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The Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts is home to the performing arts at Queen’s University and a hub for vibrant artistic study, creation, and exhibition in Kingston, Ontario. We prioritize diverse arts presentation, engagement, and innovation, quality facility management, and support for arts education and exposure. We are an accelerator for artistic development and an incubator for new technologies and multi-disciplinary creation.

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Founded in 1977, the Tallis Choir is one of Canada's principal a cappella choral ensembles and continues to offer Toronto audiences a wide array of choral music. Under the direction of Peter Mahon, the choir is best known for its interpretation of Renaissance music and has presented the first Canadian performance of many rarely heard pieces of the period. The choir's repertoire ranges from Gregorian chant to contemporary music. Previous seasons have featured critically-acclaimed performances of Handel's Coronation Anthems, Bach's Six Motets, Victoria's Requiem and Rachmaninoff's Vespers. The Tallis Choir has also appeared on stage in multiple programs at the Sony Centre for the Performing Arts in Toronto, and has been a finalist in the CBC Choral Competition.

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The Toronto Consort is celebrating and reinventing Early Music. We present musical and educational experiences by collaborating with specialists in historical music traditions from cultures across the globe. We believe in the strength of diverse artistic perspectives and respecting the rich variety of relationships with the music of the past.

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Under the leadership of its Founding Artistic Director Lawrence Cherney, Soundstreams began in 1982 with a tribute to Igor Stravinsky’s 100th birth year, an artist who fundamentally transformed the ways we hear our world. Since then, we’ve probed Canadian themes and stories through new works that resonate with our time and place, hoping not only to reflect upon them but to empower new perspectives.

Soundstreams has created a platform for compelling new creations both at home and abroad. Our various Toronto-based concert series, educational, outreach events and professional development programs have showcased nearly 1500 global creators and performers in collaboration with their Canadian counterparts. Soundstreams’ productions featuring Canadian themes and stories have toured and continue to tour in North America, Latin America, Asia and Europe. In recent seasons, Soundstreams’ productions have received praise from The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, Financial Times, and The Wall Street Journal.

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Since 1937, St. Michael’s Choir School has served the Archdiocese of Toronto by educating and training the boys’ choirs that sing every weekend at St. Michael’s Cathedral. Founded by Monsignor J.E. Ronan, St. Michael’s Choir School is unique in offering both an enriched academic program, including extended French instruction, integrated with a lively ministry of sacred music. Choirs from St. Michael’s Choir School perform annually on tour and at many local concerts and events. During the school year, they sing three weekly Masses at St. Michael’s Cathedral. School alumni are active in Toronto and beyond, performing in choral groups, operas and more. St. Michael’s Choir School accepts boys grades 3 to 12. For more information please visit our website or contact us via email.

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Oriana is an auditioned ensemble of 20 amateur upper-voice singers with a long history of performance at a high artistic standard. Led by artistic director Mitchell Pady since 2011, Oriana explores the possibilities in choral music for upper voices, collaborating with a diverse range of artists to push the boundaries of typical expectations for upper-voice choral performances. We foster the creation of Canadian choral music, regularly commissioning works from Canadian composers for upper voices. Oriana presents a three-concert series in December, March and May. In our first concert of the 2023/24 season, we will showcase all-Canadian seasonal repertoire, featuring several compositions by Healey Willan, Eleanor Daley and our honorary patron Ruth Watson Henderson, including her Songs Of The Nativity. In March, we welcome renowned Canadian composer Stephanie Martin to curate a concert of her compositions alongside works that inspired her writing. At our spring concert we will perform a concert of new Canadian repertoire including premiere compositions written by our composer-in-residence Marie-Claire Saindon and collaborative pianist Ben Keast. We look forward to welcoming you to the concerts in our 52nd season!

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The Royal Canadian College of Organists Toronto (RCCO Toronto) is a Toronto professional music organisation for organists and lovers of the organ and its music. RCCO Toronto hosts a variety of events throughout the year, including recitals, concerts, professional workshops and more. These events showcase the professional and up-and-coming talent that is part of the vibrant Canadian and international community. As one of 27 centres across Canada, RCCO Toronto is dedicated to supporting its growing membership and providing opportunities for the public to experience the King of Instruments.

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The Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts (the Isabel) is a home for the creative arts at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario and a hub of vibrant artistic study, creation, and exhibition in our community. The building houses the Queen’s Department of Film and Media and the DAN School of Drama and Music, as well as the Isabel house season, which brings some of the most exciting and acclaimed musicians to its 567-seat concert hall. Situated on the shores of Lake Ontario, the Isabel brings together world-class arts spaces and programs with a captivating sense of place, creating a dynamic venue for our students and community to learn, discover, think, do, and experience together.

Opened in September 2014, the Isabel was designed by Oslo/New York-based firm Snøhetta and Ottawa’s N45, with acoustics and theatre design by ARUP and Theatre Projects Consultants. Anchored by a transformational gift to the Initiative Campaign from Drs. Alfred and Isabel Bader, the Isabel was inspired by the Baders’ love - of the arts, of Queen’s, and of each other - and is named in Isabel’s honour.

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SINE NOMINE was formed in 1991 to research and perform music from before 1500, and has given concerts in Canada, the United States, and the UK. The members have varied backgrounds in vocal and instrumental performance (wind instruments, fiddles, lutes, and percussion), musicology, and medieval history, language, literature, liturgy, theatre, and manuscript studies. In preparing repertoire, we draw on all these specialties, and work with improvisation and ornamentation, medieval pronunciations and tuning systems, hoping to create performances which speak to modern audiences (and would not have been wholly foreign to medieval listeners!) We blend vocal and instrumental music from medieval courts and churches with readings, and occasionally drama or liturgical action, to provide insight into the fascinating artistic and intellectual culture of the Middle Ages. SINE NOMINE is currently working on projects to present the monophonic songs of famous 14th-century French and Italian composers, and the diverse vocal and instrumental repertoire of a remarkable 14th-century northern Italian manuscript, including guest dancers. Concert dates for 2023/24 are TBA; tickets will be available through www.brown-papertickets.com.

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"An act or process of merging" - Confluence produces joyous, daring and thought-provoking concerts in a warm atmosphere of intimacy and discovery. Artistic Associates Larry Beckwith, Andrew Downing, Teiya Kasahara, Patricia O'Callaghan, and Suba Sankaran curate a variety of lively programs. 2023/24 shows include new and traditional Irish music curated and performed by Patricia O’Callaghan and friends; the premiere of new settings of Canadian poetry by Toronto composer James Rolfe; the 20th-anniversary celebration of Autorickshaw’s unique Indo-Fusion music; a special performance by our 2023/24 Young Artistic Associates, KöNG Duo, reflecting on memories of their native Hong Kong; a queer re-imagining of Schumann’s romantic song cycle, Dichterliebe, by singer Teiya Kasahara and pianist David Eliakis; Andrew Downing’s show featuring hidden gems by Toronto-area singer-songwriters; and a season-ending program of favourites from the whole team. All events take place at Heliconian Hall. Join us for pre-concerts chats and post-show receptions.