Volume 23 Issue 2 - October 2017

BLUE PAGES 2017/18
18th ANNUAL DIRECTORY OF MUSIC MAKERS
Welcome to the Blue Pages, The
WholeNote’s 18th annual directory of
concert presenters. The 148 profiles
that follow provide an extraordinary
snapshot of the remarkable creativity
and musical diversity present in the
GTA and southern Ontario, as well
as a brief but unique window into
who’s doing what this season. The
Blue Pages give us a glimpse of the
roles these organizations will play in
cultivating the region’s rich musical
landscape this year.
We hope you enjoy this taste of what’s
in store for 2017/18 as you peruse
these pages of choirs, orchestras,
chamber ensembles, opera companies
and more. The ongoing support of the
organizations listed here helps keep The
WholeNote alive and allows us to fulfill
our mission.
Presenters who missed this issue of the
magazine still have the opportunity to
be a part of this directory, which lives
year-round on our website at www.
thewholenote.com/blue. For more
information on this and the benefits of
WholeNote membership, contact Karen
Ages at members@thewholenote.com or
416-323-2232 x26.
Whether you are in the audience or
onstage, we wish you all the best for the
2017/18 concert season!
BLUE PAGES TEAM 2017/18
PROJECT MANAGER Karen Ages
PROJECT EDITOR Kevin King
PROOFREADING Sara Constant
LAYOUT & DESIGN Susan Sinclair
WEBSITE Kevin King
ON THE COVER
Just west of Yonge Street and north of
the 401, Toronto Centre for the Arts
sits symbolically at the crossroads of
southern Ontario’s network of regional
performing arts centres, providing
opportunities across the province to
performers and audiences alike.
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Academy Concert Series
Celebrating its 26th season, the Academy Concert
Series offers innovative and intimate chamber
music concerts on period instruments. The
three-concert series brings to audiences the
musical riches and spirit of improvisation of
the 17th and 18th centuries and the passion and
sonorous colour palate of the 19th and early-20th
centuries, all with historical performance practices.
The programs are thematic and deliberately
crafted to highlight a specific time, place and/or
composer, featuring both accomplished and
emerging artists. The three concerts presented
this season are: November 4, 2017 – “Sweet for
Bach,” a program conceived by Tafelmusik’s
principal cellist Christina Mahler, includes four
cellists playing solo Bach suites and cello ensembles.
January 20, 2018 – “Dvořák on the Low,” with
violinist Mark Fewer and bassist Joseph Phillips.
March 10, 2018 – the return of violinist Scott St.
John and guitarist Lucas Harris in a remounting
of one of ACS’s most talked-about concerts from
five years ago, “A Portrait of Paganini.” Concerts
take place on Saturdays at 7:30pm, at Eastminster
United Church (310 Danforth Ave.).
Kerri McGonigle
416-629-3716
kerri.mcgonigle@
academyconcertseries.com
www.academyconcertseries.com
●Aga ● Khan Museum
The Aga Khan Museum presents some of the finest
live music, dance and film from around the
world in extraordinary settings: from a state-ofthe-art
auditorium to an open-air courtyard, a
Persian-inspired salon, and a variety of spaces
shared by exhibitions and educational programming.
Performances at the Museum join culturally
diverse artists in conversation, highlighting the
arts of Muslim civilizations from the Iberian Peninsula
to China and celebrating the many ways
that cultures connect through art.
Please visit www.agakhanmuseum.
org for a full calendar of
performances and film screenings.
Raheela Nanji
416-646-4677
information@agakhanmuseum.org
www.agakhanmuseum.org
●All ● Saints Kingsway
Anglican Church
All Saints Kingsway Anglican Church is a vibrant
hub for music in Toronto’s west end.
The All Saints Kingsway choir, in addition to
providing musical leadership for worship services,
sings a range of concerts, requiems and
oratorios throughout the year. Recent performances
have included Fauré’s Requiem, Duruflé’s
Requiem, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s The Atonement
and Benjamin Britten’s A Ceremony of Carols.
The choir is made up of paid section leads
and volunteers, and invites new singers throughout
the year.
We partner with ORGANIX Concerts to host
the Kingsway Organ Series of lunchtime organ
recitals, which take place every second Wednesday
from September through July.
We also co-host monthly jazz vespers, along
with St. Philip’s Anglican Church. This Etobicoke
Jazz Vespers series of twice-monthly services
runs from September through June.
In addition to these musical offerings, All Saints
Kingsway regularly acts as a concert venue for
choirs and musical ensembles, such as the
Nathaniel Dett Chorale and the Kingsway Conservatory
of Music.
Our space is available for rental as a concert
or workshop venue.
Brainerd Blyden-Taylor
416-233-1125 x5
music@allsaintskingsway.ca
www.allsaintskingsway.ca
●Alliance ● Française Toronto
Founded in Paris in 1883 by Louis Pasteur, Ferdinand
de Lesseps and Jules Verne, Alliance Française
has always embodied the modern values
of humanism, respect of linguistics and cultural
diversity. The AFT offers the GTA community a
wide range of French as a second language
classes to children, teenagers and adults at all
levels. AFT also adds to the multicultural vibrancy
of the city with a cultural program of over 100
events representing the Francophonie of the
world and is a founding member of the “Bloor
Cultural Corridor.”
Laetitia Delemarre
416-922-2014 x35
laetitia@alliance-francaise.ca
www.alliance-francaise.ca/en
●Amadeus ● Choir of Greater Toronto
Led by conductor and artistic director Lydia
Adams since 1985, the award-winning Amadeus
Choir performs the best of choral music and premieres
works of Canadian and international composers
through a self-produced Toronto concert
series, guest performances and special events.
Through touring, recordings and radio broadcasts,
the choir is known well beyond Toronto.
The Amadeus Choir collaborates with many
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