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VIVA Singers Toronto is a family of seven choirs with a mandate to give members, ages four through adult, the opportunity to achieve artistic excellence in a singer-centered, collaborative choral community.

VIVA offers diverse musical programming, including regular performance and international touring opportunities, musical literacy, chorister composition and Orff-based creation activities, an annual fall Performing Arts Camp and commissioned works and partnerships with distinguished musicians and composers.

VIVA’s dedicated efforts to put choristers first inform our rehearsal structures and music-making processes. We embrace the coexistence of a high level of artistic and educational engagement while fostering a truly inclusive environment.

We continue to advocate for all voices, and push for inclusivity to ensure that anyone who enjoys music is welcomed - and challenged - at VIVA. VIVA is proud to celebrate its 25th anniversary in the 2024/25 season!

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Award-winning Vesnivka Choir was 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 excited to announce that Nazar Lozynskyy will be assuming a broader role as co-conductor of the choirs in the upcoming 2024/25 season. Our concert season will consist of three major concerts, the first being “Prayer for Ukraine”, a concert of sacred music by classical and contemporary Ukrainian composers, to be held on November 3, 2024. Joining the choirs will be guest ensemble St. Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic Church Choir from Toronto. On January 12, 2025, we will celebrate the new year with our annual Christmas concert, featuring traditional and contemporary Ukrainian Christmas carols and New Year’s songs. Our final concert of the season will be held on May 4, 2025. “Songs of Love” will feature a program of Ukrainian music depicting themes of romance, unrequited love as well as familial love.

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Love Pitch Perfect? Looking for a welcoming, fun and exciting place to sing? SoundCrowd is the place for you!

SoundCrowd is an auditioned community a cappella ensemble, led by Founder and Artistic Director Scott Pietrangelo, heading into its ninth year with a bang. Continuing our "VS" concert series, SoundCrowd's first show of the year is "Spice Girls vs. Backstreet Boys" at the Paradise Theatre in January. April will see a trip to NYC to perform at the annual "Total Vocal" concert, with choirs from all over the world at the Lincoln Centre, under the direction of the godfather of contemporary a cappella, Deke Sharon. Our final concert is back at the Isabel Bader Theatre in May, with details coming soon...

We would love for you to join in the fun! All audition info can be found at soundcrowd.ca/sing-with-us. Solo and small group opportunities are open to all members for consideration each year. SoundCrowd rehearses Tuesday nights, 7:30pm to 9:30pm at Knox Presbyterian (630 Spadina Ave) and occasional Sunday afternoons. Membership fees are $350 for the choir year (September to September).

All voice, no limits!

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Toronto Classical Singers is the only choir in the country dedicated exclusively to the great choral/orchestral repertoire. Known for its unique musical point-of-view and its diverse and high-quality programming, the choir features lesser-known and rarely performed pieces as well as the beloved vocal/orchestral repertoire. Led by founding conductor and artistic director Jurgen Petrenko, the group performs with orchestra and soloists in their presentations of the great choral masterpieces. With its exuberant approach, TCS celebrates the choral tradition with the complex sonority of large choir with professional orchestra.

This season we are presenting two concerts featuring music both new and familiar. On December 8 at 4pm, our concert of seasonal music with soloists and orchestra features the universal masterpiece Handel’s Messiah. Our spring concert, on April 6 at 4pm, will feature Beethoven’s rarely performed C Major Mass and Mozart’s beloved Requiem.

Join us this winter and spring for inspiration and joy through thrilling choral music.

Our concerts are presented at Christ Church Deer Park, 1570 Yonge Street, Toronto.

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North Wind Concerts is a Toronto-based, not-for-profit organization created to celebrate and encourage the enjoyment of chamber music of many kinds, and with a soft focus on music for wind instruments.

NWC offers concerts of early, Classical and contemporary chamber music, as well as our ongoing “Encircling the World” series, which brings musicians who play similar instruments from different cultures and backgrounds together for solo performances, Q&A with the audience, and improvisation. NWC also presents musical workshops, and school shows.

Our 2024/25 season includes “Acquiescent: The French Baroque In China”; a pop-up 'pot pourri' of 18th- and 20th-century music; a chamber program for clarinet, cello and piano featuring the Brahms Trio; “Vice & Virtue”, a collaboration with Capella Intima and the Gallery Players of Niagara; and “Encircling the World” programs focusing on drums, single reeds, and harps.

“Music is life itself. What would this world be without good music? No matter what kind it is.” - Louis Armstrong

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The Rose Orchestra is excited to enter its second decade of inspired performances at the world-class Rose Theatre, delivering high-quality live entertainment that caters to a diverse range of musical tastes. Our community orchestra boasts a vast pool of talented musicians, many of whom have been delighting Brampton audiences for over 20 years. We believe music transcends generations, which is why we provide opportunities for Brampton's young musicians through our Rosebud Orchestra, where children aged 8 to 18 receive coaching and training. Many Rosebuds join the Rose Orchestra family, perpetuating a tradition of multigenerational music-making.

This upcoming season, we are thrilled to present a variety of themed concerts: "Fall for Romance" with Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake, Piano Concerto No. 1 and excerpts from Romeo and Juliet; "Hymns to Freedom" featuring gospel vocal dynamo, Jackie Richardson, a Christmas concert with the Brampton Children’s Chorus & St. Roch Chorale; "Too Darn Hot" celebrating Cole Porter; "Legendary Journeys" with the Star Wars Suite; and "Natural Melodies, Life & Love" showcasing Rachmaninoff’s The Rock, Fantasy Op. 7 and Dvorak's Carnival. Three of our concerts will also highlight the talented Rosebuds.

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Join us on a curated tour of great music from masterworks, all the way to powerful new compositions.

This season includes Dvorak’s Symphony No. 7, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3 ‘Eroica’, Schumann’s Symphony No. 1, works by Shostakovich, Estacio, Strauss, Rivet, Donkin and more.

We are delighted to bring stellar soloists to our local stage: Michael Kim playing Mozart's dramatic Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor; Erika Raum performs the romantic Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto; our own Gavin Warren playing Reitz's Clarinet Concerto; and soaring soprano Jennifer Taverner closes the season on a high note with excerpts from Strauss, Estacio and Novello.

At our Sunday matinee “Discovery” concert you won’t want to miss the unique narration of Prokofiev’s iconic Peter and the Wolf by guest artist Craig Doyle of CDH Live!

To maximize access to great orchestral music, our prices remain unchanged since 2015.

Subscribe for our best prices and put "Philharmonic Fridays" on your calendar as a regularly scheduled self-care event.

See you at the symphony!

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Celebrating its 10th year of connecting cultures, the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto, Ontario is home to a growing Permanent Collection of over 1,200 masterpieces, including manuscripts, paintings, ceramics, and textiles from the 9th to the 21st century. Through its innovative exhibitions and engaging programs — from captivating performances to thought-provoking lectures, workshops, and film screenings — the Museum reaches millions of people worldwide, fostering intercultural understanding through the arts.

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Soundstreams is a global leader in the presentation of innovative, carefully curated, and immersive musical experiences. Artistic Director Lawrence Cherney is committed to showcasing the work of living Canadian and global composers/musicians.

Our 2024/25 season offers new music for chamber ensemble, choir and opera. The program “with you and without you” asks important questions about the vulnerability of human relationships through the lens of the love song in provocative works by Ana Sokolovic, Oliver Knussen and Tansy Davies. Tarik O’Regan’s I Sleep But My Heart Waketh, performed by the illustrious Vancouver Chamber Choir, is inspired by the Biblical Song of Songs, considered by many the greatest love song ever written.

If we seek spiritual guidance from some thing or some being beyond ourselves, what would we ask for? Letters to God, featuring Japan’s legendary Fujii Percussion and choirs, explores some of those questions, including some astonishing ones from children. Invocations explores our yearning for spiritual connection through various traditions including: the “nign”, a wordless and improvised prayer dating back to medieval Hasidic Judaism; and German Romanticism.

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Apocryphonia ventures beyond the standard fare of traditional Canadian classical music programming to reveal the beautiful, the lost, and the rare. Its mission: to seek out and share hidden and obscure musical masterpieces; whether they are from composers you may not already know, or are rare works by familiar names. We strive to create affordable, accessible Classical Music concerts that showcase Canadian performers. Apocryphonia’s concerts provide both listeners and musicians the chance to discover their new favourite pieces by their new favourite composers.

The Third Cycle of Musical Revelations - our upcoming season - includes:

• September 29, “Sing to Me Again”: Chamber music + art song from Eastern Europe, Canada & the Caucasus with Duo CBJ & MH
• October 15, “Amor Con Fortuna”: The Diapente Quintet takes you to Renaissance Spain
• November 8, “Brews, Beauties & Brawlers”: Charles Villiers Stanford's Irish ballad, 'Phaudrig Crohoore' and more
• November 29, “Diapente Book of Carols 2”: Christmas Cheer, Renaissance Style!
• May 2025, “Faignient and Friends”: Premiere performances of 16th c. Franco-Flemish composer Noe Faignient
• June 2025, “A Cabinet of Curiosities 2”: An eclectic mix of chamber music presented entirely at random!