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July 21, 2020
TMC announces appointment of Simon Rivard as Associate Conductor
2020-21 Season
Toronto Mendelssohn Choir is thrilled to announce the appointment of Simon Rivard as Associate Conductor. Simon Rivard has been serving as RBC Resident Conductor of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and Conductor of the Toronto Symphony Youth Orchestra since 2018. He comes to the position of TMC Associate Conductor having worked closely with the Choir: in preparing the TMC for their performances with the TSO; jointly conducting the TMC’s Festival of Carols concerts this past December which featured the TSYO as guest artists; and directing the TMC-TSYO-TSO collaboration in May to create the virtual performance of Gabriel Fauré’s Cantique de Jean Racine.
July 7, 2020
TMC shares Andrew Balfour’s Mamachimowin
2019-20 Season
The TMC has released a video of its premiere of Andrew Balfour’s Mamachimowin, commissioned by the TMC for its 125th anniversary gala concert in October 2019.
June 1, 2020
TMC, TSYO and TSO collaborate on a virtual choral-orchestral work – Gabriel Fauré’s Cantique de Jean Racine
2019-20 Season
Concert cancellations due to Covid-19 and the desire to keep sharing music has led to performances all around the world by virtual choirs and by virtual orchestras. The TSO’s RBC Resident Conductor Simon Rivard thought, why not choir and orchestra together?
Building on the long-standing collaboration between the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, and the Toronto Symphony Youth Orchestra, Simon set out to bring together (virtually) musicians from these three groups to share Gabriel Fauré’s lush and well-loved Cantique de Jean Racine.
May 25, 2020
TMC presents Great Poets in Music online on May 30th
2019-20 Season
TMC presents Great Poets in Music online on May 30th
Stratford actors Tom McCamus and Lucy Peacock join TMC Interim Conductor David Fallis for a celebration of great poetry set to music. The Toronto Mendelssohn Choir’s 2019/20 concert-– Great Poets in Music – scheduled for May 30th was cancelled due to Covid-19 but the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir has found a way to create an online program, in the spirit of this planned concert, that brings together the spoken word and the sung word – and can be enjoyed by everyone safely from their homes.
March 13, 2020
TMC cancels March 21 Singsation Saturday and April 8 & 10 concerts
2019-20 Season
The Toronto Mendelssohn Choir is cancelling our Singsation Saturday workshop on March 21 and our Sacred Music concerts on April 8 and 10.
We have taken this decision in the interest of the physical and mental wellbeing of our choristers, patrons and workshop participants, and in support of Toronto, Ontario and Canada’s efforts to slow the impact of COVID-19 through physical distancing.
March 3, 2020
TMC presents its popular Sacred Music for a Sacred Space concerts at St Anne’s Anglican Church on April 8 and 10
2019-20 Season
The Toronto Mendelssohn Choir presents its popular Sacred Music for a Sacred Space concerts at St Anne’s Anglican Church on April 8 and 10. The Choir welcomes guest conductor Simon Rivard, TSO Resident Conductor, who takes over from Gregory Batsleer who was originally scheduled to conduct this concert.
January 28, 2020
Toronto Mendelssohn Choir welcomes three international conductors to conclude 2019/20 season
2019-20 Season
The three final concerts in the TMC’s 2019/20 season present an exciting opportunity for Torontonians to experience great choral music in interesting programs, and to see the work of three internationally-acclaimed conductors.
November 19, 2019
Ancaster-based countertenor, composer and organist Zachary Windus awarded the TMC’s 2019 Debbie Fleming Prize for Choral Composition
2019-20 Season
The fifth annual TMC Choral Composition Competition asked emerging composers to submit a sacred or secular a cappella work for the Christmas season. Submissions were reviewed by the three-member jury of TMC interim conductor David Fallis, Toronto Symphony Youth Orchestra conductor Simon Rivard, and TMC associate conductor Ezra Burke. The winner of the competition receives the $1000 Debbie Fleming Prize for Choral Composition and their work is performed by the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir in concert. The 2019 winner is In Bethlehem upon that morn by Zachary Windus.
October 17, 2019
Toronto Mendelssohn Choir announces new Executive Director
2019-20 Season
Toronto Mendelssohn Choir (TMC) Board Chair Erin Finlay announced today that respected arts administrator Anna Kajtar has been named as Executive Director of the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir; she assumes the position from Cynthia Hawkins who recently retired from the Choir after 15 years.