This can be a checklist of live shows we’re attending, wishing we might attend, or occupied with attending between March 25 and 31, 2024. For extra of what’s taking place round Toronto, go to our calendar right here.

Orpheus Choir of Toronto: Poulenc Gloria and Different French Masterworks

Monday, Mar. 25, 12 p.m.
Roy Thomson Corridor. Free, tickets required.

Sixty voices with director Thomas Burton presents a mix of French, Canadian, and Haitian masterworks, together with alternatives from Poulenc’s Gloria. Poulenc’s audacity so as to add loads of humour to such revered textual content has enraged many, but the distinction between sacred serenity and borderline banality makes his Gloria some of the celebrated of choral works. This a terrific likelihood to additional discover Poulenc’s music, in the event you had been awed by the latest manufacturing of the Dialogues des Carmélites at Koerner Corridor: in the event you missed it, extra motive to make it to this free midday live performance at Roy Thomson Corridor. Organists Stephen Boda and Vlad Soloviev will present the luxurious concord from the Gabriel Kney pipe organ, Op. 95. Information right here.

Canadian Opera Firm: Opera Atelier: All is Love

Tuesday, Mar. 26, 12 p.m.
Richard Bernard Shaw Amphitheatre, 4 Seasons for the Performing Arts. Free.

In anticipation of April 2024 performances at Koerner, Opera Atelier presents a noon-concert teaser: costumed excerpts of ‘All is Love.’ A mix of singing, ballet, and orchestral music, this manufacturing was created particularly for Measha Brueggergosman-Lee, and is actually a change of tempo from Opera Atelier. Information right here.

Royal Conservatory of Music: Rebanks Household Fellowship Live performance, Royal Conservatory of Music

Wednesday, Mar. 27, 7:30 p.m.
Mazzoleni Live performance Corridor. Free, tickets required

Rebanks Household Fellowship and Worldwide Efficiency Residency Program at The Royal Conservatory of Music serves younger artists within the early developmental stage of their careers. On this explicit program, present and previous Rebanks fellows starting from string, voice, and piano, current a combined program closely targeted on voice, starting from Bach cantatas to Irving Berlin and Bernstein; this system additionally consists of the not often heard Dvořák’s ‘Drobnosti’ for two violins and viola, and Saint-Saëns’ crowd rouser: Introduction et Rondo capriccioso. Information right here.

Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Sibelius Symphony No. 2

Wednesday, Mar. 27, 8 p.m., Thursday, Mar. 28, 8 p.m.
Roy Thomson Corridor. $35+

Osmo Vänskä returns to Toronto to conduct a Finnish-German program of Peer Gynt Suite, a brand new cello concerto by Detlev Glanert (a TSO co-commission), and the a lot liked Sibelius 2. Effectively-known for his drive for musical excellence and philosophical stance for music in wider society, Vänskä is all the time championing underrepresented composers, continually difficult audiences and musicians alike. Cellist Johannes Moser can be deeply dedicated to increasing the classical cello repertoire, making this North American première of Detlev Glanert’s cello concerto a golden alternative to expertise new, and outdated favourites. Learn our Interview with Detlev Glanert right here. Information right here.

Esprit Orchestra: Violinissimo II

Thursday, Mar. 28, 8 p.m.
Koerner Corridor. $25+

Alex Pauk, Esprit Orchestra, and Mark Fewer carry two unbelievable up to date works for the violin in an ensemble setting: Max Richter: The 4 Seasons Recomposed, and György Ligeti’s violin concerto. Ligeti wrote 4 concertos: Cello Concerto (1966), Chamber Concerto for 13 Instrumentalists (1970), Piano Concerto (1988), and Violin Concerto (1992). The final one of many sequence, this explicit concerto makes arduous calls for from the gamers — microtonal scordatura and particular tunings for the strings, and doubling on non-standard symphony devices, together with a quartet of ocarinas. Richter’s The 4 Seasons Recomposed, maybe the composer’s best-known work, is astonishingly contemporary and acquainted concurrently. A small break between the massive works is Continuum (1968), the place keyboardist Wesley Shen takes the viewers by means of Ligeti’s playful experiments with contrasting ideas of quick, smallest pulsations vs. steady wash of sound. Fascinating programming. Information right here.

College of Toronto World Musics Ensembles: College of Toronto Klezmer Ensemble and College of Toronto Japanese Drumming Ensemble

Thursday, Mar. 28, 7:30 p.m.,
Walter Corridor, School of Music, 80 Queen’s Park, Free.

Toronto’s cultural richness makes so many issues potential and accessible. Administrators Brian Katz and Kiyoshi Nagata, current a free night live performance of Klezmer music and Japanese Taiko drumming. You might have skilled stay Taiko drumming as Kiyoshi’s ensemble, ‘Nagata Shachu’, is a daily fixture in Toronto’s world music scene. Novices, make sure to carry some earplugs, as thundering Taiko drumming actually is a bodily expertise. Brian Katz’s Klezmer ensemble, with its attribute wistfulness and humour, guarantees a wealthy distinction. Information right here.

Music Toronto: St. Lawrence & Mates

Thursday, Mar. 28, 8 p.m.
Jane Mallett Theatre, St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts, $10+

St. Lawrence quartet post-Geoff Nuttall: Christopher Costanza (cello), Lesley Robertson (viola), and Owen Dalby (violin), be part of long-time collaborators Stephen Prutsman (piano) and Joel Quarrington (bass), in a program of strings and piano music, with duet by Lili Boulanger, then a trio of Antonio Maria Valencia, onto a Mozart quartet, to complete with Vaughan Williams’s quintet. Information right here.

Music at Met: Bach: St. Mark Ardour

Friday, Mar. 29, 7:30 p.m.
Metropolitan United Church, 56 Queen St. East. $17+

Robert Koolstra’s 2017 reconstruction of St. Markus Ardour, BWV 247, receives its second Canadian efficiency on Good Friday by the Met Baroque Orchestra and Pageant Choir, underneath the route of Jonathan Oldengarm. Philippe Gagné will sing the position of Evangelist, and Clarence Frazer will sing the position of Jesus. There will probably be a pre-concert speak about this fascinating work — certainly one of three passions that had been misplaced after Bach’s dying. 6:30 p.m., adopted by the live performance at 7:30 p.m. Learn our Preview right here. Information right here.

TO Dwell: Jazz at Lincoln Centre Presents: Sing & Swing that includes Bria Skonberg & Benny Benack III

Saturday, Mar. 30, 8 p.m.
George Weston Recital Corridor, Meridian Arts Centre. $40+

A touring undertaking from Jazz at Lincoln Centre Presents, Sing & Swing options music of the swing period, together with tunes of Gershwin, Ellington, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin. Younger and fearless, and armed with loads of technical mastery and stylistic sensibility, this small ensemble of Bria Skonberg and Benny Benack III, co-directors proficient on each trumpet and vocals, and Jocelyn Gould (guitar), Jon Thomas (piano), Charles Goold (drums) and Mark Lewandowski (bass), guarantees a visit again to the previous. Information right here.

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

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