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Amici Chamber Ensemble celebrates 33 years as one of Canada’s finest and most distinguished chamber music ensembles. For more information, please visit our website!

Artistic directing trio, clarinetist Joaquin Valdepeñas, cellist David Hetherington and pianist Serouj Kradjian, invite some of the finest musicians to join them in innovative and eclectic programming, celebrating friendship through music. Alongside numerous broadcasts of their concerts on national radio, Amici Chamber Ensemble’s recordings have placed them firmly among the world’s best chamber musicians.

Joaquin Valdepeñas is regarded as one of the most distinguished clarinetists of his generation. David Hetherington plays his cello “with rare delicacy and clarity”. Pianist and composer Serouj Kradjian is hailed as a “keyboard acrobat” of “crystal virtuosity” by the press.

Amici's 2021-22 season includes:
- American Berserk (Oct 30) featuring Jonathan Crow
- Amici Ritorna (Dec 5)
- La Flûte Enchantée (Feb 6) featuring Marina Piccinini
- Schubert Octet (Apr 10) featuring Mayumi Seiler
- Tango Gala (May 15) featuring Joyce El-Khoury

You can also enjoy Amici's recordings online on their YouTube channel.

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Toronto-based Evergreen Club Contemporary Gamelan is a collective of professional musicians.

Its core repertoire calls for eight players, though it also collaborates with guest musicians, singers and dancers. Its core mission: to develop a hybrid repertoire and performance practice on a high artistic level on its own gamelan degung, a bronze, wood and bamboo orchestra indigenous to West Java, Indonesia. Fostering intercultural musical connections through performances with Indonesian artists is also a guiding value.

Founded in 1983, ECCG was the first Canadian group dedicated to performing on gamelan. ECCG regularly commissions new works - over 200 to date - launching them in its annual Toronto concert season. Composers ECCG has premiered works by John Cage, Lou Harrison, Linda Bouchard, Allison Cameron, Walter Boudreau, Linda C. Smith and Ana Sokolović.

ECCG’s repertoire includes arrangements of Indonesian songs, as well as boundary-busting experimental works which embrace forms such as music theatre, opera, choral music, Baroque orchestra, rap and hip hop turntablism. It has toured widely in North America, Europe, Japan and Indonesia and is featured on over 15 commercial albums.

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Off Centre Music Salon re-creates the magical, inclusive atmosphere of the Viennese and Parisian Salons of the 19th century. Music is intimately shared, with each concert telling a story and creating personal connections for the audience and performers alike. Dedicated to the discovery and development of young, professional musical talent, Off Centre concerts include voice and instrumental performances. Repertoire is rarely, if ever, repeated.

Beginning early in 2022 we look forward to performing for you live, in person, at Trinity-St. Paul’s Centre in Toronto. Please continue to check the listings section of WholeNote or our website, www.offcentremusic.com, for more about our upcoming performances.

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Westben, located in Northumberland County, two hours east of Toronto near the beautiful rural town of Campbellford in Trent Hills, just announced its 23rd season of live concerts opening July 1st, 2022. The month-long festival will feature over 70 artists and 25 concerts of classical, broadway, jazz, folk, pop, fiddle, rock, opera, and comedy.

New this year is spoken word by Peterborough’s poet laureate Sarah Lewis from Curve Lake First Nations. From his home on the Yendinaga Mohawk Territory, David Maracle brings to life the ancestral teachings of the Haudenosaunee People through magnificent stone carving and music around the Westben Campfire. Musicians Natalie MacMaster, Joel Plaskett, William Prince and Eve Parker Finley will perform on Willow Hill, and Ofra Harnoy, Barbra Lica, Carol Welsman, Karina Gauvin, Queer Songbook orchestra, OKAN, Brian Finley, Mary Walsh, and Canadian Brass will be featured in The Barn.

The Broadway revue "ABBA Mia" will have you dancing in your seats in The Barn and on Willow Hill. The campfire series features Sarah Lewis and David Maracle, hosted by Alderville First Nations Chief Dave Mowat and Suzie Undgerleider and Julian Taylor hosted by Ken Tizzard. Experience music in a natural setting.

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Celebrate the New Year with a joyful spectacle featuring celebrated singers, dazzlingly costumed dancers, and a full symphony orchestra. The exuberant music of Johann Strauss and his contemporaries springs to vibrant life with selections from beloved operettas, elegant dances, lively overtures, and the beautiful Blue Danube Waltz. Salute to Vienna recreates the beloved "Neujahrskonzert", hosted each year in Vienna’s legendary Musikverein.

The short, effervescent pieces performed in the concert are brought to life by ballroom dancing and ballet, ushering audiences into the New Year with the charm of the old world.

Energetic, lighthearted, and full of romance, Salute to Vienna New Year’s Concert is a celebration of music, beauty, and the limitless possibilities each New Year brings.

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Luisa Trisi’s lifelong love of arts and culture led her to launch Big Picture Communications in 2000. Passionate about community and creativity, she thrives on connecting people and ideas. Luisa provides an array of strategic communications services including writing, content creation, editorial planning, and media relations for a broad range of individual clients and cultural organizations.

Throughout her 20-plus years of experience, Luisa has established an extensive network of industry contacts. She has worked with many of North America’s leading figures in classical music, dance, and theatre to curate panel discussions, develop content, and produce publicity campaigns related to major arts hubs, cultural initiatives, national festivals, and conferences.

Prior to launching Big Picture Communications, Luisa held positions with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Dance Umbrella of Ontario, and Theatre Columbus. As director of communications and instructor at Ryerson Theatre School for almost a decade, Luisa designed and taught entrepreneurship courses to students pursuing Bachelor of Fine Arts degrees.

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With the transforming experiences of Canada's young and emerging opera artists. COSA Canada lifts your well-being. We excite the music in everyone! The Centre for Opera Studies and Appreciation began in 2006 to create essential experiences and training for Canada’s young and emerging opera artists. We are growing enthusiastic audiences each step of the way, event after event, and excitement after excitement.

Through our many performances and formats - house concerts, operas in concert, opera pops, stage premieres of new productions, church and school concerts, doorstep serenades, public masterclasses, and restaurant “Opera Night” events, we are making all the difference in lifting the lives of our audience members, artists, and hosts.

COSA Canada is a registered charity. Donate and receive an automatic tax receipt through our website, or through Canada Helps.

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Elmer Iseler Singers (EIS) is 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, the Singers are known for tonal beauty and interpretive range, and valued for their contributions to masterclasses and workshops with schools and community choirs.

The Elmer Iseler Singers have 15 recorded CDs featuring Canadian music. EIS with Toronto Symphony Orchestra were 2019 Grammy-nominated and 2019 JUNO-awarded for the brilliant Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Chandos CD recording, with Peter Oundjian conducting. EIS are 2014 National Choral Award recipients and JUNO nominees for “Classical Album of the Year: Vocal or Choral Performance” for Dark Star Requiem with Tapestry Opera and Gryphon Trio in 2017, and for David Braid’s Corona Divinae Misericordiae with Patricia O’Callaghan in 2019.

We are pleased to announce that the Elmer Iseler Singers continue to join the Viva Youth Singers in educational and collaborative sessions of mentorship with the EIS as vocal coaches in a study of Handel’s Messiah choruses in a virtual situation. We are excited about this new Get Music Initiative. The six session program takes place from November through March.

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Since its founding in 1972, The Toronto Consort has become internationally recognized for its excellence in the performance of medieval, Renaissance, and early Baroque music. Led by a collective of Artistic Associates, the group’s members are amongst Canada’s leading early music specialists, including both singers and instrumentalists on early plucked and bowed strings, flutes, keyboards, and percussion.

In November 2020, The Toronto Consort launched Early Music TV – an all-new video-on-demand service dedicated to music from 1100-1700 AD. Early Music TV offers feature-length productions, behind-the-scenes documentaries, and extensive video and audio libraries. Accessible on over 1000 devices, members can stream directly from the website or download the iOS, Android, Apple TV, Roku, or Fire TV apps. Visit EarlyMusic.tv to start streaming today.

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Agence Station bleue is one of the most important artists agencies in Canada in classical, jazz and global music. We are active in all the Canadian provinces, and in the United States, Europe and Asia.

Known for the quality of its artists and its innovative promotional ideas, Station bleue has won numerous distinctions and awards from performing arts presenters networks in Canada. Station bleue team has booked concert tours in many countries such as the United States, Mexico, France, Switzerland, Poland, Italy, Germany, United Kingdom, Belgium, Australia, New Zealand, Bermudas, South Korea, China and Japan.

With its unique expertise and know-how, Station bleue has, over the years, become a model of commitment to the artists' management and promotion of performing arts in Canada.