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InterMusic Group presents Classical Music, Recitals and Special Events.

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The Greater Toronto Philharmonic Orchestra is delighted to present the 2023/24 Concert Season; a series of concerts, showcasing a harmonious blend of young talents and established guest artists. Each concert will offer a diverse musical experience, celebrating a broad repertoire ranging from classic to contemporary compositions, and works from women and black composers. Three concerts will take place at our main venue, Calvin Presbyterian Church, conveniently located at Yonge and St. Clair and easily accessible for our audience members coming from all areas in Toronto. We will conclude our season at Glenn Gould studio with an exciting presentation of classic theatrical works for singers and orchestra titled "Broadway Today". Since October 2008, the GTPO has successfully presented 15 seasons in various venues across the City of Toronto. While the majority of its regular season programs are presented in uptown Toronto, additional outreach and special events throughout the season allow the GTPO to draw on a wide audience base, both locally from uptown Toronto and beyond to other neighbourhoods and under-served communities. Led by a roster of professional guest conductors, the GTPO's reputation has grown each season.

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New Music Concerts is a leader in curating, performing, and promoting innovative and cutting-edge music by Canadian and international composers. NMC is internationally renowned and unique in Toronto as the foremost champion of contemporary works for large chamber ensembles.

NMC is committed to a diversity of rigour and excellence in the programming and performance of adventurous contemporary chamber music from Canada and around the globe. In our programming, we take pride in reflecting Canada’s ever-growing diversity of musicians, listeners, composers, and guest artists.

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Established in 2014, The Azrieli Music Prizes (AMP) offer 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; one for the creation of Canadian music; and the fourth that focuses on new works inspired by humanity’s diverse cultural heritage.

AMP is open to composers of all ages, genders, faiths and backgrounds. 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 instrumentation cycle – 2024: Choral Music; 2026: Oratorio/Opera in Concert; and 2028: Chamber Music.

All Prize Laureates receive a prize package valued at $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.

Upcoming Dates:

• October 15, 2023: AMP London Debut Concert at Cadogan Hall
• November 2, 2023: 2024 AMP Laureates Announcement in Montréal

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Counterpoint is the oldest LGBT+ orchestra in Canada and possibly the world. Founded in 1984 in the gay village of Toronto, Counterpoint is celebrating its 40th anniversary with the 2023/24 season. For most of that time, rehearsals have been held at the 519 Church St. Community Centre. Although COVID-19 caused some disruption to our concert schedule and rehearsal venues, we resumed concerts in June 2022 and are returning to the 519 this fall for rehearsals. Andrew Chung has been our Music Director since 2016.

This year's season will feature opera arias by Strauss, Mozart, Gounod and Puccini and a drag performer on December 9, 2023 a largely unknown flute concerto by Heinrich Hofmann and Beethoven's Coriolan Overture and the Eroica Symphony on March 23, 2024 and 20th Century music by gay/lesbian composers such as Bernstein, Britten, Barber and Ethel Smyth for the special anniversary concert on June 15, 2024.

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The Li Delun Music Foundation was established in 2002 in Toronto as a non-profit organisation dedicated to promoting cultural exchange between the East and the West through musical events and named after the renowned Chinese conductor Li Delun founded the first symphony orchestra in the People’s Republic of China.

The foundation is now well known in the community as a presenter of high-quality musical events such as the annual “East Meets West New Years Concert” at the Toronto Centre for the Arts each year and recitals by acclaimed musicians. Aside from forming the Toronto Festival Orchestra, which gives talented young aspiring musicians a chance to work alongside seasoned professionals, the foundation also provides a platform for young up-and-coming soloists to play on the concert hall stage accompanied by a professional orchestra in front of a live appreciative audience.

The Li Delun Music Foundation also holds masterclasses and workshops given by internationally-acclaimed artists such as Lang Lang, Sa Chen, Haochen Zhang, Bruce Liu, Prof. Lee Kum-Sing, etc.

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Tapestry Opera is TO.

From a Canadian perspective, Toronto represents innovation, inclusivity, thoughtful approaches, and art and culture. Tapestry embraces Toronto and reflects its heart to Torontonians.

We promote Toronto culture by hiring Torontians and actively animating its features. Tapestry presents its work at unique Toronto venues and incorporates them into our operas and events. We’ve performed our shows in spaces around the city like the Evergreen Brickworks, Todmorden Mills, stackt market, Sidewalks Labs, and soon on the Toronto waterfront.

When you come to a Tapestry show, you experience a deeper Toronto.

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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.

The 50th anniversary season features three early Bel Canto influenced operas of the iconic Italian Master, Giuseppe Verdi. The season begins on Sunday, November 5, 2023 with the Busetto master's comedy of 1840, Un giorno di regno (King for a Day) – followed on Sunday, February 25, 2024 by Ernani, one of his first undoubted hits. The anniversary season concludes with La Battaglia di Legnano.

OIC’s musical leaders for the Golden Jubilee Year will be Suzy Smith at the helm of Un giorno di regno, Narmina Afandiyeva in charge of Ernani and Helen Becqué leading the Canadian premiere of La Battaglia di Legnano. They will lead an impressive roster of established artists paired with emerging talents. Robert Cooper will direct the chorus in all three operas.

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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 wonderful music, comedy, and romance - the best of Operetta and Music Theatre! Getting things underway on October 20, 21, and 22, 2023 will be Gilbert and Sullivan’s immortal Pirates of Penzance, conducted by Jennifer Tung in her TOT debut. TOT’s holiday show this year is everyone’s favourite, Franz Lehar’s The Merry Widow, opens on December 29, 2023, with further performances on December 30, 31, and January 2, 2024, with Derek Bate. A Canadian Premiere of Jacinto Guerrero’s zarzuela will conclude the season with El Huésped del Sevillano (The Guest at the Inn) conducted by Kate Carver. The performances will be on May 3, 4, 5, 2024. All main performances are held at the St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts with safety protocols in place.

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The Upper Canada Choristers is an SATB community choir in Toronto with a history of collaboration with 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.

Our 2023/24 concert season opens with “A Seasonal Journey”, a concert at Grace Church on-the-Hill on December 1 at 7:30pm. A highlight of the concert is Navidad Nuestra by Argentinian composer, Ariel Ramirez. On May 10, 2024, the Choristers celebrate their 30th anniversary in a concert: “New Beginnings”. Repertoire includes Heartshine, a new song composed by director Laurie Evan Fraser, with lyrics by Jacqui Atkin and Jacinto Salcedo; music by Ola Gjello and arrangements of the unofficial Cape Breton anthem We Rise Again, Billy Joel’s And So It Goes, Loch Lomond and the Chilean song Todo Cambia (Everything Changes).