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It is a listing of concert events we’re attending, wishing we may attend, or serious about attending between February 26 and March 03, 2024. For extra of what’s taking place round Toronto, go to our calendar right here.https://www.ludwig-van.com/toronto/occasions
Cathedral Church of St. James: Organ Recital: Manuel Piazza
Tuesday Feb. 08 at 1p.m.
Cathedral Church of St. James. Free
The Cathedral of St. James’s organ was first in-built 1863-89 by S.R. Warren, and went by just a few transformations since, together with just a few main uphaul by the internationally celebrated Casavant Frères firm, based mostly in Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec. That includes 87 ranks, 67 talking stops over 4 manuals and 6 divisions, it has 5,101 pipes: the instrument, within the superb acoustics of St. James is kind of one thing to behold. This Tuesday’s live performance options Manuel Piazza, a Toronto native and winner of the Royal Canadian School of Organists’ Nationwide Competitors, bringing his musicality and unbelievable dexterity, to resonate this lovely constructing with the music of French grasp Durufle, and English composer Herbert Howell. Data right here.
Canadian Opera Firm: Vocal Collection: The Color of Pleasure
Wednesday Feb. 28 at Midday
Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre, 4 Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts. Free
With deep dedication in reviving and creating new artwork music repertoire by Canadian composers and artists, Canadian Artwork Track Mission presents music of Black Canadian Composers in celebration of the Black Historical past Month. Native favorite Jonelle Sills- a well-recognized face (you will have seen her at La bohème on the COC, and the In opposition to the Grain Theatre), and American baritone Jorell Williams, will probably be joined by Steven Philcox on the piano, that includes music of R. Nathaniel Dett, and a brand new CASP fee premiere: The Color of Pleasure by Maria Thompson Corley. Data right here.
Toronto Symphony Orchestra: Spanish Reflections
Wednesday Feb. 28 at 8 p.m., Thursday Feb. 29 at 8 p.m.
Roy Thomson Corridor. $46+
Gustavo Gimeno and TSO current music of de Falla and Francisco Coll. Coll, a Spanish composer-conductor, writes fiendishly troublesome, but luminous and dramatic music, and his works have been featured by main worldwide orchestras and chamber ensembles, together with a double concerto fee for Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Sol Gabetta. Each of Coll’s works featured on this week’s program, Ciudad sin sueño (Sleepless Metropolis), with Spanish piano large Javier Perianes, and Fantasia Baetica- de Falla’s piano work organized for symphony orchestra- are receiving their North American premieres. Perianes opens the live performance with de Falla’s authentic piano solo model of Baetica. The acquainted basic, de Falla’s The Three-Cornered Hat, guarantees an thrilling night of pulsing rhythms and good harmonies from Spain. Data right here.
Freesound: Patterns in a Chromatic Subject
Thursday Feb. 29 at 8 p.m., Friday Mar.01 at 8 p.m.
Array Music, 155 Walnut Avenue, Toronto. $20.
Morton Feldman, a key determine within the indeterminate music of the New York College, expanded the boundaries of up to date music by nonstandard notations, the introduction of likelihood and indetermination and arrhythmic and uneven rhythmic patterns. His works, usually stretching over excessive durations, require a unique listening and performing expertise for each the viewers and performers. Freesound presents his one-hour-long work, Patterns in a Chromatic Subject (1981) for cello and piano, that includes Amahl Arulanandam and Wesley Shen, acquainted faces in each conventional and modern classical music scenes in-town. It is a uncommon likelihood to expertise Feldman’s music reside, and tickets are promoting quick with Feldman followers. Data right here.
NACO+ OSQ: Two Orchestras, One Symphony
Saturday Mar.02 at 8 p.m.,
Roy Thomson Corridor. $43+.
Two out-of-town orchestras, Nationwide Arts Centre Orchestra, and Orchestre symphonique de Québec, step into Roy Thomson Corridor, presenting music of Kelly-Marie Murphy, Jacques Hétu, and Saint-Saëns. likelihood to see how the ‘different’ Canadian orchestras play, with out prolonged journey. Toronto Mendelssohn Choir will grace the ending of Hétu’s final work, Symphony No. 5, within the symphonic-choral setting of Paul Éluard’s poem, Liberté- à la Beethoven’s ninth. 18-year-old soloist Kevin Chen, who’s been busy profitable quite a few worldwide competitions together with Arthur Rubinstein Piano Grasp Competitors (2023), Concours de Genève (2022), and Franz Liszt Worldwide Competitors (2021), guarantees to dazzle the viewers with Saint-Saëns’s Piano Concerto No. 2. Data right here.
Toronto Symphony Orchestra: Younger Individuals’s Live performance: Dan Brown’s Wild Symphony
Sunday Mar. 03 at 1:30 p.m., and 4 p.m.
Roy Thomson Corridor. $30+
Dan Brown, the author of the Da Vinci Code, surprises us along with his new musical and literary work: Wild Symphony, a correct journey the place the viewers will comply with a stunning mouse by an exploration in an animal menagerie. Designed for younger viewers members, (age 4-8), the work’s companion ebook, Wild Symphony, will probably be out there for buy. There’s a slew of pre-concert experiences deliberate, beginning an hour earlier than every present, that includes a real-life fowl of prey and specialists from the College of Guelph’s ‘Wild Ontario’, and a efficiency of an association of Saint-Saëns’ Carnival of the Animals by Brampton’s youth orchestra, the Rosebuds. Data right here.
Hannaford Avenue Silver Band/Measha Brueggergosman-Lee: Zombie Blizzard
Sunday Mar. 03 at 3 p.m.
Jane Mallett Theatre, St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts. $35+
Zombie Blizzard: a brand new song-cycle for soprano, brass ensemble, and rhythm part, receives its premiere by HSSB and Canadian soprano Measha Brueggergosman-Lee. Utilizing Margaret Atwood’s texts, Torontonian pianist-composer Aaron Davis focuses on problems with sexism, humour, gender inequality, and grief. This long-awaited mission will probably be launched on March 01 — be there to see it come reside on stage this Sunday afternoon. Learn our interview with Measha and Aaron right here. Data right here.
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Cecilia tumbled into ‘severe’ music examine when she determined to keep away from attending medical college. At the moment working within the subject 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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