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Winner of the 2024 Leeds International Piano Compe

Winner of the 2024 Leeds International Piano Competition and recipient of the Dame Fanny Waterman Gold Medal, 25-year-old Canadian pianist Jaeden Izik-Dzurko has been celebrated by audiences, critics, and composers alike for his communicative power, refined technical command, and artistic maturity. Don’t miss this virtuoso’s riveting program of piano masterpieces by Bach, Chopin, Scriabin, and Rachmaninoff!

📆 Jaeden Izik-Dzurko
July 23, 2025
📍Walter Hall, Toronto, ON
7:30 pm-9:30 pm

Tickets are now available for purchase on our website.

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Introducing our Mainstage Artists: countertenor Fr

Introducing our Mainstage Artists: countertenor Franco Fagioli!

"Franco Fagioli is the leading virtuoso countertenor of our time. Renowned as much for his artistry as for the beauty of his voice, spanning three octaves and masterful technique, he is the first countertenor to sign an exclusive contract with Deutsche Grammophon. The singer’s relationship with the Yellow Label reflects his status as one of the brightest stars of Baroque and early 19th-century bel canto opera. His solo debut recording for the company, Rossini, with Armonia Atenea and George Petrou, his album of Handel Arias with Il Pomo d’Oro, and his album of spectacular virtuoso arias by Leonardo Vinci, also with Il Pomo d’Oro, have all garnered universal critical acclaim."

📆 Franco Fagioli: The Last Castrato
July 29, 2025
📍Koerner Hall, Toronto, ON
7:30 pm-9:30 pm

You can read the rest of Franco's biography and purchase tickets to his performance on our website today!

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Migrations is a musical exploration of why people

Migrations is a musical exploration of why people leave their homes to pursue life in a new land, and the reverberating impact it has on future generations. It is an acoustic tribute to the complex but universal human act of migration, weaving lush, mosaic-like dreamscapes with poignant, heartrending lyrics. A suite of music conceptualized by the JUNO Award-winning saxophonist and composer Allison Au (pronounced “ow”), Migrations draws emotion and depth from Au’s family history of immigration to Canada: from Southern China and Malaysia on her father’s side and war-torn Poland and Israel on her mother’s side. She says “Migrations is one of the most important pieces of music I have created because it is so personal. It speaks to my identity as a Canadian born to immigrant parents and delves into subject matter that I previously attempted to articulate, but never found the project through which to do so.” Commissioned by the Royal Conservatory of Music in 2019, Migrations premiered in January 2020 at the 21C Music Festival at Toronto’s Koerner Hall, and was recorded as Au’s fourth studio album in 2022 in Toronto.

📆 Alison Au
July 21, 2025
📍Walter Hall, Toronto, ON
7:30 pm-9:30 pm

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Introducing our Mainstage Artists: soprano Melody

Introducing our Mainstage Artists: soprano Melody Courage!

"Métis soprano Melody Courage gained attention as The Native Girl “… played with ethereal grace…” in the 2017 world premiere of Marie Clements and Brian Current’s opera Missing, coproduced by City Opera Vancouver and Pacific Opera Victoria. This season’s highlights for Melody feature the role of The Rose in The Little Prince with Pacific Opera Victoria, and a return to Vancouver Bach Choir as the soprano soloist in Britten’s War Requiem, as well as Mendelssohn’s Elijah with Victoria Philharmonic Choir. Recent performances for Melody include Chrisann in Calgary Opera’s production of The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs, First Lady in The Magic Flute
with Vancouver Opera, concerts with Indigidivas, with conductor Janna Sailor and Calgary Philharmonic."

📆 Missing: In Concert
July 24, 2025
📍Koerner Hall, Toronto, ON
7:30 pm-9:30 pm

You can read the rest of Melody's biography and purchase tickets to her performance on our website today!

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The spell-binding Yiddish music ensemble, Schmaltz

The spell-binding Yiddish music ensemble, Schmaltz & Pepper returns to TSM for the 20th Anniversary Festival, playing klezmer inspired by jazz, Roma, classical, and European folk music. This powerhouse group’s members include acclaimed Toronto Symphony principal clarinetist Eric Abramovitz, a passionate and gifted klezmer musician, and Grammy-nominated Drew Jurecka on violin/accordion/mandolin. Joined by JUNO-winning pianist Jeremy Ledbetter, award-winning bassist Michael Herring, and renowned Payadora violinist/vocalist Rebekah Wolkstein, they produce and perform original arrangements of klezmer and Yiddish music, displaying their joyous and virtuosic genre-bending fusion of many musical styles.

📆 Schmaltz & Pepper
July 16, 2025
📍Walter Hall, Toronto, ON
7:30 pm-9:30 pm

Tickets are now available for purchase on our website.
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The Rosamunde String Quartet is comprised of music

The Rosamunde String Quartet is comprised of musicians of some of the world’s leading orchestras: Noah Bendix-Balgley, first concertmaster of the Berlin Philharmonic; Shanshan Yao, member of the Kammerakademie Potsdam and former violinist in the New York Philharmonic; Teng Li, principal viola of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra; and Nathan Vickery, cellist in the New York Philharmonic. Celebrated for its “uniformly rich sound from top to bottom” (Cleveland Classical), the quartet formed in 2015 as a passion project of its all-star members. Joined by violist Juan-Miguel Hernandez, they will perform works by Mendelssohn, Mozart, and George Walker!

📆 Rosamunde String Quartet
July 11, 2025
📍Walter Hall, Toronto, ON
7:30 pm-9:30 pm

Tickets are now available for purchase on our website.
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Introducing our Mainstage Artists: the conductor o

Introducing our Mainstage Artists: the conductor of Opening Night, Leonardo García-Alarcón!

"In just a few years, Argentine conductor, harpsichordist, and composer Leonardo García-Alarcón has become an essential figure, in demand by the greatest musical and operatic institutions, from the Opéra de Paris to the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires and the Grand-Théâtre in Geneva, and has even been awarded the ICMA 2025 prize for “Artist of the Year”. After studying piano in Argentina, Leonardo García-Alarcón moved to Europe in 1997 and joined the Geneva Conservatory in the class of harpsichordist Christiane Jaccottet. It is under the guidance of Gabriel Garrido that he begins his career as a baroque musician. In 2005, he created his ensemble Cappella Mediterranea to explore Italian, Spanish, and South American baroque music, a repertoire that has since expanded considerably. In residence at the Ambronay Festival, he had his first successes, notably with the rediscovery in 2010 of an oratorio by Michelangelo Falvetti: Il Diluvio universale. That same year, he took over the direction of the Chamber Choir of Namur, recognized as one of the best baroque choral groups today, and in 2014, he founded the Millennium Orchestra, with which he devotes himself mainly to the works of Handel."

📆 Opening Night: The Coronation of Poppea
July 10, 2025
📍Koerner Hall, Toronto, ON
7:30 pm-9:30 pm

You can read the rest of Leonardo's biography and purchase tickets to our Opening Night performance on our website today!

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Mary Bevan released her debut solo disc, Voyages,

Mary Bevan released her debut solo disc, Voyages, in 2017 (with pianist Joseph Middleton on the Signum label), which explores the music of eminent French composers and the settings they wrote for the poems of Charles Baudelaire. For this recital, Mary revisits her favourite repertoire from Voyages, including songs by Duparc, Fauré, Debussy, Chabrier, and more, but this time, each song is paired with another by a female composer writing around the same time. In this way, the recital seeks to bring the female composers from out of the shadow of their male counterparts and restore them to their rightful places as composers of equal quality and interest.

📆 Bevan & Vignoles
July 14, 2025
📍Walter Hall, Toronto, ON
7:30 pm-9:30 pm

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