It is a checklist of live shows we’re attending, wishing we may attend, or fascinated by attending between December 8 and 14, 2025. For extra of what’s occurring round Toronto, go to our calendar here.
St. Michael’s Schola Cantorum and Consort: Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day: Introduction Carols
Monday, Dec 8, 7:30 p.m.
St. Basil’s Church, 50 St. Joseph St. Donations accepted
This beautiful group attracts from the group of College of Toronto and past — together with parishioners, family and friends — and that is their second efficiency of the yr celebrating Introduction. Drawing from nice Baroque repertoire, St. Mike’s SC and C all the time current attention-grabbing applications, and the dedication and excessive calibre of musicians is all the time a pleasure. Get your self centred on this beautiful oasis of calm, St. Basil’s, within the midst of downtown, and let your thoughts be comfy; discover peace with mild, joyful music-making on this Monday night. With open entry and free-will donation, it’s open to anybody and everybody. Who is aware of, maybe it will encourage you to audition for the choir for 2026, as arts making and human connections are so integral to all of us, to maintain us human. Information here.
Canadian Opera Firm: Instrumental Sequence: Primordial
Tuesday, Dec 10, Midday
Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre, 4 Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, Free
Within the midst of the saturation of vacation music of all types, right here’s an excellent choice of solo cello works offered by Peter Eom. Eom’s give attention to modern cello repertoire is spectacular — you’ll have seen him with The Happenstancers, a fast-rising chamber group with hyper-focus on really nice modern music, premiering and performing works of 17 dwelling composers. Or maybe you’ve seen him with the Rolston String Quartet. This explicit program contains nice repertoire seldom heard and recorded, together with works by Ana Sokolović, György Kurtág, Kaija Saariaho, Pascal Dusapin, Peter Eötvös and Paul Desenne, structured with John Cage’s all three elements of 4’33”. In case you are acquainted with the names, no different phrases are wanted; in the event you by no means heard them earlier than, this can be one of the best probability you’ll have in a protracted whereas to expertise such stunning, if unusual at first, music in individual. Carve that lunch get away, come to the attractive 4 Seasons Centre, and get your ears and eyes open to this wonderful music. Information here.
St. Michael’s Choir Faculty: REJOICE! Jubilee Celebration — 60 Years at Massey Corridor — Annual Christmas Live performance
Friday, December 12, 7 p.m.,Saturday, December 13, 7 p.m.
Massey Corridor, 178 Victoria ST., $48.20+
The annual Christmas celebration with children of St. Michael’s Choir Faculty returns to Massey for the sixtieth time — auguri! SMCS’s choral program is intense — younger singers from grade 3-12 obtain every day choral follow, music concept, and weekly non-public classes on piano and extra devices. As a part of the Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music, these onerous working college students are admitted primarily based on vocal audition, and lots of of them have gone on to change into pillars of group {and professional} music-making in our metropolis since 1937. Come out to Massey, and expertise a excessive calibre efficiency from the stage absolutely packed to the brim, and be soaked with pleasure that comes by means of the group. In any case, the younger era’s boundless vitality and fearlessness is likely one of the most wonderful assets we now have, as a gaggle, and such a vibe is so infectious. Information here.
Elmer Iseler Singers: Handel’s Messiah
Friday, December 12, 7:30 p.m.
Yorkminster Park Baptist Church (Toronto), 1585 Yonge St., $55+
When you haven’t made it to a Messiah efficiency but, right here’s one other good one. Elmer Isler, underneath the baton of Lydia Adams, is joined by the Amadeus Choir and the Viva Chamber Singers to current a stunning rendition of the Messiah. That includes an incredible roster of Ontario abilities — Leslie Fagan, Nicole Percifield, Colin Ainsworth and Doug MacNaughton — the normal excellence of the EIS is a good way to expertise Handel’s masterful creation. This simply may be the most well-liked classical work of all instances, rivalling Beethoven’s fifth, and Pachelbel’s Canon. In any case, who has not heard the Hallelujah refrain? It’s virtually inescapable. Carry your folks and households, and fill your Friday night with this timeless work, meticulously ready and offered within the beautiful house of the Yorkminster Park. Information here.
Toronto Kids’s Refrain: Songs of the Season: Nostalgic Film Moments
Sunday, Dec 14, 2 p.m.
Roy Thomson Corridor, $56.30+
This powerhouse of kids’s music applications in Toronto brings many — oh, so many! — younger musicians to Roy Thomson Corridor, filling our hearts with the vacation film favourites this yr. Let it Go from Frozen, Carol of the Bells from Residence Alone, You’re a Imply One, Mr. Grinch from The Grinch Who Stole Christmas, and My Favorite Issues from The Sound of Music — the choices which might be pricey and near our hearts are one of the best once they’re shared. With almost 300 singers from age 4 to 18, TCC’s excellence has been celebrated regionally and internationally — they typically tour to faraway lands, to NYC, to Singapore, to Australia — the checklist is sort of not possible to maintain up with. They can even be becoming a member of the touring Budapest Pageant Orchestra for Mahler 3 at Koerner Corridor, Feb 12, 2026 — wonderful. How fortunate are we, to have such a fantastically supported music program within the metropolis, and the way enjoyable it’s, to carry everybody, of all ages, to expertise, and be impressed by such shows of dedication, excellence, and musical pleasure! Come on down, and be part of the enjoyable. The love of being collectively, and love of constructing music in individual, is a real pleasure; my fingers are crossed that after such a live performance, many will ponder becoming a member of music-making themselves in 2026. There’ll be carolling within the foyer beginning at 1:15 p.m., to get you hum together with the spirit of the vacation. Information here.
TO Reside: The Tallis Students
Sunday, Dec 14, 3 p.m.
Meridian Arts Centre — George Weston Recital Corridor, 5040 Yonge St., $40+
Persevering with the custom of fantastic singing over 5 a long time, the Tallis Students are returning to Toronto with good choices of Renaissance music. Specializing in the magic of mom and baby, this system will function works by Byrd, Tallis, Britten, John Taverner, John Nesbett, and Matthew Martin’s model new composition. There’s one thing particular in regards to the human voice, and this collective is really masterful in mixing their voices in that magical Renaissance concord, a color and form earlier than the diatonic system took over the Western music — and which most individuals have had a tough time getting away from ever since. Come for the extraordinary colors and timbres of Renaissance magic together with the modern music of our personal time (they’re amazingly very comparable at instances regardless of the time hole!) be awed by the fantastic thing about the voices, no different distractions right here. Learn our Interview with Tallis Scholars founder and director Peter Phillips here. Information here.
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Cecilia tumbled into ‘critical’ music examine when she determined to keep away from attending medical college. At present working within the area of classical music, recording, and Korean-English interpretation, she tends to get her nostril soiled in many alternative issues within the metropolis. Cecilia holds a DMA in Piano Efficiency from the College of Nebraska-Lincoln.
