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canary sitelinkChris Friesen
306-250-4256
trinitybachproject@gmail.com
www.trinitybachproject.org

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Trinity Bach ProjectTrinity Bach Project is a professional vocal and instrumental ensemble that inspires new audiences with the extraordinary musical and spiritual riches of J. S. Bach’s choral repertoire. By bringing to life the underperformed cantatas of Bach with clarity, excellence, and generosity, we remove barriers around classical choral music and open the doors of sacred places—both historic architecture and human hearts.The 44 concerts of our first three seasons included such programs as “Bach & Mendelssohn,” “Bach and Schütz,” “Bach & Tallis,” “Bach & Roses,” and “Bach & Honour,” shared with diverse audiences in 18 different church settings around Toronto and the surrounding region. Season four is set to debut in October 2025 with “Bach and the Earth,” featuring the vivacious cantatas BWV 187 (Es wartet alles auf dich) and BWV 76 (Die Himmel erzählen die Ehre Gottes), while January to June will see, “Bach & Anguish” (BWV 12 and 127), “Bach & Rising (BWV 67 and 95), and “Bach & Wings” (BWV 137 and 43).

canary sitelinkMichael Jones
647-956-1182
mjones@spo.ca
www.spo.ca

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Scarborough Philharmonic OrchestraUnder the direction of Ron Royer, who brings years of experience as a conductor, musician, composer and music educator, the SPO has developed as a lively community orchestra and a Canadian composition incubator, while also producing live and digital chamber concerts by orchestra ensembles.

SPO is also a local resource as a co-producer of recording projects by local ensembles, artists and choirs. Orchestra Canada included SPO in its “Digital Toolkit” as an exemplar for small orchestras citing its podcast, streaming content, and recording production skills.

The SPO has been an anchor cultural organization in Scarborough for 45 years. and presents, on average, six main-series concerts, plus performing/presenting at festivals and community celebrations, plus recording, developing and presenting substantial Canadian programming, as recognized by the Canadian Music Centre in awarding SPO the 2021 John Beckwith Award,

The orchestra has a professional core augmented by highly achieving community amateur musicians. Annually, it offers a unique program for New Generation artists and composers, as well as residency programs.

canary sitelinkPaige Fitzpatrick
416-446-0188
info@amadeuschoir.com
www.amadeuschoir.com

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Amadeus Choir of Greater TorontoFor the 2025/26 season, the choir will be led by Artistic Director Kathleen Allan for the November 1 performance of "Vertigo: A Choral Tango" featuring a beginner-friendly tango lesson, renowned accordionist Michael Bridge, and breathtaking aerial dancing. Kathleen Allan will also conduct Bach's Christmas Oratorio on December 7 at Kingston Road United Church, in collaboration with the Kingston Road Village Concert Series. The Amadeus Choir will then be performing brand new choral works developed within the Choral Creation Lab residency at its showcase on February 21 at Eglinton St. George’s United Church. Finally, the season will conclude with the May 9 performance of "Wanuskewin: Seeking Peace of Mind" featuring special guest Cris Derksen, cellist and composer, and the world premiere of Andrew Balfour's choral work of the same title.

canary sitelinkDebby Blyth
416-499-3000
info@torontochoralsociety.org
www.torontochoralsociety.org

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The Toronto Choral Society has been an important part of our city’s musical history since first established in 1845! We provide a positive musical environment that enables members to learn and develop both musical ability and choral repertoire. Under the guidelines of our renowned conductor Geoff Butler, you will receive expert choral instruction.

This 2025/26 season, we will be performing four concerts beginning with “The Lark Still Bravely Sings”, a Remembrance Day Concert, honouring Canadian veterans and those who served in the armed forces. Our Christmas concert at Koerner Hall is Handel’s Messiah, a Christmas classic. In March, we will be with the Scarborough Philharmonic orchestra, again a unique experience.

The final concert of the season will be “Both Sides Now”, with folk and rock music from the 1960s; a great evening.

We rehearse on Wednesday nights at Eastminster Church, 310 Danforth Ave (Chester Subway).

canary sitelinkFather Walter Hannam
416-368-9180
stbartsanglican@gmail.com
www.stbartstoronto.ca

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St. Bartholomew's Anglican Church, located in Regent Park, preserves a timeless pattern of worship rooted in the evolving tradition of Western Christianity. Under the direction of Early Music specialist Katherine Hill, the S. Bart’s choir sings at the Sunday Parish mass (11am) and on other Feast Days throughout the year. The choir's repertoire spans many centuries, featuring Gregorian chant, Medieval and Renaissance polyphony, Baroque motets, a wide variety of later English Cathedral music and French Romanticism.

canary sitelinkLaurie Evan Fraser
416-256-3809
lef@uppercanadachoristers.org
www.uppercanadachoristers.org

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The Upper Canada Choristers is an SATB community choir in Toronto with a history of collaboration with both local and international choirs and professional guest artists. UCC is committed to excellence and diversity. Cantemos is UCC’s auditioned Latin American ensemble. Founding Artistic Director, Laurie Evan Fraser and Accompanist, Hye Won Cecilia Lee provide the professional musical leadership for this vibrant organization.

The 2025/26 concert season opens with “This Little Child on Friday”, December 5 at 7:30pm at Grace Church on-the-Hill, 300 Lonsdale Road. The concert will feature The Ceremony of Carols by Benjamin Britten with harpist, Liane James.
On May 8, 2026, the Choristers will present “Songs of Love and Understanding”, with music by Richard Rogers and Lerner and Loewe. We will also premiere a new work: Searching for Love and Understanding, an Empathetic Tapestry, with music by Laurie Evan Fraser and texts by Jacqui Atkin and Jacinto Salcedo.

canary sitelinkJenny Crober
416-931-8224
crober.best@gmail.com
www.vocachorus.ca

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VOCA Chorus of TorontoThe VOCA Chorus of Toronto, a dynamic, auditioned ensemble led by artistic director Jenny Crober, performs a wide range of repertoire in collaboration with a variety of superb guests. Our brilliant collaborative pianist is Dakota Scott-Digout. VOCA’s season consists of concerts, cabaret/fundraisers, community performances and workshops. Several remarkable artists have joined us as clinicians, including composer Ola Gjeilo, conductor Ivars Taurins and jazz musician Dylan Bell.

VOCA's exciting 2025/26 season will open with a concert with the Sinfonía por el Perú Youth Choir on October 8, conducted and featuring selections by Cree composers Andrew Balfour and Sherryl Sewepagaham. VOCA’s professional leads will present a cabaret/fundraiser on October 28. Our seasonal concert on December 20 at Eglinton St. George’s will include world premieres by two of Canada’s most renowned composers, Sarah Quartel and Mark Sirett, with cellist Sybil Shanahan, organist Shawn Grenke and percussionist Jamie Drake. Our Spring 2026 Cabaret will be held on February 28, and our May 2 concert will feature guitarist Jason Fowler and a string quartet, with works by Ola Gjeilo and others. We rehearse on Mondays at Riverdale Presbyterian (Danforth/Pape subway).

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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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