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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.

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Orchestra Toronto is an orchestra created by passionate musicians within the community, for the community. We offer the enjoyment of music, foster education and music appreciation and support emerging Canadian talent. Our organization of volunteers is committed to making symphonic music accessible to a broad and diverse public beyond the concert hall.

Our 85-member volunteer orchestra, under the musical leadership of Music Director Michael Newnham, in the splendid acoustic of the George Weston Recital Hall in the Meridian Arts Centre in North York, rehearses weekly. In addition to our five-concert performance season, we offer annual conducting apprenticeships and youth fellowships, and sponsor a composition prize and concerto competition in alternating years.

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Music TORONTO, a legacy organization in classical music, presents the world’s best chamber ensembles and solo pianists. Join the best audience in the city for live performances in a perfect small concert hall downtown.

2022/23 is a season in two parts. The traditional main season is five string ensembles and two pianists, still at the Jane Mallett Theatre, presents the Pacifica Quartet; the Lafayette and Borealis Quartets; the St. Lawrence Quartet with Toronto’s Odin Quartet; the Gryphon Trio, and two distinguished women pianists, Michelle Cann and Janina Fialkowska.

The season concludes with the “Small Ensembles Celebration”, three evenings in spring 2023, curated by Roman Borys, best known to us as cellist of the Gryphon Trio. A new initiative, in a new venue: an intriguing variety of ensembles will create unique “play lists” that connect and contrast Western classical traditions with other global music traditions. Full info coming in the new year.

Please join us for concerts traditional and ground-breaking, to engage in the special experience that is live concert music - enlightening, entertaining, inspiring, engaging.

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The Kindred Spirits Orchestra (KSO) is a critically acclaimed, auditioned-based civic orchestra performing at the Flato Markham Theatre, the Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts, and the CBC Glenn Gould Studio in Toronto. In addition to performing concerts, the KSO offers several educational, community outreach, professional development and international cultural exchange programmes.

During the 2020 pandemic, the KSO quickly evolved and, by leveraging digital technologies and the Internet, transitioned to offering live concerts via broadcast and stream. As a result, the KSO is now attracting patrons from beyond the geographical boundaries of the Greater Toronto Area and from as far away as the USA, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. In 2021, the KSO became the first orchestra in Canada to migrate to a fully digital library platform that permanently replaced paper-based music parts with iPad Pro tablets made available to all musicians.

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The Jubilate Singers is an SATB community choir performing music from a variety of cultural traditions under the direction of Isabel Bernaus. The choir enjoys singing in many different languages and collaborating with other arts organizations representing the cultural diversity of Toronto. The choir is particularly known for its expertise in Latin American music, performed with some of Toronto’s finest Latin American instrumentalists. Last year we rehearsed both virtually and in hybrid mode, produced an online concert and in May 2022 returned to performing in-person. In 2022/23 we will be rehearsing in person, with hybrid options as needed, and performing three in-person concerts. A highlight of the season is “Roots and Intersections”, a collaboration with Denise Williams and guest artists exploring the music of the Black, Jewish, and Muslim diasporas.

The Jubilate Singers is an auditioned choir with a Choral Development program for those who are not ready to audition and would benefit from additional attention to ear training and sight reading. We are an inclusive and welcoming choir that works to enhance the musical skills of all its singers, and we are always looking for new members!

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Pioneering tour-de-force Ensemble Vivant’s innovative genre-diverse programming is rich with passionate, deeply communicative playing that touches the hearts and souls of listeners of all ages. EV are ODEG artists with 15 internationally acclaimed CDs. "EV’s latest CD - iFugue ~ A World of Fugues - is an imaginative exploration of fugues from around the world and across the centuries, this album is beaming with creative sonic adventures....each with a message and a beauty of its own." - The WholeNote, July 2021.

EV’s live/virtual programs for children/seniors (endorsed by the scientific community) are conducted through Euterpe (musicisthekey.org) and were awarded: Ontario Trillium Foundation Grant (2020); Canada Council Grant (2021); Levante Foundation Grant (2022).

“…the highest-level chamber music-making. No matter the genre, there is magic in EV's music-making.” - Jazz Icon Rick Wilkins, C.M.

“Chamber music at its evocative best!” - The WholeNote

"This disc is not only a fine listen, but one to revisit again and again." - La Scena, July 2021.

“…beautiful, poised performances...capture the passion and verve…Wilson’s piano gives this music unerring drive and plenty of sparkle.” - Toronto Star.

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Glionna Mansell Corporation is a music marketing agency, Allen Organ dealer and concert producer in the organ and choral performance genre. The company is an active supporter/promoter of emerging artistic talent alongside experienced world-stage performers. The activities and entities operating under the Glionna Mansell banner include: ORGANIX CONCERTS, Allen Organ Company in Ontario and Eastern Provinces, and touring/concert choir MOSAIC Canadian Vocal Ensemble. Gordon Mansell is Music Director and Titular Organist at Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic Church - Toronto.

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Flute Street, Toronto's Professional Flute Choir returns to the stage this season in October. The unique chamber ensemble is composed entirely of flutes from the tiny twelve inch piccolo through to the very rare twelve foot double contrabass flute. The group presents highly eclectic programs that include a mix of original works, settings of folk ballads, fascinating transcriptions of familiar classics, and a few ventures into the world of jazz and the popular. There are frequent guest artists. Versatility is Flute Street's watchword as members easily transfer from one size of flute to another. Occasionally, for variety from the full seven-octave range of the complete ensemble, Flute Street offers a selection using only the deeper-voiced altos, basses and contras. Or even present a piece exclusively for a dozen piccolos! Do join us this season as we welcome our new, talented composer/conductor, Isaac Page.