It is a record of live shows we’re attending, wishing we may attend, or fascinated by attending between December 9 and 15, 2024. For extra of what’s occurring 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 traces we attempt to attract in between issues, the fixed semiosis of the in-betweens marks our personal transient nature, and the messy, wealthy, and large world we occupy. This live performance, curated by the 24-25 Confluence Live performance Younger Inventive Affiliate, Aidan McConnell, focuses on that infinite house between the creators and the recipients — artists and viewers; or maybe, all of us are artists once we understand issues which are larger 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 shiny constellation for all who take part with open ears. Come for candy moments of intimacy — sink into the music as these pretty musicians, crossing many genres and limits, pulse collectively. Pre-concert chat at 6:45 p.m. Data 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Christmastide is among the finest occasions for a pops live performance: outdated favourites, classical bangers, choir carols, and jazz — it’s very tough to sit down in and attempt to preserve a grinch stance when these acquainted tunes waft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, probably the greatest Nat King Cole interpreters, with three albums below 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. Data 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, turned an instantaneous family title when he performed on the British Royal Wedding 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 stay human efficiency a profitable expertise. Technically and musically demanding, but terribly lovely works by Mendelssohn, Fauré, Poulnec and Klouda (Canadian premiere) promise pleasure and magnificence. To not be missed. Data 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 company: VIVA Chamber Singers, and the Amadeus Choir, usher in tidings and pleasure of the excellent news to individuals 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 huge, full-out stadium scale, and this feels excellent; a communal effort, from younger youngsters to skilled execs. Do come and expertise it stay, amongst this excellent neighborhood. Data right here.
Royal Conservatory of Music: VOCES8
Friday, December 13, 8 p.m.
Koerner Corridor. $50+
Doubtlessly probably the greatest vocal ensembles on the 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 bought out weeks in the past, but there’s 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 perfect choral live performance of the yr within the metropolis. Data 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 kind of particular — one other nice probability to expertise the wealthy resonance of a big vocal ensemble. Data 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. Recognized for her pretty 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 deliver that vacation cheer up one other notch. Data right here.
Canadian Kids’s Refrain: Songs of the Season
Sunday, December 15, 2 p.m.
Roy Thomson Corridor $56.36+
We regularly 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 convention that’s been happening for over 30 years. Starting from age six to younger adults, it’s superb what they create artistically — their musicianship and technical mastery of choral singing are genuinely spectacular — singing isn’t a straightforward factor! With many company, together with musicians of the Toronto Symphony Youth Orchestra, and an alumni choir, this can be a nice solution to expertise numerous artistry inside our neighborhood. Data 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 by means of the worldwide piano festivals. He was the youngest winner of the Franz Liszt Worldwide Piano Competitors, and has received 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. If you happen to want a respite from the ocean of seasonal cheer, this live performance will current you with spectacular technicality and panache of classical piano. Data right here.
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Cecilia tumbled into ‘severe’ music examine when she determined to keep away from attending medical faculty. Presently 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.