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Trio Arkel, originally founded in 2008, is composed of Marie Berard, violinist, Rémi Pelletier, violist, and Winona Zelenka, cellist, who have been sharing their artistry and imagination through the fashioning of a chamber music series that has since garnered an enthusiastic following in their hometown of Toronto. They collaborate with guest artists of international renown to present great masterpieces of the classical chamber music repertoire, from Bach to present-day living composers, in beautiful, eclectic and fascinating programs that transport and move audiences.

Season 11 includes chamber music works both beloved and extraordinary, familiar and unusual. Weber, Beethoven and Schubert are paired with Cusson, Stravinsky and Webern. All in beautiful Jeanne Lamon Hall in the heart of Toronto.

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An oasis in the heart of Toronto for over 200 years, Met United's landmark 1872 Gothic Revival edifice houses the largest collection of McCausland stained glass windows, the 54-bell Massey-Drury carillon, and Canada's largest pipe organ. Led by Minister of Music Jonathan Oldengarm, the church's music programme includes the Metropolitan Choir, the Metropolitan Hand Bells, the Metropolitan Silver Band (est. 1934, directed by Fran Harvey), the Metropolitan Choristers (dir. Jennifer Martyn), and Great Heart (dir. Ben Stein). These groups are featured at 11am on Sundays, and at special services through the year. Every Thursday from mid-September to June, "Noon at Met" presents free chamber music, voice or organ recitals, often preceded by a carillon recital at 11:30am.

The afternoon or evening “Music at Met” concert series runs the gamut from Early Music to show tunes. Met is a sought-after rental venue for concerts, and features state-of-the-art livestream video and audio systems. The building is wheelchair-accessible, and is easily reached by transit. Met is an Affirming Congregation, offering welcome and companionship to all, inclusive of age, ethnicity, gender identity, differing abilities, and sexual orientation.

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Founded in 1987, Attila Glatz Concert Productions 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 celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2020.

Attila Glatz Concert Productions presents films with orchestra performances in Florida, Ontario, Québec, Alberta, New York with blockbuster films including the “Harry Potter™ Film Concert Series”, “Jurassic Park in Concert”, “Amadeus Live”, and others. Another company highlight is the annual “New Year’s Eve” opera concert presented with Roy Thomson Hall: Bravissimo! Opera’s Greatest Hits.

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Don Wright Faculty of Music at Western University in London, Ontario is situated in a research-intensive university on a campus that is inviting and striking. It is a supportive environment that enables students to grow artistically and academically, with a family-like atmosphere and strong focus on community. Our students are among 600 of the brightest and most talented young artist scholars, who come to study in one of our many undergraduate and graduate programs.

In the 2023/24 season, we are excited to share our music with the community and experience the incredible diversity of musical styles and genres our students, faculty and our invited world-class guest artists have to offer. From student ensemble performances (including choirs, fully staged opera performances, orchestra, concert bands, jazz, percussion, contemporary and early music), new pop and salsa bands, showcase events by popular music studies students, faculty concerts, and our signature “Fridays@12:30” series, we are pleased to bring performances to you in person, and select options at home via livestream.

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Experience great chamber music downtown with Music TORONTO, a presenter of the finest string ensembles and pianists from Canada and across the globe. Artistic and Executive Director Roman Borys invites you to our 2023/24 season at the Jane Mallett Theatre at the St Lawrence Centre for the Arts.

Music TORONTO’s eight-concert season features artists familiar and new. Enjoy the European Quatuor Danel, the dynamic Ying Quartet, the rising stars of the Verona Quartet, the St. Lawrence and Friends, and our beloved Gryphon Trio. Our piano series features Canadians Duo Turgeon, Maria Thompson Corley and UBC’s David Fung.

Celebrating the breadth of the small ensemble form, the second edition of COSE begins early 2024 and offers a new space for social gathering and musical discovery. COSE champions classics and new works, global musical disciplines and diverse voices, and artists who push the bounds of tradition and innovation. A new initiative in a new venue: from baroque to contemporary, celebrating an expanse of stories, artists and ensembles – welcome to the future.

Please join us for concerts traditional and groundbreaking to feel the transformative experience that is live concert music – enlightening, entertaining, enriching, engaging.

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Flute Street is Toronto’s professional chamber ensemble, comprised exclusively of flutists. Performing on nine different sizes of flutes from the tiny piccolo to Canada’s largest flute – the double contrabass – this versatile and unique ensemble presents programmes offering a surprisingly wide spectrum of genres. Audiences have delighted in the renaissance canzonas, pop tunes, traditional folk songs, baroque favourites, jazz standards, a few symphonic transcriptions and particularly in the original and contemporary flute choir compositions – many of which have been Canadian or world premieres.

Under the artistic direction of founder, Nancy Nourse, and conducted by Isaac Page, Flute Street is pleased to present its 10th anniversary season at the Church of St. Peter and St. Simon-the-Apostle.

• Sunday, October 1, 2023, 4pm - “Dances with Flutes”
• Saturday, December 16, 2023, 7:30pm - “Sweet Suites for Christmas”
• Sunday, April 14, 2024, 4pm - “The Concerto and the Folk Song”
• Sunday, June 2, 2024, 4pm - “Crossing the Bridge”

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Music at St. Andrew’s is a community outreach program offered by historic St. Andrew’s Church in downtown Toronto. Our program was inspired by the church’s 2011 purchase of a Bösendorfer Imperial grand piano, which we share with the greater community. This magnificent piano is used extensively in our free, mostly classical Friday Noontime Recitals, which run from October to November and February to May. The 45-minute recitals are performed by post-graduate students and professors from U of T’s Music Department, by established performers and by rising young stars.

The 10th year of our popular recitals launches on October 6. Watch for “A Ceilidh Kind of Christmas” on December 8, headlined by St. Andrew's renowned professional choir and featuring a traditional Cape Breton fiddler and other instrumentalists. The lively, down-home program will span seasonal favourites popularised by the Rankin Sisters, the Barra MacNeils, Stan Rogers and others. Admission is free but donations will be accepted for our church’s Refugee Support program.

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Regal, triumphant, nostalgic, spiritual and sentimental…

Our 2023/24 season of concerts spans a vast array of heartfelt musical expressions.

First up is "Royal Splendour" with music that spans everything from Mendelssohn’s song Italien Op.8, No.3, to music from the recent coronation of King Charles III. The program includes a multimedia screenshow of archival images and video.

Handel’s Messiah is a perennial Christmas favourite: a colourful journey of musical highs and lows. However, as in the ending of any great epic, triumph reigns.

But Christmas is often about our yesteryears; looking back, remembering and hearing those carols that you’ve heard all your lives. Old, new, rearranged, tarted up, reflective and humorous. “Tis the Season.” Let’s sing!

On Good Friday, we assume a more sombre cloak of incredible musical faith. Seven Last Words from the Cross by James MacMillan, for string orchestra and choir, is a dramatic powerhouse of brilliant musical writing. Don’t miss this one!

And finally, Warm Breath of Spring: Folksongs & Spirituals. Last season’s concert was so successful, we had to do it again.

As always, our concerts strive to transport listeners in a way that only the sonorities of choral music can achieve.

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Rezonance Baroque Ensemble is one of the most exciting groups on Toronto’s classical music scene. Unafraid of improvisation and experimenting with new concert formats, and already known for giving captivating performances that resonate with today’s audiences, Rezonance is one of the foremost chamber music interpreters of historical music. Inspired by history and informed by the present, Rezonance leads audiences through the discovery of under-appreciated and unusual works, and new ways of hearing the classics, in a manner that is intimate, accessible, and fun, while maintaining the highest possible artistry.

For over 10 years, Rezonance has presented a three-concert season, and released their debut album James Oswald: Airs for the Seasons in May 2023 on Leaf Music.

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The Untitled Ensemble Chamber Music Society is a not-for-profit chamber music project based in Toronto/Tkaronto, Ontario that strives to explore lesser known historical and current chamber music with an emphasis on works by women and non-binary people.

This project also strives to create new and fluid groups of musicians to match the repertoire of each show, creating a meeting place and a resource for musicians who want to play chamber music, but do not have an established ensemble.

Our goal is to foster collaboration and create new ensembles who may or may not continue to exist beyond their beginnings within the Untitled Ensemble while using our multi-instrumental nature to perform a wider range of repertoire than we would be able to otherwise!

Currently we're gearing up to deliver two concerts featuring works by Ontario-based emerging composers on October 28, 2023 and February 10, 2024. These concerts will feature selected works from our Land of Lakes call for scores for string and brass ensembles. We're really excited to expand our musical ranks to include more string and brass players, and also provide live performances of these gorgeous chamber music compositions!