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canary sitelinkJason van Eyk
416-322-5928, x326
music@azrielifoundation.org
https://azrielifoundation.org/our-priorities/music-arts/

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The Azrieli FoundationThe Azrieli Foundation improves the lives of present and future generations by focusing its funding in education, research, healthcare and the arts. In addition to strategic philanthropic investments, the foundation operates a number of programs including the Azrieli Prize in Architecture, the Azrieli Fellows Program, the Azrieli Science Grants Program, the Holocaust Survivor Memoirs Program and the Azrieli Music Prizes.

Established in 2014, the biennial Azrieli Music Prizes (AMP) offer opportunities for the discovery, creation, performance and celebration of excellence in concert music composition. Two international prizes focus on new Jewish music; a third celebrates creating new Canadian music. Submissions are accepted from composers of all faiths, ages, backgrounds and affiliations and evaluated by two expert AMP juries.

All three winning composers receive a $50,000 CAD cash prize and are invited to participate in: the rehearsals and performance of their winning works at the AMP Gala Concert; subsequent international premieres; and the recording of their work for a future commercial release.

canary sitelinkLessia Tkach
416-346-8283
info@ukrainianartsong.ca
www.ukrainianartsong.ca

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The Ukrainian Art Song Project (UASP) is a ground-breaking initiative which aims to raise awareness of the politically repressed art songs by Ukraine’s most eminent composers; to promote live performance; and to educate artists, teachers, students and the public through free, online access to scores/texts, the Ukrainian Art Song Summer Institute, published anthologies and outreach to conservatories, artists and teaching professionals.
UASP has recorded 411 of approximately 1100 art songs by Ukraine's major composers such as Barvinsky, Lysenko, Stetsenko, Stepovy and Turkewych. The recordings feature internationally renowned vocal stars such as Pavlo Hunka, Russell Braun and Krisztina Szabò with principal accompanist, Albert Krywolt. The recordings are available on all major online platforms.

Musical scores and a pronunciation guide for over 300 art songs can be found in the Millennium Online World Library on UASP’s website at www.ukrainianartsong.ca. These free scores are in Cyrillic text with English transliteration, are transposable and have no copyright.

Plans for 2022 include live performance and the annual Ukrainian Art Song Summer Institute, August 24 to 28. Please visit our website or Facebook for more info.

 

canary sitelinkVivian Moens
416-971-9229
info@exultate.net
www.exultate.net

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Exultate Chamber SingersFounded in 1981, Exultate Chamber Singers has been celebrated for its continuing tradition of choral excellence for over 40 years. The choir is enriched not only by the diversity and musicianship of its members but also by their varied academic and professional backgrounds. Together they form a passionate, committed ensemble with a wide-ranging repertoire.

Founded and led for 30 years by conductor and organist John Tuttle, the choir has since been under the direction of Dr. Karen Grylls (2011 to 2012), Dr. Hilary Apfelstadt (2013 to 2018), and its newest artistic director, Dr. Mark Ramsay.

Exultate is a three-time winner of the Canada Council Healey Willan Grand Prize and recently won first place in the adult mixed-voice chamber choir category of the 2019 Choral Canada National Competition for Canadian Amateur Choirs.

In addition to presenting its annual concert series, Exultate has made regular appearances around Ontario, toured in Canada, collaborated with dozens of artists, released five albums, and enjoyed airplay on CBC Radio. Exultate is currently producing its sixth album, comprised of Canadian choral music commissioned by the choir in recent years.

canary sitelinkNicholas Borg
416-446-0188
info@amadeuschoir.com
www.amadeuschoir.com

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Amadeus Choir of Great TorontoThe award-winning Amadeus Choir is a semi-professional choir of auditioned voices from Toronto and the surrounding areas. Conducted by artistic director Kathleen Allan, the choir champions the best of choral music and premieres works of Canadian and international composers through a self-produced Toronto concert series, guest performances, and special events. Known well beyond Toronto through tours, festivals, recordings, and national and international radio broadcasts, the choir collaborates with many professional performing arts organizations in the GTA.

The Amadeus Choir is proud to take a leading role in educating the next generation of choral musicians by providing workshops for conductors, composers, singers, and students. The choir is known for its strong support of Canadian music, and regularly commissions work from established and emerging Canadian composers.

Throughout its history, the Amadeus Choir has received numerous awards, most recently the Association of Canadian Choral Communities’ ‘Most Innovative Performance’ award in 2014 for Music of the Spheres, a multi-media collaboration with the Elmer Iseler Singers, the Ontario Science Centre, and the Roberta Bondar Foundation.

canary sitelinkKaija Corlazzoli
416-408-0208
kaija@amiciensemble.com
www.amiciensemble.com

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Amici Chamber EnsembleAmici Chamber Ensemble celebrates 33 years as one of Canada’s finest and most distinguished chamber music ensembles. For more information, please visit our website!

Artistic directing trio, clarinetist Joaquin Valdepeñas, cellist David Hetherington and pianist Serouj Kradjian, invite some of the finest musicians to join them in innovative and eclectic programming, celebrating friendship through music. Alongside numerous broadcasts of their concerts on national radio, Amici Chamber Ensemble’s recordings have placed them firmly among the world’s best chamber musicians.

Joaquin Valdepeñas is regarded as one of the most distinguished clarinetists of his generation. David Hetherington plays his cello “with rare delicacy and clarity”. Pianist and composer Serouj Kradjian is hailed as a “keyboard acrobat” of “crystal virtuosity” by the press.

Amici's 2021-22 season includes:
- American Berserk (Oct 30) featuring Jonathan Crow
- Amici Ritorna (Dec 5)
- La Flûte Enchantée (Feb 6) featuring Marina Piccinini
- Schubert Octet (Apr 10) featuring Mayumi Seiler
- Tango Gala (May 15) featuring Joyce El-Khoury

You can also enjoy Amici's recordings online on their YouTube channel.

canary sitelinkBalir Mackay, artistic director
450-807-1179
blairmackaymusic@gmail.com
www.evergreenclubgamelan.com

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Evergreen Club Contemporary Gamelan (ECCG)Toronto-based Evergreen Club Contemporary Gamelan is a collective of professional musicians.

Its core repertoire calls for eight players, though it also collaborates with guest musicians, singers and dancers. Its core mission: to develop a hybrid repertoire and performance practice on a high artistic level on its own gamelan degung, a bronze, wood and bamboo orchestra indigenous to West Java, Indonesia. Fostering intercultural musical connections through performances with Indonesian artists is also a guiding value.

Founded in 1983, ECCG was the first Canadian group dedicated to performing on gamelan. ECCG regularly commissions new works - over 200 to date - launching them in its annual Toronto concert season. Composers ECCG has premiered works by John Cage, Lou Harrison, Linda Bouchard, Allison Cameron, Walter Boudreau, Linda C. Smith and Ana Sokolović.

ECCG’s repertoire includes arrangements of Indonesian songs, as well as boundary-busting experimental works which embrace forms such as music theatre, opera, choral music, Baroque orchestra, rap and hip hop turntablism. It has toured widely in North America, Europe, Japan and Indonesia and is featured on over 15 commercial albums.

canary sitelinkBoris & Inna Zarankin
416-466-6323
tickets@offcentremusic.com
www.offcentremusic.com

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Off Centre Music Salon re-creates the magical, inclusive atmosphere of the Viennese and Parisian Salons of the 19th century. Music is intimately shared, with each concert telling a story and creating personal connections for the audience and performers alike. Dedicated to the discovery and development of young, professional musical talent, Off Centre concerts include voice and instrumental performances. Repertoire is rarely, if ever, repeated.

Beginning early in 2022 we look forward to performing for you live, in person, at Trinity-St. Paul’s Centre in Toronto. Please continue to check the listings section of WholeNote or our website, www.offcentremusic.com, for more about our upcoming performances.

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Blue Pages 2019

20th ANNUAL DIRECTORY OF MUSIC MAKERS

We are pleased to present our 20th annual Blue Pages, a directory of music presenters and arts services published every year in our October magazine, and maintained year-round online, under the “Who’s Who” tab at thewholenote.com. This year’s 152-profile portrait of musical life in the Greater Toronto area and Southern Ontario has two segments: section 1 reflects the wealth and diversity of music presenters and performers in our region – orchestras, choirs, opera companies, chamber ensembles, etcetera; section 2 is for individuals and organisations providing services to artists in the communities we cover, predominantly artist managers and publicists.

We’d like to thank all who have chosen to participate in this year’s Blue Pages; individuals and organisations whose support and dedication helps sustain not only The WholeNote but the music community in general. If your organisation missed being part of the October Blue Pages, we’ll be publishing a “latecomers” supplement in the November issue. And the online directory accepts new members year round.

For information on the benefits of a WholeNote membership (of which this Blue Pages profile is a feature), please contact Karen Ages at karen@thewholenote.com or 416-323-2232 x26.

BLUE PAGES TEAM 2019/20
PROJECT MANAGER: Karen Ages
PROJECT EDITOR: Danial Jazaeri
LAYOUT AND DESIGN: Susan Sinclair
WEBSITE: Kevin King

Section I: Presenters and Performers

Section II: Arts Services

Arts Services 2019

20th ANNUAL DIRECTORY OF MUSIC MAKERS

We are pleased to present our 20th annual Blue Pages, a directory of music presenters and arts services published every year in our October magazine, and maintained year-round online, under the “Who’s Who” tab at thewholenote.com. This year’s 152-profile portrait of musical life in the Greater Toronto area and Southern Ontario has two segments: section 1 reflects the wealth and diversity of music presenters and performers in our region – orchestras, choirs, opera companies, chamber ensembles, etcetera; section 2 is for individuals and organisations providing services to artists in the communities we cover, predominantly artist managers and publicists.

We’d like to thank all who have chosen to participate in this year’s Blue Pages; individuals and organisations whose support and dedication helps sustain not only The WholeNote but the music community in general. If your organisation missed being part of the October Blue Pages, we’ll be publishing a “latecomers” supplement in the November issue. And the online directory accepts new members year round.

For information on the benefits of a WholeNote membership (of which this Blue Pages profile is a feature), please contact Karen Ages at karen@thewholenote.com or 416-323-2232 x26.

BLUE PAGES TEAM 2019/20
PROJECT MANAGER: Karen Ages
PROJECT EDITOR: Danial Jazaeri
LAYOUT AND DESIGN: Susan Sinclair
WEBSITE: Kevin King

Section I: Presenters and Performers

Section II: Arts Services

Blue Pages 2020

21st ANNUAL DIRECTORY OF MUSIC MAKERS

Welcome to The WholeNote’s 21st annual Blue Pages directory of our region’s music makers. It’s been a bumpy ride getting to this point, and we hope you’ll enjoy perusing the profiles that follow, submitted both by presenters who are forging ahead with pandemically appropriate plans for 2020-21, or whose detailed plans are still uncertain.

Thanks to all those who have once again opted in with a WholeNote membership and profile: for your faith in and support for what we do; and for having faith in yourselves, finding the resilience needed to move forward in these very uncertain times.

And thanks to you, our readers, in print, and online at kiosk.thewholenote.com (where you can also find our four issues since April 1). If you missed any of those four print issues and would like copies, please contact us.

Profiles will be kept up-to-date online here, as new ones arrive or more information is available.

 For information on the benefits of a WholeNote membership (of which a Blue Pages profile is a feature), please contact Karen Ages at karen@thewholenote.com or 416-323-2232 x26.

BLUE PAGES TEAM 2020/21
PROJECT MANAGER: Karen Ages
PROJECT EDITOR: Danial Jazaeri
LAYOUT AND DESIGN: Susan Sinclair
WEBSITE: Kevin King

Blue Pages 2021

22nd ANNUAL DIRECTORY OF MUSIC MAKERS

Welcome to The WholeNote’s 22nd annual Blue Pages directory of our region’s music makers. It’s been a bumpy ride getting to this point, and we hope you’ll enjoy perusing the profiles that follow, submitted both by presenters who are forging ahead with pandemically appropriate plans for 2021-22, or whose detailed plans are still uncertain.

Thanks to all those who have once again opted in with a WholeNote membership and profile: for your faith in and support for what we do; and for having faith in yourselves, finding the resilience needed to move forward in these very uncertain times.

And thanks to you, our readers, in print, and online at kiosk.thewholenote.com.

Profiles will be kept up-to-date online here, as new ones arrive or more information is available.

For information on the benefits of a WholeNote membership (of which a Blue Pages profile is a feature), please contact Karen Ages at karen@thewholenote.com or 416-323-2232 x26.

Presenters | Arts Services

Arts Services 2021

22nd ANNUAL DIRECTORY OF MUSIC MAKERS

Welcome to The WholeNote’s 22nd annual Blue Pages directory of our region’s music makers. It’s been a bumpy ride getting to this point, and we hope you’ll enjoy perusing the profiles that follow, submitted both by presenters who are forging ahead with pandemically appropriate plans for 2021-22, or whose detailed plans are still uncertain.

Thanks to all those who have once again opted in with a WholeNote membership and profile: for your faith in and support for what we do; and for having faith in yourselves, finding the resilience needed to move forward in these very uncertain times.

And thanks to you, our readers, in print, and online at kiosk.thewholenote.com.

Profiles will be kept up-to-date online here, as new ones arrive or more information is available.

For information on the benefits of a WholeNote membership (of which a Blue Pages profile is a feature), please contact Karen Ages at karen@thewholenote.com or 416-323-2232 x26.

Presenters | Arts Services

Blue Pages 2022

23rd ANNUAL DIRECTORY OF MUSIC MAKERS

Welcome to The WholeNote’s 23rd annual Blue Pages directory of our region’s music makers. It’s been a bumpy ride getting to this point, and we hope you’ll enjoy perusing the profiles that follow, submitted both by presenters who are forging ahead with pandemically appropriate plans for 2022-23, or whose detailed plans are still uncertain.

Thanks to all those who have once again opted in with a WholeNote membership and profile: for your faith in and support for what we do; and for having faith in yourselves, finding the resilience needed to move forward in these very uncertain times.

And thanks to you, our readers, in print, and online at kiosk.thewholenote.com.

Profiles will be kept up-to-date online here, as new ones arrive or more information is available.

For information on the benefits of a WholeNote membership (of which a Blue Pages profile is a feature), please contact Karen Ages at karen@thewholenote.com or 416-323-2232 x26.

Presenters | Arts Services

Arts Services 2022

23rd ANNUAL DIRECTORY OF MUSIC MAKERS

Welcome to The WholeNote’s 23rd annual Blue Pages directory of our region’s music makers. It’s been a bumpy ride getting to this point, and we hope you’ll enjoy perusing the profiles that follow, submitted both by presenters who are forging ahead with pandemically appropriate plans for 2022-23, or whose detailed plans are still uncertain.

Thanks to all those who have once again opted in with a WholeNote membership and profile: for your faith in and support for what we do; and for having faith in yourselves, finding the resilience needed to move forward in these very uncertain times.

And thanks to you, our readers, in print, and online at kiosk.thewholenote.com.

Profiles will be kept up-to-date online here, as new ones arrive or more information is available.

For information on the benefits of a WholeNote membership (of which a Blue Pages profile is a feature), please contact Karen Ages at karen@thewholenote.com or 416-323-2232 x26.

Presenters | Arts Services

Blue Pages 2023

24th ANNUAL DIRECTORY OF MUSIC MAKERS

Welcome to The WholeNote’s 24th annual Blue Pages directory of our region’s music makers. It’s been a bumpy ride getting to this point, and we hope you’ll enjoy perusing the profiles that follow, submitted both by presenters who are forging ahead with pandemically appropriate plans for 2023-24, or whose detailed plans are still uncertain.

Thanks to all those who have once again opted in with a WholeNote membership and profile: for your faith in and support for what we do.

And thanks to you, our readers - in print, and online at kiosk.thewholenote.com.

Profiles will be kept up-to-date online here, as new ones arrive or more information is available.

For information on the benefits of a WholeNote membership (of which a Blue Pages profile is a feature), please contact Karen Ages at karen@thewholenote.com or 416-323-2232 x26.

Blue Pages 2024

25th ANNUAL DIRECTORY OF MUSIC MAKERS

Welcome to The WholeNote’s 25th annual Blue Pages directory of our region’s music makers. It’s been a bumpy ride getting to this point, and we hope you’ll enjoy perusing the profiles that follow, submitted both by presenters who are forging ahead with pandemically appropriate plans for 2024-245, or whose detailed plans are still uncertain.

Thanks to all those who have once again opted in with a WholeNote membership and profile: for your faith in and support for what we do.

And thanks to you, our readers - in print, and online at kiosk.thewholenote.com.

Profiles will be kept up-to-date online here, as new ones arrive or more information is available.

For information on the benefits of a WholeNote membership (of which a Blue Pages profile is a feature), please contact Ori Dagan at advertising@thewholenote.com or 416-323-2232 x26.

Blue Pages 2025

26th ANNUAL DIRECTORY OF MUSIC MAKERS

Welcome to our 26th annual Blue Pages directory, where music presenters of all varieties introduce themselves and highlight the events of their upcoming season. Whether you are interested in orchestral or choral music, opera, chamber, contemporary or early music, there’s a rich breadth to choose from, reflecting the wealth and diversity of performers and arts organizations in our region. We thank all who have chosen to participate in this year’s Blue Pages - your support enables us to sustain much of what we do at The WholeNote, in particular our ability to offer free daily concert listings to as broad a spectrum of presenters as possible - a service not only to our readers but to the live music community itself.

It’s not too late to join. Please email members@thewholenote.com for information on the benefits of a Blue Pages membership and how to sign up. We'll continue to post new profiles as they arrive.

 

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