It is a listing of live shows we’re attending, wishing we may attend, or interested by attending between January 20 and 26, 2025. For extra of what’s occurring round Toronto, go to our calendar right here.
Glenn Gould College: The Robert W. and G. Ann Corcoran Concerto Competitors Finals
Wednesday, January 22, 7 p.m.
Koerner Corridor. Free — register for tickets
If you’re in a good monetary squeeze post-Blue Monday (that’s TODAY), or simply want some uplifting from the drudgery of winter, this occasion is for you! This annual concerto competitors from Glenn Gould College options finalists on numerous devices vying for an opportunity to play a concerto with the Royal Conservatory Orchestra within the 25/26 season. Koerner Corridor is gorgeous to have a look at, and it sounds wonderful. The children are hungry and prepared. Items they’ve chosen are positively a few of the better of the canon — and I hear that there will likely be a harp concerto, a rarity. It’s open to the general public without spending a dime. In the event you ever felt that Koerner Corridor occasions are out of your realm, that is the proper occasion to come back and expertise it. In the event you all the time love the Koerner Corridor occasions, that is, nicely, a wealthy bonus. Information right here.
COC: Paraphrases on La Reine-garçon
Thursday, January 23, Midday
Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre, Free.
Canadian composer Julien Bilodeau has been busy, particularly in Montréal the place he ceaselessly collaborates with the Montréal Symphony Orchestra and Opéra de Montréal. Because the Toronto viewers awaits the opening of La Reine-garçon on the COC later this month, Adam Sherkin, a well-recognized pianist, who is understood for his exploration of present and new music, and the world via his personal eyes as a composer, presents Bilodeau’s piano music on this Thursday afternoon. An ideal probability to sneakpeek the soundscape of Bilodeau — the way in which composers write, just like the way in which writers and painters specific, is private and intimate. The extra acquainted we turn out to be, the extra we are able to hear and sense. A stunning strategy to discover a person’s voice within the intimate and acquainted idiom of the solo piano. Learn our Preview right here. Information right here.
COC: Madama Butterfly
Friday, January 24, 7:30 p.m., Sunday, January 26, 2 p.m., Saturday, February 1, 7:30 p.m., Thursday, January 6, 7:30 p.m., Saturday, February 8, 4:30 p.m., Wednesday, February 12, 7:30 p.m., Friday, February 14, 7:30 p.m., Sunday, February 16, 2 p.m.
At the moment sold-out for normal seatings, with each day launch of standing room tickets, and rush tickets. A staunch favorite by Puccini (Puccini was ranked no. 2 with 1,893 performances of 12 operas, throughout 5 seasons: 2008/09, to 2012/13, in accordance with the Operabase, outnumbered solely by Verdi), it’s already almost sold-out. A tragic love story with dying, colonialism, energy battle, conflict — the listing of challenges are countless on this explicit work, particularly when seen via at present’s eyes, however there are stunning arias — this, nobody can deny. No additional phrases are obligatory, because the Toronto viewers are exhibiting their love with their tickets in fingers! If you wish to try the hype, get your self early into the queue on efficiency days: standing room tickets (an actual discount at 15 {dollars} a spot!), or rush tickets (subjected to availability) are doubtless your greatest wager at this level. These are restricted to 2 per particular person, and there’s particular directions on how one can get hold of them — learn rigorously, get your self a spot, and expertise the drama. Information right here.
21C Music Competition: Continuum Up to date Music: Spanning
Saturday, January 25, 8 p.m.
Temerty Theatre, Royal Conservatory of Music, $21+
It is a nice program of present voices via classical music. Beginning with one of the in style composers of our time, Kaija Saariaho (1952-2023), Continuum has curated an incredible number of music, stuffed strong on this short-and-sweet 80 minutes occasion. These names is probably not acquainted but: Anna Höstman, Kotoka Suzuki, Ana Sokolović, Jocelyn Morlock (1969-2023), and Carolyn Chen, however belief that their concepts and expressions have to be skilled stay, to make sense in our personal world. We now favour digital entry for a lot of issues — however the media that we nurtured via the analogue world, won’t ever be true with out the feeling via our personal our bodies — to the touch, to carry, to bodily resonate, as we expertise it in its entirety, together with house (the stay performers and the corridor), and time (with out the choice of opting out, or being distracted). Would you fairly be in a deep bodily embrace together with your family members, or choose a Zoom name? How do we all know what we really feel, until we’ve felt it via the elements which have constructed our lives — via touchable, passing actuality? There will likely be loads to take residence. Drop your worries about bizarre music, and are available. Information right here.
College of Toronto New Music Competition: Maciej Frackiewicz
Sunday, January 26, 7:30 p.m.
Walter Corridor, 80 Queen’s Park, School of Music. Free.
Accordion. The place would you find in your thoughts? Oktoberfest? A view of Paris with the Eiffel Tower within the distance? Folksy bluegrass scene down south? Infectious pull of tango and cuenca? This transportable, versatile machine is at residence with many alternative kinds, and its means to evoke has cemented its place in all genres of music — together with classical. Sure. Classical accordion music is a factor. It’s a nice pleasure to find new issues, particularly when the chance presents the most effective worldwide performers on stage, without spending a dime. We’re very lucky to have a wealthy accordion scene in Toronto — if that is information to you, please come out on this Sunday night, and see Maciej Frackiewicz tear it up on the stage. With approach to burn and spare, and a big thoughts and curiosity, Frakiewicz has received many first worldwide prizes, and he’s been concerned with over 100 new works for the accordion — for solo, duos with cello, violin, piano, and so on., and bigger chamber music works. Come and listen to what is feasible, and put somewhat crack within the stereotype that we regularly construct in our personal thoughts. Isn’t it wonderful to nonetheless be capable of discover new issues, when all the things feels so saturated and acquainted? Information right here.
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Cecilia tumbled into ‘severe’ music research when she determined to keep away from attending medical college. At the moment working within the discipline of classical music, recording, and Korean-English interpretation, she tends to get her nostril soiled in many alternative issues within the metropolis. Cecilia holds a DMA in Piano Efficiency from the College of Nebraska-Lincoln.
