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Cantabile Chamber Singers is a non-profit Toronto-based chamber choir, formed in 2006 by artistic director Cheryll J. Chung. We are committed to enlightening audiences and attracting a new generation of Canadians to the resonance and enrichment of choral music through a combination of informed interpretation, engaging audiences and innovative programming. We believe in engaging in cultural diversity through our programming and promoting music written by living and young composers of the present.

We have come together for several reasons: for the love of music and the joy we can bring to others through the music we make, while helping to bring awareness to causes that impact society.

Keeping with its mission and vision of community outreach and social justice issues, Cantabile is a not-for-profit organization where its members believe that music can help bring awareness to social issues such as climate and environment, discrimination and illness. We hope to enrich the lives of those to come to our concerts, and more importantly, those who benefit from them.

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Under the direction of Ron Royer, who brings years of experience as a conductor, musician, composer and music educator, the SPO has developed as a lively community orchestra and a Canadian composition incubator, while also producing live and digital chamber concerts by orchestra ensembles.

SPO is also a local resource as a co-producer of recording projects by local ensembles, artists and choirs. Orchestra Canada included SPO in its “Digital Toolkit” as an exemplar for small orchestras citing its podcast, streaming content, and recording production skills.

The SPO has been an anchor cultural organization in Scarborough for 45 years. and presents, on average, six main-series concerts, plus performing/presenting at festivals and community celebrations, plus recording, developing and presenting substantial Canadian programming, as recognized by the Canadian Music Centre in awarding SPO the 2021 John Beckwith Award,

The orchestra has a professional core augmented by highly achieving community amateur musicians. Annually, it offers a unique program for New Generation artists and composers, as well as residency programs.

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Established in 2014, The Azrieli Music Prizes (AMP) offer opportunities for the discovery, creation, performance and celebration of excellence in music composition. Every two years, AMP offers four prizes: two celebrating the discovery and creation of excellent new Jewish Music; one for the creation of Canadian music; and the fourth that focuses on new works inspired by humanity’s diverse cultural heritage.

AMP is open to composers of all ages, genders, faiths and backgrounds. Full eligibility and submission guidelines are available on the AMP website. AMP also seeks to engage more composers and enrich the concert repertoire through its instrumentation cycle – 2024: Choral Music; 2026: Oratorio/Opera in Concert; and 2028: Chamber Music.

All Prize Laureates receive a prize package valued at $200,000 CAD, including a $50,000 cash award, a premiere in Montréal at the AMP Gala Concert, two subsequent international showcase concerts, and a professional recording for future commercial release. This makes AMP the largest competition of its kind in Canada and one of the most important in the world.

Upcoming Dates:

• October 15, 2023: AMP London Debut Concert at Cadogan Hall
• November 2, 2023: 2024 AMP Laureates Announcement in Montréal

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Since its 2011 launch, Music at St. Andrew’s has gained a reputation for delivering great music at affordable prices. We're delighted to welcome audiences to enjoy the superb acoustics of our spacious sanctuary in the heart of Toronto's entertainment district.

St. Andrew’s magnificent Bösendorfer Imperial Grand piano, which inspired the launch of our music program, is used extensively in our free, mostly classical Friday Noontime Recitals. Now in its eleventh year of fall and winter/spring recitals, this popular series features graduate students and professors from U of T's Music Department, established performers and rising young stars.

Join us on October 4 as we welcome back pianist Irina Bazik. And watch later this season for returning favourites such as Jean-Luc Therrien and Tristan Savella.

Following the success of last year's Ceilidh Christmas concert, we've invited St. Andrew’s renowned professional choir to take stage again.at “Come Home for Christmas” on Friday, December 6. Pay-What-You-Can (PWYC). Donations will be accepted for church's Refugee Support program.

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The Upper Canada Choristers is an SATB community choir in Toronto with a history of collaboration with both local and international choirs and professional guest artists. UCC is committed to excellence and diversity. Cantemos is UCC’s auditioned Latin American ensemble. Founding Artistic Director, Laurie Evan Fraser, and Accompanist, Hye Won Cecilia Lee, provide the professional musical leadership for this vibrant organisation.

The 2024/25 concert season opens with “A Holiday Travelogue” on Friday, December 13 at 7:30pm at Grace Church on-the-Hill, 300 Lonsdale Road. The concert includes music from Ireland, Sweden, Spain, Scotland, Venezuela, France, and England. A featured work will be Fantasia on Christmas Carols by Ralph Vaughan Williams with baritone soloist, Bradley Christensen.

On May 16, 2025, the Choristers will be joined by Caribbean choir La Petite Musicale, under the direction of Lindy Burgess. Our special guests will be Venezuelan composer, Cesar Alejandro Carillo and his wife, poet Laura Morales, visiting Canada for the first time. "Venezuela Viva" will provide a snapshot of the diversity of Venezuelan music. Repertoire will showcase a slice of choral culture with Afrocentric, Spanish, and Caribbean influences.

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Founded in 1987, Attila Glatz Concert Productions produces, promotes, and manages classical, jazz, folk, country, film and video game music performances worldwide.

The company’s signature presentation is the beloved New Year’s Concert, “Salute to Vienna”. Presented annually in more than 20 major concert halls from the Lincoln Center to Roy Thomson Hall, this concert series celebrates its 30th anniversary in 2025!

Salute to Vienna New Year's Concert evokes the enchantment and grandeur of Vienna’s Golden Age with a new cast and musical program each year. Performed by some of Europe’s finest singers, internationally celebrated dancers, and a full orchestra conducted by an expert in Viennese music, this concert experience is the perfect way to greet the New Year.

Along with Salute to Vienna, Toronto audiences can celebrate New Year's Eve in the most elegant of ways, with 'Bravissimo! New Year's at the Opera' at Roy Thomson Hall, featuring Opera's Greatest Hits and the Canadian Opera Company Orchestra.

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Nine Sparrows Arts Foundation marks its 31st anniversary this season under the continuing leadership of artistic director Eric Robertson. Nine Sparrows Arts Foundation has presented a rich variety of concerts for Toronto audiences, including its popular weekly recital series, as well as international groups such as King’s College Cambridge Choir, Clare College Singers and St. John’s College Choir. It has also featured Canadian artists, including Erica Goodman, David Hetherington, Colin Fox, John McDermott, Sharlene Wallace, Anne Lindsay, Neil Swainson, John Johnson, Guido Basso, Guy Few, Heather Bambrick, the True North Brass, the Gryphon Trio, and percussion ensemble NEXUS.

Nine Sparrows Arts Foundation is also involved in the City Carol Sing, a large annual charity event that raises money for food banks across Canada.

Nine Sparrows Arts Foundation is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to bringing the best in inspirational arts programming. It is governed by an elected volunteer board of directors and operates with the assistance of advisors from a variety of backgrounds, including event management, promotions, finance and business.

All of our concerts are "admission free – donations welcome"

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Pioneering tour-de-force Ensemble Vivant’s innovative genre-diverse classical/jazz programming is rich with passionate, deeply communicative playing that touches the hearts and souls of listeners of all ages. EV has 15 internationally acclaimed CDs heard on radio worldwide.

Of EV’s album iFUGUE ~ A World of Fugues, U.S.A. magazines Fanfare & American Record Guide respectively wrote: “Smokin…Fugues shouldn’t be this much fun!”; “Lively readings of fugues by all sorts of composers. A few are presented in original form, such as Bach’s Prelude & Fugue 9 (WTC I), played beautifully by pianist Catherine Wilson.”

More praise: “…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

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

EV’s invaluable live and video programs for underserved communities (endorsed by neuroscientists on music and the mind) are conducted through Euterpe (musicisthekey.org). Awards include Ontario Trillium Foundation; Canada Council; Levante Foundation; Ross Mitchell Foundation and more.

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The Edison Singers is a fully professional chamber choir led by internationally-acclaimed Artistic Director and Conductor, Dr. Noel Edison. We produce concert series in communities across southwestern Ontario becoming an integral part of the musical life of each.

We bookend our 2024/25 with programs featuring composers whom we call “choral mystics.” The leading Canadian exponent of this is Timothy Corlis. His music is transparent, lush, evocative, energetic and deeply spiritual. We will record a selection of his works in the Fall for the recording label Naxos. You can attend a preview concert of this recording at the Basilica of Our Lady Immaculate in Guelph on September 29 in a program entitled “Missa Pax: Choral Works by Timothy Corlis”.

It's hard to believe that Handel wrote his towering Messiah in only 21 days in 1741. His spectacular musical journey is one that has become a Christmas tradition for so many of us. Another December treat our concert of carols, songs and readings entitled “O Hear the Angel Voices”.

On Good Friday 2025, we perform one of J.S Bach’s premiere works, The St. John Passion, with full orchestra. For our last concert, we are back to our mystical theme with “Choral Mystics: Ancient & Modern Reflections”.

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The Elmer Iseler Singers (EIS) are a 20-voice professional chamber choir based in Toronto and founded by the late Dr. Elmer Iseler in 1979. Directed by the acclaimed Lydia Adams, C.M., the Singers are known for tonal beauty and interpretive range, and valued for their contributions to masterclasses and workshops with schools and community choirs.

Experience three glorious Toronto concerts, as EIS present their 46th concert season series, “A Bouquet of Voices!”, featuring a major world premiere by Canadian mystical composer, Peter Togni, an acclaimed performance of Handel’s Messiah, and a Spring flourish of voices, featuring the moving new creation of Canadian composer Norbert Palej, as EIS welcome renowned choirs to their singing table of guests: the University of Toronto Faculty of Music MacMillan Singers and instrumental ensemble, Jamie Hillman, conductor; The Elora Singers, Mark Vuorinen, Artistic Director; the VIVA Chamber Singers, Carol Ratzlaff, Artistic Director and the Amadeus Choir, Lydia Adams, Interim Artistic Director.

Series subscriptions and individual concert tickets are available on their website, along with news about tours, guest appearances and workshops.