Toronto’s Continuum Up to date Music has launched its forty first Season of daring and revolutionary chamber music. The season for 2025/26 options latest commissions and world premieres, together with Canadian and worldwide up to date works.
Many shall be carried out in Toronto for the very first time.
“Our forty first season invitations audiences to expertise music formed by the pure world, whereas persevering with our dedication to spotlighting new voices in Canadian music,” says Inventive Director Ryan Scott. “We’re thrilled to convey collectively our ensemble, visitor artists, and the following technology of performers, composers, and curators to share this thrilling physique of labor.”
Continuum Up to date Music 2025/26
The season launched again in July with the efficiency of Lacking, a Canadian chamber opera by Métis playwright Marie Clements and composer Brian Present, with libretto in English and Gitksan, as a part of Toronto Summer season Music.
The live performance schedule for the season consists of:
Highlights of the season
Woven Shores (October 24, 2025, St. George’s Grange Park)
This system consists of Anna Thorvaldsdottir (IC), Scape; Ashkan Behzadi (CA), Abyss: Refractive; Nathan Friedman (CA), Barcarolle; Ann Cleare (IR), 93 million miles away; Emilie Lebel (CA), Turning (a World Premiere and Continuum Fee)
Pine Bushes and Blue Sky (December 6, 2025, St. George’s Grange Park)
Curated by Inventive Producer and violinist Roan Ma and that includes harpist Stef Van Vynckt, this program consists of Marcos Balter’s Violin Concerto, Canadian composer Haotian Yu’s Ritual III, created as a part of Continuum’s HATCH 2019 mentorship program, a brand new and as but untitled work for violin and harp by Canadian Jessica Ackerley in its World Premiere (a Continuum fee), together with Toshio Hosokawa (JP), Panorama II, and Anna Höstman (CA), Pine Bushes and Blue Sky
Exterior Hole (April 11, 2026, St. George’s Grange Park)
Guitarist Rob MacDonald joins Continuum for concertos by Francisco Coll (Turia) and Tomi Räisänen (Sea of Tranquility), a solo work by Canadian composer Amy Brandon (Slancio), and ensemble works by Yaz Lancaster (Shed Velvet) and Jesse Plessis (Ishnala). The tenth Teen Composer Award shall be introduced earlier than the live performance begins.
Along with live performance programming, Continuum continues its Mentorship in Inventive Manufacturing initiative, now in its second 12 months. The initiative provides alternatives for rising artists to create, curate, and current new works.
The group may also proceed Press Play, an online collection that can function greater than 15 new works, and lengthen the attain of Canadian new music to worldwide audiences.
- Discover tickets, season particulars, and methods to assist Continuum, [HERE].
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Anya Wassenberg is the Toronto Metropolis Editor at Ludwig Van. Beforehand, she was a contract author with a specialty in tradition and journey for 3 a long time, and a inventive writing teacher for Ontariolearn.
