With The Elora Singers and members of London Symphonia

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Experience the transcendent beauty of Handel’s Messiah with The Elora Singers and members of London Symphonia.  Join us for an unforgettable performance of this timeless masterpiece, featuring soloists drawn from the choir.  Revel in the uplifting music and profound emotion of this cherished holiday tradition. Secure your tickets now for an evening of divine inspiration.

With The Elora Singers and members of London Symphonia

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Experience the transcendent beauty of Handel’s Messiah with The Elora Singers and members of London Symphonia.  Join us for an unforgettable performance of this timeless masterpiece, featuring soloists drawn from the choir.  Revel in the uplifting music and profound emotion of this cherished holiday tradition. Secure your tickets now for an evening of divine inspiration.

With Trinity Bach Project

With Trinity Bach Project

with Toronto Mendelssohn Choir

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The Toronto Mendelssohn Choir and Artistic Director Jean-Sébastien Vallée open their 130th anniversary with an evening steeped in the language of love. Joined by the exquisite vocals of soprano Charlotte Siegel, be swept off your feet with the passionate melodies of Brahms’ Liebeslieder Walzer and the fiery embrace of Palmeri’s Misatango. To add to this special occasion, be among the first to hear the premiere of a stunning new commission by our composer-in-residence Aaron Manswell.

With The Elora Singers

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Join The Elora Singers as we explore historical choral masterpieces created for the spaces in which they were first heard. 

We begin with sounds meant to reverberate in the Sistine Chapel, Paris’ Notre Dame, Venice’s St Mark’s Basilica, and other sacred places. 

In the second half, we discover Alex Berko’s Sacred Place.  This new work is an ecological service that connects the old with the new, the sacred with the secular, and the individual with their community. The outline of the work is a Jewish service. However, rather than Jewish prayers, the text is made up of various writers and thinkers who speak of the environment as a place of safety, comfort, and beauty.

With Trinity Bach Project

With Trinity Bach Project

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TBP's third season opens with dynamism and delight through the vigor of Cantata BWV 72 Alles nur nach Gottes Willen ("Everything according to God's will") and the warmth of Cantata BWV 182 Himmelskönig sei willkommen ("King of heaven, welcome"). With an ensemble of twelve singers, five string instruments, baroque recorder and oboes, this program blends choral richness with a sequence of exquisite vocal and instrumental solos. 

With Opus 8

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Join us on Friday, September 27th for a celebration of Opus 8’s third album, Canadian Sacred Music. Taking place at the Church of St Peter and St Simon-the-Apostle (just east of Sherbourne station), we’ll be performing a selection of songs from the recording, interspersed with music from the renaissance.

We’ll be selling a limited number of CDs for this recording, as well as booklets that accompany the recording - for those of you accessing the music online, this booklet means you can still learn about the music and access the texts. We’ll also be selling copies of our previous two recordings, Melancholy & Mirth, and Firsts.

Stick around after the concert for a reception - chat with the singers of Opus 8, meet some of the composers featured on this recording, and mingle with fellow Opus 8 fans over some snacks and drinks.

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Behold Bach’s timeless masterpiece, Mass in B minor, sung by the exceptional Toronto Mendelssohn Choir under the direction of maestro Jean-Sébastien Vallée. As a jewel of the Baroque Era, this epic piece features Bach’s full range of musical expression – from the poignant “Crucifixus” to the exuberant exultations of hope and joy of the final “Dona nobis pacem.”

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Toronto Mendelssohn Choir presents Little Match Girl Passion — a musical vigil drawing awareness to the problems of hunger and homelessness in our city. This moment of reflection features diverse choral selections centred on excerpts of J.S. Bach’s St. Matthew Passion and David Lang’s Pulitzer Prize-winning piece, The Little Match Girl Passion. Inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s famous tale about a poverty-stricken young woman sent out into the cold by her father to sell matches, this work leads us on a journey where hope and memories meet the harsh reality of the snowy streets.

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A celebration of the life of the remarkably gifted and productive composer/writer/educator/administrator/provocateur John Beckwith (1927-2022). The former Dean of the Faculty of Music (1970-77), John Beckwith was a distinctly original and vital voice in all aspects of music in Canada, contributing over 160 compositions, and a large number of books and articles over the course of his 75-year career. Friends, colleagues, and family pay tribute in music and words, including performances by Soundstreams' Choir 21, the New Music Concerts Ensemble, Opus 8, members of the Faculty of Music Opera Department, and soprano Monica Whicher.  

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Opus 8

Opus 8 asks the eternal questions of the human condition, through a program of ravishing choral music. From the youthful frivolity of Howells and Britten, to the melancholic despair of Gombert and Gibbons, this concert takes us through the many stages of life - its joys, sorrows, and inevitable conclusion. 

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Vesuvius Ensemble

On Good Friday, many devoted communities in Southern Italy still walk along an ancient path toward a holy sanctuary, singing powerful melodies along the way. In this special Good Friday performance, the Vesuvius Ensemble will take you along a sacred musical path, offering both traditional and composed music which considers the sacred mysteries of life and death.

The Toronto Consort

In the Middle Ages, a manuscript book was a precious possession, often lavishly illuminated and illustrated. Illuminations takes you inside these treasures, in an evening where music and imagery from some of the most fabulous Medieval manuscripts combine in a feast for eyes and ears. While spectacular images are projected onto a huge screen behind the ensemble, we perform otherworldly cantigas, trouvere songs, medieval dances and sacred motets, with special performances by master Persian percussionist Naghmeh Farahmand, Pejman Zahedian (voice and Persian Setar), and Demetri Petsalakis (Oud).

Join us for a special pre-concert lecture with Nicholas A. Herman, Curator of Manuscripts, Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, University of Pennsylvania. Talks are FREE and held one hour before the concerts at 7pm, in Jeanne Lamon Hall.

Generously supported by Al & Jane Forest.

The Toronto Consort

In the Middle Ages, a manuscript book was a precious possession, often lavishly illuminated and illustrated. Illuminations takes you inside these treasures, in an evening where music and imagery from some of the most fabulous Medieval manuscripts combine in a feast for eyes and ears. While spectacular images are projected onto a huge screen behind the ensemble, we perform otherworldly cantigas, trouvere songs, medieval dances and sacred motets, with special performances by master Persian percussionist Naghmeh Farahmand, Pejman Zahedian (voice and Persian Setar), and Demetri Petsalakis (Oud).

Join us for a special pre-concert lecture with Nicholas A. Herman, Curator of Manuscripts, Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, University of Pennsylvania. Talks are FREE and held one hour before the concerts at 7pm, in Jeanne Lamon Hall.

Generously supported by Al & Jane Forest.

Opus 8

Explicit material warning! Don’t bring your kids. From the rude, joking songs of Mozart and Morley, to fresh pop arrangements dealing with love, lust, and licentiousness, Opus 8 will churn up music’s sordid underbelly. If you think that choral music can only be genteel or lovely, think again. Join us for what promises to be an evening of frolicks, fun, and a licensed bar to accompany this saucy serenade. Pay-what-you-can-afford admission; cash bar. 

Toronto Masque Theatre

Guest singers and instrumentalists celebrate the season with carols, songs and instrumental works, including a rare performance of excerpts from  The Birth of Christ by Canadian composer Clarence Lucas.  Make merry with food, drink and silent auction.

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Toronto Masque Theatre

Guest singers and instrumentalists celebrate the season with carols, songs and instrumental works, including a rare performance of excerpts from  The Birth of Christ by Canadian composer Clarence Lucas.  Make merry with food, drink and silent auction.

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Toronto Chamber Choir

Anna Kwiatkowska, soprano; Rebecca Claborn, mezzo-soprano; Eliza-Jane Cassey, alto; Arieh Sacke, tenor; Paul Winkelmans, baritone

We celebrate the 450th year of Claudio Monteverdi’s birth by exploring his glorious late sacred works. Psalm settings, hymns, and a Magnificat will complete the musical elements of a Christmas Vespers sung from the balconies of St. Mark’s Basilica in Venice. Pre-concert chat at 7:15 PM.

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Toronto Bach Festival

Part of the second annual Toronto Bach Festival, this concert features what is possibly the earliest extant church cantata of J.S. Bach, Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich (BWV 150), as well as Komm, du süße Todesstunde (BWV 161). 

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Opus 8

This is no mere offering of sea shanties, but a phantasmagoria of all things aquatic, shipwrecked and watery. Opus 8 will be taking you through a historical journey from the rivers of Babylon and the river Jordan to the torrents of summer and the tears of unrequited lovers. Row, row, row your boat to Toronto and check them out. Free admission, with a reception to follow the concert.

Opus 8

Secular partsongs spanning the centuries unfold in playful polyphony, melancholy laments and colourful songs that cover a multitude of topics from sex and dancing to youth and obesity. Expect 'la - la - la's.' Free admission, with a reception to follow the concert.

Toronto Chamber Choir

Heinrich Biber’s masterful Requiem in F minor will be preceded by some of the composer’s most innovative motets and sacred cantatas, demonstrating his unique recipe for deepening the Catholic liturgy: the mixture of declamatory singing with Bohemian violin virtuosity. Our string ensemble will be led by Biber aficionados Julia Wedman and Christopher Verrette.

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Opus 8

Exploring the power and potential of the Agnus Dei over the past 700 years, this concert of devotional pacifist music will open your ears to a huge variety of interpretations of the familiar 'Lamb of God' text. Intense and beautiful, not to be missed. Free admission.

Opus 8

Opus 8 presents a program of Philippe Rogier's "Cantatibus Organis," Richard Meehan's "He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven," and Benjamin Britten's "Hymn to St. Cecilia." After the recital, please stay for Evensong, sung by the Choir of St. James Cathedral. No admission. 

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Toronto Chamber Choir

Is the old adage true that we remember 10% of what we read but 90% of what we sing?

This Kaffeemusik will survey the complex relationship between music and memory by discussing, among other things, the role of memory in Renaissance polyphony, the legend of Wolfgang Mozart’s visit to the Sistine chapel, research by neuroscientists such as Oliver Sacks, and modern theories such as the “Mozart effect”. Music by Allegri, Lassus, Purcell, and others, plus the premiere of David Barber’s Remember Not.

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Join us for the next in St. James Cathedral's ongoing series of J.S. Bach's church cantatas as we present BWV 180, Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele. Admission is by pay-what-you-can donation. 

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Victoria Baroque Players

An effulgent spring extravaganza for choir, soloists, and orchestra, conducted by Pacific Opera Victoria’s Timothy Vernon. Programme including Mozart’s joyous “Exsultate, jubilate”, Telemann’s four delightful cantatas “Die Tageszeiten” that describe the times of day, and exuberant “Laudate Dominum” by Michel Corrette, based on “Spring” from Vivaldi’s Four Seasons.

Monica Orso, soprano
Rebecca Genge, soprano
Rebecca Claborn, mezzo soprano
Zachary Windus, countertenor
Kevin Myers, tenor
Andrew Erasmus, baritone

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Opus 8

Opus 8 are delighted to present our program in celebration of spring at Holy Trinity Anglican Church in Edmonton, AB. Please join us for a diverse program of Gesualdo, Palestrina, Vaughan Williams, Britten and more!

Admission is free; donations gratefully accepted