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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 organisation.

The 2024/25 concert season opens with “A Holiday Travelogue” on Friday, December 13 at 7:30pm at Grace Church on-the-Hill, 300 Lonsdale Road. The concert includes music from Ireland, Sweden, Spain, Scotland, Venezuela, France, and England. A featured work will be Fantasia on Christmas Carols by Ralph Vaughan Williams with baritone soloist, Bradley Christensen.

On May 16, 2025, the Choristers will be joined by Caribbean choir La Petite Musicale, under the direction of Lindy Burgess. Our special guests will be Venezuelan composer, Cesar Alejandro Carillo and his wife, poet Laura Morales, visiting Canada for the first time. "Venezuela Viva" will provide a snapshot of the diversity of Venezuelan music. Repertoire will showcase a slice of choral culture with Afrocentric, Spanish, and Caribbean influences.

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Award-winning Vesnivka Choir was established in 1965 by founding artistic director Halyna Kvitka Kondracki. The choir has delighted audiences with its rich repertoire of Ukrainian classical, contemporary, sacred and traditional folk music. Vesnivka, together with its partner the Toronto Ukrainian Male Chamber Choir (also founded by Ms. Kondracki), are often joined in concert by area musicians and soloists. We are excited to announce that Nazar Lozynskyy will be assuming a broader role as co-conductor of the choirs in the upcoming 2024/25 season. Our concert season will consist of three major concerts, the first being “Prayer for Ukraine”, a concert of sacred music by classical and contemporary Ukrainian composers, to be held on November 3, 2024. Joining the choirs will be guest ensemble St. Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic Church Choir from Toronto. On January 12, 2025, we will celebrate the new year with our annual Christmas concert, featuring traditional and contemporary Ukrainian Christmas carols and New Year’s songs. Our final concert of the season will be held on May 4, 2025. “Songs of Love” will feature a program of Ukrainian music depicting themes of romance, unrequited love as well as familial love.

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VIVA Singers Toronto is a family of seven choirs with a mandate to give members, ages four through adult, the opportunity to achieve artistic excellence in a singer-centered, collaborative choral community.

VIVA offers diverse musical programming, including regular performance and international touring opportunities, musical literacy, chorister composition and Orff-based creation activities, an annual fall Performing Arts Camp and commissioned works and partnerships with distinguished musicians and composers.

VIVA’s dedicated efforts to put choristers first inform our rehearsal structures and music-making processes. We embrace the coexistence of a high level of artistic and educational engagement while fostering a truly inclusive environment.

We continue to advocate for all voices, and push for inclusivity to ensure that anyone who enjoys music is welcomed - and challenged - at VIVA. VIVA is proud to celebrate its 25th anniversary in the 2024/25 season!

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The VOCA Chorus of Toronto, a dynamic, auditioned ensemble under the leadership of artistic director Jenny Crober, performs a broad range of repertoire in collaboration with a variety of superb guest artists. VOCA's season consists of concerts, cabarets, community performances and workshops. Our wonderful collaborative pianist is Dakota Scott-Digout. Numerous remarkable artists have joined VOCA as clinicians, including composer Ola Gjeilo, conductor Ivars Taurins and jazz vocalist Dylan Bell.

VOCA's 2024/25 season, our artistic director's 20th Anniversary, will be an exciting one. On October 27, our professional leads will be featured in a cabaret / fundraiser. On December 14, our 'Season Songs' concert will include Sarah Quartel's Iesous ahatonnia, Jenny Crober's arrangement of Joni Mitchell's River, a world premiere by Nicholas Ryan Kelly, an Ontario premiere by Matthew Emery and more, with guest artists Michael Occhipinti, jazz guitar and Jamie Drake, percussion. On May 10, we'll be performing Carl Orff's monumental Carmina Burana, featuring several brilliant instrumentalists and soloists, including our special guest, tenor Andrew Haji. VOCA rehearses Monday evenings at Eastminster United (Danforth/Chester subway).

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VOICEBOX: Opera in Concert is Canada’s only company dedicated exclusively to the presentation of rare opera programming for 50 years. Our performances rely on the power and beauty of the human voice, the dramatic inflection of text and poetry, accompanied by orchestra or piano.

This season features three contrasting operas that reflect diversity through the ages in our new venue! The first opera to be presented at the Jeanne Lamon Hall, Trinity St. Paul Centre, is Gluck’s Alceste on Sunday, January 12, 2024, followed by Puccini’s La Rondine on Thursday, March 20, and Friday, March 21, 2025. The season concludes with Meyerbeer’s Robert Le Diable.

The OIC Chorus will also be featured in each opera, led by Robert Cooper with our Music Directors.

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In 2024, Westben celebrates 25 years of bringing people together through music in nature. Year-round programs include the international summer festival from June to August in three outdoor venues, concerts at the Schoolhouse, music in nature small group experiences, community programs, workshops, kids camps and more.

Westben’s International Performer-Composer Residency (PCR) is an annual collaborative gathering where diverse listeners and performer-composers build relationships and connect through creating music and exchanging perspectives.

Westben is located in Northumberland County, 40 minutes from Cobourg, Peterborough and Belleville, 2 hours east of Toronto, and 2.5 hours west of Ottawa. Westben is nestled amongst the gently rolling hills of the Gunshot Treaty lands and subsequent Williams Treaties of 1923, and the traditional territory of the Michi Saagiig (Mississauga) Anishinaabeg, near what is now known as Campbellford, Ontario.

Westben’s summer festival has presented over 5000 international and local Canadian artists including Gerald Finley, Angela Hewitt, Oliver Jones, Peter Appleyard, Michael Kaeshammer, Broken Social Scene, William Prince, Jeremy Dutcher, Holly Cole, Colin Mochrie, Deb McGrath, and Natalie McMaster.

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The Wychwood Clarinet Choir brings together the family of clarinets from the E flat sopranino down to the contrabass. Our range of instruments is matched by the variety of our repertoire. We perform new compositions and arrangements, many written or transcribed by our Composers’ Collective. The choir, now in its 16th season, is directed by clarinetist and conductor Michele Jacot. Choir members are admitted by audition and pay an annual membership fee. Members are dedicated clarinetists eager to share their love of music-making in a collegial and musically challenging environment. We strive to create opportunities for serious amateur musicians to develop their musical skills and to share our music more broadly in educational settings and in the wider community. The group rehearses and performs on a regular basis in Toronto’s St. Clair and Wychwood area. Check out our YouTube videos and look for updates on our website. New members welcome - please contact us for audition information.

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Yorkminster Park is synonymous with magnificent music. Whether it’s the choir accompanied by the majestic Casavant organ, our Memorial Carillon, or the congregation lifting their voices in hymns of praise, vocal and instrumental expressions of faith are integral to the Yorkminster Park experience.

Our choir, under organist and music director William Maddox and his assistant, Sharon Beckstead, enjoys a reputation as one of the best church choirs in Toronto. We present free organ recitals at 12:30pm, every Wednesday from September through June, and have recently started a series of carillon recitals in the summer months.

We have a wide variety of unique musical events throughout the year, but Yorkminster Park is renowned for its special seasonal concerts. The quality of the music ministry at YPBC is never more evident than during Advent and Holy Week. These services have become community traditions: City Carol Sing, Carols by Candlelight, Iona liturgical music, the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols, Passiontide Devotion during Holy Week and Evensong services three times a year.

Our sanctuary is frequently made available to other choral and concert groups, which draw appreciative audiences from all over Southern Ontario.

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The Aga Khan Museum in Toronto, Ontario is home to a growing Permanent Collection of over 1,200 masterpieces, including manuscripts, paintings, ceramics, and textiles from the 9th to the 21st century. Through its innovative exhibitions and engaging programs — from captivating performances to thought-provoking lectures, workshops, and film screenings — the Museum reaches millions of people worldwide, fostering intercultural understanding through the arts.

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Alliance Française Toronto is a vibrant community dedicated to Francophone cultures and the promotion of Canadian bilingualism. Each year, it offers a rich cultural experience with more than 100 events, from concerts (classical, jazz, world music, pop, folk) and theatre productions to art exhibitions, lectures, book launches, children’s programs, film screenings, and a wide range of social gatherings.

Events are hosted in our intimate 140-seat theatre and art galleries.

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For 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.

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The Ancaster Memorial Arts Centre is a cultural landmark with a mission as bold as its architecture: to make Ancaster a go-to destination for the arts in Ontario. This lively landmark features performances and creative experiences for all ages and tastes, including concerts ranging from rock, jazz, blues and soul to classical symphonies, theatrical productions, film screenings, and community arts events. Powered by community support and artistic passion, it continues to grow as a welcoming hub where creativity thrives year-round.

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The Annex Singers of Toronto is a spirited, auditioned 60-voice community choir with an eclectic repertoire spanning a thousand years and showcasing a wide range of styles, from plainchant to jazz.

Founded in 1979, the choir has flourished for the past 20 years under the dynamic leadership of Artistic Director Maria Case, becoming known for inventive, relevant programming and for collaboration with a wide array of artists and composers — including commissioning and premiering new works by Canadian musicians. Recent larger works include Orff’s Carmina Burana, Britten’s Rejoice in the Lamb, Dobrogosz’s Jazz Mass, Faure’s Requiem and Mozart’s Great Mass in C Minor.

We perform three concerts each season at Grace Church on-the-Hill, each featuring guest artists as well as our own Annex Chamber Choir and smaller ensembles.

Our 2025/26 season:

• December 13 — “Radiant Dawn”
  Poulenc’s radiant Gloria, alongside contemporary settings of ancient texts illuminating the many facets of winter.
  
  
• March 21 — “Lost & Found”
  Reflections on life’s losses and unexpected gifts, with Hovhaness, Miškinis, Runestad, Martin and others.
  
  
• May 23 — “Elemental”
  Earth, water, air and fire — seeking harmonious balance, with Hildegard, Morley, Nyberg, and others.

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Apocryphonia ventures beyond the standard fare of traditional classical music programming to reveal the beautiful, the lost, and the rare in a rather unpretentious and enjoyable manner.

Its mission: to seek out and share hidden and obscure musical masterpieces, either from composers you may not know, or rare works by familiar names.

Apocryphonia’s concerts are the best chance to discover your new favourite pieces by your new favourite composers.

“The Fourth Cycle of Musical Revelations” - our upcoming season - includes:

• Sept 5: “Across the Channel—French and English Music of the Hundred Years' War” (feat. COMTESSA Medieval Ensemble + Diapente Renaissance Quintet)
• Oct 25 & 26: “Enchanted Baroque” (feat. Rezonance Baroque Ensemble)
• Nov 30: “Bohemian Holiday—Jakub Ryba's Czech Christmas Mass” (feat. Canadian Institute for Czech Music)
• Dec 6 & 12: “Diapente Book of Carols” (NoTL & Toronto)
• Feb 28: “Time's Eldest Son—Celebrating 400 Years of John Dowland” (feat. Diapente)
• Apr 17: “The Collective of Cool Cats—Jazz-Classical from Beyond the Iron Curtain
• May 2: “A Cabinet of Curiosities 3”—The GTA's Fully Randomized Classical Cabaret!
• June 12: “Of Whales and Willpower—The Jamaican Jonah” [Canadian Premiere of Samuel Felsted's Jonah (1775)]

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Arkel Chamber Concerts, for 13 years now a gem of the Toronto classical music scene, presents some of the world's best chamber music in three intimate, unforgettable concerts each season. Co-founders Marie Bérard, Concertmaster of the COC Orchestra, and Winona Zelenka, a lead cellist of the TSO, began their journey as Trio Arkel, and now as Arkel Chamber Concerts, have further expanded to present programs of ever more imagination and depth, exploring the world of chamber music from the timeless masterpieces of the Classical and Romantic periods through to exciting present-day compositions. Guest artists include beloved and internationally acclaimed virtuosos of the classical music world.

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Founded in 1987, Attila Glatz Concert Productions or "Glatz Concerts" produces, promotes, and manages classical, jazz, folk, country, film and video game music performances worldwide.

The company’s signature presentation is the beloved New Year’s Concert, “Salute to Vienna”. Presented annually in more than 20 major concert halls from the Lincoln Center to Roy Thomson Hall, this concert series celebrates its 30th anniversary in 2025.

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Created in 2014 by Sharon Azrieli CQ for the Azrieli Foundation, The Azrieli Music Prizes (AMP) offers opportunities for the discovery, creation, performance and celebration of excellence in music composition. Every two years, AMP offers four prizes: two celebrating the discovery and creation of excellent new Jewish music; a third for the creation of Canadian music; and a fourth to commission a new international work.

AMP is open to composers of all ages, genders, faiths and nationalities. Full eligibility and submission guidelines are available on the AMP website. AMP also seeks to engage more composers and enrich the concert repertoire through its Performance Fund and its instrumentation cycle – 2026: Choir and Orchestra; 2028: Chamber Music; 2030: Choral Music; 2032: Orchestral Music.

All Prize Laureates receive a prize package valued at over $200,000 CAD, including a $50,000 cash award, a premiere in Montréal at the AMP Gala Concert, two subsequent international showcase concerts, and a professional recording for future commercial release. This makes AMP the largest competition of its kind in Canada and one of the most important in the world.

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The Barrie Concert Association (BCA) is a non-profit organisation dedicated to bringing exceptional musical performances to the Barrie community. Since its founding in 1946, the BCA has enriched the local cultural landscape by organizing a series of concerts showcasing a diverse range of genres, from classical to jazz and contemporary music.

Our upcoming 2025/26 season contains an exciting mix of music, featuring Elmer Iseler Singers, among others.

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The Canadian Bandurist Capella is a vocal-instrumental ensemble that combines the sounds of male choral singing with the orchestral accompaniment of Ukraine's national classic instrument the bandura. The music of the Kobzars (blind minstrels) and choral singing are core elements of Ukraine's musical history and culture. They were the seeds that inspired a group of dedicated individuals to form the Capella in June 2001. Their goal was for the Capella's ensemble of bandura instrumentalists and choristers to be ambassadors of Ukrainian music and the Kobzar/Bandurist Art Form.

Through dynamic musical arrangements and performances, the Capella delivers a unique listening experience that raises the profile of the bandura and Ukrainian Song in the Ukrainian-Canadian community and beyond.

The mission of the Canadian Bandurist Capella is to explore the full potential of the modern bandura within a male choral ensemble, to bring together individuals who are committed to advancing choral-bandura music while respecting its rich history, and to promote and popularize the bandura within and beyond the Ukrainian-Canadian community by maintaining a high standard of artistry, musicianship and performance.

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The Canadian Chamber Orchestra (CCO) is a musician-led ensemble based in Toronto that reimagines the concert experience through immersive performances of classical and contemporary music. We champion Canadian composers, elevate diverse voices, and foster meaningful connections between artists and audiences through bold programming, education, and outreach. We envision a thriving, inclusive musical culture where Canadian artistry is celebrated worldwide, where musicians shape their creative futures, and where all people, regardless of background, can engage deeply with the transformative power of music.

Our inaugural season featured 3 self-produced concerts, and this past July, the CCO recorded it's debut album at the Isabel Bader Centre with composer Dinuk Wijeratne, and quartet soloists the Rolston String Quartet. This album was supported by the Isabel Bader Centre's IMAGINE Arts Incubator, and the Ontario Arts Council.
We kick off our 2025/26 season on Oct 31st at Hugh's Room with “Movie Night: Nosferatu”. The CCO will perform a newly curated collage score set to the 1922 horror classic. Then on Dec 7th, Music Toronto presents the CCO with Rob Kapilow and Isabella Perron in a "What Makes it Great?" performance of Vivaldi's Four Seasons.

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The Canadian Opera Company is the largest producer of opera in Canada and one of the largest in North America. General Director David Ferguson joined the company in 2024, forming a leadership team with Music Director Johannes Debus.

The COC enjoys a loyal audience, including a dedicated base of subscribers, and has an international reputation for artistic excellence and creative innovation. Its diverse repertoire includes new commissions and productions, local and international collaborations with leading opera companies and festivals, and attracts the world’s foremost Canadian and international artists.

The company is an incubator for the future of the art form, nurturing Canada’s new wave of opera performers and creators with customized training and support. The COC’s purpose-built opera house, the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, is hailed internationally as one of the finest in the world.

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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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Founded 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.

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Since its 1979 debut, this outstanding music and theatre (and musical theatre!) organisation has been offering performances of some of the great musical, operatic and dramatic gems of the past century. Still under the direction of the company's founder, Joe Cascone, the company presents virtually all facets of musical and dramatic performances. From the hits of Rodgers & Hammerstein and Lerner & Loewe, Stephen Sondheim and Jerry Herman to lesser-known masterpieces by unsung composers and playwrights, the company's high quality of production and performance has been their much-heralded standard. In 2026, the world-renowned play AMADEUS (the highly fictionalized lives of Mozart and Salieri and their fascinating musical and professional relationships) is being presented at the historic VideoCabaret Theatre from July 15 to 26.

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Common Thread: Community Chorus of Toronto is a non-audition chorus which promotes a sense of community by performing joyful and empowering music. All voices are welcome! We believe that everyone can sing and that together we can make beautiful music. We sing music that celebrates the dignity of all people and their struggles to create a better world. We sing for recreation, for reverence, for learning and laughter, for struggle, for hope and for understanding. One of our goals is to encourage people to sing in their everyday lives. To that end we often invite our audience to sing along. We aim to “Put a song on people’s lips, and not just in their ears!”

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Confluence Concerts is a company of diverse creative artists dedicated to personal, thought-provoking, and moving presentations.

Join us for a characteristically eclectic and entertaining season of uplifting and life-affirming music-making at Heliconian Hall.

Each concert looks at the power of music to elevate, comfort and stimulate, and leads us to encounters with the mysteries and unknowns of life. From Hildegard von Bingen to Queen and everything in between.

The second half of our season begins on February 13th and 14th with Centuries of Souls II curated by Confluence Artistic Producer Larry Beckwith. This concert will include a complete performance of the Missa Gaudeamus by Tomas Luis de Victoria, featuring some of the most dynamic and engaging singers in Toronto.

On March 9th, our Young Artistic Associate Natalie Fasheh will present Ahlam أحلام – Notes on Womanhood.

Suba Sankaran will remount her show Mandala: The Beauty of Impermanence on April 11th and 12th, which explores the mandala within music itself.

And finally, Teiya Kasahara 笠原貞野 presents Queens, Divas and Icons, Oh My! on May 22nd and 23rd, featuring the music of Ella Fitzgerald, Aretha Franklin, Freddy Mercury, Cher, Kate Bush, K.D. Lang, and more.

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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.

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The 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.

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Dudukhouse 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.

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The Edison Singers is a fully professional chamber choir founded and led by internationally-acclaimed Artistic Director and Conductor, Dr. Noel Edison. Our vision is to reach out to communities large and small with the world’s finest choral music.

The Edison Singers draws from a pool of 35 professional singers with diverse cultural and work backgrounds. We include choristers of all gender expressions, ethnicities and physical abilities. Please submit audition requests along with resumes to Heather Fleming, coordinator@theedisonsingers.com.

We currently produce an annual concert series in four Ontario communities: the Toronto Area, the Niagara Area, Brantford and Wellington County. These centres are the hubs for our seasons, and we aim to become an integral part of the musical life of each community, bringing hope, joy, and inspiration through the novel storytelling of choral music.

The Edison Singers has been fortunate to receive support from the Ontario Arts Council and many private donors, to help support our past and upcoming seasons, and our NAXOS recordings. We are committed to supporting Canadian talent. Our newest NAXOS recording is a compilation of choral music by Canadian composer, Timothy Corlis, and will be released December 2025.

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The Elmer Iseler Singers (EIS) are a 20-voice professional chamber choir based in Toronto and founded by the late Dr. Elmer Iseler in 1979. Directed by the acclaimed Lydia Adams, C.M., the Singers are known for tonal beauty and interpretive range, and valued for their contributions to masterclasses and workshops with schools and community choirs.

Experience three luminous Toronto concerts conducted by Lydia Adams, as EIS present their 47th season series, “This Moment to Shine!” Beginning with ‘A Portrait in Song: The Music of Eleanor Daley’ on November 2nd, we celebrate one of Canada’s most cherished composers. On December 12th, Amadeus Choir and VIVA Chamber Singers return to perform Handel’s ‘Messiah’ with EIS, orchestra and guest soloists. ‘The Earth Sings’ will be the 3rd Toronto series concert on April 12th, 2026, with two world premieres and a special performance of ‘The Living Flame of Love’ in a special tribute to the late Canadian composer, Norma Beecroft.

Series subscriptions and individual concert tickets are available on their website, along with news about tours, guest appearances and workshops.

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The 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.

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Pioneering Ensemble Vivant’s innovative genre-defying classical/jazz programming is rich with passionate, deeply communicative playing that touches the hearts and souls of listeners of all ages. EV has 15 internationally acclaimed CDs heard on radio worldwide.

Of iFUGUE ~ A World of Fugues, U.S.A. Magazine’s Fanfare & American Record Guide wrote: “Smokin…Fugues shouldn’t be this much fun!”; “Lively readings of fugues by all sorts of composers. A few are presented in original form, such as Bach’s Prelude & Fugue #9 (WTC I), played beautifully by pianist Catherine Wilson.”

“It’s rare to hear music played with such depth and sincerity, and yet with a sparkle that moved its audience to new heights.” Brantford Music Club.

“No matter the genre, there is magic in EV's music-making.” - Jazz icon Rick Wilkins, C.M.

“Chamber music at its evocative best!” - The WholeNote

“…beautiful, poised performances...capture the passion and verve…Wilson’s piano gives this music unerring drive and plenty of sparkle.” - The Toronto Star

EV’s invaluable live and video programs for underserved communities are conducted through Euterpe (musicisthekey.org) and supported by Ontario Trillium Foundation, Canada Council, Levante, Ross Mitchell, George C. Hunt Foundations & more.

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Esprit Orchestra is Canada's only full-sized, professional orchestra devoted to performing and presenting new music.

Founded in 1983 by Music Director and Conductor, Alex Pauk, Esprit’s commitment to commissioning and advancing contemporary music has set it apart as one of the few organisations of its kind on a global scale. Esprit consistently collaborates with outstanding composers and performs with first-class soloists and ensembles from Canada and abroad.

With a dynamic annual subscription concert series, this skilled orchestra presents music that is otherwise unavailable in Canada. Esprit performances are regularly recorded, and many can be viewed online in full.

During the 2025/26 Edge of Your Seat Festival II, Esprit will present four concerts at Toronto's Koerner Hall, comprising the very best in contemporary music from around the world. Esprit will present new co-commissioned concerti by Dieter Ammann and Misato Mochizuki for violist Nils Mönkemeyer and violinist Akiko Suwanai, premiere 2 new Canadian works, and perform music by such esteemed composers as Claude Vivier, Thomas Adès, Aziza Sadikova, Anna Thorvaldsdottir, Ben Nobuto, Arvo Pärt, Anders Hillborg, Alexina Louie, Gabriella Smith and more!

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Etobicoke Centennial Choir (ECC) is a SATB auditioned community choir dedicated to celebrating the art and joy of choral singing. We offer performances of diverse repertoire ranging from classical masterpieces to contemporary compositions and music from around the world.

ECC offers a challenging and supportive choral experience guided by professional artists. Rehearsals are held every Tuesday, September to June, from 7:30pm to 9:45pm at Humber Valley United Church in Etobicoke.

The ability to read music is required and some choral experience is recommended but not necessary.

Our 2025/26 season will feature Benjamin Britten’s glorious A Ceremony of Carols with harp accompaniment and Poulenc’s Quatre motets pour le temps de Noël.

The choir will pay tribute to the Big Band era with the music of Jerome Kern, Irving Berlin, Duke Ellington, the Gershwins and more, accompanied by a combo of saxes, trumpets, trombones, bass and piano led by Juno award-winning drummer Ernesto Cervini.

Women composers will be showcased in a program that includes A World Beloved: A Bluegrass Mass by Carol Barnett with instrumental accompaniment, music by Canadian composers Eleanor Daly, Ruth Watson Henderson and ECC’s own Lauren Halász.

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Flute Street, Toronto’s professional flute choir, opens its 12th season in a new venue: the acoustically fine and easily accessible St. Andrew’s United Church, 117 Bloor Street East. Under the artistic direction of founder Nancy Nourse and conductor Isaac Page, Flute Street offers its growing audiences highly polished and musical renderings of the very best original works, recently composed for a full range flute ensemble. From the gigantic double contrabass flute (the only one in Canada) to the tiny piccolo on the top, Flute Street fills seven octaves with vivid flute colours. Along with the original repertoire, they perform symphonic transcriptions, Renaissance and Baroque fare, folk song settings, the occasional jazz standard and solo performances by Canadian and international guest artists. Additionally, this season, two exciting new works from Flute Street’s recent “Call for Scores” will be premiered. Please join us on:

• Sunday, November 2, 2025, 4pm - “Colour Configurations”
• Sunday, December 14, 2025, 4pm - “Chestnuts, Candy Canes, and Carols”
• Sunday, April 26, 2026, 4pm – “Flutes and Fantasies”, Laurel Swinden, guest artist

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Friends of Music at St. Thomas's (honorary co-chairs, Larry Beckwith and Molly Johnson) hosts a concert series featuring an exciting array of artists specialising in everything from Renaissance music to jazz, and Western classical repertoire to traditional music from around the world. The Friends of Music program supports artists by providing a venue they love performing in, and helps fund the free music program that St. Thomas’s Anglican Church offers for children (grades 2 to 12). The St. Thomas's Choristers learn ensemble singing, vocal technique, and music theory in a fun atmosphere (stthomas.on.ca/choristers).

Our 2025/26 concert series includes: French and English music of the Hundred Years' War, performed by Comtessa and Diapente Renaissance Quintet; our second sing-your-heart-out Hymn Festival; a program by Lute Legends; a special evening with Molly Johnson; the superb Eybler Quartet; sitar player Neha Mahajan, and two trombone virtuosos (see stthomas.on.ca/concert-series).

In addition, St. Thomas’s liturgical music program is renowned for excellence. Evensong at 5pm every Sunday features choral music that ranges from plainchant to repertoire of the British cathedral heritage, to works by contemporary composers.

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Made up of Canada’s top professional brass performers, the Hannaford Street Silver Band honours and builds upon the traditions of the brass band from a uniquely Canadian perspective. Through actively facilitating collaborations with renowned artists from across Canada and the world, the band continues its mandate of innovation and creative excellence. Now in its 43rd season, the Hannaford Street Silver Band occupies a prominent position in the fabric of the Canadian musical landscape.

In addition to its concert series, the Hannaford Street Silver band supports a thriving Youth Program, educating and inspiring the next generation of musicians and music lovers.

Our 2025/26 season's featured guests include renowned trombonist Ko-Ichiro Yamamoto, visual artist Paula Arciniega, the Orpheus Choir, and trumpet virtuoso Karen Donnelly, all backed by Canada's finest brass players. Witness breathtaking soloists, original visual art and newly commissioned choral works - all while surrounding yourself in the warm and majestic sounds of the brass band. Join us this season - where Brass is Best!

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The Jubilate Singers, founded in 1969, are a mixed-voice, auditioned, community choir directed by Isabel Bernaus. The choir specializes in eclectic international music and takes pride in singing in the original languages- everything from Arabic to Zulu.The choir also collaborates with a variety of other musicians and performing groups. Last season the choir performed with the Wychwood Clarinet Choir.

This season will open with a performance of the Abya Yala cantata, a Chilean Indigenous Suite by Freddy Vilches, along with other Latin American favourites. The winter concert's theme is "Canadian Indigenous Music". This is a collaboration with the University of Guelph choirs and will feature works by A.Balfour, S Sewepagaham, T.Williams and others. The June concert, "Four Weddings and a Funeral”, will feature music of love, longing and loss.

The Jubilate Singers rehearse on Tuesday evenings, September through June, in the City of Toronto. Each year the choir donates free tickets to settlement houses, seniors' centres and other community organizations for people who would not otherwise be able to attend cultural events.

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The Kindred Spirits Orchestra (KSO) is a critically acclaimed audition-based civic orchestra performing under the direction of Maestro Kristian Alexander at the Meridian Arts Centre (George Weston Recital Hall) and the CBC Glenn Gould Studio in Toronto, as well as at the Flato Markham Theatre and the Cornell Recital Hall. In addition to presenting concerts, the KSO offers several educational, community outreach, professional development and international cultural exchange programmes.

Highlights of the 2025/26 season include Tchaikovsky's enigmatic "Manfred" Symphony, Duka's colourful Symphony in C, Richard Strauss' Neo-Baroque "Le bourgeois gentilhomme”, Shostakovich‘s monumental Twelfth, Bruckner's apocalyptic Eighth, and Sibelius' expressive Second Symphony and a world premières of Concerto for piano and orchestra "Pictures from an Imagined Exhibition" by the award-winning Canadian composer Alice Ho. Italian pianist Antonio Di Stefano will make his Canadian début with Ravel's Concerto for piano and orchestra in G. The German piano duo Florian Koltun - Xin Wang will also make their Canadian début with Mozart's Concerto for two pianos and orchestra.

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Founded in 2002 and headquartered in Toronto, the Li Delun Music Foundation is a non-profit organisation dedicated to promoting multicultural exchange between East and West through musical activities.

The Foundation is named after the renowned conductor Li Delun, who founded the first symphony orchestra of the People's Republic of China. Today, the Foundation is renowned for hosting high-calibre musical events and also promotes the popularisation of classical music through concerts and events. For example, the annual "East-West New Year Concert" at George Weston Hall brings outstanding musicians from China and around the world to Toronto. In addition to establishing the Toronto Festival Orchestra, which provides talented young musicians with the opportunity to collaborate with experienced professionals, the Foundation also provides a platform for young Canadian musicians to perform solo recitals and various other performance opportunities.

The Li Delun Music Foundation has also hosted masterclasses and workshops by internationally renowned artists such as Lang Lang, Chen Sa, Haochen Zhang, Bruce Liu and Professor Lee Kum-Sing, and others.

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Metropolitan United is blessed with several choirs and groups that perform regularly. The Metropolitan Choir is an auditioned choir of 25 members. They sing during the weekly Sunday worship service and at special events. Weekly rehearsals on Thursdays prepare the choir for its performances. The choir offers a wide repertoire, ranging from 17th-century to modern composers. The choir often features Canadian works, some written expressly for the group.

The Metropolitan Festival Choir is an auditioned choir assembled for our annual Good Friday concert—a Toronto tradition of more than 30 years. The Festival Choir rehearses on Sunday afternoons for six weeks prior to Good Friday. This choir is an augmented choir that includes members from Metropolitan United and the broader community. The Handbell Choir is an ensemble of 11 players who play a three-octave set of handbells and hand chimes. The choir performs a range of music, from traditional church music to arrangements of modern hymns and folk songs. The Metropolitan Silver Band has been a part of the Metropolitan United community since 1934. This brass and percussion ensemble performs a mix of classics, marches, religious music, popular selections, and contemporary works.

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The Mississauga Chamber Singers bring clarity and intimacy to great choral masterpieces from a wide range of A Capella works to timeless works for choir and orchestra.

Led by Artistic Director, Mervin William Fick, the choir presents dynamic within a widening scope of the classical choral repertoire.

The Mississauga Chamber Singers performs a diverse season of extensive community engagement events, multi-generational musical education programming and ticketed concerts in a variety of performance spaces within the city.

Come and hear the difference!

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Our 2025/26 season showcases celebrated soloists either in recital or ensemble formation. The programs have an eclectic mix of world classical works from Beethoven’s Archduke trio to von Weber’s renowned clarinet quintet, adapted two cello works by Bartok, Piazzolla, all-Prokofiev program, and fiery violin solos by Ysaÿe and Kreisler.

The Players: Cello Fellos (Bryan Cheng & Leonard Disselhorst), Busch Trio, David Jalbert, piano; Eric Abramovitz, clarinet with four TSO strings; Kerson Leong, violin. Five-concert subscriptions are $325/$300 adult/senior and $150 under age 30. Concerts are Sundays at 3:15pm, Walter Hall (UofT) - general admission seating.

MUSIC & TRUFFLES KIDS – Give your child their first taste of classical music! Artists featured in our mainstage events also perform a one-hour mini-concert for young people ages 6-11 and their parents, grandparents, and friends at 1:15pm. Subscriptions $125 and include a Lindt chocolate truffle for everyone at the end of each concert.

Orford Music director Wonny Song, mentored by Anton Kuerti, is our Artistic Director.

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Since its 2011 launch, Music at St. Andrew’s has gained a reputation for delivering great music at affordable prices. We're delighted to welcome audiences to enjoy the superb acoustics of our spacious sanctuary in the heart of Toronto's entertainment district.

St. Andrew’s magnificent Bösendorfer Imperial Grand piano, which inspired the launch of our music program, is used extensively in our free, mostly classical Friday Noontime Recitals. Now in its twelfth year of Fall and Winter/Spring recitals, this popular series features graduate students and professors from U of T's Music Department, established performers and rising young stars.

Join us on October 3 as we welcome flautist, Caara Yeung and pianist Sonya Sim in a program entitled “Debussy to Bacri”.

Following the success of last year's Christmas concert, we've invited St. Andrew’s renowned professional choir to take stage again on Friday, December 12. Come and share in some of the musical treasures of the season.

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The Nathaniel Dett Chorale is a 21-voice SATB professional choir based in Toronto, dedicated to the creation, performance, and preservation of Afrocentric music of all styles and genres. Founded by artistic director D. Brainerd Blyden-Taylor in 1998, the Nathaniel Dett Chorale is Canada’s premier performer of Afrocentric composers and a touchstone for the education of audiences and communities regarding the spectrum of Afrocentric choral music. The mission of the NDC is to build bridges of understanding, appreciation, and acceptance between communities of people through the medium of music. The Chorale has a three-concert series in Toronto, tours extensively each season, and has released several CDs and DVDs.

The Nathaniel Dett Chorale is artist-in-residence at the Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on Africa and its Diasporas. Membership is by audition.

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New Music Concerts furthers the appreciation, creation and performance of exceptional adventurous music for everyone.

New Music Concerts (NMC) is a leader in curating, performing, and promoting innovative and cutting-edge music by Canadian and international composers.

Founded in 1971, NMC is an internationally renowned leader and unique in Toronto as the foremost champion of contemporary works for large chamber ensemble, often performing alongside cutting edge technology.

For NMC, adventurous music is any music that, when heard at any stage of your listening journey, teaches you something new, ignites a spark, and inspires you. We believe that the ability to appreciate adventurous music is a skill that can be learned, practiced, and acquired. Achieving this expands listeners’ horizons, unveiling a new world of composers, ensembles, and fresh concepts.

It is NMC’s mandate to nurture a dialogue between the voices of multiple musical traditions, including those that have been historically underrepresented.

No matter where you come from, if you love adventurous music, you will always have a home at NMC.