It is a listing of live shows we’re attending, wishing we may attend, or eager about attending between March 04 and 10, 2024. For extra of what’s taking place round Toronto, go to our calendar right here.

Canadian Opera Firm: Instrumental Sequence: Voices of the Harp

Tuesday Mar. 5 at 12 p.m.
Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre, 4 Seasons for the Performing Arts. Free.

Matt Dupont (harp) and Jérémie Roy (narration) current a program exploring harp, musicality and orality. Orality — speech and different verbal communication varieties — has at all times been on the centre of human communication, and the widespread reference to the ‘voice’ as an essence of an instrument, or an thought, is the main focus of this live performance. Combination of spoken poetry and solo harp guarantees a day break stuffed with magnificence. Data right here.

Royal Conservatory of Music: Discovery Sequence: GGS Chamber Competitors Finals

Wednesday Mar. 6 at 7:30 p.m.
Koerner Corridor. Free tickets out there via the field workplace.

An annual occasion for Glenn Gould Faculty, GGS Chamber Competitors is organized in two teams: duos, and chamber teams of three or extra. Every group performs two contrasting items (most 35 minutes per group) on the primary day, then the ultimate spherical options chosen teams performing repertoire from their preliminary spherical listing, on the discretion of the jury. The open last spherical usually options less-familiar mixtures of devices: final yr’s last choice included harp-cello duo and woodwind quintet, along with the usual piano trio, and clarinet-piano duo. A good way to see upcoming younger musicians, together with potential publicity to sudden repertoire/ensemble mixtures. The live performance is free to the general public, please register for tickets. Data right here.

Payadora Tango Ensemble: A Night time of Tango with Payadora

Wednesday Mar 06 8 p.m.
Jazz Bistro, 251 Victoria St. $25 cowl

An area favorite, Payadora gamers draw from extensive traditions — Classical, Jazz, Latin, Japanese European folks music, and improvisation. A dance kind born of a vibrant mixture of Argentine Milonga, Spanish-Cuban Habanera and Uruguayan Candombe, and of colonialism and slavery, tango has enticed many composers with its rhythmic virtuosity and harmonic complexity. It is a nice probability to discover tango in a stay, relaxed setting on the Jazz Bistro. Repertoire will embody traditional and trendy tango, originals, and South American folks music. Data right here.

Womens Musical Membership Toronto: Music within the Afternoon: Dominic Desautels & Jean-Philippe Sylvestre

March 7, 1:30 p.m. Pre-concert speak at 12:15 p.m.
Walter Corridor, College of Toronto. $50; Free for college kids

Established in 1898, Girls’s Musical Membership has been nurturing live performance tradition in Toronto via ‘Music within the Afternoon’, an annual collection of 5 chamber music live shows of each established and upcoming musicians, and by creating scholarship and efficiency alternatives for younger musicians. This week’s live performance options Dominic Desaultels and Jean-Philippe Sylvestre. Although (very) exhausting to see from above, Dominic has been taking part in within the Canadian Opera Firm pit since 2017 because the principal: with Jean-Philippe, and visitor Zsófia Stefán (Bassoon), this system will characteristic clarinet-piano duo music of each Schumanns, Glinka, Norbert Burgmüller, and Brahms. Pre-concert lecture by Peter Stoll, beginning at 12:15, will give a short overview of the clarinet as a chamber music instrument. Data right here.

TO Reside/Attila Glatz Live performance Productions: Amadeus Reside

March 7, 7:30 p.m.
Meridian Corridor, 1 Entrance St. East, Toronto. $59+

The live-orchestra-at-movies idea has been an amazing success lately— notable sell-out homes embody Coco (TSO), The Lord of the Rings in Live performance (GFN Productions & FILMharmonic Orchestra), and Harry Potter™ Movie Live performance Sequence (Attila Glatz Live performance Productions). This week, TO Reside Orchestra performs for Amadeus Reside, a live-music model of the 1984 multi-Academy Award successful movement image. For classical music fans, Amadeus was one of the vital profitable movies ever made about classical music, and people heart-crushing scenes close to the top, the place Mozart struggles to complete the Requiem, can be sung by- of course- the Amadeus choir. Data right here.

Tafelmusik: Bach Motets & Firm

March 8, 8:00 p.m.
Jeanne Lamon Corridor, Trinity-St. Paul’s Centre. $40

Beneath the baton of Ivars Taurins, Tafelmusik choir presents motets from Bach, his household, and of his predecessors at St. Thomas Church, Leipzig, in a sparse setting of choir and organ, on this time of lent. Visitor group Ori Shalva, led by Shalva Makharashvili, will sing conventional sacred Georgian music, weaving in-and-out of the Baroque motets. Acknowledged by the UNESCO’s Consultant Listing of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, the polyphonic Georgian sacred music can be an attention-grabbing distinction to the German Baroque motet- not solely musically, but in addition in theological and religious context. Data right here.

Girls from House Pageant

Friday Mar 08, Sat Mar 09, Solar Mar 10
918 Bathurst Centre for Tradition, Arts, Media and Schooling. $15+

It’s unimaginable to summarize the Girls from House Pageant in a single sentence. The competition occurs yearly on Worldwide Girls’s Day weekend, with an emphasis on: ‘…all ladies artists, non-binary, genderqueer, genderfluid and gender non-conforming artists, and all who’ve a relationship to the time period ladies.’ The three-day program is full of 30+ true avant-garde musicians in 9 performances, giving ample probability to listen to and see what could also be potential for a ‘efficiency’— there can be new issues for everybody, from modern music learners to seasoned veterans of avant-garde efficiency.

The road-up varies wildly, starting from solo artists with electronics, to the in-house 17-star improvising band of three percussionists, electronics, winds, strings, and voice: BIG BANG! (March 8), with assist from the Canadian Music Centre, the Music Gallery, and the Toronto Dance Theatre.  Data right here.

Orpheus Choir of Toronto: Poulenc’s Gloria: Jewels of the French Repertoire

Saturday March 9, 7:30 p.m.
Grace Church on-the-Hill. $20+

It’s uncommon to listen to Francis Poulenc’s music in Toronto — a disgrace, as Poulenc’s excessive vary from elegant, unconditional love and tenderness, to downright vulgarity and violence, is so highly effective and distinctive. Poulenc’s Gloria, a fee from the Koussevitsky Basis of America, was initially thought of borderline sacrilegious — not a shock, as his love for the intense was well-known in his circle: ‘There may be in him one thing of the monk and the road urchin.’ Orpheus Choir of Toronto, with soloist Midori Marsh, and organist Stephen Boda, will current this wonderful work together with a collection of French choral works by Maurice Ravel, Lili Boulanger, Franco-Ontarian Marie-Claire Saindon and Haitian-American Sydney Guillaume. Data right here.

Toronto Chamber Choir: The Muse of Novara

Saturday March 9, 7:30 p.m.
Calvin Presbyterian Church, $5+

Toronto Chamber Choir returns to the stage beneath the route of Lucas Harris. Harris, who could also be very acquainted to Toronto audiences via his lute taking part in with Tafelmusik, Toronto Consort, and the Vesuvius Ensemble, brings his A-game as a choral conductor and a researcher. This program focuses on the music of Isabella Leonarda (1620-1704), who composed over 200 works whereas dwelling within the Ursuline convent from age 16 until her loss of life at age 83, starting from motets and much to sonatas.  A stunning occasion to expertise the essence of Seventeenth-century Italian music from the angle of a uncommon girl composer. Data right here.

Igor Levit

Sunday March 10, 3 p.m.
Koerner Corridor. $50+

Igor Levit brings a contemporary program to Koerner Corridor— orchestral transcriptions for solo piano, and Hindemith’s Suite 1922. Levit’s mental curiosity mixed with flawless approach, at all times results in attention-grabbing decisions in programming, whether or not it’s primarily based on the true, examined canon of piano literature (he’s a self-fessed lover of Franz Liszt), or a tackle a Metallica music. This program is not any exception, as he juxtaposes music from Mahler and Beethoven with Hindemith’s 1922, Op. 26, a satire on the petit-bourgeois tradition, drawing from scenes from the circus. Data right here.

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Cecilia tumbled into ‘severe’ music examine when she determined to keep away from attending medical faculty. At present 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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