This can be a checklist of concert events we’re attending, wishing we may attend, or serious about attending between January 13 and 19, 2024. For extra of what’s taking place round Toronto, go to our calendar right here.
Toronto Symphony Orchestra: Emanuel Ax + Mozart
Wednesday, January 15, 8 p.m., Saturday, January 18, 8 p.m., Sunday, January 19, 3 p.m.
Roy Thomson Corridor, $63+
Much like final week, there’s loads of familiarity in TSO’s programming this week: Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 25 with perennial favorite, Emanuel Ax; and the superb Additionally Sprach Zarathustra — and sure, it’s nice to think about a number of the viewers discovering the work as a complete for the primary time. There’s a lot extra music after the wonderful opening, the opening that turned engraved so deeply into our cultural historical past with Kubrick’s 2001: A Area Odyssey (the truth is, there’s a superb 30+ min after ‘Einleitung, oder Sunnenaufgang’: ‘Introduction’, or Dawn). And, each a kind of minutes is golden. Getting uncovered to Tippet’s Concerto for Double String Orchestra is a welcome bonus; his retake on the previous custom of the ripieno concerto (a bit like Vivaldi’s concerti grossi), options many parts of the previous: folks songs, the earliest base of an orchestra, together with the strings, plus jazz and the rhythmic range (thanks, world music) that infiltrated classical music within the early twentieth century. Come and expertise how we construct previous and current, and what it means for us, to look again and ponder about what progress or passage of time may imply with this piece, practically 90 years previous, but sounding recent to many people. Data right here.
Canadian Opera Firm: Dance Collection: Preview of DanceWeekend ‘25
Wednesday, January 15, Midday
Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre, 4 Seasons Centre, Free.
In anticipation of Dance Ontario’s annual DanceWeekend’25, amazingly fluid, vibrant, and devoted dancers will fill the midweek midday hour with gestures, rhythm, and lyricism. Drawing from such large genres of ballet, flamenco, Hip Hop, Indian classical, Egyptian, Chinese language, up to date, and extra, this can be a nice alternative to expertise rhythm and music in a unique context. How can we manipulate time? Or is it we who’re manipulated by time and sonic occasions? Does it matter which method it goes? Come and discover out — and see the sound and pulses come alive earlier than our eyes. Data right here.
Hugh’s Room Dwell: Gryphon Trio + Jovino Santos Neto and Associates
Saturday, January 18, 8 p.m.
Inexperienced Sanderson Corridor, Hugh’s Room, 296 Broadview Ave., $45+
Three-time Latin Grammy nominee Jovino Santos Neto is a jack of all trades — he performs the flute, piano, composes and arranges, and teaches and conducts. This busy man is joined by the native fav Gryphon Trio and different visitor musicians in a night of exploration of music and nature. Chamber music will be in many alternative types and genres, and it’s all the time pretty to see such collaboration — let’s see what this mature artist (boyish Jovino, 70 years previous this yr, and an inhabitant of such very totally different cultures; Rio de Janeiro and Seattle), will current to us, with such wealthy life experiences. Data right here.
21C Music Competition: Michelle Cann and The Imani Winds
Saturday, January 18, 8 p.m.
Koerner Corridor, $21+
The basic woodwind quintet consists of flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, and bassoon. Nevertheless, in contrast to string orchestras or brass bands, except you’ve been looking for out to listen to this particular format, most audiences could have heard such a mix solely in passing fragments: in an orchestra live performance with part solos, almost definitely. To listen to the ensemble’s color and functionality is a uncommon alternative, and the wonderful Imani Winds, winners of a 2024 Grammy Award, are visiting Toronto as a part of the 21C Music Competition. IM will current good up to date woodwind quintet compositions by Paquito D’Rivera and Lalo Schifrin, together with two of the cheekiest works by Poulenc: Trio for Oboe, Bassoon, and Piano, FP 43, and the Sextet, FP 100, with a Canadian premiere of Valerie Coleman’s Portraits of Langston, for flute, clarinet, piano and narrator. An important likelihood to discover the woodwind soundscape. Data right here.
College of Toronto Opera: The Avenue of Avarice
Sunday, January 19, 2:30 p.m.
Fleck Dance Theatre, Harbourfront Centre, Free (with e mail registration).
A real native venture right here. 4 mini-operas composed by college students of School of Music, College of Toronto, drawing from the colorful historical past of Toronto’s Jarvis Avenue, can be premiered on this Sunday afternoon. It’s outstanding what number of tales sleep quietly within the very streets we casually stroll by. The richness of our personal expertise fuels us by the modifications and trials of our personal life, of our personal house. Although all of the online-tickets are taken, there can be a restricted variety of walk-up tickets accessible, scheduled to be launched at 12:30 p.m. onward on Sunday on the Fleck Dance Theatre. After all, you possibly can stream from residence, however it’s by no means the identical. Come out and be a part of this to-be-packed home, and fall into the magic of dwell storytelling. Data right here.
Royal Conservatory of Music: Bruce Liu, Piano
Sunday, January 19, 3 p.m.
Koerner Corridor, $75+
Bruce Liu, winner of 18th Chopin Piano Competitors in 2021, brings his musical finesse and good approach to Koerner Corridor this Sunday afternoon matinee, with a wealthy program of late romanticism and a touch of modernism: Tchaikovsky, Mendelssohn, Rachmaninov, Scriabin and Prokofiev. The piano, regardless of its percussive nature, will be spun to inform tales of infinitely lengthy phrases below the palms of a masterful pianist — an unattainable job for mere mortals. There are only a few tickets left for this live performance, so get your tickets straight away, and see what magic could fill this afternoon live performance. Data 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 subject 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.
