Volume 28 Issue 5 | April & May 2023

GREAT CANADIAN
BRASS BAND FESTIVAL
Canadian, Community
and Collaboration
MAY 12 & 13 - 2023
FACULTY OF MUSIC,
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
Visit GCBBF.CA for
Gala Concert tickets
& Festival passes!
GALA CONCERT
MAY 13, 2023
7:30PM
With works by Canadian
Composers Kelly-Marie
Murphy, Kristofer Maddigan
& Marcus Venables.
FEATURING
PHILIP SMITH
Guest Conductor
LIVE OR ONLINE | Mar 28 to Jun 6, 2023
Friday May 12
● 11:00am: Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra.
Talk & Tea: Beethoven 5. Abigail Richardson-Schulte,
host. Stage Door @ FirstOntario
Concert Hall, 10 MacNab St. S., Hamilton.
905-526-7756. $10-$20.
● 12:10: Music at St. Andrew’s. Noontime
Recital. Jordan Klapman, jazz piano. St.
Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, 73 Simcoe St.
416-593-5600 X231 or www.standrewstoronto.org.
Free.
● 7:00: Serenata Singers. Songs for a New
World. Scarborough Bluffs United Church,
3739 Kingston Rd., Scarborough. Tickets:
www.serenatasingers.ca. $25/$20(adv);
Free(12 and under). Also May 11(1:30pm).
● 7:00: Sinfonia Ancaster. Pivot! Respighi:
Ancient Airs and Dances Suite No.1; Anna
Clyne: Pivot; Wojciech Kilar: Orawa; Schreker:
Valse lente; Schumann: Symphony No.4 in d
Op.120. Jeffrey Pollock, conductor. Ancaster
Memorial Arts Centre, 357 Wilson St. E.,
Ancaster. www.sinfoniaancaster.com or
905-648-3232. $25; $20(sr); $15(14 years and
younger).
● 7:00: SweetWater Music Festival. Springtime
Live. Brahms: Scherzo in c for Violin &
Piano; Brahms: Intermezzi Op.118 Nos.1 and 2;
Brahms: Rhapsody in g Op.79 No.2; Ravel: Tzigane;
and Franck: Sonata for Violin and Piano.
Edwin Huizinga, violin; Philip Chiu, piano.
Historic Leith Church, 419134 Tom Thomson
Lane, Leith. Tickets: www.sweetwatermusicfestival.ca.
$40.
● 7:30: Canadian Opera Company. Macbeth.
See Apr 28. Also May 14(2pm), 17, 20(4:30pm).
At 7:30pm unless otherwise noted.
● 7:30: Diapente Renaissance Vocal Quintet.
Genera. Works by Byrd, Schein, Lacorcia,
Lusitano, and Tomkins. Jane Fingler, soprano;
Peter Koniers, countertenor; Alexander Cappellazzo,
tenor; Jonathan Stuchbery, tenor
& plucked strings; Martin Gomes, bass. St.
Olave’s Anglican Church, 360 Windermere
Ave. Tickets: 514-378-2558. Pay What You
Want ($30 suggested). Also May 13(4pm).
● 7:30: Toronto Symphony Orchestra.
Star Wars: The Last Jedi - In Concert. Steven
Reineke, conductor. Roy Thomson Hall,
60 Simcoe St. 416-598-3375. From $78. Also
May 11, 13(12:30 & 7:30pm).
● 7:30: Upper Canada Choristers/Cantemos.
Our Voices Together: Corazones al Unísono.
Cesar Alejandro Carrillo: El pajaro que espero
(The Bird I Await) (world premiere) and “La
Rosa de los Vientos”; Stephen Hatfield: Cantando
Flores; Steven Chatman: “Voices of
Earth” and “Teasdale Love Songs”; and other
works. Upper Canada Choristers; Cantemos;
Hye Won (Cecilia) Lee, piano; Laurie Evan Fraser,
conductor. Visual creations by Camila Salcedo.
Grace Church on-the-Hill, 300 Lonsdale
Rd. www.uppercanadachoristers.org or info@
uppercanadachoristers.org or 416-256-0510.
$25 via Eventbrite; Free(under 16 accompanied
by an adult). Livestreamed free at www.uppercanadachoristers.org.
LIVE & STREAMED.
● 8:00: Etobicoke Philharmonic Orchestra.
Power and Passion. Mahler: Symphony No.1
in D “Titan”; Kevin Lau: Sea of Blossoms; and
arias by Mozart, Delibes, Puccini and Lehár.
Etobicoke Philharmonic Orchestra; Christine
Haldane, soprano; Matthew Jones, conductor.
Martingrove Collegiate Institute,
50 Winterton Dr., Etobicoke. Tickets: www.
eventbrite.ca/e/power-and-passion-tickets-
399608759557?aff=ebdsoporgprofile. $30;
$25(s); $15(st).
● 8:00: Exultate Chamber Singers. To the
Future: Inspired by Youth. Shining the spotlight
on young composers in collaboration
with Concreamus under the direction of Kai
Leung. Calvin Presbyterian Church, 26 Delisle
Ave. 416-971-9229 or www.exultate.net/eventdetails/to-the-future-inspired-by-youth.
$40 or PWYC from $5. Pre-concert chat at
7:15pm.
● 8:00: Tafelmusik. Grand Voyage: The
French Baroque. Rebel: Les Élémens;
Rameau: Suite from Les Indes galantes, Chaconne
from Dardanus. Leila Schayegh, violin/
director. Jeanne Lamon Hall, Trinity-St. Paul’s
Centre, 427 Bloor St. W. 1-833-964-6337. Also
May 13(2pm).
Saturday May 13
● 12:30: Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Star
Wars: The Last Jedi - In Concert. See May 11.
Also May 13(7:30pm).
● 2:00: Five at the First. ARC Trio: Music for
Viola, Cello & Piano. Omar Daniel: Intermezzi
for solo piano; Southam: Re-Tuning (1985)
for solo viola and tape; Aolphus Hailstork:
Theme & Variations on “Draw the Sacred
Circle Closer” for cello; Drigo: Meditazione
for viola, cello & piano; Brahms: Trio Op.114.
Angela Park, piano; Caitlin Boyle, viola; Rachel
Mercer, cello. First Unitarian Church of Hamilton,
170 Dundurn St. S., Hamilton. 905-
399-5125 or www.5atthefirst.com. $5-$20;
Free(under 12).
● 2:00: Tafelmusik. Grand Voyage: The
French Baroque. Rebel: Les Élémens;
Rameau: Suite from Les Indes galantes, Chaconne
from Dardanus. Leila Schayegh, violin/
director. Jeanne Lamon Hall, Trinity-St. Paul’s
Centre, 427 Bloor St. W. 1-833-964-6337. Also
May 12(8pm).
GARY CURTIN
Euphonium Soloist
HANNAFORD
STREET SILVER
BAND
GCBBF.CA
EXULTATE
CHAMBER
SINGERS
INSPIRED
BY YOUTH
Friday, May 12, 8 PM
www.exultate.net
Power and
Passion
Arias
Christina Haldane
Soprano
FRIDAY, MAY 12
www.eporchestra.ca
● 3:00: Toronto Children's Chorus. Reflections
of Light. Celebrating all our choristers
have accomplished this year and looking back
at the past 45 years of the Toronto Children’s
Chorus. George Weston Recital Hall, Meridian
Arts Centre, 5040 Yonge St. www.torontochildrenschorus.com/performances.
● 4:00: Diapente Renaissance Vocal Quintet.
Genera. Works by Byrd, Schein, Lacorcia,
Lusitano, and Tomkins. Jane Fingler, soprano;
Peter Koniers, countertenor; Alexander Cappellazzo,
tenor; Jonathan Stuchbery, tenor
& plucked strings; Martin Gomes, bass. St.
Olave’s Anglican Church, 360 Windermere
Ave. Tickets: 514-378-2558. Pay What You
Want ($30 suggested). Also May 12(7:30pm).
● 7:00: Southern Ontario Lyric Opera
(SOLO). La traviata. Music by Giuseppe Verdi.
Fully staged opera with Soloists. Southern
Ontario Lyric Opera Chorus & Orchestra;
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