Volume 23 Issue 2 - October 2017

professional performing arts organizations in
the GTA. The choir also engages in educational
and community outreach through choral workshops
for students, music educators, composers
and conductors. A part of Toronto’s cultural
community for 43 years, the choir comprises
members from across the GTA. Annual auditions
are held in May and June. Phone or email us for
more information!
Lydia Adams, conductor &
artistic director
Shawn Grenke, associate
conductor & accompanist
Mary Gray, president
416-446-0188
info@amadeuschoir.com
www.amadeuschoir.com
●Amici ● Chamber Ensemble
Amici Chamber Ensemble celebrates 30 years
as one of Canada’s finest and most distinguished
chamber music ensembles. Artistic directors
clarinetist Joaquin Valdepeñas, cellist David Hetherington
and pianist Serouj Kradjian invite some
of the finest musicians to join them in innovative
and eclectic programming, celebrating friendship
through music.
Amici Chamber Ensemble’s annual concert
series has featured world-renowned musicians
as frequent guests, including Isabel Bayrakdarian,
Lara St. John, Jonathan Crow, Russell Braun,
Michael Schade, Cho-Liang Lin, Jaime Laredo,
André Laplante and James Sommerville. The
ensemble has commissioned and premiered over
20 works by Canadian composers, among them
Allan Gordon Bell, Chan Ka Nin, Brian Cherney,
Malcolm Forsyth, Jacques Hétu, Alexina Louie
and Jeffrey Ryan.
Alongside numerous broadcasts of their concerts
on national radio, Amici Chamber Ensemble’s
recordings have placed them firmly among
the world’s best chamber musicians and garnered
the ensemble two JUNO awards, most
recently the 2013 Classical Album of the Year:
Solo or Chamber Ensemble, for Levant. Other
prestigious honours include several JUNO award
nominations, including a 2011 nomination for the
ATMA Classique disc Armenian Chamber Music.
Kaija Corlazzoli, general manager
416-871-4275
kaija@amiciensemble.com
www.amiciensemble.com
Aurora Cultural Centre
●Annex ● Singers
The Annex Singers of Toronto is a vibrant and
accomplished community choir under the
dynamic and creative leadership of artistic director
Maria Case. Now in its 38th season, the
60-voice auditioned choir performs three programs
a year, collaborating with professional
vocalists, instrumentalists and ensembles. Recent
performances include Charpentier’s Messe de
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Minuit, Britten’s A Ceremony of Carols, and Haydn’s
Lord Nelson Mass. The Annex Chamber Choir,
a 24-voice ensemble, performs in alternating
years. We offer choral development workshops
led by some of Toronto’s most innovative musical
coaches and clinicians, and engage in community
outreach. This season we present the choral
drama “December Diaries” on December 9 and
10, 2017, at Jane Mallett Theatre, and “North by
Northeast,” contemporary choral music by Baltic
and Scandinavian composers, at Grace Church
on-the-Hill, May 5, 2018. The Chamber Choir presents
“Camerata,” featuring Mark Chambers, cello,
at St. Andrew’s United Church on March 3, 2018, at
3pm and 7:30pm. We rehearse Monday evenings
at St. Thomas’s Anglican Church (383 Huron St.).
Experienced singers who wish to audition, contact
our membership coordinator.
Joanne Eidinger
416-458-4434
joeidinger@gmail.com
www.annexsingers.com
●Arraymusic
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Arraymusic embraces and nurtures work that
is radically in-between. Arraymusic’s mission is
to ignite and sustain a passion for contemporary
Canadian musical art within an international,
interdisciplinary context. Three programs define
what Array does, why we do it and how we realize
our goals: 1) Array’s Contemporary Music Program
produces, presents and supports work on the cutting
edges of current musical/sound art practice;
2) Array’s Creative Music Hub offers The Array
Space for rent and fosters a creative music/art
scene; and 3) Array For All engages diverse audiences
through innovative and inclusive programs.
Arraymusic believes that experiencing art can
give rise to real change and that if one engages
with art fully, subtle but profound positive transformations
can take place which, by extension,
can impact communities and enhance our lives.
Array is devoted to co-creating and presenting
speculative new music that creates more questions
than it answers. Array believes that sharing
music involved in exploration, which finds wonder
in the discovery of the unexpected, stimulates the
imagination and raises questions and alternative
ways of thinking.
Sandra Bell
416-532-3019
admin@arraymusic.com
www.arraymusic.ca
●Art ● of Time Ensemble
Renowned concert pianist Andrew Burashko
formed Art of Time Ensemble in 1998 by inviting
a group of like-minded musicians and prominent
figures in dance, theatre and other art forms to
perform one-off concerts in Toronto. The company
has gone on to become a leader in Toronto’s
vibrant performing arts scene, through its
subscription season at the Harbourfront Centre
Theatre, regular appearances at Koerner Hall,
album releases, performances with leading Canadian
orchestras, and tours of its unique offerings
to dozens of cities throughout Canada and
the United States.
Exploring the relationship between classical
music and other genres such as jazz, pop, electronica,
rock, folk, electroacoustic, gospel and
others, Art of Time seeks to reveal the qualities
that lie at the heart of all great music.
The ranks of Art of Time Ensemble’s artists are
deep and their talents unmatched; featured collaborators
include authors Margaret Atwood
and Michael Ondaatje, jazz legend Branford Marsalis,
vocalists Madeleine Peyroux, Sarah Slean,
Hawksley Workman and Tony Award-winner
Brent Carver, composers Gavin Bryars and Jonathan
Goldsmith and many more.
Kate Bangay, marketing &
communications manager
647-344-2254
info@artoftimeensemble.com
www.artoftimeensemble.com
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