It is a listing of concert events we’re attending, wishing we might attend, or interested by attending between July 21 and 27, 2025. For extra of what’s taking place round Toronto, go to our calendar right here.
Toronto Summer time Music: Allison Au: Migrations
Monday, July 21, 7:30 p.m.
Walter Corridor, 80 Queen’s Park, $20+
It’s pretty to have such riches in the course of the conventional summer time break, due to Toronto Summer time Music — each the variability and excellence of programming have been unbelievable this yr, but once more. For this Monday, Au brings her work, Migrations, to the stage with the Migrations ensemble hybrid: Jazz combo and string quartet. Because the doorways proceed to close and the fences get increased for a lot of, the need of discovering a spot to name one’s personal, and the harrowing trials and quiet traumas that include such searches, can simply really feel surreal to these of us who’ve been fortunate — to this point. Nonetheless, I hope you agree that it’s migrations, the movement of individuals and tradition which have made us who we’re, bringing the riches we take without any consideration, particularly in Toronto, one of the crucial numerous cities on the earth. Come and open your minds and ears to this unbelievable work, first premiered in January 2020 for the 21C Music Competition; it was launched as a studio album in 2022, however there’s nothing extra visceral than a real-time human connection. Data right here.
DROM Taberna: Tuesday Night Swing Dance with Max Simpson Quintet
Tuesday, July 22, 8 p.m.
DROM Taberna, 458 Queen St West, $15 on the door
The Improbable DROM hosts many fantastic stay music teams, and Tuesdays are for swing dance with a stay band! This week, Max Simpson Quintet will carry vitality and enjoyable, and a touch (or tons) of reckless abandon and swing vitality to Queen West. If summer time night breezes dare you to strive one thing totally different, this simply is likely to be the factor — see what your toes say when you arrive! The spontaneity and informality of those stay band dance periods are so infectious: it’s good to be reminded that rhythm is an vitality phenomenon, not only a sonic occasion that we sit and admire with reverence. Data right here.
Toronto Summer time Music. Lacking: In Live performance
Thursday, July 24, 7:30 p.m.
Koerner Corridor, $20+
Just a few years in the past, I picked up a ebook from the Toronto Public Library’s beneficial studying shelf: Freeway of Tears, by Jessica McDiarmid. Ever since then, every time I hear about lacking girls, my coronary heart drops — particularly if it entails an Indigenous lady. The quiet complacency that we selected over these lacking girls over a long time of Canadian historical past is really horrifying, and such a taboo topic wants our voices and a focus desperately. Brian Present (composer) and Marie Clements (librettist)’s live performance efficiency of Lacking, will function Continuum Ensemble and acquainted voices, together with Marion Newman as Dr. Wilson, and Asitha Tennekoon as Devon. Not all arts can simply be stunning — usually it’s the onerous, ugly aspect of actuality that makes us human, and although it’s tempting to chase after the highs, it’s crucial, and necessary, to look into the depths of our troubles and the sufferings inside our communities. Learn our Interview with conductor Timothy Lengthy, soprano Melody Braveness, and mezzo-soprano Marion Newman right here. Data right here.
Summer time Opera Lyric Theatre: L’Incoronazione di Poppea / Cosi Fan Tutti / La Vie Parisienne
Friday, July 25, 8 p.m. (L’Incoronazione di Poppea), Saturday, July 26, 2 p.m. (Cosi), Saturday, July 26, 8 p.m. (La Vie Parisienne), Sunday, July 27, 2 p.m. (Cosi) Efficiency proceed to August 3.
Alumnae Theatre, 70 Berkeley St., $22+, $60 move for all three operas obtainable
SOLT, a summer time fixture program the place younger singers and pianist/administrators can unfold their wings large to create an opera expertise, hits its first weekend of performances. This summer time, three operas are on the invoice: L’Incoronazione di Poppea (Monteverdi; Music Director/Pianist: Sabina Rzazade), Cosi Fan Tutti (Mozart; Music Director/Pianist: Minira Najafzade), and La Vie Parisienne (Offenbach; Music Director/Pianist: Paul Goodfellow). It’s a good way to expertise opera on an intimate scale, and with such a range, there’ll be one thing to swimsuit everybody! Come to expertise that particular vitality from younger artists as they struggle their palms at these nice operas. Data right here.
Elora Competition: Janina Fialkowska in Recital
Saturday, July 26, 4 p.m.
St. John’s Anglican Church, 36 Henderson St., Elora, $55 Grownup/$20 Scholar/$10 Youngster
Fialkowska, identified for her pretty Chopin interpretation and mentorship with Arthur Rubinstein, brings a lovely program of Grieg, Schumann, Ravel, and Chopin to stunning Elora. It’s a pleasure to move out within the Ontario summer time to the countryside — come out for this pretty matinee live performance in gorgeous Elora, earlier than gently heading again to town, with coronary heart filled with large house and wonder. Learn our Preview right here. Data right here.
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Cecilia tumbled into ‘severe’ music research when she determined to keep away from attending medical faculty. At present working within the area of classical music, recording, and Korean-English interpretation, she tends to get her nostril soiled in many various issues within the metropolis. Cecilia holds a DMA in Piano Efficiency from the College of Nebraska-Lincoln.
