Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra and Chamber Choir has introduced particulars of their 2025/26 season, the second with British violinist Rachel Podger as Principal Visitor Director. Podger will likely be main three of the live shows throughout 2025/26, together with a tour of Western Canada.
The season was curated by Inventive Co-Administrators Brandon Chui, Dominic Teresi, and Cristina Zacharias.
Tafelmusik 2025/26
The season builds on the successes of 2024/25, together with the extremely acclaimed recording of Haydn Symphonies directed by Rachel Podger. With many sold-out performances through the present season, Thursday night time live shows are making a comeback, along with the standard Friday to Sunday performances.
“Energized by the successes of the final yr, our forty seventh season is crammed to the brim with timeless masterworks and barely heard gems, carried out on interval devices with fearless ardour,” says Cristina Zacharias, on behalf of Tafelmusik’s Inventive Co-Administrators in a press release. “Be a part of us to be entranced, invigorated and delighted by the human connection solely music can encourage.”
“The 2025/26 Season is a part of our daring imaginative and prescient to share the distinctive pleasure of Tafelmusik with audiences right here in Toronto and throughout the globe, because of our stay and digital live shows, excursions, and recordings,” says Glenn Hodgins, Government Director. “We’re crammed with gratitude for the generosity of our donors and the assist of subscribers, with out whom Tafelmusik’s success wouldn’t be potential.”
Rachel Podger, Principal Visitor Director
Podger leads three live shows throughout 2025/26.
Mozart 40 & Schubert 5 on Sept 26, 27 & 28 (Koerner Corridor)
Rachel Podger will lead Tafelmusik’s season opener. Mozart’s No. 40, accomplished simply three years earlier than his premature dying in 1791, was recognized to have influenced Schubert and his personal Symphony No. 5. Podger and Tafelmusik discover these well-known works with their inimitable model.
Bach: Brandenburg Concertos on Jan 29, 30, 31, and Feb 1, 2026 (Jeanne Lamon Corridor)
Podger will lead the orchestra in a number of the enduring Brandenburg Concertos, together with the premiere of a brand new orchestral association of Bach’s organ Prelude and Fugue in E-Flat Main, “St. Anne.”
Influencers: The Bachs, Mozart & Haydn, Apr 9, 2026 at George Weston Recital Corridor; Apr 10, 11 & 12, 2026 at Jeanne Lamon Corridor
Podger and the orchestra discover the synergies between these seminal composers of the classical custom.
Different 2025/26 Season Highlights
Vivaldi’s World on Oct 23, 24, 25, 26, 2025
Directed by Lina Tur Bonet, violin
Spanish violinist Lina Tur Bonet turned heads along with her debut with Tafelmusik in 2024, and he or she’ll be again for a program that features Vivaldi’s Il Grosso Mogul concerto, Geminiani’s showpiece, La Folia, and works by Zelenka and Albicastro.
Vivaldi’s World will tour east to Ottawa for a efficiency on the Nationwide Arts Centre’s Southam Corridor on Oct 27, 2025.
Double Dixit: Lotti & Handel on Nov 28, 29, 30, 2025
Directed by Ivars Taurins
Choral music takes centre stage when Tafelmusik Chamber Choir joins the orchestra to discover settings of the Latin textual content for Psalm 110 by Lotti and Handel. Choir Director Ivars Taurins curates this system round Venetian Antonio Lotti, who influenced a younger Handel when he arrived in Italy.
Handel Messiah on Dec 18, 19, & 20, 2025 at Koerner Corridor
Directed by Ivars Taurins
In line with the spirit of the unique, Tafelmusik brings Handel’s vacation basic to life with a forged of soloists that features soprano Stephanie True, mezzo-soprano Krisztina Szabó, tenor Nicholas Scott and bass-baritone Jonathan Woody.
Sing-Alongside Messiah on Dec 21, 2025 at Massey Corridor
Directed by Mr. Handel
The gang favorite returns, with Mr. Handel directing a mass viewers choir together with the Tafelmusik Chamber Choir, orchestra, and visitor soloists.
Rameau & The Artwork of Dance: Tafelmusik meets Juilliard on Feb 19, 20, 21, 22, 2026
Directed by Robert Mealy, violin
Choreographed by Caroline Copeland
French baroque dance music comes below the highlight with friends Juilliard415 becoming a member of Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra. Robert Mealy, violinist and head of Juilliard’s Historic Efficiency program, leads a program of music by Marais, Insurgent, and Rameau, with choreography by famend baroque dancer Caroline Copeland.
A Bach Celebration on Mar 12, 13, 14, 15, 2026
Directed by Ivars Taurins
Choir Director Ivars Taurins chosen a couple of gems from Bach’s formidable repertoire of greater than 200 cantatas. Soloists soprano Myriam Leblanc and Grammy Award–successful tenor James Reese be a part of the orchestra.
Listening to Her Voice on Apr 30, Could 1, 2, & 3, 2026
Amanda Forsythe, soprano
Soprano Amanda Forsythe explores feminine characters from baroque operas and cantatas by Handel, Pergolesi, Élisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre, and others. Tafelmusik extends that focus to girls composers with a newly commissioned work by Métis composer Karen Sunabacka.
Beethoven & Bologne: The Winds of Change on Could 29, 30, & 31, 2026 at Koerner Corridor
Directed by Shunske Sato, violin
The French Revolution impressed many artists with its philosophy of liberty, equality, and fraternity. Japanese-American violinist Shunske Sato makes his Tafelmusik debut main Beethoven’s revolutionary Symphony no. 3 “Eroica”, and follows with Violin Concerto op. 3, no. 2 by the Black 18th-century composer Joseph Bologne, who fought within the Revolutionary warfare.
Tafelmusik and Rachel Podger carry out at Lotte Live performance Corridor, Seoul, South Korea on November 1, 2024:
Touring and Recording
Together with the Oct 27, 2025 date on the Nationwide Arts Centre’s Southam Corridor, Ottawa for Vivaldi’s World, Tafelmusik will likely be heading west this coming fall.
From Nov 3–23, 2025, Tafelmusik’s Western Canada Tour will take Rachel Podger and the orchestra to British Columbia and Alberta.
Tafelmusik’s program A Handel Celebration, recorded stay in live performance at Koerner Corridor in 2024, will likely be launched in late 2025 as a recording on the Tafelmusik Media label. The album will characteristic visitor soloists Amanda Forsythe, soprano, and Thomas Hobbs, tenor, together with Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra and Chamber Choir directed by Ivars Taurins.
The Tafelmusik Baroque Summer season Institute takes place from June 7 – 20, 2026, on the College of Music, College of Toronto, offering intensive coaching in baroque vocal and instrumental efficiency apply.
Tafelmusik continues its collaboration with Opera Atelier, becoming a member of the corporate for Mozart’s The Magic Flute (Oct 15, 16, 18 & 19, 2025 on the Elgin Theatre) and a brand new manufacturing of Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande (Apr 15, 16, 18 & 19, 2026 at Koerner Corridor). Tafelmusik performs below the baton of Opera Atelier Music Director, David Fallis.
Tafelmusik’s Digital Sequence Move returns for 2025/26, together with on-demand entry to a few full-length digital Tafelmusik live shows: Concerti Virtuosi and Bach Brandenburgs! with Rachel Podger, and Vivaldi’s World with Lina Tur Bonet. The Digital Sequence Move is complimentary with all live-concert subscriptions and contains movies from the Tafelmusik vault, in-depth lectures, pre-concert chats with artists, and different instructional content material.
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