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This can be a record of concert events we’re attending, wishing we may attend, or fascinated by attending between Jan. 15 and Jan. 21, 2024. For extra of what’s occurring round Toronto, go to our calendar right here.
Toronto Symphony Orchestra/Steven Banks/Peter Oundjian
Wednesday Jan. 17 at 8 p.m., Saturday Jan. 20 at 8 p.m., Sunday Jan. 21 at 3 p.m. Roy Thomson Corridor (Sunday at George Weston Recital Corridor). $48+
The TSO welcomes saxophonist Steven Banks — and welcomes again conductor emeritus Peter Oundjian — in a program that includes the Canadian premiere of John Adams’s Saxophone Concerto and Rachmaninoff’s underrated Symphony No. 3. Learn our interview with Steven Banks right here. The starter is a brand new piece by TSO NextGen Composer Katerina Gimon. Information right here.
Alliance française/Alliance String Quartet
Friday Jan. 19 at 8 p.m. Alliance française (24 Spadina Rd.). $18
A foursome led by Mayumi Seiler on first violin provides a program of Ravel, Beethoven (Op. 18 No. 6) and the Vancouver composer Stefan Hintersteininger. All by candlelight, no much less. Learn our Preview right here. Information right here.
RCM/Fazil Say and Buddies
Friday Jan. 19 at 8 p.m. Koerner Corridor. $21
The outspoken Turkish pianist performs his personal music with mezzo-soprano Beste Kalender, Lara and Scott St. John (violins), Barry Shiffman (viola) and Winona Zelenka (cello). That is the opening of the Conservatory’s 21C Music Pageant. Information right here.
RCM/Lara St. John
Saturday Jan. 20 at 8 p.m. Mazzoleni Live performance Corridor. $21
Girls composers — plus J.S. Bach — are the topic because the New York-based Canadian violinist offers a solo recital of greater than a dozen works in Mazzoleni Live performance Corridor. Seven are Canadian premieres. Learn our interview with Lara right here. Information right here.
RCM/Bridget Kibbey/Calidore String Quartet/ Mervon Mehta
Sunday at 3 p.m. Koerner Corridor. $21
The American harpist is the star of a program mixing solo transcriptions (Bach, Debussy, Fauré, Albéniz) with modern works involving string quartet (Jessie Montgomery and Sebastian Currier) and André Caplet’s Conte fantastique (1921-22), a bit based mostly on Edgar Allan Poe’s The Masque of the Crimson Demise – which our RCM buddy Mervon Mehta will narrate. Learn our interview with composer Sebastian Currier right here. Information right here.
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Arthur Kaptainis was classical music critic of the Montreal Gazette from 1986 to 2022 and wrote for the Nationwide Submit from 2010 to 2016. His articles seem in Classical Voice North America and Gramophone in addition to Ludwig Van. Arthur holds an MA in musicology from the College of Toronto. He’s president of the Music Critics Affiliation of North America.
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