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Our 2025/26 season showcases celebrated soloists either in recital or ensemble formation. The programs have an eclectic mix of world classical works from Beethoven’s Archduke trio to von Weber’s renowned clarinet quintet, adapted two cello works by Bartok, Piazzolla, all-Prokofiev program, and fiery violin solos by Ysaÿe and Kreisler.

The Players: Cello Fellos (Bryan Cheng & Leonard Disselhorst), Busch Trio, David Jalbert, piano; Eric Abramovitz, clarinet with four TSO strings; Kerson Leong, violin. Five-concert subscriptions are $325/$300 adult/senior and $150 under age 30. Concerts are Sundays at 3:15pm, Walter Hall (UofT) - general admission seating.

MUSIC & TRUFFLES KIDS – Give your child their first taste of classical music! Artists featured in our mainstage events also perform a one-hour mini-concert for young people ages 6-11 and their parents, grandparents, and friends at 1:15pm. Subscriptions $125 and include a Lindt chocolate truffle for everyone at the end of each concert.

Orford Music director Wonny Song, mentored by Anton Kuerti, is our Artistic Director.

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Etobicoke Centennial Choir (ECC) is a SATB auditioned community choir dedicated to celebrating the art and joy of choral singing. We offer performances of diverse repertoire ranging from classical masterpieces to contemporary compositions and music from around the world.

ECC offers a challenging and supportive choral experience guided by professional artists. Rehearsals are held every Tuesday, September to June, from 7:30pm to 9:45pm at Humber Valley United Church in Etobicoke.

The ability to read music is required and some choral experience is recommended but not necessary.

Our 2025/26 season will feature Benjamin Britten’s glorious A Ceremony of Carols with harp accompaniment and Poulenc’s Quatre motets pour le temps de Noël.

The choir will pay tribute to the Big Band era with the music of Jerome Kern, Irving Berlin, Duke Ellington, the Gershwins and more, accompanied by a combo of saxes, trumpets, trombones, bass and piano led by Juno award-winning drummer Ernesto Cervini.

Women composers will be showcased in a program that includes A World Beloved: A Bluegrass Mass by Carol Barnett with instrumental accompaniment, music by Canadian composers Eleanor Daly, Ruth Watson Henderson and ECC’s own Lauren Halász.

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Toronto Operetta Theatre has been Canada's sole dedicated music theatre company for over 40 years.

TOT will return to the St. Lawrence Centre stage for the 2025/26 season, presenting a distinguished repertoire of music, comedy, and romance from Operetta and Music Theatre. The season will commence with “The Mikado - Revisited” by Gilbert & Sullivan, featuring a new setting in England, with performances scheduled for October 24, 25, and 26, 2025. To celebrate the holiday season, TOT will present Imre Kalman’s Czardas Princess, beginning December 30, 2025, with additional shows on January 2, 3, and 4, 2026, under the direction of Derek Bate. The season will conclude with Johann Strauss’s A Night in Venice, offered on April 17, 18, and 19, 2026. All principal performances will take place at the St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts.

Our patrons’ favourite, TOT’s Cabaret series at the intimate Edward Jackman Centre, will be held on Saturday, October 4, 2025, November 29, 2025, and March 7, 2026, starting at 4pm.

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The Canadian Opera Company is the largest producer of opera in Canada and one of the largest in North America. General Director David Ferguson joined the company in 2024, forming a leadership team with Music Director Johannes Debus.

The COC enjoys a loyal audience, including a dedicated base of subscribers, and has an international reputation for artistic excellence and creative innovation. Its diverse repertoire includes new commissions and productions, local and international collaborations with leading opera companies and festivals, and attracts the world’s foremost Canadian and international artists.

The company is an incubator for the future of the art form, nurturing Canada’s new wave of opera performers and creators with customized training and support. The COC’s purpose-built opera house, the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, is hailed internationally as one of the finest in the world.

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The Wychwood Clarinet Choir brings together the family of clarinets from the E-flat sopranino down to the contrabass. Our range of instruments is matched by the variety of our repertoire. We perform new compositions and arrangements, many written or transcribed by our Composers’ Collective. The choir, now in its 17th season, is directed by clarinetist and conductor Michele Jacot. Choir members are admitted by audition and pay an annual membership fee. Members are dedicated clarinetists eager to share their love of music-making in a collegial and musically challenging environment. We strive to create opportunities for serious amateur musicians to develop their musical skills and to share our music more broadly in educational settings and in the wider community. The group rehearses and performs on a regular basis in Toronto’s St. Clair and Wychwood area. Check out our YouTube videos and look for updates on our website. New members welcome - please contact us for audition information.

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For more than 125 years, Women’s Musical Club of Toronto (WMCT)’s concerts have been a testament to Toronto’s enduring appreciation of top-quality chamber music. They have also been a tribute to our founders’ determination to perform and participate in the musical life of the city despite historical social barriers. Today, WMCT’s Music in the Afternoon concert series can be enjoyed by anyone who loves great small-ensemble music.

Music in the Afternoon features musicians on the threshold of international recognition, as well as established artists and ensembles. Concerts are presented Thursday afternoons at 1:30pm at Walter Hall, University of Toronto, Faculty of Music. Illuminating pre-concert lectures at 12:15pm are free to all concert attendees.

For the exciting 128th season (2025/26) we present Karoline Podolak, soprano, and Rachael Kerr, piano (October 9, 2025); Maxwell Quartet (November 13, 2025); VC2 Cello Duo with Amy Hillis, violin (March 5, 2026); Stéphane Tétreault, cello, with Denis Plante, bandoneon, and Chloé Dumoulin, piano (April 2, 2026); Fierbois: Caitlin Broms-Jacobs, oboe, and Madeline Hildebrand, piano (May 7, 2026).

Visit our website for regular season news and updates.

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VOICEBOX: Opera in Concert is Canada’s only company dedicated exclusively to the presentation of rare opera programming for over 50 years. Our performances rely on the power and beauty of the human voice, the dramatic inflection of text and poetry, accompanied by orchestra or piano.

Our performances will continue at our new venue, Jeanne Lamon Hall at Trinity St. Paul Centre, as we present three operas under the theme "Taking Ownership of Opera Rarities in Performance." The 2025/26 season will commence with Grétry’s Richard Coeur-de-Lion on Saturday, November 15, 2025. This will be followed by Bellini’s La Sonnambula on Saturday, February 14, 2026, and conclude with Kurt Weill’s Lost in the Stars on Saturday, March 21, 2026.

The OIC Chorus, under the direction of Robert Cooper and our Music Directors, will be featured in each production.

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The Annex Singers of Toronto is a spirited, auditioned 60-voice community choir with an eclectic repertoire spanning a thousand years and showcasing a wide range of styles, from plainchant to jazz.

Founded in 1979, the choir has flourished for the past 20 years under the dynamic leadership of Artistic Director Maria Case, becoming known for inventive, relevant programming and for collaboration with a wide array of artists and composers — including commissioning and premiering new works by Canadian musicians. Recent larger works include Orff’s Carmina Burana, Britten’s Rejoice in the Lamb, Dobrogosz’s Jazz Mass, Faure’s Requiem and Mozart’s Great Mass in C Minor.

We perform three concerts each season at Grace Church on-the-Hill, each featuring guest artists as well as our own Annex Chamber Choir and smaller ensembles.

Our 2025/26 season:

• December 13 — “Radiant Dawn”
  Poulenc’s radiant Gloria, alongside contemporary settings of ancient texts illuminating the many facets of winter.
  
  
• March 21 — “Lost & Found”
  Reflections on life’s losses and unexpected gifts, with Hovhaness, Miškinis, Runestad, Martin and others.
  
  
• May 23 — “Elemental”
  Earth, water, air and fire — seeking harmonious balance, with Hildegard, Morley, Nyberg, and others.

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

North Wind Concerts celebrates chamber music of many kinds, with innovative programming of repertoire from the European Baroque and Renaissance, and the occasional Classical and contemporary program. And through the music-making and Q&As of its Encircling the World series, NWC offers an opportunity for delight and insight from Toronto’s richly varied musical communities.

The 2025/26 season includes “Ephemera: Corelli in China”, Italian Baroque music heard at the 18th-century court of Emperor Kangxi; words and music for the quieter moments at “Versailles in Playlist for Louis”; “Queens of Hearts”, English and Italian music from the turn of the 17th century; two “Encircling the World” programs featuring harps and clarinets; and “In the Key of Cocteau”, a collaboration with the Toronto Silent Film Festival.

NWC also presents musical workshops, and – take note! - in 2025/26 will inaugurate its Renaissance Big Band for young musicians aged 12-26!

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Metropolitan United is blessed with several choirs and groups that perform regularly. The Metropolitan Choir is an auditioned choir of 25 members. They sing during the weekly Sunday worship service and at special events. Weekly rehearsals on Thursdays prepare the choir for its performances. The choir offers a wide repertoire, ranging from 17th-century to modern composers. The choir often features Canadian works, some written expressly for the group.

The Metropolitan Festival Choir is an auditioned choir assembled for our annual Good Friday concert—a Toronto tradition of more than 30 years. The Festival Choir rehearses on Sunday afternoons for six weeks prior to Good Friday. This choir is an augmented choir that includes members from Metropolitan United and the broader community. The Handbell Choir is an ensemble of 11 players who play a three-octave set of handbells and hand chimes. The choir performs a range of music, from traditional church music to arrangements of modern hymns and folk songs. The Metropolitan Silver Band has been a part of the Metropolitan United community since 1934. This brass and percussion ensemble performs a mix of classics, marches, religious music, popular selections, and contemporary works.