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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

Tickets are now available for purchase on our website.

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Introducing our Mainstage Artists: violist and TSM

Introducing our Mainstage Artists: violist and TSM Alumna Cassia Drake!

"Cassia Drake recently graduated with a Master of Musical Arts from the Yale School of Music under Ettore Causa. Prior to this, she completed both a Bachelor’s and Master’s of Music at the Colburn Conservatory, studying with Paul Coletti, Yura Lee, and Ben Ullery. As an avid chamber musician, she has participated in a variety of festivals and programs, collaborating with musicians from the Tokyo, Emerson, and Aviv String Quartets. As a soloist, Ms. Drake has appeared with ensembles such as the Colburn Orchestra, Artis-Naples Philharmonic, and the Sarasota Music Festival Orchestra. In her spare time, she enjoys reading fiction and exploring new hobbies, such as pottery and frisbee. Ms. Drake plays on an Adolphus Mönnig viola from 1872, a generous loan from Bernard Friedland."

📆 TSM Finale
August 2, 2025
📍Walter Hall, Toronto, ON
7:30 pm-9:30 pm

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

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An Evening in Vienna will be an unforgettable nigh

An Evening in Vienna will be an unforgettable night of arias, waltzes, bon-bons, and violin favourites by J. Strauss, R. Strauss, Lehar, Kreisler, Mozart, and more. Featuring mezzo-soprano Simone McIntosh, violinist Yura Lee, and the TSM Festival Orchestra, you'll be taken on a magical journey through the “City of Music” for a celebration of the Viennese masters!

📆 An Evening in Vienna
July 31, 2025
📍Koerner 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: mezzo-soprano M

Introducing our Mainstage Artists: mezzo-soprano Marion Newman!

"Critically acclaimed and award-winning mezzo-soprano Marion Newman is Kwagiulth and Stó:lō First Nations with English, Irish and Scottish heritage. Marion was born in Bella Coola and grew up in Sooke, BC, immersed in and embraced by her community and culture. She is one of Canada’s most accomplished singers in repertoire ranging from Charpentier to Cusson and operatic roles, including Carmen and Rosina in The Barber of Seville. Nominated for a Dora Award for her leading role in the world premiere of Shanawdithit (Nolan/Burry) with Toronto’s Tapestry Opera, Ian Ritchie wrote, 'She invests her character with towering dignity and courage.' Marion is Assistant Professor of Voice at University of Victoria’s School of Music and is the host of CBC’s Saturday Afternoon at the Opera."

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

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

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The golden age of castrati, custodians of flawless

The golden age of castrati, custodians of flawless singing technique and unmatched virtuosity, came to an end in the late eighteenth century. The last great castrato was Giovanni Battista Velluti (1780-1861), for whom composers such as Gioachino Rossini, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Francesco Morlacchi, and Giuseppe Nicolini wrote their most successful operas. Featuring vocal sensation Franco Fagioli, with the support of the Orchestre de l’Opéra Royal de Versailles, this project will include some of the greatest scores written for Velutti, the Last Castrato.

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

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