It is a record of live shows 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
If you’re 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 varied devices vying for an opportunity to play a concerto with the Royal Conservatory Orchestra within the 25/26 season. Koerner Corridor is gorgeous to take a look at, and it sounds superb. The kids are hungry and prepared. Items they’ve chosen are undoubtedly a number 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 at no cost. Should you ever felt that Koerner Corridor occasions are out of your realm, that is the proper occasion to come back and expertise it. Should you all the time love the Koerner Corridor occasions, that is, effectively, a wealthy bonus. Data 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 regularly 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 his personal eyes as a composer, presents Bilodeau’s piano music on this Thursday afternoon. An awesome likelihood to sneakpeek the soundscape of Bilodeau — the way in which composers write, much like the way in which writers and painters categorical, is private and intimate. The extra acquainted we grow to be, the extra we are able to hear and sense. A stunning strategy to discover a person’s voice within the intimate and acquainted idiom of the solo piano. Learn our Preview right here. Data 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.
At present sold-out for normal seatings, with day by 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, based on 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 record of challenges are countless on this explicit work, particularly when seen by as we speak’s eyes, however there are stunning arias — this, nobody can deny. No additional phrases are crucial, because the Toronto viewers are exhibiting their love with their tickets in arms! If you wish to try the hype, get your self early into the queue on efficiency days: standing room tickets (an actual discount at 15 {dollars} a spot!), or rush tickets (subjected to availability) are doubtless your finest wager at this level. These are restricted to 2 per particular person, and there’s particular directions on the right way to acquire them — learn rigorously, get your self a spot, and expertise the drama. Data right here.
21C Music Pageant: Continuum Modern Music: Spanning
Saturday, January 25, 8 p.m.
Temerty Theatre, Royal Conservatory of Music, $21+
It is a nice program of present voices by classical music. Beginning with probably the most common 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 will not be acquainted but: Anna Höstman, Kotoka Suzuki, Ana Sokolović, Jocelyn Morlock (1969-2023), and Carolyn Chen, however belief that their concepts and expressions should 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 the analogue world, won’t ever be true with out the feeling by 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 relatively 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 the elements which have constructed our lives — by touchable, passing actuality? There will likely be lots to take house. Drop your worries about bizarre music, and are available. Data right here.
College of Toronto New Music Pageant: 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 moveable, versatile machine is at house with many various kinds, and its capacity 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 among the finest worldwide performers on stage, at no cost. 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 approach to burn and spare, and a big thoughts and curiosity, Frakiewicz has received 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 many others., and bigger chamber music works. Come and listen to what is feasible, and put a bit of crack within the stereotype that we regularly construct in our personal thoughts. Isn’t it superb to nonetheless have the ability to discover new issues, when every little thing feels so saturated and acquainted? Data right here.
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Cecilia tumbled into ‘severe’ music examine when she determined to keep away from attending medical faculty. At present 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.
