This can be a record of concert events we’re attending, wishing we might attend, or enthusiastic about attending between January 20 and 26, 2025. For extra of what’s taking place 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
In case you are in a decent 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 varied devices vying for an opportunity to play a concerto with the Royal Conservatory Orchestra within the 25/26 season. Koerner Corridor is gorgeous to take a look at, and it sounds superb. The kids are hungry and prepared. Items they’ve chosen are positively among the better of the canon — and I hear that there will probably be a harp concerto, a rarity. It’s open to the general public without cost. For those who ever felt that Koerner Corridor occasions are out of your realm, that is the proper occasion to come back and expertise it. For those who all the time love the Koerner Corridor occasions, that is, properly, 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 steadily 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 thought for his exploration of current and new music, and the world via his personal eyes as a composer, presents Bilodeau’s piano music on this Thursday afternoon. An important probability to sneakpeek the soundscape of Bilodeau — the best way composers write, just like the best way writers and painters specific, is private and intimate. The extra acquainted we change into, the extra we are able to hear and sense. A beautiful method 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 present sold-out for normal seatings, with every 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, based on the Operabase, outnumbered solely by Verdi), it’s already almost sold-out. A tragic love story with dying, colonialism, energy battle, warfare — the record of challenges are countless on this explicit work, particularly when seen via in the present day’s eyes, however there are lovely arias — this, nobody can deny. No additional phrases are mandatory, because the Toronto viewers are displaying their love with their tickets in palms! If you wish to take a look at 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 seemingly your finest wager at this level. These are restricted to 2 per particular person, and there’s particular directions on easy methods to 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+
This can be a nice program of present voices via classical music. Beginning with probably the most widespread composers of our time, Kaija Saariaho (1952-2023), Continuum has curated a tremendous number of music, stuffed stable on this short-and-sweet 80 minutes occasion. These names will not be 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 slightly 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, except we’ve felt it via the parts which have constructed our lives — via touchable, passing actuality? There will probably be lots 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 types, and its capability 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 probably the greatest worldwide performers on stage, without cost. 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 method to burn and spare, and a huge thoughts and curiosity, Frakiewicz has gained 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 forth., and bigger chamber music works. Come and listen to what is feasible, and put just a little crack within the stereotype that we regularly construct in our personal thoughts. Isn’t it superb to nonetheless be capable to discover new issues, when every little thing feels so saturated and acquainted? Information right here.
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Cecilia tumbled into ‘severe’ music examine when she determined to keep away from attending medical faculty. At present 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.
