2021-22 Season
Join us for an exciting 2021/22 season
Under our new Artistic Director Jean-Sébastien Vallée
A season to connect
The TMChoir is presenting an exciting season of choral experiences that will connect singers, audiences and great choral music. You can attend our concerts in person (vaccinated, masked and physically distanced) or online.
Tickets for our April, May and June concerts will be available starting in March 2022.
November 2, 2021 at 7:30 pm
Yorkminster Park Baptist Church
In person and livestreamed
Coming to Carry Me Home
Jean-Sebastien Vallee, conductor
Jonelle Sills, soprano
Brett Polegato, baritone
Toronto Mendelssohn Choir
Toronto Symphony Orchestra
TMC launches a season of hope with a concert that speaks to our search to find our place, a sense of home and belonging.
The Chariot Jubilee by Nathaniel Dett
Ein deutsches Requiem by Johannes Brahms
December 1, 2021 at 7:30 pm
Yorkminster Park Baptist Church
In person and livestreamed
Festival of Carols
Jean-Sebastien Vallee, conductor
Simon Rivard, associate conductor
Toronto Mendelssohn Choir
Toronto Symphony Youth Orchestra
TMC’s annual welcome to the Christmas season. This year the Choir will be joined by the Toronto Symphony Youth Orchestra.
Lauda per la Nativitá del Signore by Ottorino Respighi
Music and carol selections by Andrew Balfour, Sally Beamish, Rosephanye Powell, Hyo-Won Woo and others.
April 15, 2022 at 7:30 pm
Yorkminster Park Baptist Church
In person and livestreamed
Sacred Music for a Sacred Space
Simon Rivard, conductor
Brainerd Blyden-Taylor, conductor
Nathaniel Dett Chorale
Toronto Mendelssohn Choir
TMC and the Nathaniel Dett Chorale share music that draws on different influences and traditions while sharing a common thread: humanity’s belief that amidst the most adverse circumstances imaginable, a higher, transcending world is enveloping us, and that a strong voice is necessary to evoke it.
All-Night Vigil by Sergei Rachmaninoff
Works by R. Nathaniel Dett, Adolphus Hailstork and others
May 28, 2022 at 3:00 pm
Yorkminster Park Baptist Church
In person and livestreamed
Endangered
Jean-Sébastien Vallée, conductor
Toronto Mendelssohn Choir
Chamber Orchestra
Soloists
Mamachimowin by Andrew Balfour – a TMC commission
In the Beginning by Aaron Copland
Mass for the Endangered by Sarah Kirkland Snider – Canadian premiere
Mass for the Endangered is a hymn for the voiceless and the discounted, a requiem for the not-yet-gone. Using original text by writer, visual artist, and musician, Nathaniel Bellows, in combination with the traditional Latin, Mass for the Endangered embodies a prayer for endangered animals and the environments in which they live.
June 28, 2022 at 7:30 pm
Yorkminster Park Baptist Church
In person and livestreamed
Free Concert to conclude the Symposium
Jean-Sebastien Vallee, conductor
Emerging conductors participating in the Conductors’ Symposium
Toronto Mendelssohn Choir
The TMC re-launches its Conductors’ Symposium for 2022, welcoming emerging conductors to work with Artistic Director Jean-Sébastien Vallée. The Symposium concludes with a concert. Enjoy this free concert of great choral music – and see some future conducting leaders in action. Patrons will be able to attend in person and also online through the concert livestream. Details on how to get tickets will be released in the spring.
Please note: All concert programs are subject to change, including repertoire, performers and dates.