Music Mondays 2024
Welcome to our 33rd Season of summer-lunchtime
concerts!
Our 2024 Season will begin on Monday June 3rd and run
until Labour Day, Monday Sept. 2nd. Concerts take place
at 12:15 in the historic Church of the Holy Trinity,
Trinity Square.
Music Mondays has served as a launching pad for emerging
talent, and celebration of established local talent
since its inception in 1992. Our concerts take place in
the warm acoustics of Holy Trinity Church, just steps
away from the Eaton Centre. Our goal is to provide the
highest possible musical experience to a
pay-what-you-can downtown Toronto audience - office
workers, tourists, retired folks, young children, the
homeless, students and the musically curious. The
acoustics of Holy Trinity are very special - warm and
inviting. The church boasts two fine instruments: a
Steinway B Concert Grand and a superb Casavant Frčres
tracker-action baroque organ.
This summer, our concerts once again represent an
eclectic mix of classical, light-classical, world, and
early music! This season could be called "The Season of
Duos and Trios!" Nine out of the 14 concerts are duos or
trios! The summer opens with an intriquing program by
Duo Perdendosi (Tong Wang & Maitreyi Muralidharan)
in "Dark Tales" which explores the darker side of fairy
tales with works by Sergei Prokofiev, Fazil Say, Leoš
Janáček, and Joe Hisaishi. Obsidiana Duo (Yolanda Tapia,
piano & Camila Montefusco, mezzo) will explore the
works of Canadian composers Alice Ho, Ian Cusson, and
Jeff Smallman and The Ezra Duo (Sasha Bult-Ito &
Jacob Clewell joined by clarinetist Kaye Royer) will
premier two new works by Canadian composers Ron Royer
and David Jaeger. The piano/violin duo Sabatino Vacca
& Lucia Barcari will take us on a musical odyssey
through the primeval forests and medieval towns of
Eastern Europe in the program "The Bohemian Violin",
while another piano/violin duo Melody Chan & Alvin
Tran will dive into the exoticism of Bartok, Ravel,
Kapustin, and the Toronto based composer, Kevin Lau.
Joonghun Cho, piano & Peter Eom, cello pair up to
present a captivating concert featuring Rachmaninoff's Sonata
in G minor for Cello and Piano, Op. 19 and
Britten's Sonata for Cello and Piano, Op. 65. We
even have a guitar-duo this summer! Simon Farintosh and
Adam Batstone team up in an eclectic program of
contemporary solo and duo guitar works, including music
by Aphex Twin and Takashi Yoshimatsu. "Team Japan" (Eri
Kosaka-violin, Rachel Mercer-cello, and Tomoko
Inui-piano) will unveil the hidden treasures of Hisato
Ohzawa's unpublished Piano Trio, rescued from
the shadows of WWII, courtesy of the Kobe Women’s
University Library.
Two piano soloists are featured this summer:
Hungarian-Canadian concert pianist Mary Kenedi in a
program based on romantic trends from Beethoven to the
present through Liszt, Bartok, Nino Rota and Canadian
composer Marjan Mozetich and Joseph Ferretti in a unique
program of Ravel and a "mod for piano and
electronics: an homage ŕ Ravel", by Toronto-based
composer Stephanie Orlando.
World music, as always, takes a prominent place in
programming for Music Mondays. This summer we welcome
Shahriyar Jamshidi as he demonstrates the capabilities
of the Kamānche (spiked fiddle) as a solo instrument
while presenting a part of the musical heritage of his
native Kurdistan. Returning once again is Diar "Syrian
band" who specializes in playing Syrian and Arabic
traditional songs, infused with Flamenco music. The
program will also feature Hinad Alshuhuf on one of the
oldest Arabic instruments, the Oud.
We are thrilled to welcome Jonathan Oldengarm (who bears
a striking resemblance to Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck),
Minister of Music at Toronto’s Metropolitan United
Church to perform on Holy Trinity's superb Casavant
Frčres Opus 3095, 1970 tracker organ. And finally, the
Cardinal Consort of Viols will make a return visit in a
program entitled "A Nest of Byrds" to round out the
consort's 2023–2024 season celebration of the 400th
anniversary of William Byrd (c. 1540–1623).
We are grateful for the generous support of the Toronto
Arts Council, Steinway Piano Gallery Toronto, the
Downtown Yonge BIA and CBC MUSIC for their continuing
support, and you, our dedicated audience.
Please join us to celebrate our 33rd Season - every
Monday at 12:15pm from June to Labour Day!
Ian Grundy
Artistic Director, Music Mondays
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The
Church of the Holy Trinity
19 Trinity Square Toronto, ON M5G 1B1
416-598-4521 Ext 223
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