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March 25, 2022

Sacred Music for a Sacred Space 2022 Program Notes

2021-22 Season

The Toronto Mendelssohn Choir was joined by the Nathaniel Dett Chorale for this concert on April 15, 2022. The program notes are written by Rena Roussin, musicologist and PhD candidate….

January 10, 2022

Benjamin Sigerson wins TMC’s Choral Composition Competition

2021-22 Season

Toronto Mendelssohn Choir announces winner of the 2021 Choral Composition Competition Twenty-two composers from across Canada submitted their works to the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir for its 2021 Choral Composition Competition….

December 17, 2021

2021 TSO Messiah

2021-22 Season

Leslie Barcza, barczablog December 17, 2021 Tonight was the first of several TSO Messiahs to be heard at Roy Thomson Hall featuring the Mendelssohn Choir, Conductor Simon Rivard, and four…

December 13, 2021

TMC announces five conductors for 2022 Symposium

2021-22 Season

Five emerging conductors heading to Toronto in June to study with conductor Jean-Sébastien Vallée and the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir The Toronto Mendelssohn Choir’s annual Choral Conductors’ Symposium (returning after a…

December 3, 2021

The Meaning of Christmas

2021-22 Season

TMC media review

Review by Ken Stephen, Large Stage Live! Dec 3, 2021 As the second live-performance program since the lifting of pandemic restrictions, the annual Festival of Carols from the Toronto Mendelssohn…

November 19, 2021

Festival of Carols 2021 Program Notes

2021-22 Season

The program notes are written by musicologist and PhD student Rena Roussin. Welcome to the 2021 Festival of Carols!  This concert, a time-honoured tradition of the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir, is…

November 9, 2021

Scaled Back, Brahms’ ‘German Requiem’ Still Makes Its Grand Effect

2021-22 Season

TMC media review

Arthur Kaptainis, Classical Voice North America November 5, 2021 TORONTO — Any performance of Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem counts as an occasion, but the concert given on Nov. 2 by the Toronto Mendelssohn…

November 4, 2021

With a Song in our Hearts

2021-22 Season

TMC media review

Ken Stephen, Large Stage Live November 4, 2021 With the coming of November, the first performing arts season in nearly two years is getting under way. Arts organizations are finally planning…

October 28, 2021

Understanding what a choir needs: Introducing Jean-Sébastien Vallée

2021-22 Season

Head and shoulders photo of Artistic Director Jean-Sebastien Vallee. He is wearing a black turtle neck and jacket and is looking directly at the camera.

David Perlman, The Wholenote November 2021 I recently connected, twice, with the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir’s recently appointed artistic director, Jean-Sébastien Vallée (the eighth conductor in the choir’s 127-year history). The…