The Toronto Consort
2003-2004 Profile

The Toronto Consort, Canada’s leading period ensemble specializing in medieval and renaissance music, celebrates its 31st season this year.  All Toronto concerts take place at Trinity-St. Paul’s Centre, 427 Bloor Street West at 8 pm.  In addition to the Toronto Series (listed below) the Consort offers a three Sunday after-noon series in Chalmers Church, Guelph. At Christmas, the Consort will be recording its sixth CD for Dorian “The Praetorius Christmas Vespers”.

October 17 & 18, Shakespeare’s Songbook:  English renaissance music, the Bard and a newly commissioned work by Toronto composer Andrew Ager.

November 14 & 15 Laura Pudwell and Ellen Hargis in Recital.  Solos and duets by Hildegard of Bingen, Guillaume de Machaut, Tarquinio Merula and Claudio Monteverdi

December 12 & 13, The Praetorius Christmas Vespers. A true recreation of a 17th-century celebration!

February 6 & 7. The Splendour of Burgundy.  features Guillaume Dufay’s masterpiece, the Missa Ecce Ancilla 

April 16 & 17, This year’s opera-in-concert: Calisto by Francesco Cavalli, with Suzie LeBlanc in the title role, also featuring Gillian Keith and Laura Pudwell and 17th-century orchestra