It is a listing of live shows we’re attending, wishing we may attend, or enthusiastic about attending between March 18 and 24, 2024. For extra of what’s taking place round Toronto, go to our calendar right here.

College of Toronto Percussion Ensemble: SURF & TURF

Monday, Mar. 18, 7:30 p.m.
Walter Corridor, School of Music, College of Toronto. Free.

U of T Percussion Ensemble presents a program of musical sophistication and human synchronicity. That includes two model new works by Fish Yu (b.1999) and Luke Blackmore (b.1999), together with Pascal le Boeuf’s ‘Actions’ (2019), John Cage’s First Development in Metallic (1939), and Aurél Holló’s Gamelan-bound / ‘beFORe JOHN2’ (2008), this can be a should for modern music connoisseurs and curious minds alike. There may be nothing fairly like a percussion ensemble for the large selection in devices, configurations, and performer interactions- a visible and aural spectacle. Information right here.

Canadian Opera Firm: Dance Sequence: The Nice Dream

Wednesday, Mar. 20, 12 p.m.
Richard Bernard Shaw Amphitheatre, 4 Seasons for the Performing Arts. Free, tickets required.

Choreographer Angela Blumberg has been busy constructing new modern dance repertoire with intense collaborations throughout disciplines, together with working instantly with upcoming composers. Angela Blumberg Dance brings a brand new work, ‘The Nice Dream’, with music of Dominic Clark: ‘… what if actuality had been extra porous and permeable, permitting goals and otherness to enter?’ Information right here.

Royal Conservatory of Music: GGS Spring Opera: Dialogues des Carmélites

Wednesday, Mar. 20, 7:30 p.m., Friday Mar. 22, 7:30 p.m.
Koerner Corridor. $25+

The tempestuous story of the French Revolution and the condemnation and beheading of the nuns as they refused to surrender their vocation was taken severely by Poulenc, who confronted a lifetime turmoil in connection together with his personal homosexuality in opposition to his deep religion in Catholicism. The Dialogues des Carmélites is a tremendous work exploring the parallels in life, and the deep questions it brings: what’s religion? Dying? Sacrifice? What of redemption? Poulenc’s good composition, filled with visceral harmonic adjustments, essentially the most tender melody, and vulgarity bordering madness, guarantees a lot problem, and GGS musicians beneath director Stephen Carr, and conductor Nicolas Ellis, convey this rating to life. Information right here.

School of Music, College of Toronto: Laureates in Recital: Jim and Charlotte Norcop Prize in Tune & Gwendolyn Williams Koldofsky Prize in Accompanying

Thursday, Mar. 21, 12 p.m.
Walter Corridor, School of Music, Free.

This yr, School of Music’s annual live performance of winners of the Jim and Charlotte Norcop Prize in Tune, and the Gwendolyn Williams Koldofsky Prize in Accompanying, will characteristic Nicole Percifield (mezzo), and Minira Najafzade (piano). Graduate of Yale Opera, Nicole has graced the levels of Minnesota Opera and Santa Fe Opera, and was the finalist on the Metropolitan Opera New England Regionals; she’ll be supported by Minira on the piano, presenting a program of Brahms, Duparc, Elgar, Handel and new folksong preparations by Peter Tiefenbach. Information right here.

RCM: Taylor Academy Live performance Sequence: The Stars of Tomorrow

Thursday, Mar. 21, 7:30 p.m.
Mazzoleni Live performance Corridor, TELUS Centre. Free, tickets required.

The 4 winners of this yr’s Taylor Academy Junior Division (age 8-13) Concerto Competitors: Kevin Chen (Cello), Angela Yuan (violin), Connor Mahon (piano), and Andrew Bao (piano), current Baroque and Classical concerti on the intimate stage of Mazzoleni Corridor. Information right here.

Canadian Opera Firm: Vocal/Instrumental Sequence: Butterfly Transformation

Friday, Mar. 22, 12 p.m.
Richard Bernard Shaw Amphitheatre, 4 Seasons for the Performing Arts. Free, tickets required.

Veronica Johnny is a Cree/Dene multi-disciplinary, Two-Spirit, artist-entrepreneur and humanities Educator. Veronica based The Johnnys, a multi-award nominated band, and they are going to be specializing in the Butterfly Instructing of Cree Elder Joanne Dallaire, and transmutation from a Two-Spirit perspective, on this midday live performance. This interactive efficiency shall be adopted by Q&A session. Information right here.

Toronto Symphony Orchestra: Prokofiev’s Piano

Friday, Mar. 22, 7:30 p.m., Saturday, Mar. 23, 8 p.m., Sunday Mar. 24, 3 p.m.
Roy Thomson Corridor. $35+

Good British pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason is about to blaze the stage with Prokofiev’s ever-popular Piano Concerto No. 3 with TSO and visitor conductor Ryan Bancroft. ‘Inside Her Arms’, a string elegy on the dying of her mom by Anna Clyne — one of many high ten most carried out modern composers on the planet, and essentially the most carried out residing feminine British composer — kinds fairly an emotional arc into the final piece of this system, Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 10, written on the cusp of the dying of Stalin. Information right here.

Tafelmusik: Staircases

Friday, Mar. 22, 8 p.m., Saturday, Mar. 23, 8 p.m., Sunday, Mar. 24, 3 p.m.
Jeanne Lamon Corridor, Trinity-St. Paul’s Centre. $26.50+

Tafelmusik have fun their forty fifth anniversary season with this new creation by Alison Mackay exploring a really explicit house: staircases. Staircases join one house to a different, and Alison’s programmed Lully, Purcell, Handel, Corelli, Fux, PIatti, Bach and Vivaldi, with two new compositions by Jonathan Woody, on this narrative program. Julia Wedman directs. Learn our Preview right here. Information right here.

Guitar Society of Toronto: Andrea De Vitis

Saturday, Mar. 23, 7:30 p.m.
St. Andrew’s Church, 73 Simcoe St. $15 (superior ticket)+

Guitar Society of Toronto presents Andrea De Vitis. Recipient of over 40 worldwide competitors prizes, and the Golden Guitar Award for the perfect up-and-coming guitarist on the 18th Worldwide Guitar Conference Pittaluga (2013), this D’Addario artist’s Saturday live performance will certainly impress the classical guitar followers of GTA. Information right here.

Royal Conservatory of Music: Ema Nikolovska with Charles Richard-Hamelin

Sunday Mar. 24, 3 p.m.
Koerner Corridor. $35+

Ema Nikolovska, alum of the Taylor Academy and the Glenn Gould College, returns to Royal Conservatory of Music as a global mezzo-soprano. Since leaving Toronto, she’s been flourishing in Europe, and we just lately noticed her on the Canadian Opera Firm’s Crafty Little Vixen within the position of the Fox. Her present tour is cut up between america and Canada, and within the Canadian portion, Charles Richard-Hamelin shall be on the piano. The 2 artists will weave a beautiful narrative based mostly on Schubert, Tchaikovsky, Debussy, Medtner, Slonimsky, Margaret Bonds, and finish with a Macedonian tune. Information right here.

Hart Home Refrain: Contemplating Matthew Shepard

Sunday Mar. 24. 3 p.m.
Hart Home, Nice Corridor, 7 Hart Home Circle. Free.

Matthew Wayne Shepard was brutally murdered by Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson on October 12, 1998. Matthew’s violent dying grew to become one of the crucial well-known anti-gay hate crimes, and it has impressed myriads of feelings starting from anti-gay protest at his funeral, to LGBT activism and anti-hate crime efforts, together with the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, a landmarked United States federal Regulation, handed on October 22, 2009. Since its premiere in February 2016, Craig Hella Johnson’s three-part oratorio ‘Contemplating Matthew Shepard’, has been carried out internationally, and has been made right into a PBS characteristic documentary in 2018. It’s tough to just accept that anti-LGBTQ+ hate continues to be strongly prevalent in our society, together with the current suicide of Nex Benedict, who died on Feb 8, a day after a battle at Owasso Excessive College, Oklahoma, and this live performance presents us with an opportunity to expertise the sorrow, and to ask the final word query: Why? Information right here.

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Cecilia tumbled into ‘critical’ music examine when she determined to keep away from attending medical college. At the moment working within the area 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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