Summer Music Festivals

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Chamberfest 2023 features a star-studded lineup and a delightful array of introductions. Angela Hewitt and Wallis Giunta return for triumphant hometown shows; James Ehnes and NACO, Hinrich Alpers, Lafayette String Quartet, and Mark Fewer all feature. Soirée Baroque stars Chloe Kim, Mélisande McNabney, Cameron Crozman and Michel Angers. Gryphon Trio will celebrate their 30th! Sarah Slean collaborates with Ironwood Quartet! Debuts from 2022 the Isidore String Quartet, Viano String Quartet, and low-voice ensemble Cantus. Chamberfringe acts will dazzle, including Socalled, Patricia O'Callaghan, Amir Amiri Ensemble, Aline Homzy, collectif9, and The Westerlies. There's more to come on our website!

Ottawa Chamberfest, under the motto "Changing lives through music", presents and celebrates chamber music year-round.

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Music Mondays has served as a launching pad for emerging talent, and celebration of established local talent since its inception in 1992. Our pay-what-you-can lunchtime concerts take place in the warm acoustics of Holy Trinity Church, just steps away from the Eaton Centre, in busy downtown Toronto.

Our goal is to provide the highest possible musical experience to a pay-what-you-can downtown Toronto audience. Our audience includes 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. Live concerts are back! Please join us for this, our 32nd season. Bring your lunch - and a friend - every Monday at 12:15pm from June 5th to Labour Day, September 4th!

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Join us at the Premier One World Waterfront Music Festival – The Sultans of String launch the official opening of the festival on Fri, August 11 – at the Midland Cultural Centre, and then on Sat, August 12 – it’s the premier outdoor festival at the Midland waterfront – a collection of musicians and musical styles from around the world includes a beer garden and international food vendors!

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The Collingwood Music Festival brings exceptional performances to Collingwood each summer, featuring award-winning artists in the fields of classical, world, jazz and Indigenous genres. Running from July 8 to 15, 2023, you'll hear the brilliant, symphonic power of the National Academy Orchestra of Canada with special guest Jeremy Dutcher, followed by a program of popular spirituals with the Toronto Mass Choir and plenty more of your favourite artists, such as the Gryphon Trio, collectif9, New Tradition Music, Dévah Quartet - and soloists such as James Campbell, Adi Braun and Daniel Vnukowski.

This year, we are also hosting free events for youth in nearby Duntroon Highlands Golf Club, with an enchanted, musical pathway coupled with the serenity of nature - all outdoors with charming views of the bay.

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Just an hour north of Toronto, Brookside Music’s 2023 ‘Festival of the Bay‘ in Midland will keep the music in summer.

Join us at the Midland Cultural Centre at 7pm for: The Fretless on Fri, July 7; Collectif9 on Fri, July 14; Lafayette String Quartet & James Campbell on Tues, July 25; Festival of the Sound Ensemble on Fri, July 28; Eight Cellos on Wed, August 2. The concerts are offered for an unbelievable $30 plus HST/SC and children and students may attend for free!

Join us for the sweet sounds of summer!

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The Beaches International Jazz Festival, now in its 35th year, is a month-long music festival held each year in the lakeside Beaches community of Toronto in July. It’s now one of Canada’s largest free jazz festivals with nearly 1,000,000 attendees, throughout its month-long span.

The Festival takes place across a number of venues; stage concerts are held in several different parks within the area and also along a two kilometre stretch of the Beach mainstreet during StreetFest - Queen Street East.

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SweetWater 2023 once again will offer up internationally-acclaimed Canadian and global artists performing classical, jazz, and contemporary music on the shores of Georgian Bay. Artistic director Edwin Huizinga has assembled a talented group of musicians to celebrate our 20th anniversary festival including Mark Fewer and more! Along with four featured, four mainstage concerts, four community concerts,and other musical experiences. Our special 20th anniversary Festival Passes are very limited and on sale from May to June, and single tickets go on sale in July.

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The 36-year-old Brott Music Festival was founded in 1987 by Boris Brott and is one of our anchor arts organizations in Hamilton, ON and is the largest orchestral music festival in Canada.

Brott Music presents classical, opera, jazz, Broadway, chamber, rock, pops, and education concerts of the highest calibre in the Golden Horseshoe. It is a fully incorporated, not for profit charitable organization with a dedicated Board of Directors, staff, and volunteer contingent.

Brott Music’s mission is to ensure that its music-making will enthrall every age, gender, and ethnicity; to impart a love of music from all our musicians to all of our audiences, to imbue those listeners with the desire and motivation to be better and more productive members of their communities and to enrich our community’s cultural tapestry.

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The TD Niagara Jazz Festival is a cutting edge celebration of all types of jazz, performed in intimate indoor and outdoor venues in the heart of Niagara’s stunning wine country. The TD Niagara Jazz Festival presents the finest Canadian and internationally-acclaimed jazz musicians by way of spectacular concerts, wine, craft beer, and culinary packages, and free performances throughout Niagara-on-the-Lake and selected locations throughout Niagara.

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Join us as 82 of today’s brightest young classical musicians take to the stage and perform a new work by 2022 SOCAN composer Katerina Gimon and a repertoire of beloved classical masterpieces, including a performance by the 2022 Michael Measures first prize winner as a featured soloist. The 2022 Borealis Tour is the long-awaited reunion of NYO Canada, its new music director, Maestro Sascha Goetzel and the Toronto audience!

For more than 60 years, the National Youth Orchestra of Canada (NYO Canada) has been widely regarded as Canada’s orchestral finishing school and one of the best training orchestras in North America. Consisting of Canada’s finest pre-professional musicians, NYO’s legacy can be heard through the impact of their alumni, who comprise 40% of orchestras in Canada today!