This can be a listing of concert events we’re attending, wishing we may attend, or excited about attending between June 9 and 15, 2025. For extra of what’s taking place round Toronto, go to our calendar right here.
New Music Concert events: Glimmer: A Private and Shared Exploration of Queerness
Wednesday June 11, 8 p.m.
Buddies in Unhealthy Occasions Theatre, 12 Alexander St. $20+
NMC’s model new fee to Thierry Tidrow: Glimmer, will probably be carried out on the Buddies, with nice singers: Anika Venkatesh, Danika Lorèn, and Ryan McDonal, together with the marginally uncommon instrumental ensemble of: clarinets (Brad Cherwin), flutes (Terry Lim), and viola (Hee-Soo Yoon). Tidrow, at the moment composer-in-residence at Oper Dortmund, has a lot expertise writing for the voice, and this live performance, centered on Glimmer, can be a stunning likelihood to soak into up to date vocal richness. There will probably be a pre-show speak with Tidrow, adopted by the Younger Artist Overture for this program with Kailan Fournier, performing Saariaho’s ‘Duft’ for solo clarinet at 7: 45 p.m, earlier than the primary occasion at 8 p.m. Come and see what it’s like for a person to know, assemble, and stay with an identification that clashes, and challenges the world. Learn our Interview with Thierry Tidrow right here. Information right here.
Opera 5: Toronto Opera Competition: Gala — A Evening of Opera and Musical Theatre
Thursday, June 12, 7:30 p.m.
Manufacturing facility Theatre, 125 Bathurst St., $22+
Opera 5, a younger firm, has been working very laborious, and their laborious work is creating pretty alternatives for us to develop on the super-traditional operatic world. Lately chosen as the most recent Firm-in-Residence on the Canadian Opera Firm, Opera 5’s inaugural Toronto Opera Competition entails three occasions: Gala, premiere of Come Nearer by Ryan Trew and Rachel Krehm, and William Finn’s Elegies: A Track Cycle. You will need to do not forget that music exists in many various types and areas, and that until we go, it’s laborious to appreciate the significance of plurality in life — particularly in arts. There’s at all times one thing infectious and contagious in true vitality and vitality — come and share that pleasure with Opera 5, of their first 12 months of festivus! Information right here.
Toronto Symphony Orchestra: Gimeno Conducts the Better of Brahms
Thursday, June 12, 8 p.m., Saturday, June 14, 8 p.m., Sunday, June 15, 3 p.m.
Roy Thomson Corridor, $30+
The Icelandic celebrity, Víkingur Ólafsson, steps onto the Roy Thomson stage to play a perennial favorite: Brahms Piano Concerto No. 1. Begun as a piece for two-pianos, Brahms quickly realized that his concepts wanted one thing bigger — and after a lot deliberation (first conception round 1854, to public premiere in 1859), the work initially didn’t win the hearts of the viewers. Nonetheless, this early Brahms composition is stuffed with drama, and Ólafsson, thought-about among the best of his technology, can be the soloist to discover the extraordinary depth of this work. Brahms’ 4th symphony pairs to finish this system, and for every evening, a brand new work will probably be premiered: Amy Branson (June 12), Andrew James Clark (Jun 14), Sonny-Ray Day Rider (Jun 15). One thing new, one thing previous, and all superb: an effective way to sink into an evening stuffed with pathos, and to create an emotional journey by means of some of the beloved masters. Information right here.
Trinity Bach Challenge: Bach & Honour
Friday, June 13, 8 p.m.
Knox Presbyterian Church, 630 Spadina Ave., $10+
TBP’s third season closes with pretty music of Bach (Cantata BWV 107, 117, and motet BWV 230), and a cappella works by William Byrd, Arvo Pärt, and Charles Villiers Stanford. TBP’s chamber singing has been high notch, and their instrumental ensemble, which varies from program to program, has been wealthy in selection and expression. It’s so good to see a excessive calibre efficiency that’s really accessible to all, so come out, and finish the bustle of the workweek with Bach’s rigorously crafted masterpieces in glory — glory of one thing that’s bigger than us, life that pulses past the little we will see as people. There will probably be two extra performances of Bach & Honour in June (June 18: St John’s Yorkmills Anglican, June 21: little Trinity Anglican Church). Unfold the phrase, pretty much as good arts can elevate the day from mundane to one thing particular. Information right here.
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Cecilia tumbled into ‘critical’ music examine 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 various issues within the metropolis. Cecilia holds a DMA in Piano Efficiency from the College of Nebraska-Lincoln.