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October 29, 2020
Toronto Mendelssohn Choir honours and remembers Canada’s Indigenous Veterans in a Remembrance Day concert
2020-21 Season
The Toronto Mendelssohn Choir’s next online concert, to stream on Remembrance Day, will reflect on and honour the experience of Indigenous Veterans. The TMC, under conductor Simon Rivard, is joined by composer and guest curator Andrew Balfour, and Elder Dr. Duke Redbird for a program that brings together choral music, poetry and dance. The centre piece of the program is Andrew Balfour’s Notinikew. Movements of the work will be sung by Andrew’s Winnipeg-based Camerata Nova and by the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir.
October 13, 2020
Toronto Mendelssohn Choir sings glorious songs of Thanksgiving
2020-21 Season
Ken Stephen, Large Stage Live. On Saturday night, the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir premiered what is undoubtedly the most intricate virtual concert I’ve yet seen. Over a 50-minute span, the Choir presented music ranging from Bach to the present day, and across a geographic span that extended from Canada to Liverpool, and from Leipzig to the south of India. Even more striking, this performance incorporated both visual art creation and dance alongside music — and dance in a style that cannot have been familiar to many in the online audience.
October 7, 2020
Kannamma Program Notes
2020-21 Season
Check out the list of performers and repertoire, plus text and translation, for this online presentation.
October 5, 2020
TMC Safety Procedures for Kannamma Recording Sessions
2020-21 Season
After careful consideration, the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir decided to record its professional core of singers in the creation of Kannamma-a concert of Thanksgiving. Recordings were done in early September. The TMC developed an extensive safety protocol for recordings that followed City of Toronto guidelines regarding performers being a minimum of two metres/6 feet apart.
September 17, 2020
Kannamma – TMC’s digital concert of Thanksgiving on Oct 10
2020-21 Season
From Bach to the Beatles, from visual arts to dance to drumming to singing – TMC’s concert of thanksgiving brings together an amazing group of artists in a program of choral music and more that evocatively expresses gratitude. Kannamma-a Concert of Thanksgiving will be livestreamed on Saturday, October 10 at 8 pm EDT
September 1, 2020
What does it take to sing together in the time of Covid-19?
2020-21 Season
Lots of planning. Location, masks, marked spots, print-at-home music, health questionnaires — and a love of choral music.
July 21, 2020
Toronto Mendelssohn Choir Names New Associate Baton
2020-21 Season
Michael Vincent, Ludwig Van Toronto. Montréal-born conductor Simon Rivard has been appointed Associate Conductor of the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir. Named as one of CBC’s “30 Hot Canadian Classical Musicians under 30”, Rivard was mentored by Valery Gergiev at the Verbier Festival (2018).
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.