This can be a listing of live shows we’re attending, wishing we might attend, or fascinated about attending between December 9 and 15, 2024. For extra of what’s taking place round Toronto, go to our calendar right here.
Confluence Concert events: Letters to the Creator
Tuesday, December 10, 7:30 p.m.
Heliconian Corridor, $30
Life is a steady dialogue. Regardless of the inflexible strains we strive to attract in between issues, the fixed semiosis of the in-betweens marks our personal transient nature, and the messy, wealthy, and vast world we occupy. This live performance, curated by the 24-25 Confluence Live performance Younger Creative Affiliate, Aidan McConnell, focuses on that infinite area between the creators and the recipients — artists and viewers; or maybe, all of us are artists once we understand issues which can be higher than the mechanical a part of actuality and change into ‘artwork,’ if only for that flashing second. Music of Joni Mitchell, Milton Nascimento, Elis Regina, Cecile Mclorin Salvant, Burt Bacharach, Benjamin Britten, John Coltrane, and others, has been chosen to create a vivid constellation for all who take part with open ears. Come for candy moments of intimacy — sink into the music as these beautiful musicians, crossing many genres and bounds, pulse collectively. Pre-concert chat at 6:45 p.m. Information right here.
Toronto Symphony Orchestra: TSO Vacation Pops
Tuesday, December 10, 8 p.m.; Wednesday, December 11, 2 p.m. and eight p.m., Thursday, December 12, 8 p.m.
Roy Thomson Corridor, $78+
Christmastide is without doubt one of the greatest instances for a pops live performance: outdated favourites, classical bangers, choir carols, and jazz — it’s very tough to sit down in and attempt to preserve a grinch stance when these acquainted tunes waft in with a way of festivity. Denzal Sinclaire, among the finest Nat King Cole interpreters, with three albums underneath the belt with Common Music, is joined by Etobicoke College of Arts Vacation Refrain, TSO, and two younger and mighty soloists from TSYO: Tina Sievers and Ethan Hyo Jeon. Come and get your vacation season began with this glowing program. Information right here.
Royal Conservatory of Music: Sheku Kanneh-Mason with Isata Kanneh-Mason
Wednesday, December 11, 8 p.m.
Koerner Corridor, $50+
Two members of the astonishing Kanneh-Mason household grace Koerner Corridor this night. Cellist Sheku, the winner of 2016 BBC Younger Musician competitors, grew to become an instantaneous family identify when he performed on the British Royal Marriage ceremony of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle; the eldest Kanneh-Mason, Isata, a pianist, has been busy performing the world over, together with a BBC Proms concerto efficiency. To expertise these gifted siblings presenting this nice program of cello-piano sonatas is a tremendous deal with, because it’s the symbiosis between the people that makes a reside human efficiency a profitable expertise. Technically and musically demanding, but terribly lovely works by Mendelssohn, Fauré, Poulnec and Klouda (Canadian premiere) promise pleasure and class. To not be missed. Information right here.
Elmer Isler Singers: December Splendour: Handel’s Messiah
Friday, December 13, 7:30 p.m.
Yorkminster Park Baptist Church, $35+
Handel wrote many bangers, and maybe his hottest work, Messiah, graces many halls the world over throughout Christmastide and Easter. For this week, the ELS and nice friends: VIVA Chamber Singers, and the Amadeus Choir, usher in tidings and pleasure of the excellent news to folks on this Friday. Acquainted faces, Leslie Fagan, Allyson McHardy, Colin Ainsworth, and Peter McGillivray, will ship the excellent news as soloists. Messiah works in lots of settings — small and intimate, to large, full-out stadium scale, and this feels good; a communal effort, from younger youngsters to skilled professionals. Do come and expertise it reside, amongst this excellent group. Information right here.
Royal Conservatory of Music: VOCES8
Friday, December 13, 8 p.m.
Koerner Corridor. $50+
Doubtlessly among the finest vocal ensembles on this planet proper now, VOCES8 makes its Koerner Corridor debut. A splendid program of Christmas music from Praetorius to ‘Silver Bells’ and ‘Let It Snow’ will showcase what eight human voices can do collectively. This live performance offered out weeks in the past, but there may be more likely to be small variety of rush tickets for just a few fortunate people on the day, so get your speed-dial able to ring at 5 p.m. sharp, to hitch the packed corridor, in anticipation of what simply could also be the very best choral live performance of the 12 months within the metropolis. Information right here.
St. Michael’s Choir College: Gloria!
Saturday, December 14, 7 p.m.
Massey Corridor, $45
St. Michael’s Choir College brings the custom of choral scholarship to Massey Corridor on this Saturday night. For the 59th annual Christmas live performance, the boys and males, together with returning alumni, are presenting Vivaldi’s Gloria, Carol of the Bells, and The Carol, amongst different seasonal favourites. The splendour of 300+ male voices is sort of particular — one other nice probability to expertise the wealthy resonance of a giant vocal ensemble. Information right here.
Royal Conservatory of Music: Emilie-Claire Barlow: Winter Wonderland
Saturday, December 14, 8 p.m.
Koerner Corridor, $50+
Come for an intimate vacation live performance with Emilie-Claire, one of many brightest Canadian jazz stars. Identified for her beautiful voice and a pointy ear for arranging, Emilie-Claire’s been busy publishing 12 albums on her personal, and together with her experience as a top-notch producer, she’s an all-around tour-de-force. This night, she’s going to fill the Koerner Corridor with a 9-members blended ensemble, evoking pleasure and style to sum up this vacation season. With out intermission, this 90-minute live performance may very well be simply the factor so that you can carry that vacation cheer up one other notch. Information right here.
Canadian Kids’s Refrain: Songs of the Season
Sunday, December 15, 2 p.m.
Roy Thomson Corridor $56.36+
We frequently say we have to nurture and encourage youngsters. However on this case, come and be amazed and impressed by these gifted, hardworking youngsters as they current ‘Songs of the Season with Toronto Kids’s Refrain’, a practice that’s been happening for over 30 years. Starting from age six to younger adults, it’s wonderful what they create artistically — their musicianship and technical mastery of choral singing are genuinely spectacular — singing is just not a straightforward factor! With many friends, together with musicians of the Toronto Symphony Youth Orchestra, and an alumni choir, this can be a nice strategy to expertise various artistry inside our group. Information right here.
Royal Conservatory of Music: Kevin Chen
Sunday, December 15, 3 p.m.
Koerner Corridor, $30+
This younger Canadian man has been busy dashing via the worldwide piano festivals. He was the youngest winner of the Franz Liszt Worldwide Piano Competitors, and has gained the first prize on the Concours de Genève, and the Arthur Rubinstein Piano Grasp Competitors. Chen is bringing the height canon repertoire of the Romantic piano works of Chopin and Liszt. In case you want a respite from the ocean of seasonal cheer, this live performance will current you with spectacular technicality and panache of classical piano. Information right here.
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Cecilia tumbled into ‘critical’ music research when she determined to keep away from attending medical faculty. At the moment 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.
