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The Etobicoke Philharmonic Orchestra (EPO) has been celebrating symphonic music in Etobicoke for over 60 years.

The EPO returns to a full season of live performances for its 2022/23 season. A season’s ticket is a gateway to some of Canada’s most acclaimed soloists and the greatest music ever written. Hear Kara Hubert performing Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2; flautist Lauren Yeomans and harpist Rosemary Soenen performing Mozart’s Flute and Harp Concerto; and soprano, Christina Haldane, performing a delightful collection of opera’s greatest hits.

With such majestic symphony performances as Mahler’s Symphony No. 1, Dvorak’s Symphony No. 9 “The New World”, and Louise Farrenc’s Symphony No. 2, you won’t want to miss a concert!

Priding itself on being an affordable, accessible and welcoming concert experience, the EPO supports youth with its bi-annual Canadian Young Composers Competition and scholarship program for young upcoming musicians.

Visit our website for all the exciting details and reserve your seat for the show! Want to play in the EPO? Get in touch through our email for audition information!

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VOICEBOX: Opera in Concert is Canada’s only company dedicated exclusively to the presentation of rare opera programming. 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 tradition continues in the coming season with astonishing works by the very young Mozart, Luigi Cherubini, and Joseph Bologne.

The season opens at the St. Lawrence Centre on Sunday, November 20, 2022, with Lucio Silla by the 17-year-old Salzburg prodigy already renowned for his keyboard wizardry. Suzy Smith - Music Director and pianist - leads a cast including debuting tenor Owen McCausland in the title role, as well as Vania Chan, Amy Moodie and Holly Chaplin. Cherubini’s Médée follows on Sunday, February 19, 2023, led by Narmina Afandiyeva as Music Director and pianist. The season concludes on March 19, 2023, with the Toronto premiere of L’Amant Anonyme composed by Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, known as the Black Mozart. This special event will be led by Stephen Hargreaves, conducting his own realization of Bologne’s remarkably sophisticated score. All three performances will be with OIC Chorus led by Chorus Director Robert Cooper.

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

The senior choir, under organist and music director William Maddox, enjoys a reputation as one of the best congregational choirs in the city of Toronto.

Yorkminster Park presents a series of free organ recitals at 12:30pm, every Wednesday from September through June, with performers from around the world.

We have a wide variety of unique musical events throughout the year but Yorkminster Park is renowned for its special seasonal concerts. The quality and dedication of the music ministry at YPBC is never more evident than during Advent and Holy Week and 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 traditional 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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Off Centre Music Salon began as an attempt to find the magical, inclusive atmosphere of the Viennese and Parisian Salons of the 19th Century. Our goal was, and remains, to create an environment where music is intimately shared, concerts tell a story and a personal connection is present for the audience and performers alike. Our programs tell a story. Each concert is unique with repertoire rarely, if ever, repeated, including many Canadian "firsts".

2022/23 marks our 28th season. After the last few years, we feel an explosive bubbling-over of creative energy all around us. We can't wait to perform. Please join us at Trinity-St. Paul's Centre (Spadina and Bloor) on Sunday afternoons at 3pm. For more information and concert dates please visit our website.

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Now in its 15th season, the GTPO has become a unique organisation built upon a collaborative artistic model, a trusted partner for other arts groups and a showcase opportunity for young talented musicians. Under the baton of established conductors, and with the contribution of a select roster of guest artists, the orchestra continues to deliver a rich and challenging calendar of events within the GTA, an affirmation of its maturity and high artistic standards.

The GTPO is a full size orchestra of 50+ professional and amateur musicians who are committed and capable of handling an extended season and challenged to give their best performance in a demanding, supportive, non-competitive atmosphere. The orchestra rehearses on Sundays, 2pm to 5pm at Timothy Eaton Memorial Church.

GTPO’s 2022/23 concert season will feature a fusion of musical genres, styles and guest artists to form a celebratory 15th season. Acclaimed Canadian duo Michael Bridge (accordion) and Kornel Wolak (clarinet), Toronto’s renowned conductor David Fallis, guest conductors Oliver Balaburski and Lorenzo Guggenheim will be collaborating with the orchestra in a season that promises to entertain the audiences and bring out orchestra’s best performances.

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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.

To quote the Trio: "Engaging our community at large with thoughtful, provocative, and educational concert series is incredibly rewarding and inspirational. Trio Arkel's commitment is to connect with a wide variety of audiences, including our important work and outreach to young audiences, contributing to the growth of music and the vibrancy of our communities in the future."

The Fall of 2022 sees Trio Arkel in its 10th season! We are excited to share three concerts that build up to a grand finale of larger-scale chamber works.

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Toronto Operetta Theatre is in its third decade as Canada’s only performing arts company dedicated to music theatre in all its variety.

TOT will return to the St. Lawrence Centre stage with a new season of musical entertainment from the wide world of Operetta and Music Theatre. The 2022/23 season opens with Orpheus in the Underworld, Offenbach’s riotous view of the hijinks in Hades, performing at the Jane Mallett Theatre on October 21 to 23, 2022 starring Vania Chan, Tonatiuh Abrego and Gregory Finney, with Larry Beckwith conducting the orchestra, followed by Johann Strauss’s Die Fledermaus for the holiday season. Ever fabulous send-up of middle-class Viennese pretensions, Die Fledermaus performances are on December 28 to 31, 2022. The Zarzuela of Spain takes centre stage on May 5 to 7, 2023 with the Canadian premiere of Thomas Breton’s La Verbena de la Paloma - the Festival of the Dove. All main performances are held at the St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts with safety protocols in place.

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Currently in their 15th season, That Choir is one of Toronto’s most exciting a cappella ensembles, combining high-calibre performance with storytelling through choral music. Founded in 2008 by artistic director Craig Pike, That Choir now draws together close to 20 professional singers with diverse backgrounds in culture, work and study. Each season, That Choir presents a self-presented concert series of contemporary choral works, along with their own series of cabarets throughout the year. Additionally, the choir often collaborates with other ensembles in the city and undertakes a range of professional development projects.

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SOLO formed in April 2015 and performed its first concerts in Burlington and Hamilton in September 2015 – the latter in celebration of Festitalia’s 40th Anniversary. The concerts were met with enthusiasm and excitement and spoke of a need for opera in the community.

The 2016/17 season marked our first season of main productions which included La Traviata and Tosca performed at the Burlington Performing Arts Centre. We have performed at least two mainstage productions a year ever since. Interest has grown as witnessed by an increase in ticket sales from one production to the next.

We have further performed many fundraising concerts at local churches thereby increasing our fanbase, and increasing their appreciation of this valuable art from. To help develop this appreciation, apart from mainstage performances, we offer education programs for the public in the form of interactive lectures and informal talks through the main public library in Burlington, at Retirement Homes, and also prior to our mainstage performances at the Burlington Performing arts Centre.

We are also keenly interested in educating the youth in the community about opera and will work with local schools to let them experience this valuable art form, live.

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Our 40th anniversary season is filled with concerts, compelling stagings and world premieres, all of which will reflect and pay homage to our distinguished past, while pointing the way forward for new Canadian music. For over 40 years, Soundstreams has commissioned and championed the music of the most gifted Canadian and international composers, taking work across the country and around the world, making Soundstreams one of the most influential Canadian cultural producers in operation today.

The 2022/23 season is presented with over 100 artists, both local and international, and in partnership with local companies including Tapestry Opera, Fall for Dance North, TO Live and Crow’s Theatre. Main Stage productions include “Choral Splendour: Music of Arvo Pärt and Paul Frehner”, the film Zipangu, from Michael Greyeyes, Surface Tension by Donnacha Dennehy, Electric Messiah, Steve Reich: Now & Then, and a new Canadian opera, Dragon’s Tale, from Chan Ka Nin and Mark Brownell.