This can be a checklist of concert events we’re attending, wishing we may attend, or interested by attending between January 20 and 26, 2025. For extra of what’s occurring round Toronto, go to our calendar right here.
Glenn Gould College: The Robert W. and G. Ann Corcoran Concerto Competitors Finals
Wednesday, January 22, 7 p.m.
Koerner Corridor. Free — register for tickets
In case you are in a good monetary squeeze post-Blue Monday (that’s TODAY), or simply want some uplifting from the drudgery of winter, this occasion is for you! This annual concerto competitors from Glenn Gould College options finalists on numerous devices vying for an opportunity to play a concerto with the Royal Conservatory Orchestra within the 25/26 season. Koerner Corridor is gorgeous to have a look at, and it sounds superb. The children are hungry and prepared. Items they’ve chosen are positively a few of the better of the canon — and I hear that there will likely be a harp concerto, a rarity. It’s open to the general public totally free. If you happen to ever felt that Koerner Corridor occasions are out of your realm, that is the proper occasion to return and expertise it. If you happen to all the time love the Koerner Corridor occasions, that is, properly, a wealthy bonus. Information right here.
COC: Paraphrases on La Reine-garçon
Thursday, January 23, Midday
Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre, Free.
Canadian composer Julien Bilodeau has been busy, particularly in Montréal the place he often collaborates with the Montréal Symphony Orchestra and Opéra de Montréal. Because the Toronto viewers awaits the opening of La Reine-garçon on the COC later this month, Adam Sherkin, a well-recognized pianist, who is understood for his exploration of current and new music, and the world by way of his personal eyes as a composer, presents Bilodeau’s piano music on this Thursday afternoon. An awesome probability to sneakpeek the soundscape of Bilodeau — the best way composers write, just like the best way writers and painters specific, is private and intimate. The extra acquainted we turn out to be, the extra we will hear and sense. A beautiful solution to discover a person’s voice within the intimate and acquainted idiom of the solo piano. Learn our Preview right here. Information right here.
COC: Madama Butterfly
Friday, January 24, 7:30 p.m., Sunday, January 26, 2 p.m., Saturday, February 1, 7:30 p.m., Thursday, January 6, 7:30 p.m., Saturday, February 8, 4:30 p.m., Wednesday, February 12, 7:30 p.m., Friday, February 14, 7:30 p.m., Sunday, February 16, 2 p.m.
Presently sold-out for normal seatings, with every day launch of standing room tickets, and rush tickets. A staunch favorite by Puccini (Puccini was ranked no. 2 with 1,893 performances of 12 operas, throughout 5 seasons: 2008/09, to 2012/13, in response to the Operabase, outnumbered solely by Verdi), it’s already almost sold-out. A tragic love story with loss of life, colonialism, energy battle, warfare — the checklist of challenges are infinite on this specific work, particularly when seen by way of at the moment’s eyes, however there are lovely arias — this, nobody can deny. No additional phrases are needed, because the Toronto viewers are exhibiting their love with their tickets in fingers! If you wish to try the hype, get your self early into the queue on efficiency days: standing room tickets (an actual cut price at 15 {dollars} a spot!), or rush tickets (subjected to availability) are probably your greatest wager at this level. These are restricted to 2 per particular person, and there’s particular directions on how one can acquire them — learn fastidiously, get your self a spot, and expertise the drama. Information right here.
21C Music Competition: Continuum Up to date Music: Spanning
Saturday, January 25, 8 p.m.
Temerty Theatre, Royal Conservatory of Music, $21+
This can be a nice program of present voices by way of classical music. Beginning with one of the vital fashionable composers of our time, Kaija Saariaho (1952-2023), Continuum has curated an incredible number of music, stuffed strong on this short-and-sweet 80 minutes occasion. These names might not be acquainted but: Anna Höstman, Kotoka Suzuki, Ana Sokolović, Jocelyn Morlock (1969-2023), and Carolyn Chen, however belief that their concepts and expressions have to be skilled stay, to make sense in our personal world. We now favour digital entry for a lot of issues — however the media that we nurtured by way of the analogue world, won’t ever be true with out the feeling by way of our personal our bodies — to the touch, to carry, to bodily resonate, as we expertise it in its entirety, together with area (the stay performers and the corridor), and time (with out the choice of opting out, or being distracted). Would you somewhat be in a deep bodily embrace along with your family members, or choose a Zoom name? How do we all know what we really feel, until we’ve felt it by way of the elements which have constructed our lives — by way of touchable, passing actuality? There will likely be loads to take residence. Drop your worries about bizarre music, and are available. Information right here.
College of Toronto New Music Competition: Maciej Frackiewicz
Sunday, January 26, 7:30 p.m.
Walter Corridor, 80 Queen’s Park, College of Music. Free.
Accordion. The place would you find in your thoughts? Oktoberfest? A view of Paris with the Eiffel Tower within the distance? Folksy bluegrass scene down south? Infectious pull of tango and cuenca? This transportable, versatile machine is at residence with many various types, and its capability to evoke has cemented its place in all genres of music — together with classical. Sure. Classical accordion music is a factor. It’s a nice pleasure to find new issues, particularly when the chance presents the most effective worldwide performers on stage, totally free. We’re very lucky to have a wealthy accordion scene in Toronto — if that is information to you, please come out on this Sunday night, and see Maciej Frackiewicz tear it up on the stage. With method to burn and spare, and a big thoughts and curiosity, Frakiewicz has gained many first worldwide prizes, and he’s been concerned with over 100 new works for the accordion — for solo, duos with cello, violin, piano, and so on., and bigger chamber music works. Come and listen to what is feasible, and put slightly crack within the stereotype that we regularly construct in our personal thoughts. Isn’t it superb to nonetheless be capable to discover new issues, when every thing feels so saturated and acquainted? Information right here.
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Cecilia tumbled into ‘critical’ music research when she determined to keep away from attending medical faculty. Presently working within the area 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.