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Virgin Festival Toronto

Music

Saturday, September 6 — Sunday, September 7

Toronto Island Park
South of downtown Toronto

$87-$159

It’s time to check the mic, plug in the guitar and crank the amp to 11 as Virgin Festival returns to Toronto. Get ready for Canada’s largest rock festival featuring headliners Foo Fighters, Oasis, Bloc Party, Paul Weller, Stereophonics, Wintersleep and much more. More than 50 artists in total are scheduled to perform on three stages over two days. And while music may take centre stage at the festival, there’ll be plenty more to see and do – from a Vendor Village with everything from haircuts to an autograph tent and the Green Spot with great ideas for helping our environment.

Omer Deslauriers (1927-1999) visionnaire, rassembleur et bâtisseur

Miscellaneous

Tuesday, September 23 at 11:45 AM

Hôtel fairmont royal york
100, rue front ouest, Toronto

Viva l'Italia

Music

Wednesday, September 24 — Sunday, September 28

Trinity-St. Paul’s Centre
427 Bloor Street West, Toronto

$15 - $72

Stefano Montanari, Guest Director

“Stefano Montanari’s violin playing is absolutely astounding, full of trills, mood changes and impeccable virtuosity.” Classical Net

Programme:

Veracini Ouverture in F Major, op. 6, no. 4
Vivaldi Violin Concerto in B-flat Major, RV 369
Geminiani La Follia
Brescianello Concerto for violin & bassoon
Tartini Violin Concerto in A Major, D.96
Boccherini Sinfonia in C major, G.491

Tafelmusik’s 30th anniversary season opens with music from sunny Italy! Enter the dazzling world of the Italian baroque with a concert of passionate and poetic Italian concertos, led by our guest director and violin soloist, Stefano Montanari. Features spirited music by Vivaldi, Tartini, and Boccherini, as well as a virtuosic concerto for violin and bassoon by Brescianello.

Schedule
Wed Sept 24 at 7pm
Thurs – Sat, Sept 25 – 27 at 8pm
Sun Sept 28 at 3:30pm

Reservoir-pneumatic

Dance

Thursday, September 25 — Saturday, September 27 at 08:00 PM

Dancemakers Centre for Creation
The Distillery Historic District, 55 Mill Street, The Cannery, Building 58, Studio 313, Toronto

$22 | $18

Dancemakers presents revealing contemporary choreography
reservoir-pneumatic
George Stamos (Montreal)

Collaborators:
Lee Anholt & Jackie Gallant
Owen Chapman & Luciane Pinto
Clara Furey & George Stamos
Karine Gautier & Sarah Williams

"I kept catching myself drifting uncontrollably between reality and the theatrical world being created before me"
Nadine LaRoche, Filly.ca, October 2006

AGO Gallery School classes begin Sept. 29 – register today!

Visual Arts

Monday, September 29 — Monday, December 8

Anne Tanenbaum Gallery School
60 McCaul Street, Toronto

Explore . Imagine . Create
At the Anne Tanenbaum Gallery School

Art Courses for All Ages
• Children
• Youth
• Families
• Adults

Classes sell out quickly, so sign up today!
For more information visit ago.net/education, call 416 979 6608 or email ticketing@ago.net

Anne Tanenbaum Gallery School now located at 60 McCaul Street, just steps away from the AGO.

Mozart in Love - Sinfonia Toronto Concert

Music

Friday, October 17 at 08:00 PM

Grace Church on-the-Hill
300 Lonsdale Road, Toronto

Online discount tickets: $35 adult, $27 senior, $7 student

Sinfonia Toronto and Conductor Nurhan Arman will open the orchestra’s 10th anniversary season on Friday, October 17, 2008, 8 p.m. at Grace Church on-the-Hill (300 Lonsdale Road). The concert, titled ‘Mozart in Love,’ will feature the brilliant Canadian pianist Angela Park in Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 9.

Pianist Angela Park has established herself as one of Canada's leading young musicians. Equally accomplished in both solo and chamber music experience, Angela's versatility has led to continued success in performances across Canada, as well as in parts of the United States, Europe, and Mexico.

Born in London, Ontario, Angela began her musical studies at the age of three. With the guidance of James Anagnoson, she went on to become the youngest Gold Medal winner of the Western Ontario Conservatory of Music, as well as consistent recipient of numerous awards and prizes at the Ontario Provincial Festivals, Canadian National Music Festival, and the Canadian Music Competitions.

Angela has won the Grand Prize at the 2001 Grace Welsh Prize for Piano in Chicago, and fifth prize at the 2003 World Piano Competition in Cincinnati. In 2006 Angela was the only Canadian representative and recipient of a prize at the Honens International Piano Competition in Calgary. Most recently, she obtained a medal at the 2007 Maria Canals International Competition in Barcelona.

Angela has performed as soloist with Orchestra London Canada, Sinfonia Toronto, Canadian Sinfonietta, the UWO Symphony Orchestra, and the University of Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Her live performances have been recorded and broadcast on CBC National Radio and on National Public Radio in the United States.

The ‘Mozart in Love’ program will also include Elgar’s beloved Serenade and Tchaikovsky’s Souvenir de Florence.

There will be a free post-concert reception, giving audience members a chance to meet the orchestra members, conductor and soloist.

Online discount tickets are $35 adult, $27 senior, $7 student (16-29) and can be purchased at www.sinfoniatoronto.com or at regular price by phone 416-499-0403 or at the door.

Violin Magic - Sinfonia Toronto Concert

Music

Friday, November 14

Grace Church on-the-Hill
300 Lonsdale Rd. Toronto

Online discount tickets: $35 adult, $27 senior, $7 student

Sinfonia Toronto will present a Masterpiece Series concert on Friday, November 14 at 8 pm in the Grace Church on-the-Hill (300 Lonsdale Road). Music Director, Nurhan Arman will conduct.

The concert titled ‘Violin Magic’ will feature the orchestra’s concertmaster Violinist Mary-Elizabeth Brown in Schubert’s playful Rondo and Sarasate’s virtuoso showpiece ‘Gypsy Airs’.
In addition to her position as concertmaster of Sinfonia Toronto, Mary-Elizabeth is currently Associate Concertmaster of Orchestra London Canada as well as Concertmaster of the Youth Orchestra of the Americas and of the Britten-Pears orchestra in Aldeburgh, England. She has played under distinguished conductors such as Kryszstof Penderecki, Lorin Maazel, Benjamin Zander, Carlos Miguel Prieto, Isaac Karabtchevsky and Placido Domingo.
She has been the recipient of numerous awards and grants from the University of Toronto, the City of London, DePaul University, the Hazel Crydermann-Wees Foundation, the Université de Montréal, Fonds des Amis de l'Art and the American Suzuki Foundation. She has soloed in masterclasses with Regis Pasqier, Pierre Amoyal, Sylvia Rosenberg, Jean-Jacques Kantorow, Pamela Frank, Pinchas Zukerman and the late Lorand Fenyves, among others. She has appeared with the London Youth Symphony, Orchestra London Canada and the Banff Festival Chamber Orchestra.
As a chamber musician, she has been heard on CBC Radio and at major festivals across Canada including the Scotia Festival, Le Festival Internationale du Domaine Forget and the Banff Summer Arts Festival. She has worked with members of the St. Lawrence, Orford, Artur Leblanc and Brentano Quartets as well as the Gryphon Trio, William Aide and Laurence Lesser. A two-time laureate of the Canadian Music Competition National Finals, she plays on a 1737 Guidantus violin and an F.N. Voirin bow on loan from the Banff Centre for the Arts.
Other works on the program are Janacek’s brilliant Suite and Dvorak’s romantic Serenade.
There will be a free post-concert reception, giving audience members a chance to meet the orchestra members, conductor and soloists.

Online discount tickets are $35 adult, $27 senior, $7 student (16-29) and can be purchased at www.sinfoniatoronto.com or at regular price by phone 416-499-0403 or at the door.

Guests From Europe - Sinfonia Toronto Concert

Music

Friday, December 12 at 08:00 PM

Grace Church on-the-Hill
300 Lonsdale Rd. Toronto

Online discount tickets: $35 adult, $27 senior, $7 student

Sinfonia Toronto will present a colourful and varied program in a Masterpiece Series concert on Friday, December 12 at 8 pm. The concert will take place under the baton of guest conductor Rista Savic at Grace Church on-the-Hill (300 Lonsdale Road).

The concert titled ‘Guests from Europe’ will feature Slovenian clarinet virtuoso Darko Brlek performing Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet in an orchestral version.
Clarinetist Darko Brlek has performed throughout Europe and in many distinguished musical centres all over the world. As a soloist he performed with radio Slovenia Symphony Orchestra, Staatstheater Oldenburg, Deutsches Kammerorchester, Sinfonia Toronto, Mannheim Kammerorchester, Moscow Chamber Orchestra and Bashmet’s Moscow Soloists, Cannes Symphony Orchestra, Mexican State Symphony Orchestra, Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra, Philip Emanuel Bach Orchestra Berlin, Macedonian Philharmonic Orchestra, Sarajevo Philharmonic Orchestra and many others. He has recorded for the Slovenian and Bosnian Radio and TV, for the French and Spanish national radio houses and for the HSR, BR, SRT, ORF, RAI and Mexican television. He has also recorded several compact discs.
Conductor Rista Savic, has been guest conductor with the Berlin Symphony Orchestra, Archi della Scala Milano, Torino Philharmonic Orchestra, the China Peking Philharmonic, the Shenzhen (China) Symphony Orchestra, the Mexican State Symphony Orchestra, Sinfonia Toronto, the Constance Southwest German Philharmonic, the Bari Symphony Orchestra, the Long Mount Symphony (Colorado, USA), the Radio Symphony Orchestra of Pilsen, the Florence Chamber Orchestra, the United Europe Chamber Orchestra Milano, the Virtuosi di Praga, the Philharmonic Orchestra Cluj, the Rio Camerata (Brazil) and many others. Since 2001 Rista Savic has been the principal conductor of the German Chamber Orchestra Frankfurt am Main and also the First Guest Conductor of the China Peking Philharmonic.
In addition to Mozart’s sublime Clarinet Quintet, the concert will feature selections from Grieg’s colourful Peer Gynt Suite, Holst’s St. Paul Suite as well as one of Mendelssohn’s brilliant string works Sinfonia No. 10. Toronto composer Ronald Royer’s Mistico will open this varied program.
There will be a free post-concert reception, giving audience members a chance to meet the orchestra members, guest-conductor and soloist.

Online discount tickets are $35 adult, $27 senior, $7 student (16-29) and can be purchased at www.sinfoniatoronto.com or at regular price by phone 416-499-0403 or at the door.