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MOSAIC Canadian Vocal Ensemble touring ensemble is a subsidiary of Glionna Mansell Corporation. The choir has performed in Italy, particularly in Florence, Assisi, Rome and three occasions at the Vatican. Most recently, the choir performed in the Holy Land and in 2022 will return to Italy for its third European tour.

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ORGANIX CONCERTS is a wholly owned subsidiary of Glionna Mansell Corporation and is the producer of musical events specific to organ performance and education. Weekly free lunch-time concerts are presented in collaboration with All Saints Kingsway Anglican Church and Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic Church. These weekly events offer the public an opportunity throughout the year to hear and experience rarely performed repertoire brilliantly executed by passionate Canadian and international artists. ORGANIX CONCERTS also presents evening concerts under the “Special Presentation Series” banner and in 2022 will feature world renowned artists from Italy and France, including Sophie-Véronique Cauchefer-Choplin. ORGANIX CONCERTS is a recipient of the Royal Canadian College of Organists National Award of Excellence for its part in contributing to the promotion and value of the organ and its music in Canada.

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Glionna Mansell Corporation is a music marketing agency, Allen Organ dealer and concert producer in the organ and choral performance genre. The company is an active supporter/promoter of emerging artistic talent alongside experienced world-stage performers. The activities and entities operating under the Glionna Mansell banner include: ORGANIX CONCERTS, Allen Organ Company in Ontario and Eastern Provinces, and touring/concert choir MOSAIC Canadian Vocal Ensemble. Gordon Mansell is music director and titular organist at Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic Church - Toronto.

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VOICEBOX: Opera in Concert is Canada’s only company dedicated exclusively to the presentation of rare opera programming. Our performances rely on the power and beauty of the human voice, the dramatic inflection of text and poetry.

Season 2022 features three operas each focused on extraordinary women. It opens with Vanessa by Samuel Barber on January 23, 2022. It is an American opera about three generations of women, who confront society's intrusions into their secluded world. Vanessa is a high voltage drama of exquisite character detailing. Florence: The Lady With the Lamp by Canadian composer Timothy Sullivan and librettist Anne McPherson is next. Based on the life of Florence Nightingale, a British nurse who was a transformative social reformer and statistician best known as the founder of modern nursing. The performance is on March 27, 2022. The Mother of Us All by Virgil Thomson is the season finale on May 22, 2022. This dramatic opera imaginatively chronicles the story of Susan B. Anthony and the women's suffrage movement. All three performances will be with OIC Chorus led by chorus director Robert Cooper.

Performances are held at the St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts. Proof of full vaccination will be required.

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Toronto Operetta Theatre is in its third decade as Canada’s only performing arts company dedicated to music theatre in all its variety.

After more than a year and a half of pandemic hiatus, TOT will be back on stage! The 2021/22 season opens with a Canadian premiere, A Waltz Dream by Oscar Straus, performing at the Jane Mallett Theatre on December 29 and 31, 2021, then January 2 and 4, 2022, followed by Jacque Offenbach’s Orpheus In The Underworld. This operetta is a lampoon of the ancient legend of Orpheus and Eurydice and performances are on February 16, 18, 19 and 20, 2022.

Postponed from May 2020, the season finale is the long-awaited world premiere of Canadian work A Northern Lights Dream by Michael Rose, performing on April 27, 29, 30 and May 1, 2022, featuring Natalya Gennadi, Dale Miller, and Karen Bojti with Suzy Smith as a conductor.

All main performances are held at the St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts with safety protocols in place. Proof of full vaccination will be required to enter the venue.

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Renowned concert pianist Andrew Burashko formed Art of Time Ensemble in 1998 by inviting a group of like-minded musicians and prominent figures in dance, theatre and other art forms to perform one-off concerts in Toronto. The company has gone on to become a leader in Toronto’s vibrant performing arts scene, through its subscription season at the Harbourfront Centre Theatre, regular appearances at Koerner Hall, album releases, performances with leading Canadian orchestras, and tours of its unique offerings to dozens of cities throughout Canada and the United States.

Exploring the relationship between classical music and other genres such as jazz, pop, electronica, rock, folk, electroacoustic, gospel and others, Art of Time seeks to reveal the qualities that lie at the heart of all great music.

The ranks of Art of Time Ensemble’s artists are deep and their talents unmatched; featured collaborators include authors Margaret Atwood and Michael Ondaatje, jazz legend Branford Marsalis, vocalists Madeleine Peyroux, Sarah Slean, Hawksley Workman and Tony Award-winner Brent Carver, composers such as Gavin Bryars and Jonathan Goldsmith, and many more.

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The Toronto Choral Society (TCS) was founded in 1845 to foster a positive musical environment that enables members to learn and develop both musical ability and choral repertoire. The TCS is an integral part of the community of Toronto, presenting important works from the traditional choral repertoire, as well as exploring the music of the many cultures that make up our community. Over the years we have made an active contribution to the life of the city by participating in many community events. This fall, TCS members will reunite for in-house rehearsals of Handel’s Messiah. Please go to our website where we will provide our followers with more information about a possible upcoming concert.

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The Royal Canadian College of Organists is the oldest organization of musicians in Canada, dedicated to supporting our country's organists and promoting the organ and its music to a broad audience. The College publishes the quarterly journal Organ Canada, offers examinations for organists from beginner to professional levels, and holds a major organ convention every second summer. The Toronto Centre has approximately 200 members in the city and GTA, and is led by a vibrant executive committee that meets monthly to coordinate and plan short- and long-term events. Our events this season will be in a hybrid online and in-person format, featuring guest recitalists, our popular "Phantoms of the Organ" concert, and the return of our annual "Bach Walk"; please see our website or Facebook page for the most up-to-date information.

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The Royal Conservatory’s Koerner Hall is “the greatest venue in this city” and “magnificent in its acoustics, as much as in its design” (Toronto Star). This concert season, you can enjoy more than 90 jazz, classical, world, and roots music performances - in the concert hall or live online - by extraordinary international and Canadian artists, including the annual 21C Music Festival. We look forward to sharing uplifting and inspiring live music with you!

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Nocturnes In the City’s 21st season presented three virtual lectures on Czech operas by Iain Scott. Excerpts from Rusalka and The Devil and Kate by Antonín Dvořák, Bartered Bride by Bedřich Smetana, The Greek Passion by Bohuslav Martinů, and Jenůfa, Káťa Kabanová and The Makropulos Affair by Leoš Janáček were admired by a few hundred Zoom listeners.

The upcoming 22nd season is presenting international star violinist Ivan Ženatý from Prague with pianist David Kalhoun in October 2021, multitalented Radim Zenkl (mandolin, guitar, flute, fujara) from California in November, second Czech dixieland band in December, and pianist Radka Hanáková, tenor John Holland, and jazzman George Grosman in spring 2022. Most concerts take place in Czech community center at St. Wenceslaus church on Gladstone Avenue.

Previous 20 season artists such as singers Eva Urbanová, Zdeněk Plech, Gustáv Beláček, John Holland, pianists Antonín Kubálek, Boris Krajný, ‎Jan Novotný and Slávka Vernerová-Pěchočová, clarinetist Joaquin Valdepeñas, as well as Panocha, Pražák, Kocian and Zemlinsky quartets were presented.