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Experience great chamber music downtown with Music TORONTO, a presenter of the finest string ensembles and pianists from Canada and across the globe. Artistic and Executive Director Roman Borys invites you to our 2023/24 season at the Jane Mallett Theatre at the St Lawrence Centre for the Arts.

Music TORONTO’s eight-concert season features artists familiar and new. Enjoy the European Quatuor Danel, the dynamic Ying Quartet, the rising stars of the Verona Quartet, the St. Lawrence and Friends, and our beloved Gryphon Trio. Our piano series features Canadians Duo Turgeon, Maria Thompson Corley and UBC’s David Fung.

Celebrating the breadth of the small ensemble form, the second edition of COSE begins early 2024 and offers a new space for social gathering and musical discovery. COSE champions classics and new works, global musical disciplines and diverse voices, and artists who push the bounds of tradition and innovation. A new initiative in a new venue: from baroque to contemporary, celebrating an expanse of stories, artists and ensembles – welcome to the future.

Please join us for concerts traditional and groundbreaking to feel the transformative experience that is live concert music – enlightening, entertaining, enriching, engaging.

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Flute Street is Toronto’s professional chamber ensemble, comprised exclusively of flutists. Performing on nine different sizes of flutes from the tiny piccolo to Canada’s largest flute – the double contrabass – this versatile and unique ensemble presents programmes offering a surprisingly wide spectrum of genres. Audiences have delighted in the renaissance canzonas, pop tunes, traditional folk songs, baroque favourites, jazz standards, a few symphonic transcriptions and particularly in the original and contemporary flute choir compositions – many of which have been Canadian or world premieres.

Under the artistic direction of founder, Nancy Nourse, and conducted by Isaac Page, Flute Street is pleased to present its 10th anniversary season at the Church of St. Peter and St. Simon-the-Apostle.

• Sunday, October 1, 2023, 4pm - “Dances with Flutes”
• Saturday, December 16, 2023, 7:30pm - “Sweet Suites for Christmas”
• Sunday, April 14, 2024, 4pm - “The Concerto and the Folk Song”
• Sunday, June 2, 2024, 4pm - “Crossing the Bridge”

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Music at St. Andrew’s is a community outreach program offered by historic St. Andrew’s Church in downtown Toronto. Our program was inspired by the church’s 2011 purchase of a Bösendorfer Imperial grand piano, which we share with the greater community. This magnificent piano is used extensively in our free, mostly classical Friday Noontime Recitals, which run from October to November and February to May. The 45-minute recitals are performed by post-graduate students and professors from U of T’s Music Department, by established performers and by rising young stars.

The 10th year of our popular recitals launches on October 6. Watch for “A Ceilidh Kind of Christmas” on December 8, headlined by St. Andrew's renowned professional choir and featuring a traditional Cape Breton fiddler and other instrumentalists. The lively, down-home program will span seasonal favourites popularised by the Rankin Sisters, the Barra MacNeils, Stan Rogers and others. Admission is free but donations will be accepted for our church’s Refugee Support program.

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Regal, triumphant, nostalgic, spiritual and sentimental…

Our 2023/24 season of concerts spans a vast array of heartfelt musical expressions.

First up is "Royal Splendour" with music that spans everything from Mendelssohn’s song Italien Op.8, No.3, to music from the recent coronation of King Charles III. The program includes a multimedia screenshow of archival images and video.

Handel’s Messiah is a perennial Christmas favourite: a colourful journey of musical highs and lows. However, as in the ending of any great epic, triumph reigns.

But Christmas is often about our yesteryears; looking back, remembering and hearing those carols that you’ve heard all your lives. Old, new, rearranged, tarted up, reflective and humorous. “Tis the Season.” Let’s sing!

On Good Friday, we assume a more sombre cloak of incredible musical faith. Seven Last Words from the Cross by James MacMillan, for string orchestra and choir, is a dramatic powerhouse of brilliant musical writing. Don’t miss this one!

And finally, Warm Breath of Spring: Folksongs & Spirituals. Last season’s concert was so successful, we had to do it again.

As always, our concerts strive to transport listeners in a way that only the sonorities of choral music can achieve.

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Rezonance Baroque Ensemble is one of the most exciting groups on Toronto’s classical music scene. Unafraid of improvisation and experimenting with new concert formats, and already known for giving captivating performances that resonate with today’s audiences, Rezonance is one of the foremost chamber music interpreters of historical music. Inspired by history and informed by the present, Rezonance leads audiences through the discovery of under-appreciated and unusual works, and new ways of hearing the classics, in a manner that is intimate, accessible, and fun, while maintaining the highest possible artistry.

For over 10 years, Rezonance has presented a three-concert season, and released their debut album James Oswald: Airs for the Seasons in May 2023 on Leaf Music.

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The Untitled Ensemble Chamber Music Society is a not-for-profit chamber music project based in Toronto/Tkaronto, Ontario that strives to explore lesser known historical and current chamber music with an emphasis on works by women and non-binary people.

This project also strives to create new and fluid groups of musicians to match the repertoire of each show, creating a meeting place and a resource for musicians who want to play chamber music, but do not have an established ensemble.

Our goal is to foster collaboration and create new ensembles who may or may not continue to exist beyond their beginnings within the Untitled Ensemble while using our multi-instrumental nature to perform a wider range of repertoire than we would be able to otherwise!

Currently we're gearing up to deliver two concerts featuring works by Ontario-based emerging composers on October 28, 2023 and February 10, 2024. These concerts will feature selected works from our Land of Lakes call for scores for string and brass ensembles. We're really excited to expand our musical ranks to include more string and brass players, and also provide live performances of these gorgeous chamber music compositions!

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The Hannaford Street Silver Band is Canada’s award-winning professional brass band and resident company of Toronto’s St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts. Its mission is to honour the traditions of this art form and place it in a contemporary context with a unique, Canadian point-of-view.

Our 2023/24 season features brass repertoire gems, paired with new music played with the verve and virtuosity you expect from the Hannaford Band: “La Trompette Française” on October 29, 2023 at Jane Mallett Theatre, features Robert Weymouth trumpet with guest conductor Jean-Michel Malouf; “Silver and Gold” is on Saturday, December 16, 2023 at the George Weston Recital Hall with the Amadeus Choir;" Band Together" is a free Family Day event at Metropolitan United Church on Monday February 19, 2024; “Dearly, Life, Love and Margaret Atwood” on Sunday, March 3, 2024 at Jane Mallet Theatre, features Measha Brueggergosm-Lee, and our season concludes on Saturday, June 1, 2024 at MacMillan Theatre with “A Concert of Community” - the marquee event of the Great Canadian Brass Band Festival.

The HSSB demonstrates its commitment to youth, outreach and education by running the Hannaford Youth Program. This vibrant program is a fantastic opportunity for brass and percussion players ages 7 to 24.

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InterMusic Group presents Classical Music, Recitals and Special Events.

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The Greater Toronto Philharmonic Orchestra is delighted to present the 2023/24 Concert Season; a series of concerts, showcasing a harmonious blend of young talents and established guest artists. Each concert will offer a diverse musical experience, celebrating a broad repertoire ranging from classic to contemporary compositions, and works from women and black composers. Three concerts will take place at our main venue, Calvin Presbyterian Church, conveniently located at Yonge and St. Clair and easily accessible for our audience members coming from all areas in Toronto. We will conclude our season at Glenn Gould studio with an exciting presentation of classic theatrical works for singers and orchestra titled "Broadway Today". Since October 2008, the GTPO has successfully presented 15 seasons in various venues across the City of Toronto. While the majority of its regular season programs are presented in uptown Toronto, additional outreach and special events throughout the season allow the GTPO to draw on a wide audience base, both locally from uptown Toronto and beyond to other neighbourhoods and under-served communities. Led by a roster of professional guest conductors, the GTPO's reputation has grown each season.

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New Music Concerts is a leader in curating, performing, and promoting innovative and cutting-edge music by Canadian and international composers. NMC is internationally renowned and unique in Toronto as the foremost champion of contemporary works for large chamber ensembles.

NMC is committed to a diversity of rigour and excellence in the programming and performance of adventurous contemporary chamber music from Canada and around the globe. In our programming, we take pride in reflecting Canada’s ever-growing diversity of musicians, listeners, composers, and guest artists.