Volume 25 Issue 4 - December 2019 / January 2020

SCARLATTI • MEDTNER • LISZT • RAVEL
John Williams: Schindler’s List; and works by
Chinese composers. Haochen Zhang, piano;
Ti Zhang, violin; Kemin Zhang, host; Toronto
Festival Orchestra; Junping Qian, conductor.
George Weston Recital Hall, Meridian Arts
Centre (formerly Toronto Centre for the
Arts), 5040 Yonge St. 416-490-7962 or 416-
250-3708 or 1-855-985-2787. $35-$98.
info@lidelun.org.
●●4:30: Christ Church Deer Park. Jazz Vespers.
Russ Little Quintet. 1570 Yonge St. 416-
920-5211. Freewill offering. Religious service.
NEW MUSIC FESTIVAL
SUN JAN 12 to TUE JAN 21
with André Mehmari
All events are free
music.utoronto.ca
●●7:30: University of Toronto Faculty of
Music. New Music Festival: Composing for
Theatre Concert. Edward Johnson Building,
Walter Hall, 80 Queen’s Park. 416-978-3750.
Free. Open to the public.
Monday January 13
●●12:00 noon: University of Toronto Faculty
of Music. New Music Festival: ACTOR 1: Sound
Tools vs. Tool Sounds. Edward Johnson Building,
Walter Hall, 80 Queen’s Park. 416-978-
3750. Free. Open to the public.
●●7:30: University of Toronto Faculty of
Music. New Music Festival: Electric Jazz Plus!
Eliot Britton; Gordon Hyland. Edward Johnson
Building, Walter Hall, 80 Queen’s Park. 416-
978-3750. Free. Open to the public.
Tuesday January 14
●●12:00 noon: Canadian Opera Company.
Chamber Music Series: Sensational Strings.
Senior string students from The Phil and Eli
Taylor Performance Academy for Young Artists;
Academy Chamber Orchestra. Richard
Bradshaw Amphitheatre, Four Seasons Centre
for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen St. W.
416-363-8231. Free. First come, first served.
No late seating.
●●7:30: University of Toronto Faculty of
Music. New Music Festival: Karen Kieser
Prize Concert. Edward Johnson Building,
Walter Hall, 80 Queen’s Park. 416-978-3750.
Free. Open to the public.
Wednesday January 15
●●12:30: Yorkminster Park Baptist Church.
Noonday Organ Recital. Rashaan Allwood,
A. Concerts in the GTA
organ. 1585 Yonge St. 416-922-1167. Free.
●●7:00: University of Toronto Faculty of
Music. Upper Jazz Concerts: UofT Jazz
Ensembles. Upper Jazz Studio, 90 Wellesley
St. W. 416-978-3750. Free. Open to the public.
Set 2 begins at 8pm.
●●7:30: KOERNER University of Toronto HALL
Faculty of
THE Music. ROYAL New Music CONSERVATORY Festival: From Bach OF MUSIC to
Latin America with André Mehmari, piano
and Emmanuele Baldini, violin. Edward Johnson
Building, Walter Hall, 80 Queen’s Park.
416-978-3750. Free. Open to the public.
MOZART
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JANUARY 16, 8 PM
●●8:00: Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Mozart
Requiem. Mozart: Symphony No.39 K543,
Requiem K626. Jenavieve Moore, soprano;
Jillian Bonner, mezzo; Charles Sy, tenor;
Trevor Eliot Bowes, bass; Toronto Mendelssohn
Choir and others. Roy Thomson Hall,
60 Simcoe St. 416-872-4255. Starting at $35.
Also Jan 16, 17(7:30pm), 18.
Thursday January 16
●●12:00 noon: Canadian Opera Company.
Chamber Music Series: Brahms Viola
Sonatas. Brahms: Viola sonatas. Theresa
Rudolph, viola; Philip Chiu, piano. Richard
Bradshaw Amphitheatre, Four Seasons Centre
for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen St. W.
416-363-8231. Free. First come, first served.
No late seating.
●●12:10: University of Toronto Faculty of
Music. New Music Festival at Thursdays at
Noon: André Mehmari, solo piano. Edward
Johnson Building, Walter Hall, 80 Queen’s
Park. 416-978-3750. Free. Open to the public.
●●7:30: University of Toronto Faculty of
Music. New Music Festival: André Mehmari
Chamber Works. Emmanuele Baldini, violin.
Edward Johnson Building, Walter Hall,
80 Queen’s Park. 416-978-3750. Free. Open
to the public.
●●8:00: Cheryl Duvall & The Canadian Music
Centre. Innermost Songs. New works by Höstman,
Lebel, O’Callaghan, Pearce, Suzuki and
others. Cheryl Duvall, piano. Canadian Music
Centre, 20 St. Joseph St. 416-961-6601. $20;
$15(sr/st/arts worker). Accessible venue.
●●8:00: Show One Productions. Lucas
Debargue, Piano. Scarlatti: Sonatas (K6,
K438, K404, K405, K206, K447, K27, K14, K115,
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KOERNER HALL
THE ROYAL CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC
JANUARY 16, 8 PM
KOERNER HALL
THE ROYAL CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC
K308); Medtner: Sonata in g Op.22; Liszt:
After a Reading of Dante: Fantasia quasi
Sonata S109. Koerner Hall, TELUS Centre,
273 Bloor St. W. 416-408-0208. $45-$90.
GONE
WITH
THE
WINDS
Jan 16–19, 2020
Jeanne Lamon Hall
tafelmusik.org
●●8:00: Tafelmusik. Gone with the Winds.
Mozart: Serenade in c K388; Beethoven: Sextet
Op.71; Rossini: Barber of Seville (selections);
Mozart: Così fan tutte (selections);
Cecilia Livingston: World premiere. Tafelmusik
Baroque Orchestra. Trinity-St. Paul’s
Centre, 427 Bloor St. W. 416-964-6337. From
$42. Also Jan 17(8pm), 18(8pm), 19(3:30pm).
●●8:00: Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Mozart
Requiem. Mozart: Symphony No.39 K543,
Requiem K626. Jenavieve Moore, soprano;
Jillian Bonner, mezzo; Charles Sy, tenor;
Trevor Eliot Bowes, bass; Toronto Mendelssohn
Choir and others. Roy Thomson Hall,
60 Simcoe St. 416-872-4255. Starting at $35.
Also Jan 15, 17(7:30pm), 18.
Friday January 17
●●12:00 noon: University of Toronto Faculty
of Music. New Music Festival: Face to
Face. Hatzis: Solo Piano Works. Konstantinos
Valianatos, piano. Edward Johnson Building,
Walter Hall, 80 Queen’s Park. 416-978-3750.
Free. Open to the public.
●●7:30: The Piano Lunaire. Composers’ Symposium
2020: The Shadow of the North.
Opening night of Piano Lunaire’s Composers’
Symposium 2020. Lemay: Tanze vor
Angst ... Hommage a Paul Klee (2006), Memoire
et oubli (2013); Mather: Eight Songs without
Words (2012); Leroux: Dense... englouti
(2011); Harman: Inverno (2014); Current:
Leaps of Faith (2009). Yoko Hirota, piano.
Bunker Lane Press, 1001 Bloor St. W. Rear.
416-825-2744. $20; $10(st).
●●7:30: Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Mozart
Requiem. Mozart: Symphony No.39 K543,
Requiem K626. Jenavieve Moore, soprano;
Jillian Bonner, mezzo; Charles Sy, tenor;
Trevor Eliot Bowes, bass; Toronto Mendelssohn
Choir and others. Roy Thomson Hall,
60 Simcoe St. 416-872-4255. Starting at $35.
Also Jan 15(8pm), 16(8pm), 18(8pm).
●●7:30: University of Toronto Faculty of
Music. New Music Festival: Songwriting Class
Concert. André Mehmari. Edward Johnson
Building, Walter Hall, 80 Queen’s Park. 416-
978-3750. Free. Open to the public.
●●8:00: Royal Conservatory of Music. 21C
Music Festival/Power Corporation Vocal
Concerts Series: Philippe Sly & Le Chimera
Project: Winterreise. Koerner Hall, TELUS
Centre, 273 Bloor St. W. 416-408-0208. $21-
$90. 7pm pre-concert talk.
●●8:00: Sinfonia Toronto. Beeethoven Triple!
Beethoven: Triple Concerto (chamber version
by Roberto Gianello); Symphony No.6 “The Pastoral”
(chamber version by Fischer). Zhenguy
Chen, piano; Xiaohan Guo, violin; Daniel Hass,
cello; Nurhan Arman, conductor. Glenn Gould
Studio, 250 Front St. W. sinfoniatoronto.com.
$42; $35(sr); $15(st).
●●8:00: Tafelmusik. Gone with the Winds.
Mozart: Serenade in c K388; Beethoven: Sextet
Op.71; Rossini: Barber of Seville (selections);
Mozart: Così fan tutte (selections);
Cecilia Livingston: World premiere. Tafelmusik
Baroque Orchestra. Trinity-St. Paul’s
Centre, 427 Bloor St. W. 416-964-6337. From
$42. Also Jan 16(8pm), 18(8pm), 19(3:30pm).
SINFONIA TORONTO
BEETHOVEN TRIPLE!
Zhengyu Chen, Piano
Xiaohan Guo, Violin
Daniel Hass, Cello
Nurhan Arman, Conductor
January 17 8 pm
Glenn Gould Studio
sinfoniatoronto.com
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