15th century […]
Wednesday, 14 May 2025 @ 19:00 – 21:30 – Visionary Venezuelan composer and choral conductor César Alejandro Carrillo, internationally recognized for his emotionally rich compositions and masterful arrangements, gives a workshop for the Upper Canada Choristers, Cantemos Latin ensemble, and anyone else interested in choral singing. Topics include vocal production, an introduction to Venezuelan choral music, and a workshop on two movements of Carrillo’s […]
Friday, 16 May 2025 @ 19:30 – 21:00 – The Upper Canada Choristers and their accomplished Latin-American ensemble Cantemos celebrate the rich diversity of Venezuelan music, with its African, Spanish, Caribbean, and Indigenous cultural influences. Laurie Evan Fraser conducts, with Hye Won (Cecilia) Lee as pianist. Special guests are La Petite Musicale of Toronto, a vivacious folk choir of émigrés from Trinidad and Tobago; […]
Friday, 10 May 2024 @ 19:30 – 21:00 – 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, 1 December 2023 @ 19:30 – 21:00 – 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, 10 May 2024 @ 19:30 – 21:00 – 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, 12 May 2023 @ 19:30 – 21:00 – 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, 4 March 2023 @ 19:30 – 21:30 – 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, 3 December 2021 @ 19:30 – 20:30 – Célébrations des fêtes du Noël chrétien, du Hanukah juif et du Kwaanzaa latin. Extraits du Messie de Handel’s Messiah ainsi que des vers de la poétesse Sarah Williams chantés sur un canon de Hadyn; suivront alors Sure on This Shining Night de Morten Lauridsen (sur une poème de James Agee) et deux cantiques de two Noël de […]
Friday, 21 May 2021 @ 10:00 – 17:00 – Pour des raisons de santé publique en Ontario, l’événement est remis à l’automne 2021, à une date non déterminée. 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 mentor 10 singers, offering suggestions […]
Friday, 4 June 2021 @ 19:00 – 21:00 – Pour des raisons de santé publique en Ontario, l’événement a été remis à l’automne 2021. 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 an Encounter with (baritone) Theodore Baerg. At […]
Friday, 1 October 2021 @ 19:30 – 20:30 – 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 Venezuela and Argentina, and celebratory […]
Friday, 6 November 2020 @ 12:30 – 13:00 – 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, 4 December 2020 @ 19:30 – 20:30 – 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 […]
Friday, 2 October 2020 @ 19:30 – 20:30 – The Upper Canada Choristers and their accomplished Latin ensemble Cantemos celebrate the diversity of music from Latin America in their concert, originally planned for the spring and now a live-streaming event, with some pre-recorded elements. Inti Ukana: A Latin American Tapestry features conductor Laurie Evan Fraser and pianist Hye Won Cecilia Lee, joined by M.C./narrator […]
Saturday, 1 August 2020 @ 0:00 – The Upper Canada Choristers and their accomplished Latin ensemble Cantemos celebrate the diversity of music from Latin America in their spring concert, Inti Ukana: A Latin American Tapestry. The concert will take place without intermission, in order to preserve the flow. Centrepiece is the Misa Criolla by Ariel Ramirez. Written after the Second Vatican Council […]
Monday, 4 May 2020 @ 19:30 – 21:00 – ***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 […]
Saturday, 30 May 2020 @ 17:00 – 22:15 – Part 1: 5:30 p.m.; Part 2: 9 p.m. Pre-concert chat by Rick Phillips – 4:30 p.m. Sonata No. 1 in G minor, BWV 1001 Partita No. 1 in B minor, BWV 1002 Sonata No. 2 in A minor, BWV 1003 Partita No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004 Sonata No. 3 in C major, BWV […]
Sunday, 31 May 2020 @ 13:00 – 14:00 – The Festival’s special guest, prominent scholar and musician John Butt, explores what many consider to be Bach’s crowning achievement, from its inception, through the historical context, and on to the enduring admiration of musicians and audiences over the last 270 years.
Thursday, 16 January 2020 @ 20:00 – 22:00 – 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, 8 November 2019 @ 20:00 – 22:00 – 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, 1 December 2019 @ 19:30 – 21:30 – 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, 3 November 2019 @ 19:00 – 21:00 – 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, 6 December 2019 @ 20:00 – 22:00 – 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 […]
Monday, 5 November 2018 @ 19:15 – 21:30 – 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, 7 December 2018 @ 20:00 – 22:00 – 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, 15 April 2018 @ 15:15 – 17:00 – 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, 15 April 2018 @ 13:15 – 14:15 – What do you call a dozen guitars plus two double bass? – The Forestare Ensemble from Québec. They will play Baroque classics of J.B. Lully, Antonio Vivaldi, and J.S. Bach. 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. […]
Sunday, 18 February 2018 @ 13:15 – 14:15 – 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, 18 February 2018 @ 15:15 – 17:00 – 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, 14 January 2018 @ 15:15 – 17:00 – 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, 14 January 2018 @ 13:15 – 14:15 – 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, 29 October 2017 @ 15:15 – 17:00 – 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, 26 November 2017 @ 13:15 – 14:15 – 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, 26 November 2017 @ 15:15 – 17:00 – 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, 24 September 2017 @ 15:15 – 17:00 – 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, 29 October 2017 @ 13:15 – 14:15 – 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 […]
