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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.

Located in downtown Toronto, SMCS is a full-curriculum school of 250 boys from grades 3-12 that provides sacred music for St. Michael's Cathedral Basilica. SMCS is devoted to helping boys realize their full academic, musical and spiritual potential. Our academic and music programme results in the formation of well-rounded young men of character and faith.

The commitment to sacred music that characterizes St. Michael’s Choir School provides students with a deep sense of the beauty and joy of the Catholic spiritual tradition and helps them mature in their faith while fulfilling the school's mission of the formation of Catholic men through the service of sacred music and the pursuit of knowledge.

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The Annex Singers of Toronto is a spirited, auditioned 50-voice community choir with an eclectic repertoire that spans a thousand years and showcases a wide range of styles, from plainchant to jazz.

This year, we are celebrating our 45th season and our 19th year under the dynamic leadership of Artistic Director Maria Case. During that time, the choir has become known for its inventive, relevant programming and for collaboration with a wide array of guest artists and composers — including the commissioning and premiering of new works by Canadian musicians. Recent larger works include Britten’s Ceremony of Carols and Rejoice in the Lamb, Dobrogosz’s Jazz Mass, Faure’s Requiem, Mozart’s Great Mass in C Minor, and Poulenc’s Gloria.

The choir performs three concerts each season at Grace Church on-the-Hill, featuring guest soloists and instrumentalists, as well as our own Annex Chamber Choir or smaller ensembles.

Our 2024/25 season:

• December 7 — "Stargazers": Music inspired by the night sky, with a pre-concert talk on astronomy
• March 29 — "Carmina Burana": When Fortuna spins her wheel, who can resist Orff’s masterpiece?
• May 31 — "Sing, Pray, Love!": Hildegard von Bingen, The Spice Girls, and everything in between!

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Originally formed as the Peterborough Symphony singers in 1990, the Peterborough Singers (PS) became a stand-alone entity in 1993. This highly regarded choir boasts upwards of 130 members under the direction of Sydney Birrell. Each season the choir presents four concerts, incorporating a blend of repertoire from gospel to sacred to pop to oratorio. World-class, professional Canadian soloists enjoy performing with the choir time and again. The PS also makes a point of incorporating young emerging artists into their season, giving them a chance to perform alongside some of the more seasoned performers. Specially commissioned music from Canadian composers is part of the regular repertoire. The Singers hold weekly music classes, enabling young musicians to gain the skills required for choral music performance. The PS appreciates the wonderful support given by the community.

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Trinity Bach Project is a professional vocal and instrumental ensemble, dedicated to serving ordinary audiences the extraordinary musical and spiritual riches of J. S. Bach’s choral repertoire. By presenting the works of Bach and others with clarity, excellence, and generosity, we seek to remove barriers around classical choral music and open the doors of sacred places—both historic architecture and human hearts.

The 30-plus concerts of our first two seasons included such programs as “Bach and Mendelssohn,” “Bach and Rheinberger,” “Bach and Schütz,” “Bach and Tallis,” and “Bach and Handel,” shared with diverse audiences in fourteen different settings around Toronto and the surrounding region. Our third season (2024/25) is set to debut shortly with the program “Bach and Roses” (featuring cantatas BWV 72 and 182), in performance Oct 3, Oct 4, Nov 13, and Nov 17. January and beyond will see a trio of instrumental concertos, the poignant Actus Tragicus (BWV 106), the wedding cantata Der Herr denket an uns (BWV 196), and the jubilance of Sei Lob und Ehr dem höchsten Gut (BWV 117).

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The Li Delun Music Foundation was established in 2002 in Toronto as a non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion of cultural exchange between the East and the West through musical events. Named after the renowned Chinese conductor Li Delun, who 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 recitals by acclaimed prizewinners, and the annual “East-Meets-West New Years Concert” at the George Weston Recital Hall. 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 has also held masterclasses and workshops, led by internationally-acclaimed artists, including Lang Lang, Sa Chen, Haochen Zhang, Bruce Liu, professor Lee Kum-Sing, et cetera.

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The VOCA Chorus of Toronto, a dynamic, auditioned ensemble under the leadership of artistic director Jenny Crober, performs a broad range of repertoire in collaboration with a variety of superb guest artists. VOCA's season consists of concerts, cabarets, community performances and workshops. Our wonderful collaborative pianist is Dakota Scott-Digout. Numerous remarkable artists have joined VOCA as clinicians, including composer Ola Gjeilo, conductor Ivars Taurins and jazz vocalist Dylan Bell.

VOCA's 2024/25 season, our artistic director's 20th Anniversary, will be an exciting one. On October 27, our professional leads will be featured in a cabaret / fundraiser. On December 14, our 'Season Songs' concert will include Sarah Quartel's Iesous ahatonnia, Jenny Crober's arrangement of Joni Mitchell's River, a world premiere by Nicholas Ryan Kelly, an Ontario premiere by Matthew Emery and more, with guest artists Michael Occhipinti, jazz guitar and Jamie Drake, percussion. On May 10, we'll be performing Carl Orff's monumental Carmina Burana, featuring several brilliant instrumentalists and soloists, including our special guest, tenor Andrew Haji. VOCA rehearses Monday evenings at Eastminster United (Danforth/Chester subway).

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The Kindred Spirits Orchestra (KSO) is a critically acclaimed, award-winning, auditioned-based civic orchestra, performing at the Meridian Arts Centre (George Weston Recital Hall), and the CBC Glenn Gould Studio in Toronto, as well as at the Flato Markham Theatre, and the Cornell Recital Hall. In addition to performing concerts, the KSO offers several educational, community outreach, professional development and international cultural exchange programmes. In 2021, the KSO became the first orchestra in Canada to migrate to an environmentally conscious business operations, implement a digital music library, and replace paper-based music parts with iPad Pro tablets, made available to all musicians.

The 2024/25 concert season under the direction of maestro Kristian Alexander includes Bruckner‘s Symphony No. 6, Verdi‘s Messa da Requiem, Shostakovich‘s Symphony No. 7, Debussy‘s La mer, and Scriabin‘s Poem of Ecstasy, as well as a world premiere of a Concerto for Piano Trio and String Orchestra by Gary Kulesha. Featured ensembles are the Gryphon trio, Orpheus and Resound choirs, as well as cellist Winona Zelenka, pianists Michael Berkovsky and Dmitri Levkovich, and violinist Heng-Han Hou.

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The DaCapo Chamber Choir was founded in 1998 in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario under the direction of Leonard Enns. In November 2023, the choir celebrated 25 years of “giving ideas voice.” The mission of the choir is to promote the best of contemporary choral music through public performance and recordings, including the intentional championing of music of Canadian and local composers. The choir’s national NewWorks choral competition, which held its final season last year, was critical in establishing a vibrant and vital presence for recent and emerging Canadian choral music. DaCapo will continue to profile and support Canadian composers through premieres and commissioning.

The choir has released three CDs: NewWorks (2019); the award-winning ShadowLand (winner of the 2010 ACCC’s National Choral Recording of the Year award, including the Juno-nominated Nocturne by Leonard Enns); and Still (2004).

Upcoming season:

• November 9 and 10, "Word Over All" - featuring oboist James Mason, cellist Miriam Stewart Kroeker, and a string quintet
• March 1 and 2, "Starry Night"
• May 10 and 11, "Sing Us Home" - featuring piano

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The award-winning Amadeus Choir of Greater Toronto celebrates more than 50 years of enlivening Toronto’s arts landscape through energetic performances, unexpected programming and artistic collaborations that redefine choral music.

Led by Artistic Director Kathleen Allan, the Choir champions the best of choral music by commissioning and premiering works by Canadian and international composers through a self-produced concert series, guest performances, and special events.

For the 2024/25 season, the choir will be led by Conductor Emerita Lydia Adams, C.M., for the November 2 performance of “Songs of Hope and Peace” at St. George's United Church, which will feature special guest Tom Allen. Ms. Adams will also conduct “Holiday Serenade” on December 7th which will be presented at the George Weston Recital Hall, in collaboration with the Hannaford Street Silver Band and the Bach Children's Chorus.

Kathleen Allan will return to lead the Bernstein and Durufle concert on May 4 at Metropolitan United Church. To purchase tickets for the Amadeus Choir's season, and to find out more about their educational initiatives and special events, please visit our website.

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Esprit Orchestra is Canada's only full-sized, professional orchestra devoted to performing and presenting new music.

Founded in 1983 by Music Director and Conductor, Alex Pauk, Esprit’s commitment to commissioning and advancing contemporary music has set it apart as one of the few organisations of its kind on a global scale. Esprit consistently collaborates with outstanding composers and performs with first-class soloists and ensembles from Canada and abroad.

With a dynamic annual subscription concert series, this skilled orchestra presents music that is otherwise unavailable in Canada. Esprit performances are regularly recorded and many can be viewed online in full.

In the 2024/25 "Edge of Your Seat" season, Esprit will present two "prelude" concerts, followed by the first iteration of a new International New Music Festival, welcoming to Toronto such esteemed guests as: violinist Akiko Suwanai, soprano Sophia Burgos and composers Andrew Norman, Lisa Streich and Vito Žuraj. Numerous Canadian, North American and world premieres will be heard throughout the season and featured soloists include: accordionist Michael Bridge, violinist Mark Fewer, pianist Kevin Ahfat, harpsichordist Wesley Shen and harpist Erica Goodman. Concerts will be presented at Koerner Hall and Trinity-St. Paul’s Centre.