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If you like singing and have musical experience, The Toronto Choral Society is here for you! Come and be a part of a classic Canadian musical experience here in Toronto. Join us this September 6th for the start of our 2023/24 season, we rehearse at Eastminster Church on Danforth on Wednesday nights 7pm to 9pm. Singers are welcome in all voice parts. We perform a wide range of musical styles from opera to musical theatre. Each year we present a minimum of three concerts, and this December we are performing Bach’s Christmas Oratorio at Koerner Hall, the jewel of Toronto concert venues. For our Spring 2024 Concert, we will be performing the exhilarating Carina Burana! In the winter months we will be holding a “Uncrate the Sun” fundraising event, featuring treats from sunny destinations, with details to follow. However, you may want to practise up on your Macarena! We welcome you to join our choir and take your place in good company in spirit and voice. Please go to our website for more details. See you in September!

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The Annex Singers of Toronto, now in its 44th season, is a spirited, auditioned choir with an eclectic repertoire spanning seven centuries. Under the dynamic and creative leadership of Artistic Director Maria Case, the choir performs three concerts annually, collaborating with an array of professional soloists and ensembles. Recent large-scale works include Poulenc’s Gloria, Dobrogosz’s Jazz Mass, Mozart’s Great Mass in C Minor, and the acclaimed original choral drama December Diaries. The Annex Chamber Choir, an ensemble drawn from the main choir, is dedicated to presenting gems from the chamber repertoire. We provide ongoing professional development to choir members, engage in community outreach, and encourage young singers with a sponsorship program.

In our 2023/24 season, we continue our tradition of creative programming with "In the Margins" on December 16, 2023, "Romantic Gems" on March 16, 2024, and "Fascinating Rhythm" on June 1, 2024 at Grace Church on-the-Hill. Rehearsals are on Monday evenings at St. Thomas’s Anglican Church, 383 Huron Street. We welcome experienced singers — please visit our website to arrange an audition.

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SoundCrowd, Toronto’s first large-scale contemporary a cappella ensemble, burst onto the scene in 2016 backing up former Barenaked Ladies' front man Steven Page at the Danforth Music Hall. The brainchild of Artistic Director, Scott Pietrangelo, they have since studied and performed under the direction of Deke Sharon (Pitch Perfect, The Sing Off) at New York City's Carnegie Hall, created exciting viral music videos, been seen at special events at the Princess of Wales Theatre, The Opera House, the Distillery District, Nathan Phillips Square, Fort York, Harbourfront, Ontario Place, and even on national television – flash mobbing the hosts of CTV’s The Social for their 1,000th episode.

SoundCrowd has shared billing with the likes of Chantal Kreviazuk, Cadence, Margaret Atwood, Tomson Highway, Countermeasure, Retrocity, and cast members from both Broadway’s Dear Evan Hansen and various productions of Les Miserables. Their first album, All Voice, No Limits, was released in May 2023 and can be found on all major streaming platforms. For more information about singing with SoundCrowd or where you might find them next, please visit our website.

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TO Live is one of Canada’s largest multi-arts organisations, operating three iconic venues: Meridian Hall, St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts, and Meridian Arts Centre. In addition, TO Live presents a full range of performing arts, theatrical, and concert events at these venues in both downtown and uptown Toronto. Our Music at the MAC series features world-renowned artists and outstanding local talent at Meridian Arts Centre in North York.

TO Live believes that the arts are crucial to creating healthy, vibrant, and engaged diverse communities. Our vision is to build a better city through the arts. We are a creative hub for audiences, artists, and all those who work with us.

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Vesnivka Choir is an award-winning women’s ensemble 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 preparing an exciting concert season, starting in the Fall with concerts in London, Ontario (October 29, 2023) and Toronto (November 4, 2023), entitled “Ukraine - Glorious and Free”, joined by guest ensemble the Canadian Bandurist Capella.

We’ll celebrate the new year with our annual Christmas concert on January 14, 2024, featuring traditional and contemporary Ukrainian Christmas carols and New Year’s songs, with guest youth vocal and bandurist ensemble Zoloti Struny. Our concert season will end on May 11, 2024 with “Spring Rituals”, a performance where we will be joined by Red Sky Performance, a leading contemporary indigenous performance company, with a program featuring traditional music from both Ukrainian and Indigenous cultures that celebrate spring and the return of the summer sun.

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Originally formed as the Peterborough Symphony Singers in 1990, the Peterborough Singers (PS) became a stand-alone entity in 1993. This highly regarded choir boasts upwards of 120-plus members under the direction of founding conductor Sydney Birrell. Each season, the choir presents four concerts, incorporating a blend of repertoire from gospel to sacred and pop to oratorio. World-class, professional Canadian soloists enjoy performing with the choir time and again. The PS also makes a point of incorporating young emerging artists into their season, giving them a chance to perform alongside some of the more seasoned performers.

Specially commissioned music from Canadian composers is part of the regular repertoire. The Singers also hold weekly music classes enabling young musicians to gain the skills required for Choral music performance. The season ahead will feature Bach's great St. Matthew Passion. The Peterborough Singers have just completed their 30th Anniversary season and are proud of their contribution to the arts within our community and surrounding areas. Please visit our website for further details.

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Pax Christi Chorale is a vital and ambitious 100-voice community choir that attracts a diverse base of passionate singers from across the GTA. We value partnerships and connections to enhance our knowledge, expand our reach, and strengthen relationships within and outside the choral community. The choir champions great choral music and performs a wide range of repertoire, from great historic masterpieces to newly commissioned works. Our overarching aim is to experience the deep joys of choral singing, and to communicate that joy to our audience.

Under the artistic direction of Dr. Elaine Choi, Pax Christi Chorale presents four concerts in 2023/24 – the Canadian premiere of Robert Cohen’s Alzheimer’s Stories in October, “Christmas Through the Ages” and “Children’s Messiah” in December, and Carmina Burana with the North York Concert Orchestra in June 2024.

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The Toronto Chamber Choir has held a prominent place in Canada’s early music scene since 1968. Since 2014, the TCC’s Artistic Director is lutenist Lucas Harris. Past directors have included David Fallis and Mark Vuorinen.

The TCC’s 30-40 auditioned singers specialise in performing Renaissance and Baroque repertoire in collaboration with period instrumentalists, though the choir’s themed concerts often include music from other time periods and diverse cultures. Our performances often explore the cultural context of our repertoire using narration and a multimedia component. Since 2014, we’ve run the Toronto Chamber Consort section lead program for professional singers with a special interest in early music, and since 2003, we’ve run an apprenticeship program with Rosedale Heights School for the Arts.

Rehearsals are Wednesday evenings at Church of the Transfiguration (Mt. Pleasant/Davisville), with appropriate COVID protocols adjusted by our Health & Safety Committee. The TCC is committed to inclusion and diversity of perspectives within the choir. We welcome audition requests from singers with excellent choral skills at any time through arrangement with the Artistic Director.

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Founded in 1981, Exultate Chamber Singers is an adult mixed-voice chamber choir located in the heart of downtown Toronto. The ensemble is enriched not only by the strong musicianship of its members but also by their varied ages, cultural backgrounds, and academic and professional credentials. Together they form a passionate, committed ensemble with a wide-ranging repertoire.

Exultate is proud to mentor promising young conductors through its Apprentice Conductor Program, and to support the continued development of Canadian choral music through its programming, commissions, and New Music Reading Sessions for Young Composers.

The choir is a three-time winner of the Healey Willan Grand Prize in the CBC National Radio Competition and was awarded first place in the chamber choir category of Choral Canada’s 2019 National Competition for Canadian Amateur Choirs.

Exultate has recently released its sixth album, At First Light, featuring eight new commissions by Canadian composers. The album has been acknowledged as “a strong example of advocacy for current Canadian music by engaging artists and creating space for diverse stories to be told.” (Anacrusis review, Choral Canada).

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Acclaimed as “A World-Class Orchestra” (German review headline), Sinfonia Toronto performs in the Trinity-St. Paul’s Center, Jane Mallett Theatre and George Weston Recital Hall.

The orchestra’s musicians play standing in an open crescent, creating intimate communication with each other and their audiences. Music Director Nurhan Arman brings a friendly, personal touch with engaging chats about each concert’s selections.

Sinfonia Toronto plays music from the last four centuries in adventurous musical journeys that mix exciting premieres with beloved Classical and Romantic works. To celebrate the orchestra’s 25th Anniversary season in 2023/24, ten composers have written new works, and programs will also include all-time favourites by Bach, Beethoven, Dvorak, Mozart, Schumann, Tchaikovsky and Vivaldi.

The orchestra performs across Ontario from Brockville to Sarnia and annually in Barrie, and has toured in China, Germany, South America, Spain and the US. Their most recent CDs were issued on Centrediscs in spring 2023: an album of works by Colin Eatock, and Shadow & Light - double concertos for violin and piano by Christos Hatzis, Alice Ping Yee Ho and Larysa Kuzmenko.