Community Event Listings
Dec. 14 - Forte - Toronto Gay Men's Chorus presents Our Gay Apparel
The season of cheer is upon us and it’s time to don Our Gay Apparel! Get ready for a fabulous evening of Christmas classics and show-stopping originals at Trinity-St. Paul’s United Church with us, Forte!
With a mix of choral holiday classics, nostalgic and funny hits from the holiday season and Christmas songs from divas you know and love, come see what makes Forte stand out as a gay men’s choir!
Join us on Sat, Dec 14 2024 at 7:30 PM for a night filled with holiday cheer, chorals singing, and laughter. Come dressed in your most festive and fabulously comfortable attire and we’ll see you there with bells on!
Dec. 14, 2024 7:30 PM
Tickets & Info: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/our-gay-apparel-tickets-1049194136907?aff=ebdssbdestsearch
Dec. 15 - Carols by Candlelight
Sing along with the beloved Trinity-St.Paul’s church choir and celebrate a wondrous night of Christmas carols and music.
Featuring our new Music Director, Deborah Park, Voci and Encore from Young Voices Toronto, the Tafelmusik String Ensemble, Yesori Gayagum Choir and internationally renowned soprano, Adrianne Pieczonka!
Dec. 15, 2024 7:00 PM
Free!
Dec. 22 - The New Ukrainian Vertep & TNMK in Toronto
Seven years ago, Tanok na Maydani Kongo (TNMK) premiered their unique Christmas program, Warm Acoustic Vertep. Blending classic hits with original sketches, the performance transformed band members into characters of a traditional Ukrainian nativity play, offering a fresh, engaging twist on Ukrainian Christmas traditions.
Dec. 22, 2024 6:00 PM
Tickets & Info: https://ukrainian.us/events/novij-ukrainskij-vertep-tnmk-toronto?referral_link=Geotickets
Jan. 12 - Christoph Willibald Gluck - ALCESTE - A French Opera with English Surtitles
This timeless masterpiece is celebrated for its emotional depth and the reformative approach Gluck took to operatic composition, focusing on dramatic expression and simplicity.
The story follows the noble Queen Alceste, who sacrifices herself to save her husband, only to be saved by the gods in the end. It combines powerful storytelling with beautiful music that will captivate your senses.
Jan. 12, 2025, 2:30 PM
Tickets & Info: VOICEBOX | Opera In Concert
Jan. 24 - Sinfonia Toronto - Piazzolla & Palej - Tears & Tango
Two exciting soloists: a violin virtuoso in a melodious showpiece, and the Canadian debut of one of the world’s finest accordionist in the premiere of Toronto composer Norbert Palej’s ‘Tears of Things’ plus irresitible Piazzolla tangos
Sinfonia Toronto / Nurhan Arman, Conductor
Maciej Frackiewicz, Accordionist
David Baik, Violinist
Jan. 24, 2025, 8:00 PM
Tickets & Info: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/piazzolla-palej-sinfonia-toronto-concert-tickets-904264628847?aff=ebdssbdestsearch
Jan. 31 - Feb. 2 - Tafelmusik - Brilliant Baroque
Rachel Podger and Tafelmusik ignite the quintessential spirit of the baroque in this program of music by Bach, Handel, Purcell and others. Three continents meet when Tafelmusik and Rachel Podger take the works of European masters on tour to Asia before bringing them home to our Toronto audience.
The journey begins with an array of baroque treasures from Rachel’s native England: works by Handel, Purcell and Charles Avison. New to the Tafelmusik stage is an orchestral suite by the Bohemian composer Antonín Reichenauer, an enchanting dialogue between strings and winds.
No baroque blowout would be complete without the music of J.S. Bach, and who better to bring out the “infectiously spritely bounce and exhilarating dramatic tension” (BBC) of his Violin Concerto in A Minor than Rachel Podger?
Jan. 31, 2025, 8:00 PM
Feb. 1, 2025, 8:00 PM
Feb. 2, 2025, 3:00 PM
Tickets & Info: Brilliant Baroque – Tafelmusik : Tafelmusik
Feb. 8 - Toronto Mendelssohn Choir – Visionaries: Vivaldi & DaVinci
Experience the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir live on February 8 at 7:30 PM in the stunning Jeanne Lamon Hall (Trinity-St. Paul’s Centre) for Visionaries: Vivaldi & DaVinci.
Featuring Leonardo da Vinci’s notebooks and Antonio Vivaldi’s celestial Gloria, Visionaries delves into the timeless themes of human expression and divine exploration. The groundbreaking multimedia concert brings DaVinci’s words and drawings to life with state-of-the-art video syncing technology, harmonized with the live voices of the Toronto Mendelssohn Singers in The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci. Both pieces beautifully reflect the profound complexity and beauty of life.
Feb. 8, 2025, 7:30 PM
Tickets & Info: Visionaries: Vivaldi & DaVinci – Toronto Mendelssohn Choir
Feb. 21-23 - Tafelmusik - Triple Espresso: Bach, Handel & Fasch
Alfredo Bernardini returns with a program that unleashes the exponential power of the oboe
Oboe lovers, rejoice! The “sublime” (Gramophone) Italian oboist Alfredo Bernardini returns to our stage with a high-octane program devoted to the music of Bach and his contemporaries. This hand-picked selection includes a trio of works sharing striking orchestral textures: Tafelmusik’s premiere performance of the Concerto in B-flat Major for three violins and three oboes by Telemann, the playfully inventive Suite in G Minor for three oboes by Fasch, and the celebrated Suite in D Major by Bach.
Listen for Bernardini’s “sparkling, communicative approach … the perfect synthesis of splendour and dance-like charisma” (Gramophone) in Handel’s Oboe Concerto in G Minor.
Triple Espresso is our own lively, potent blend that’s bound to perk up your ears!
Feb. 21, 2025, 8:00 PM
Feb. 22, 2025, 8:00 PM
Feb. 23, 2025, 3:00 PM
Tickets & Info: Triple Espresso: Bach, Handel & Fasch – Tafelmusik : Tafelmusik
March 7-9 - Tafelmusik - Baroque & Folk: Purcell to Poland
Diverse musical traditions collide and re-emerge to create something of rare beauty
Slovakian violinist Miloš Valent is renowned for his deep curiosity about the intersections between baroque and folk music traditions. He believes that “music is the unique and universal language of humankind, and music-making is enriched as it reaches beyond tribe and clan. When musicians meet at the crossroads, unexpected new creativity is unleashed, rewarding not only the performers, but those who listen and partake.”
For his Tafelmusik debut, Valent joins multi-instrumental virtuoso Jan Rokyta, percussionist Naghmeh Farahmand, and the orchestra to explore the ways in which baroque composers such as Telemann, Purcell, and Vivaldi were influenced by folk music from the Ashkenazy, Polish, Roma, Scottish, and Turkish traditions. Cross-cultural pollination yields luscious fruit as the sounds of Tafelmusik’s baroque strings, winds, and continuo intermingle with the sonorities of the hammered dulcimer, the Armenian duduk, folk recorders, and percussion.
Mar. 7, 2025, 8:00 PM
Mar. 8, 2025, 8:00 PM
Mar. 9, 2025, 3:00 PM
Tickets & Info:Baroque & Folk: Purcell to Poland – Tafelmusik : Tafelmusik