It is a checklist of concert events we’re attending, wishing we might attend, or eager about attending between January 13 and 19, 2024. For extra of what’s taking place round Toronto, go to our calendar right here.
Toronto Symphony Orchestra: Emanuel Ax + Mozart
Wednesday, January 15, 8 p.m., Saturday, January 18, 8 p.m., Sunday, January 19, 3 p.m.
Roy Thomson Corridor, $63+
Much like final week, there’s loads of familiarity in TSO’s programming this week: Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 25 with perennial favorite, Emanuel Ax; and the wonderful Additionally Sprach Zarathustra — and sure, it’s nice to think about among the viewers discovering the work as an entire for the primary time. There’s a lot extra music after the fantastic opening, the opening that grew to become engraved so deeply into our cultural historical past with Kubrick’s 2001: A House Odyssey (in actual fact, there’s 30+ min after ‘Einleitung, oder Sunnenaufgang’: ‘Introduction’, or Dawn). And, each a type of minutes is golden. Getting uncovered to Tippet’s Concerto for Double String Orchestra is a welcome bonus; his retake on the outdated custom of the ripieno concerto (a bit like Vivaldi’s concerti grossi), options many parts of the previous: people songs, the earliest base of an orchestra, together with the strings, plus jazz and the rhythmic range (thanks, world music) that infiltrated classical music within the early twentieth century. Come and expertise how we construct previous and current, and what it means for us, to look again and ponder about what progress or passage of time might imply with this piece, almost 90 years outdated, but sounding contemporary to many people. Data right here.
Canadian Opera Firm: Dance Sequence: Preview of DanceWeekend ‘25
Wednesday, January 15, Midday
Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre, 4 Seasons Centre, Free.
In anticipation of Dance Ontario’s annual DanceWeekend’25, amazingly fluid, vibrant, and devoted dancers will fill the midweek midday hour with gestures, rhythm, and lyricism. Drawing from such vast genres of ballet, flamenco, Hip Hop, Indian classical, Egyptian, Chinese language, up to date, and extra, it is a nice alternative to expertise rhythm and music in a special context. How can we manipulate time? Or is it we who’re manipulated by time and sonic occasions? Does it matter which means it goes? Come and discover out — and see the sound and pulses come alive earlier than our eyes. Data right here.
Hugh’s Room Dwell: Gryphon Trio + Jovino Santos Neto and Associates
Saturday, January 18, 8 p.m.
Inexperienced Sanderson Corridor, Hugh’s Room, 296 Broadview Ave., $45+
Three-time Latin Grammy nominee Jovino Santos Neto is a jack of all trades — he performs the flute, piano, composes and arranges, and teaches and conducts. This busy man is joined by the native fav Gryphon Trio and different visitor musicians in a night of exploration of music and nature. Chamber music might be in many alternative varieties and genres, and it’s all the time beautiful to see such collaboration — let’s see what this mature artist (boyish Jovino, 70 years outdated this 12 months, and an inhabitant of such very completely different cultures; Rio de Janeiro and Seattle), will current to us, with such wealthy life experiences. Data right here.
21C Music Competition: Michelle Cann and The Imani Winds
Saturday, January 18, 8 p.m.
Koerner Corridor, $21+
The traditional woodwind quintet consists of flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, and bassoon. Nonetheless, not like string orchestras or brass bands, until you’ve been looking for out to listen to this particular format, most audiences might have heard such a mix solely in passing fragments: in an orchestra live performance with part solos, more than likely. To listen to the ensemble’s color and functionality is a uncommon alternative, and the superb Imani Winds, winners of a 2024 Grammy Award, are visiting Toronto as a part of the 21C Music Competition. IM will current good up to date woodwind quintet compositions by Paquito D’Rivera and Lalo Schifrin, together with two of the cheekiest works by Poulenc: Trio for Oboe, Bassoon, and Piano, FP 43, and the Sextet, FP 100, with a Canadian premiere of Valerie Coleman’s Portraits of Langston, for flute, clarinet, piano and narrator. An important likelihood to discover the woodwind soundscape. Data right here.
College of Toronto Opera: The Avenue of Avarice
Sunday, January 19, 2:30 p.m.
Fleck Dance Theatre, Harbourfront Centre, Free (with electronic mail registration).
A real native venture right here. 4 mini-operas composed by college students of School of Music, College of Toronto, drawing from the colorful historical past of Toronto’s Jarvis Road, can be premiered on this Sunday afternoon. It’s exceptional what number of tales sleep quietly within the very streets we casually stroll by means of. The richness of our personal expertise fuels us by means of the modifications and trials of our personal life, of our personal area. Although all of the online-tickets are taken, there can be a restricted variety of walk-up tickets accessible, scheduled to be launched at 12:30 p.m. onward on Sunday on the Fleck Dance Theatre. After all, you’ll be able to stream from house, but it surely’s by no means the identical. Come out and be a part of this to-be-packed home, and fall into the magic of reside storytelling. Data right here.
Royal Conservatory of Music: Bruce Liu, Piano
Sunday, January 19, 3 p.m.
Koerner Corridor, $75+
Bruce Liu, winner of 18th Chopin Piano Competitors in 2021, brings his musical finesse and good approach to Koerner Corridor this Sunday afternoon matinee, with a wealthy program of late romanticism and a touch of modernism: Tchaikovsky, Mendelssohn, Rachmaninov, Scriabin and Prokofiev. The piano, regardless of its percussive nature, might be spun to inform tales of infinitely lengthy phrases below the arms of a masterful pianist — an not possible activity for mere mortals. There are only a few tickets left for this live performance, so get your tickets instantly, and see what magic might fill this afternoon live performance. Data right here.
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Cecilia tumbled into ‘severe’ music examine when she determined to keep away from attending medical college. Presently working within the area 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.