Enjoy this program on YouTube Producing choral pandemic TV isn't like producing live concerts! Join Rick Phillips, classical music writer, reviewer and concert host, as he discovers the creative and technical challenges to be overcome in creating an online season of choral music concerts. Rick will chat with members of the TMC’s team and share...
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 100+ choristers of the TMC come together with a chamber orchestra from the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and soloists Jonelle Sills, soprano, and Brett Polegato, baritone, to bring you two glorious...
TMC’s annual welcome to the holiday season. This year the Choir will be joined by the Toronto Symphony Youth Orchestra. Lauda per la Nativitá del Signore - a Christmas Cantata by Ottorino Respighi Popular carols Music selections by Andrew Balfour, Sally Beamish, Paul Halley, Rosephanye Powell, Hyo-Won Woo and others. Tickets Tickets are still available...
Join conductor, singer and UofT Chair of Choral Studies, Jamie Hillman, for Sing when the spirit says sing: Spirituals and Gospel. We'll provide the music, you provide your voice. We are thrilled to have Jamie as our first conductor as we return to Singsations after a two-year gap. Jamie is active as a conductor, singer,...
TMC and the Nathaniel Dett Chorale share music that draws on different influences and traditions - Eastern Orthodox and Afrocentric – 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. Steal Away, arr....
We are thrilled to welcome conductor Kathleen Allan to lead Singsation. She will take us through excerpts from Bach B Minor Mass. Kathleen is the Artistic Director and Conductor of the Amadeus Choir of Greater Toronto and the Artistic Director of Canzona, Winnipeg’s professional Baroque choir. Originally from St. John’s, NL, Kathleen is in high...
Meet Me Here: Songs of Sanctuary A free TMC concert to conclude the 2022 Choral Conducting Symposium In June, Artistic Director Jean-Sébastien Vallée welcomes five emerging conductors from Canada and the U.S. for a week of intensive workshops and rehearsals with the full Toronto Mendelssohn Choir and the 20-voice professional ensemble of the TMC. The...
In This Performance Steal Away arr. by Diedre Robinson I Forgive by Shireen Abu-Khader Lux Aeterna by Edward Elgar arr. by John Cameron Path of Miracles by Joby Talbot On the music Centred on Joby Talbot’s Path of Miracles, this concert explores the narrative of displacement, identity, and individual life's journeys. Talbot’s masterwork for a...
In This Performance Elijah, Op. 70 by Felix Mendelssohn On the music Witness the tour de force that is Felix Mendelssohn’s Elijah, in the grandest of settings at Roy Thomson Hall. This latest collaboration between the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir, the University of Toronto’s MacMillan Singers, and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra combines 200 of Canada’s foremost...
