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Introducing the 2025 Community Program Mentors! We

Introducing the 2025 Community Program Mentors! We're thrilled to welcome these remarkable and esteemed musicians to provide an experience that deepens the participant's relationship with music in their daily lives. Read all about them on our website!

Chamber Music 🎻
- Aaron Schwebel, violin
- Eri Kosaka, violin
- Shane Kim, violin
- Keith Hamm, viola
- Ivan Ivanovich, viola
- Rémi Pelletier, viola
- Emmanuelle Beaulieu Bergeron, cello
- Leana Rutt, cello
- Song Hee Lee, cello
- Michael Chiarello, bass
- Dakota Martin, flute
- Sarah Jeffrey, oboe
- Eric Abramovitz, clarinet
- Miles Haskins, clarinet
- Gabriel Radford, horn

Chamber Choir 🎼
- Kathleen Allan, conductor

Piano Masterclass 🎹
-Ian Parker, piano

Apply for the 2025 Community Program now on our website!
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The TSM Academy – Community Program turns ten th

The TSM Academy – Community Program turns ten this summer! Since 2015, we have been providing learning and performance opportunities for advanced adult amateur musicians from around the province and across the country. We are proud to provide an experience that deepens the participants' relationship with music in their daily lives. Community Program participants can choose from three streams: Chamber Music, Chamber Choir, and the Piano Masterclass. For one week each summer, you can rehearse and perform with professional musicians, and attend workshops, masterclasses, and Festival concerts.

If you are an avid amateur musician looking to connect with other musicians who share your passion, the Community Program is the perfect place for you. Join us this summer to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of the Community Program! Apply now on our website.

Chamber Music Application Deadline: March 19, 2025 (Limited spots are available, and applicants may be placed on a waitlist)
Chamber Choir & Piano Masterclass Application Deadline: June 26, 2025

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INTRODUCING our final Chamber Music Institute Ment

INTRODUCING our final Chamber Music Institute Mentor: violinist & violist Barry Shiffman!🎻

"Internationally acclaimed violinist and violist Barry Shiffman is well-respected as a musician, educator and administrator. He was co-founder of the St. Lawrence String Quartet (SLSQ), and since 2010, has been both the Associate Dean and Director of Chamber Music at the Glenn Gould School and Director of the Phil and Eli Taylor Performance Academy for Young Artists at The Royal Conservatory of Music. During his 17 years with the SLSQ, he appeared in over 2,000 concerts in venues around the globe and recorded several critically acclaimed discs under an exclusive contract with EMI Classics. A sought-after juror, he has served on the violin jury of the Tchaikovsky and Montreal Violin Competitions, and the String Quartet Competitions of London Wigmore Hall, Lyon and Geneva, as well as many national competitions in Canada. He holds the position of Artistic Director of Rockport Music in Massachusetts, overseeing all classical programming for the organization including a five-week summer chamber music festival."

You can read more about Barry on our website! Applications for the 2025 Emerging Artist Program closed last night, and we can't wait to listen to this year's applicants!

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This week's trip down memory lane brings us back t

This week's trip down memory lane brings us back to the 2011 Festival, which featured performances by our Academy Fellows. Pictured here is violinist Yolanda Bruno, who has remained a familiar face to TSM, and to the city of Toronto! We're always thrilled to see the progression of musical journeys from our Alumni.

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INTRODUCING: our Director of the Art of Song Progr

INTRODUCING: our Director of the Art of Song Program, pianist Steven Philcox 🎹

"Pianist Steven Philcox has quickly established himself as one of Canada’s finest collaborators and has performed with many renowned singers including Richard Margison, Isabel Bayrakdarian, Shannon Mercer, and Measha Brueggergosman. His performances consistently receive high praise and critical acclaim prompting Toronto’s The Globe and Mail to write “a superb piano partner…gorgeously accompanied.” Mr. Philcox is the director of the Collaborative Piano Department in the Faculty of Music at the University of Toronto, and the director of Toronto Summer Music’s Art of Song program."

You can read more about Steven on our website! Applications for the 2025 Emerging Artist Program closed last night, and we can't wait to listen to this year's applicants!

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Calling all emerging artists: It's your last chanc

Calling all emerging artists: It's your last chance to be considered for a spot in the 2025 Chamber Music Institute or Art of Song program! Applications will close at 11:59pm ET tonight, so be sure to get your application in now.

APPLY NOW BY CLICKING THE LINK IN OUR BIO OR STORY!

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Today, we're flashing back to the 2021 New Horizon

Today, we're flashing back to the 2021 New Horizons Festival, where we were able to showcase our Mainstage Artists, Fellows, and Community Program Participants both virtually and in person. Pictured here are Art of Song Mentor Adrianne Pieczonka, and Art of Song Program Director Steven Philcox, in coaching with Fellows!

We're thrilled to meet the 2025 Cohort of Fellows, be sure to submit your application while there is still time!

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INTRODUCING: our second Art of Song mentor, pianis

INTRODUCING: our second Art of Song mentor, pianist Roger Vignoles 🎹

"Roger Vignoles is one of the most distinguished piano accompanists of our time. In a career spanning five decades, he has become recognized throughout the world as a leading exponent of the art of song. He has appeared at all the world’s principal venues and festivals, from the Concertgebouw to Carnegie Hall, and with many of the world’s foremost artists, such as Sir Thomas Allen, Barbara Bonney, Christine Brewer, Florian Boesch, Bernarda Fink, Elina Garanca, Susan Graham, Dame Kiri te Kanawa, Angelika Kirchschlager, Dame Felicity Lott, Mark Padmore, Christoph Prégardien, and Sarah Walker. While continuing his busy playing career, Vignoles is deeply committed to working with and coaching younger singers and pianists. He gives frequent masterclasses and workshops in Europe, Scandinavia, and the US, where he is a regular visitor to the Juilliard School, Cleveland Institute of Music, and the Tanglewood Music Center. He is an Honourary fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge, and Prince Consort Professor of Accompaniment at the Royal College of Music."

You can read more about Roger on our website, and apply for the Emerging Artist Program - Art of Song Program at Toronto Summer Music by January 30th, 2025.

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