It is a listing of live shows we’re attending, wishing we may attend, or excited about attending between April 15 and April 21, 2024. For extra of what’s occurring round Toronto, go to our calendar right here.

Canadian Opera Firm: Surrounded Spirits

CinnaMoon Collective, introduced by dance IMMERSION
Wednesday, April 17, Midday. Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre, 4 Seasons Centre. Free, tickets required.

dance Immersion brings tales stemming from diaspora — households transferring internationally seeking a greater life, and their youngsters within the new world, dealing with new demons of racism and marginalization. What’s it like for 2 individuals to be femme, queer, black, and brown girls — and to look into each other to hunt to develop previous their life wounds and challenges? Typically, our our bodies converse louder than phrases ever may; the previous isn’t too removed from our hearts — and it lives via our time, and on in direction of our kids’s time. A beautiful lunch hour break. Data right here.

The Philadelphia Orchestra performed by Yannick Nézet-Séguin

Wednesday, April 17, 8 p.m.
Koerner Corridor. At present offered out- waitlist.

Yannick Nézet-Séguin has been busy conducting for worldwide powerhouses together with the Metropolitan Opera, Rotterdam’s Philharmonisch Orkest, Berlin Philharmonie — the listing goes on. On Wednesday, he descends into city with the Philadelphia Orchestra — actually top-of-the-line American orchestras — in his twelfth season as Music and Inventive Director, to Koerner with music of Florence Value and Rachmaninov. This occasion offered out inside days of its ticket launch final 12 months, however there’s all the time a waitlist — value a shot to attend, and have your fingers crossed. A uncommon probability to see a visiting orchestra of their peak. Data right here.

Canadian Opera Firm: 2024 Toronto Summer season Music Preview

Thursday, April 18, Midday.
Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre, 4 Seasons Centre. Free, tickets required.

Summer season is on its manner — although exhausting to imagine, within the midst of rain, chilly spells, and the final April climate fluctuation. Jonathan Crow, creative director or TSM, brings a preview of the 2024 season, which can convey quite a lot of wealthy programming in July and early August. A mixture of worldwide and native, younger and seasoned execs, make TSM an effective way to expertise solo and small chamber music in a phenomenal metropolis summer time. What discoveries await the viewers this 12 months? Come and discover out. Data right here.

Soundstreams: Variations on Goldberg Variations: Keyed Up! #1

Thursday, April 18, 7:30 p.m.
Jane Mallett Theatre, Toronto Centre for the Arts. $36.50+

That is the primary day of Soundstreams’ 3-day lengthy keyboard-centric competition. Bach’s Goldberg Variations, made acquainted via Glenn Gould’s legendary recordings to Canadians and past, goes via a metamorphosis, with new commissions of 30 new variations from 4 residing Canadian composers: Taylor Brook, Dorothy Chang, Emily Doolittle, and André Ristic. This new work will probably be introduced in alternation to Bach’s originals, from piano, harpsichord, organ, and digital keyboard. Second half of this system options Paul Grabowsky’s creation impressed by Goldberg. Fairly an occasion to witness what a well-recognized work could encourage in our personal time. There are two extra occasions linked to the competition, and a competition move is on the market for keyboard fanatics. Learn our interview with Paul Grabowsky right here. Data right here.

Soundstreams: Notations: RBC Bridges Composer Showcase: Keyed Up! #2

Friday, April 19, 7:30 p.m.
Jane Mallett Theatre, Toronto Centre for the Arts. $36.50+

Second day of the SS’s competition options extra new works, together with modern classics — this isn’t an oxymoron. RBC Bridges program options six composers on the early stage of their careers, who’re supplied with composition mentorship, an inventory of seasons performers, and a live performance to current new works created and honed throughout a week-long workshop and rehearsals. This 12 months’s members: Uko Abara, Alexandra Gorlin-Crenshaw, Gustav Knudson, Maria-Eduarda Mendes Martins, Prokhor Protasoff, Hsiu-Ping Patrick Wu, will supply public their new works, together with works by Alvin Singleton, Monica Pearce, Anne Southam, and Ana Sokolović. Data right here.

Tafelmusik: Bohemian Rhapsody: Benda & Haydn

Friday, April 19, 8 p.m., Saturday April 20, 8 p.m., Sunday April 21, 3 p.m.
Jeanne Lamon Corridor, Trinity-St. Paul’s Centre. $47+, Youth tickets $23.50

Bulgarian violinist Zefira Valova leads the Tafelmusik in exploration in music of Benda, Stamitz and Haydn. We frequently overlook that there are lots of composers in all genres apart from the large weapons — an amnesia, or maybe a product of straightforward consumption, the place we’re confronted with a lot info that we have a tendency to seek out sufficient inside the typical choices. But, unknown or much less acquainted works can convey such freshness to our minds. Valova’s selection of František Benda’s violin concerto and Stamitz’ symphony are welcomed probabilities for brand new discovery. The acquainted works of Haydn rounds this system, together with the cello concerto in C main, an apollonian spectacle with nice élan, that includes Keiran Campbell because the soloist. Data right here.

Constantinople: Cantemir, The Composer Prince

Friday, April 19, 8:30 p.m. $20+
Aga Khan Museum

Moldavian polymath Dmitrie Cantemir (1673-1723), lived in an interesting time in an interesting place. Balancing Moldova between Russia and the Ottoman empire, he spoke 11 languages, knew his science, and his work: Historical past of the Progress and Decay of the Ottoman Empire, grew to become the reference for Edeward GIbbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Cantemir amassed a fancy and large assortment of riches, together with a tremendous assortment of instrumental music that illustrates the progressions of Center Jap music of the sixteenth century. Kiya Tabassian (Setar) and members of the JUNO Award profitable ensemble Constantinople: Kianoush Khalilian (Ney), Didem Basar (Kanun), Tanya LaPerrière (Baroque Violin/Viola D’Amore), and Patrick Graham (Percussion) will fill the gorgeous Aga Kahn house with lovely picks from Cantemir’s assortment, and the Western music of the identical interval by Marin Marais and Antonio Bertali. Data right here.

Soundstreams: 6 Pianos 12 Arms: Keyed Up! #3

Saturday, April 20, 7:30 p.m.
Jane Mallett Theatre, Toronto Centre for the Arts. $36.50+

Third and final day of SS competition brings again Steve Reich’s Music for Six Pianos. Piano, an typically solitary instrument, goes maximal this time, with six devices and 12 fingers. The final time SS mounted Reich’s Music for Six Pianos was again on 2018, at Koerner, was such a hoot — the work was impressed by Reich’s time on the Baldwin Piano Studio in New York in 1973, the place he tried to create a bit for all of the pianos in a piano retailer, and the complexity of six pianos (that’s 528 keys for 12 fingers), was merely astounding. SS’s fee for six pianos for the 2018 occasion, André Ristic’s Variations on a Theme by A. Vivaldi, and different works together with Terry Riley’s A Rainbow in Curved Air, guarantees a night of uncommon textural magnificence. Data right here.

Elmer Iseler Singers: Triple Choir Splendour: Sonic Gentle

Saturday, April 20, 4 p.m.
Eglinton St. George’s United Church, Toronto. $25+

The Elmer Iseler Singers and Lydia Adams are joined by particular VIVA chamber Singers, and Chroma Vocal Ensemble, in a efficiency of Frank Martin’s Mass for Double Choir, and works by MacMillan, Whitacre, Gjeilo, Janmohamed, and Daley. Human voices, en masse, could be a highly effective expertise — and there’s no higher option to expertise this than in a stay efficiency. With the comfort of expertise, it’s straightforward to justify listening at ‘residence,’ however with a choir of such caliber as Elmer Iseler Singers within the wonderful acoustic of the Eglington St. George’s, a stay efficiency of such works actually is an expertise that goes past easy listening. Data right here.

Richard Goode

Sunday, April 21, 3 p.m.
Koerner Corridor. $50+

Piano large Richard Goode returns to Koerner Corridor for the third time with an all-Beethoven program: 6 Bagatelles, Piano Sonata, Op. 109, and Diabelli variations. Goode’s recording of the Beethoven piano sonata cycle is famous, and as he’s on the peak of maturity, it could be a deal with to see how this seasoned grasp would deal with the Diabelli variations, one in every of Beethoven’s final works with the signature late-Beethoven quirks- seriousness, emotional depth, and humour.  Data right here.

Evgeny Kissin and Matthias Goerne

Sunday, April 21, 8 p.m.
Roy Thomson Corridor, 51.30+

Keyboard nice Evgeny Kissin and famend baritone Matthias Goerne current music of Schumann and Brahms. Their artistry has captured the ears of tens of millions over time, and with a program of German artwork songs — a particular style the place phrases, voice, and piano weave magical expressions, typically in an ideal stability — want no extra description. Thought-about as one in every of Schumann’s finest works, Dichterliebe, Op. 48, will open the live performance. Learn our interview with Matthias Goerne right here. Data right here.

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Cecilia tumbled into ‘critical’ music examine when she determined to keep away from attending medical faculty. At present working within the discipline of classical music, recording, and Korean-English interpretation, she tends to get her nostril soiled in many alternative issues within the metropolis. Cecilia holds a DMA in Piano Efficiency from the College of Nebraska-Lincoln.

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