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canary sitelinkStephanie Canarte
416-366-7723
stephanie.canarte@tolive.com
www.tolive.com

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TO Live 2023Our Mission:

TO Live believes that the arts are crucial to creating healthy, vibrant, and engaged diverse communities. TO Live strives for excellence in everything that we do. We are stewards of landmark City theatres and activate our spaces through programming and rentals. We are a creative hub for audiences, artists, and all those who work with us.

Our Vision:

To build a better city through the arts.

Our Purpose:

To amplify the role of performance spaces as a force for social engagement, cultural exchange, and creative innovation.

The TO Live Foundation is a registered charity that raises funds to support TO Live’s mission to build a better city through the arts. Donating to the TO Live Foundation is an investment in the artists and cultural fabric of Toronto, and helps TO Live commission new works, offer free community programming, and provide local creatives with rehearsal space and research grants.

Since its creation in 2018, the Foundation has supported over 1,000 artists through the provision of space, residencies, research grants, and presentations, and has invested over $2 million in artists and partnerships. Thanks to the generosity of donors and corporate partners.

canary sitelinkEvangeline Drost
519-846-0331
info@elorasingers.ca
www.elorasingers.ca

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Elora SingersThe Elora Singers, under the direction of Mark Vuorinen, have established an international reputation as one of Canada’s finest professional choirs. Founded in 1980, it is the ensemble-in-residence of the Elora Festival for three weeks each summer, in addition to presenting a regular concert series, producing recordings, and touring across Canada and internationally.

Mark Vuorinen, Artistic Director, and The Elora Singers, are proud to announce their 2025-26 concert program. The season begins in November with a luminous pairing of Maurice Duruflé's "Requiem" alongside John Sheppard's "Media Vita". December brings two of their most beloved traditions: Handel's "Messiah" and Festival of Carols, featuring a newly commissioned work by composer Sarah Slean.

In February, they present Soup and Song: Motets Through the Centuries, an intimate afternoon of music by Palestrina, Pärt, Imant Raminsh, and others — complete with a shared meal. In March, they perform Sarah Kirkland Snider’s stunning "Mass for the Endangered". They close the season in April with Jonathan Dove's "The Passing of the Year", joined by participants in their Singer's Studio for Ensemble Singing.

canary sitelinkArmen Matosyan
437-889-8821
hello@dudukhouse.com
www.dudukhouse.com

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DudukhouseDudukhouse is dedicated to preserving and promoting the Armenian duduk, a 2000-year-old double reed instrument inscribed by UNESCO in 2008 as part of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. Through concerts, recordings, publications, and educational events, Dudukhouse brings the soulful voice of the duduk to Canadian and international audiences.

Our inaugural 2019 concert, Mystical Duduk in Toronto, featured legendary master Georgy Minasov and introduced many Canadians to the instrument's haunting sound. Since then, Dudukhouse has produced acclaimed events such as Duduk & Piano: The Sounds of Magic and the 2025 sold-out concerts Duduk, Jazz & Winter Nights and Sunset Serenade, showcasing the duduk in innovative collaborations.

Dudukhouse manages and presents some of the world's top duduk players and ensembles, including Artak Asatryan, Minasov's Dudukner quartet, and Toronto's Sar Kamler and world-music ensemble Ethnosonic.

Beyond performance, Dudukhouse publishes the largest library of duduk books, with over ten titles in print, and the upcoming Duduk Essentials: The Complete Beginners Guide (2025). Through our global e-commerce store, we offer professional instruments, reeds, and educational resources worldwide.

canary sitelinkSara Martin
519-725-7549
info@dacapochamberchoir.ca
www.dacapochamberchoir.ca

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DaCapo Chamber ChoirThe DaCapo Chamber Choir was founded in 1998 under the direction of Leonard Enns. The choir’s mission is to promote the best of contemporary choral music through public performance, including intentionally championing Canadian music; we have premiered almost 40 new works by Canadian composers, and have commissioned three major choral works. Our programs “give ideas voice” - and this year we focus on an environmental theme, with a season of three concerts: Cherish, Enchant, and Preserve. Cherish (Nov 8 & 9) is a solo chamber choir program, featuring Eleanor Daley’s Requiem and Herbert Howell’s Take Him, Earth, For Cherishing. Our mid-winter concert, Enchant (Feb 28 & Mar 1) looks to the moon, to the constellations, and considers the seasons that result from the tilt and spin of our little rock within this universe. The spring concert, Preserve, (May 9 & 10) opens with This Fragile Web by Christine Donkin (composer of the powerful Following the Moonroad). Our focus is earth as precious, insensitively abused, and needing our care. The concert also features Leonard Enns’ new work for choir, oboe and string quartet, Taiga. Guests this season include oboist James Mason, cellist Miriam Stewart-Kroeker, and pianist Catherine Robertson.

canary sitelinkDavid Brownstone
info@ccorchestra.org
www.ccorchestra.org

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Counterpoint Community Orchestra operates as a community orchestra in downtown Toronto. Formed in 1984, it was the first 2SLGBTQIA+ orchestra in Canada and the world. Counterpoint is a full symphony orchestra with a repertoire drawn from the Baroque through to the contemporary period.

We believe that music is at the heart of a community, so we use our talents to help bring people together to celebrate diversity, creativity, and excellence. We encourage all to join in supporting our mandate as performers, volunteers, or donors. Please check out our website for more information about joining us.

In this, the CCO’s 42nd season, our concerts will be on December 6, 2025, March 7 and June 6, 2026, under the batons of three specially selected Guest Conductors. You can view more details by clicking "42nd Concert Season" in the “Concerts” dropdown menu on our website.

canary sitelinkMichael Erdman
416-578-6602
cantemus.ca@gmail.com
www.cantemus.ca

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Cantemus SingersFounded in 2008 by conductor Michael Erdman, our a cappella ensemble focuses on Renaissance and early Baroque choral music, giving equal time to secular madrigals and part-songs, and religious works. Since COVID, we have regrouped into a smaller professional ensemble, allowing us to extend our repertoire to the intricate music of the early Tudor period. Our two concerts in the 2025-26 season will include works by Fayrfax, Taverner, Ludford and Sheppard from the time of Henry VIII. The size of the ensemble depends on the voicing of the music – usually one per part. Membership is by audition.

canary sitelinkJoyce Lai
647-223-2286
canadiansinfonietta@gmail.com
www.canadiansinfonietta.com

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Founded in 1998, the Canadian Sinfonietta (CS) is a chamber orchestra led by conductor and founder, Tak-Ng Lai in partnership with concertmaster and artistic director Joyce Lai. The orchestra is comprised of 14-25 professional musicians who perform both as a large ensemble and in small ensembles.

The mission of the Canadian Sinfonietta is to attract a new generation of concert goers by presenting concerts that balance traditional and newly composed programs. Our programs often feature interdisciplinary artistic presentations, multi-cultural music, non-western instruments and highlight diverse Canadian artists.

In addition to a regular series of professional concerts, CS is passionate about youth mentorship. The CS Youth Orchestra program includes a full orchestra, the junior strings and a chamber ensemble program. Each year students join the pros in a side-by side concert. Highlights from the 2025-2026 season include our new conductor -less orchestra featuring winners from the Unionville Music Competition and a live performance of Toronto composer Bruno Degazio's Octet from our new Canadian Mosaic Album. Stream our music online @ https://li.sten.to/9fgspb7o

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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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