It is a checklist of concert events we’re attending, wishing we may attend, or interested by attending between August 5 and 10, 2025. For extra of what’s occurring round Toronto, go to our calendar right here.
Harbourfront Centre: Summer season Music within the Backyard: The String’s The Factor: Mark Fewer
Thursday, August 7, 7p.m.
Toronto Music Backyard, 479 Queens Quay West, Free
The ever-versatile Mark Fewer, and pals Nathan Hiltz (guitar) and Joseph Phillips (bass) carry a pleasant blended bag to the summer season lakeside, together with Bach, Brubeck, Paul Desmond, Nathan Hiltz, Joao Gilberto and extra. Fewer’s vast musical pursuits imply there’s at all times one thing for everybody. An effective way to relax into the summer season weekend. Data right here.
Dwayne Gretzky and Choir! Choir! Choir!
Thursday, August 7, 6:30 p.m.
Budweiser Stage, $46+
Choir! Choir! Choir!’s placing up an incredible early summer season live performance/sing-along on the Budweiser Stage this Thursday. With particular visitors, Dwayne Gretzky — the celebration band well-versed within the hits of 70s/80s/90s — and the Superdogs (sure, the CNE household favorite pups and people), this occasion guarantees a lot relaxed enjoyable, together with amusing and wonderful canine stunts and abilities, and a great deal of summer season favorite singalongs. As the main emphasis of Choir! Choir! Choir! is to make singing accessible to everybody, this might be that excellent exercise to pack up your loved ones and pals, and benefit from the easier pleasure of life — of being collectively. Clap. Sing. Dance. Sway. What summer season and all-age households and chosen-families are for. Data right here.
Competition of the Sound: Photos From the East
Friday, August 8, 1:30 p.m.
Charles W. Stockey Centre for the Performing Arts, 2 Bay St., Perry Sound, $ 22.34+
For the nation cottage-bound, the Competition of Sound, based in 1979, is a good way to sneak some music into lengthy summer season days. This week, an incredible group of pianists will descend on the Charles W. Stockey Centre: Janina Fialkowska (Wednesday, August 6), Kevin Chen (Thursday, August 7), and Carter Johnson and Meagan Milatz (Friday, August 8). Johnson, this 12 months’s Stockey Younger Artist Award winner, was one of many finalists on the 2025 Van Cliburn competitors, and his uncommon programming — together with fierce Prokofiev picks, Shostakovich preludes, Hindemith Sonata No. 3, and Ravel’s Left Hand Concerto — was really spectacular. This explicit live performance is a good way to see this upcoming star shut in pretty Perry Sound. Meagan Milatz, 2024 Prix Opus “Discovery of the 12 months” winner, will share the stage with Johnson, on this program of Robert and Clara Schumann, Schubert, and Tishchenko. Data right here.
Music Across the Nook: Celebrating Classics and Daring Beginnings
Saturday, August 9 at Glad Day Lit, 23 Lisgar St.
Sunday, August 10, Youthful Vengeance, 1110 Dundas St W.
$30, $18 pupil ticket out there
Younger musicians Emma Meinrenken, Diane Kim, Lynn Sue-A-Quan and Matthew Christakos carry high quality chamber music to our neighbourhoods’ notable native companies. Since 2023, they’ve carried out in pretty outlets akin to Blood Brothers Brewing and the Espresso Boutique, and for this weekend, they’ll take seats on the Glad Day Lit and Youthful Vengeance, presenting two Canadian works by Kalen Smith and Pari Bharami, and a agency favorite, Shostakovich Quartet no. 8. Concise, casual, but fiercely musical, this might be a beautiful break to punctuate the lengthy, stress-free summer season weekend. Data right here.
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Cecilia tumbled into ‘critical’ music examine 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.
