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Orpheus’ vision is to celebrate the power of choral music as an agent of social change and a passionate medium of artistic expression. The 60-voice auditioned SATB choir, under newly-appointed artistic director Thomas Burton, champions the new and unusual in choral performance, commissioning and introducing new works and performing overlooked masterpieces. Regularly working with living composers, and singing a wide range of repertoire in concerts with high production values, Orpheus has introduced audiences to many accessible works from the current generation of leading composers.

Orpheus supports young emerging vocal talent through its highly respected Sidgwick Scholars Program and its newer Vocal Apprentice Program for high school singers. Winners of the 2018 Choral Canada Award for Outstanding Innovation, Orpheus continues to present an “expect something different” experience! The 2023/24 season encompasses a wide range of repertoire from around the world, featuring Poulenc’s Gloria and Jocelyn Hagen’s Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci.

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St. Bartholomew's Anglican Church, Regent Park, preserves a timeless pattern of worship based on the evolving tradition of Western Catholicism. Under the direction of Early Music specialist Katherine Hill, the St. Bart’s choir sings at the Sunday Parish mass (11am) and on other Feast Days throughout the year. The choir's repertoire spans many centuries, featuring Gregorian chant, Medieval and Renaissance polyphony, Baroque motets, a wide variety of later English Cathedral music and French Romanticism.

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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, cabaret fundraisers, community performances and workshops. We're thrilled to welcome our new collaborative pianist, Dakota Scott-Digout. Several remarkable artists have joined VOCA as clinicians, including composers Ola Gjeilo, Andrew Balfour and Sarah Quartel, conductors Ivars Taurins and Sandra Horst, and jazz musician Dylan Bell.

VOCA's 2023/24 Season will continue with in-person rehearsals following updated Covid guidelines. Our professional leads will be performing in a cabaret/fundraiser on October 29. Our concert on December 16 at Eastminster will feature guests Jason Fowler, guitar and Jamie Drake, percussion, with works by Gordon Lightfoot (including an arrangement by Jenny Crober), Mark Sirett, Ola Gjeilo, Jake Runestad and others. We were honoured to perform our Roy Thomson Hall debut last April, and are looking forward to our annual March cabaret/fundraiser and Spring concert with special guests. VOCA rehearses Monday nights at Eastminster (Danforth Ave. / Chester subway station).

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Trio Arkel, originally founded in 2008, is composed of Marie Berard, violinist, Rémi Pelletier, violist, and Winona Zelenka, cellist, who have been sharing their artistry and imagination through the fashioning of a chamber music series that has since garnered an enthusiastic following in their hometown of Toronto. They collaborate with guest artists of international renown to present great masterpieces of the classical chamber music repertoire, from Bach to present-day living composers, in beautiful, eclectic and fascinating programs that transport and move audiences.

Season 11 includes chamber music works both beloved and extraordinary, familiar and unusual. Weber, Beethoven and Schubert are paired with Cusson, Stravinsky and Webern. All in beautiful Jeanne Lamon Hall in the heart of Toronto.

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An oasis in the heart of Toronto for over 200 years, Met United's landmark 1872 Gothic Revival edifice houses the largest collection of McCausland stained glass windows, the 54-bell Massey-Drury carillon, and Canada's largest pipe organ. Led by Minister of Music Jonathan Oldengarm, the church's music programme includes the Metropolitan Choir, the Metropolitan Hand Bells, the Metropolitan Silver Band (est. 1934, directed by Fran Harvey), the Metropolitan Choristers (dir. Jennifer Martyn), and Great Heart (dir. Ben Stein). These groups are featured at 11am on Sundays, and at special services through the year. Every Thursday from mid-September to June, "Noon at Met" presents free chamber music, voice or organ recitals, often preceded by a carillon recital at 11:30am.

The afternoon or evening “Music at Met” concert series runs the gamut from Early Music to show tunes. Met is a sought-after rental venue for concerts, and features state-of-the-art livestream video and audio systems. The building is wheelchair-accessible, and is easily reached by transit. Met is an Affirming Congregation, offering welcome and companionship to all, inclusive of age, ethnicity, gender identity, differing abilities, and sexual orientation.