This can be a record of concert events we’re attending, wishing we may attend, or fascinated with attending between July 21 and 27, 2025. For extra of what’s taking place round Toronto, go to our calendar here.
Toronto Summer season Music: Allison Au: Migrations
Monday, July 21, 7:30 p.m.
Walter Corridor, 80 Queen’s Park, $20+
It’s beautiful to have such riches in the course of the conventional summer time break, because of Toronto Summer season Music — each the range and excellence of programming have been implausible this 12 months, but once more. For this Monday, Au brings her work, Migrations, to the stage with the Migrations ensemble hybrid: Jazz combo and string quartet. Because the doorways proceed to close and the fences get greater for a lot of, the need of discovering a spot to name one’s personal, and the harrowing trials and quiet traumas that include such searches, can simply really feel surreal to these of us who’ve been fortunate — to date. Nevertheless, I hope you agree that it’s migrations, the stream of individuals and tradition which have made us who we’re, bringing the riches we take as a right, particularly in Toronto, one of the various cities on the planet. Come and open your minds and ears to this implausible work, first premiered in January 2020 for the 21C Music Competition; it was launched as a studio album in 2022, however there’s nothing extra visceral than a real-time human connection. Data here.
DROM Taberna: Tuesday Night Swing Dance with Max Simpson Quintet
Tuesday, July 22, 8 p.m.
DROM Taberna, 458 Queen St West, $15 on the door
The Incredible DROM hosts many fantastic stay music teams, and Tuesdays are for swing dance with a stay band! This week, Max Simpson Quintet will deliver power and enjoyable, and a touch (or tons) of reckless abandon and swing vitality to Queen West. If summer time night breezes dare you to strive one thing completely different, this simply is perhaps the factor — see what your toes say when you arrive! The spontaneity and informality of those stay band dance periods are so infectious: it’s good to be reminded that rhythm is an power phenomenon, not only a sonic occasion that we sit and admire with reverence. Data here.
Toronto Summer season Music. Lacking: In Live performance
Thursday, July 24, 7:30 p.m.
Koerner Corridor, $20+
A number of years in the past, I picked up a ebook from the Toronto Public Library’s advisable studying shelf: Freeway of Tears, by Jessica McDiarmid. Ever since then, every time I hear about lacking girls, my coronary heart drops — particularly if it entails an Indigenous girl. The quiet complacency that we selected over these lacking girls over a long time of Canadian historical past is actually horrifying, and such a taboo topic wants our voices and a focus desperately. Brian Present (composer) and Marie Clements (librettist)’s live performance efficiency of Lacking, will function Continuum Ensemble and acquainted voices, together with Marion Newman as Dr. Wilson, and Asitha Tennekoon as Devon. Not all arts can simply be stunning — typically it’s the onerous, ugly aspect of actuality that makes us human, and although it’s tempting to chase after the highs, it’s vital, and essential, to look into the depths of our troubles and the sufferings inside our communities. Learn our Interview with conductor Timothy Long, soprano Melody Courage, and mezzo-soprano Marion Newman here. Data here.
Summer season Opera Lyric Theatre: L’Incoronazione di Poppea / Cosi Fan Tutti / La Vie Parisienne
Friday, July 25, 8 p.m. (L’Incoronazione di Poppea), Saturday, July 26, 2 p.m. (Cosi), Saturday, July 26, 8 p.m. (La Vie Parisienne), Sunday, July 27, 2 p.m. (Cosi) Efficiency proceed to August 3.
Alumnae Theatre, 70 Berkeley St., $22+, $60 cross for all three operas obtainable
SOLT, a summer time fixture program the place younger singers and pianist/administrators can unfold their wings broad to create an opera expertise, hits its first weekend of performances. This summer time, three operas are on the invoice: L’Incoronazione di Poppea (Monteverdi; Music Director/Pianist: Sabina Rzazade), Cosi Fan Tutti (Mozart; Music Director/Pianist: Minira Najafzade), and La Vie Parisienne (Offenbach; Music Director/Pianist: Paul Goodfellow). It’s a good way to expertise opera on an intimate scale, and with such a range, there’ll be one thing to swimsuit everybody! Come to expertise that particular power from younger artists as they fight their arms at these nice operas. Data here.
Elora Competition: Janina Fialkowska in Recital
Saturday, July 26, 4 p.m.
St. John’s Anglican Church, 36 Henderson St., Elora, $55 Grownup/$20 Scholar/$10 Baby
Fialkowska, identified for her beautiful Chopin interpretation and mentorship with Arthur Rubinstein, brings an attractive program of Grieg, Schumann, Ravel, and Chopin to stunning Elora. It’s a pleasure to go out within the Ontario summer time to the countryside — come out for this beautiful matinee live performance in gorgeous Elora, earlier than gently heading again to town, with coronary heart stuffed with broad area and sweetness. Learn our Preview here. Data here.
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Cecilia tumbled into ‘critical’ music examine when she determined to keep away from attending medical faculty. At present working within the discipline of classical music, recording, and Korean-English interpretation, she tends to get her nostril soiled in many various issues within the metropolis. Cecilia holds a DMA in Piano Efficiency from the College of Nebraska-Lincoln.
