This can be a checklist of concert events we’re attending, wishing we may attend, or serious about 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 beautiful to have such riches through the conventional summer season break, because of Toronto Summer time Music — each the variability and excellence of programming have been incredible 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 greater 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 date. Nonetheless, I hope you agree that it’s migrations, the stream of individuals and tradition which have made us who we’re, bringing the riches we take with no consideration, particularly in Toronto, some of the various cities on the planet. Come and open your minds and ears to this incredible 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. Information 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 Incredible DROM hosts many great stay music teams, and Tuesdays are for swing dance with a stay band! This week, Max Simpson Quintet will convey power and enjoyable, and a touch (or tons) of reckless abandon and swing vitality to Queen West. If summer season night breezes dare you to attempt one thing completely different, this simply is perhaps 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 power phenomenon, not only a sonic occasion that we sit and admire with reverence. Information 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 guide from the Toronto Public Library’s beneficial studying shelf: Freeway of Tears, by Jessica McDiarmid. Ever since then, at any time when I hear about lacking ladies, my coronary heart drops — particularly if it includes an Indigenous lady. The quiet complacency that we selected over these lacking ladies over a long time of Canadian historical past is really horrifying, and such a taboo topic wants our voices and a spotlight desperately. Brian Present (composer) and Marie Clements (librettist)’s live performance efficiency of Lacking, will characteristic Continuum Ensemble and acquainted voices, together with Marion Newman as Dr. Wilson, and Asitha Tennekoon as Devon. Not all arts can simply be stunning — typically it’s the onerous, ugly facet of actuality that makes us human, and although it’s tempting to chase after the highs, it’s essential, and vital, 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. Information 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 cross for all three operas obtainable
SOLT, a summer season fixture program the place younger singers and pianist/administrators can unfold their wings huge to create an opera expertise, hits its first weekend of performances. This summer season, 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 an effective way to expertise opera on an intimate scale, and with such a range, there’ll be one thing to go well with everybody! Come to expertise that particular power from younger artists as they struggle their arms at these nice operas. Information 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 Pupil/$10 Baby
Fialkowska, recognized for her beautiful 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 go out within the Ontario summer season to the countryside — come out for this beautiful matinee live performance in gorgeous Elora, earlier than gently heading again to the town, with coronary heart stuffed with huge house and wonder. Learn our Preview right here. 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 subject 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.
