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Join us for an immersive weekend celebrating the boundless imagination of J.S. Bach from May 22–24, 2026. With four distinctive concerts across three beautiful Toronto venues - Eastminster United Church, the Church of the Holy Trinity, and St. Andrew’s Presbyterian - the festival offers a unique way to experience Bach’s extraordinary musical world.

The festival opens with a vibrant evening of double concertos, showcasing the thrilling interplay of paired soloists. Enjoy our ever-popular, noon-hour organ recital, a perennial audience favourite, and settle in for the beloved Kaffeehaus—always sold out and not to be missed—featuring R.H. Thomson, outstanding soloists, and the spirited secular cantata Hercules at the Crossroads. The weekend concludes with a rich Sunday afternoon of choral cantatas.

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Celebrating its 38th year, the Beaches International Jazz Festival is a month-long music festival held each year in the lakeside Beaches community of Toronto in July. It's now one of Canada's largest free jazz festivals with nearly 1,000,000 attendees throughout its month-long span.

The Festival takes place across several venues; stage concerts are held in several different parks within the area, and also along a two-kilometre stretch of the Beach Main Street during StreetFest - Queen Street East.

Every year, the Festival brings in internationally acclaimed jazz performers while also showcasing local talent, including "new generation" jazz musicians. The Festival now hires around 1000 artists per annum, including 50 bands for its "StreetFest" event along Queen Street East.

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Waterside Summer Series on Amherst Island, our 31st season, again presents our well-loved five-concert series of world-class musicians in the intimate and friendly atmosphere of St Paul’s Church. Refreshments are served at intermission. June 27, 2026, brings The New Orford String Quartet, featuring Jonathan Crow; July 10, the virtuosi piano and cello of the Cheng2Duo; July 18 brings the dazzling Russian pianist Arsenitiy Kharitonov. 

On August 3, our exciting August line-up begins with the unique Quartetto Gelato: oboe, voice, English horn, clarinet and accordion, etc! On August 15, our season finale will present the Clarinet Trio of Eric Abramovitz, Luri Lee and Joonghun Cho.

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It’s Guelph Musicfest’s 20th Anniversary! Guelph’s only chamber music festival takes place annually in the perfect acoustics of the Guelph Youth Music Centre's 160-seat Recital Hall. In celebration, this season features a dynamite lineup of great composers and superlative musicians, all designed to lift your spirits in these difficult times—Schmaltz & Pepper, Festival Trio, Stewart Goodyear, Gryphon Trio, and Penderecki Quartet. And when the Spring series is over, Guelph Musicfest returns with a pair of encore concerts in the fall, this year with the Zemlinsky Quartet (from Prague) and violinist Sadie Fields (from Edinburgh, Scotland). Guelph Musicfest is still a truly crowd-sourced festival, with no government funding and supported by the people who come to the concerts.