This can be a checklist of concert events we’re attending, wishing we may attend, or fascinated by attending between November 24 and 30, 2025. For extra of what’s taking place round Toronto, go to our calendar here.
Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra: Double Dixit: Lotti & Handel
Friday, November 28, 8 p.m., Saturday, November 29, 8 p.m., Sunday, November 30, 3p.m.
Trinity St. Paul’s, $45+
The superb Tafelmusik chamber choir and orchestra returns to the stage with Ivars Taurins for a spirited program of Dixit Dominus. On this time of confusion, frustration, and noise — oh a lot noise — maybe the phrases of the Lord promising justice, clarification, and unimaginable energy, to proper the incorrect, ‘…fill the place with destruction, and shatter the skulls within the land of the various,’ is simply what we want. Lotti, writing with that particular Venetian aptitude, and Handel with operatic mastery on the tender age of twenty-two, took this dramatic textual content to 11. Depart the world, only for some time, and are available into the intimate Trinity St. Paul’s, one of many few beacons within the metropolis the place many attempt to preserve the intense flame burning by way of the mud storm of the world — whether or not it’s by way of arts, music, or non secular service — and be soothed and consoled. Data here.
Royal Conservatory of Music: Soweto Gospel Choir: Peace
Friday, November 28, 8 p.m.
Koerner Corridor, $75+
One of many world’s finest choirs, Soweto Gospel Choir, is on the town! Based in 2002 by David Mulovhedzi and Beverly Bryer in Soweto, South Africa, they’ve been an actual playmaker on the worldwide stage ever since. They’ve collaborated with the perfect of the perfect, together with performing with Diana Ross, Celine Dion, Josh Groban and Vusi Mahlasela, opening for the Purple Sizzling Chilli Peppers’s Germany tour, collaborating with Peter Gabriel, and have gained so many vital awards that it’s onerous to maintain monitor. Come and expertise a night with this superb group of artists, and be elevated and impressed. With their diversified collection of music — freedom songs, conventional spirituals and music from Aretha Franklin, Harry Belafonte, Peter Gabriel, Kate Bush and Leonard Cohen, the night time will merely disappear in a wink, because the music fills the guts. Data here.
Toronto Symphony Orchestra: TSYO: Mendelssohn’s Reformation
Saturday, November 29, 3 p.m.
Meridian Arts Centre, $24+
The ferociously proficient children of the Toronto Symphony Youth Orchestra deliver a program of their very own to North York. You could have seen them in Roy Thomson Corridor for his or her side-by-side concert events, the place the TSO and TSYO sit collectively (sure, double the enjoyment, until the stage is almost overflowing with musicians), and play — and I guess you had been impressed. This time, they create a full program, that includes Rimsky-Korsakov’s Russian Easter Overture and Sibelius’s Finlandia, plus an awesome up to date work by Anna Clyne, This Second, and ending up with Mendelssohn’s Reformation Symphony. We regularly consider classical music as a switch of traditions and information from previous to younger; nevertheless, it’s the youth that brings us vitality, hope, and pleasure, typically in opposition to the wrongs, complacency, and dogmas of the older technology. No matter one’s private view, Malala Yousafzai, Greta Thunberg, Jahdai Vigona and Dante Rodrigues, Thandiwe Abdullah, Millie Bobby Brown — these once-youngsters, have introduced actual modifications to all of us, and it’s our privilege to expertise their vigour, imaginative and prescient and drive. There’s only some seats left, so get your tickets quickly, and are available able to be amazed with the unimaginable vitality of this particular group. Data here.
Pax Christi Chorale: Youngsters’s Messiah
Saturday, November 29, 4 p.m.
Church of the Holy Trinity, 19 Trinity Sq., free-will donation for Holy Trinity’s outreach applications
Tis the season, and the church buildings, live performance halls, and even malls, are ringing with one of many biggest hits of Western civilization — Handel’s Messiah. Out of so many choices, PCC’s Youngsters’s Messiah with Creative Director Elaine Choi is a really particular one. This string of favourites is introduced for households, from very younger to the oldest grandpas and grandmas, with loads of interactions to make the music a part of an actual storytelling. Messiah isn’t nearly biblical salvation. There are messages that we will use to seek out hope and pleasure in at the moment’s world. The music is gorgeous. And, though custom is usually a actual shackle, it additionally is usually a very important linkage that connects all of us collectively, wherever we, as people could also be. So come on down, and benefit from the festivus (severely! No still-seating requested), and be a part of CPP, and keen younger musicians from Unionville, and Larry Beckwith, for this pretty hour. Data here.
Royal Conservatory of Music: Seong-Jin Cho
Saturday, November 29, 8 p.m.
Koerner Corridor, $80+
The youngest winner of the Hamamatsu Worldwide PIano Competitors, Third place on the Tchaikovsky on the age of 17, First prize on the 2015 Chopin Competitors, chosen as 2025 Opus Klassik Award for Instrumentalist of the 12 months — Seong-Jin Cho is a star. The critics and the viewers have been filling his concert events wherever he performs. This Koerner Corridor live performance is not any exception — it’s at present offered out. Nevertheless, there are at all times just a few tickets that change into obtainable on the day, and this live performance is so value it to hold every thing in limbo for the Saturday, and check out the field workplace for final minute availability. For those who like piano music, or simply easy very good musical excellence, this live performance will cost you as much as the brim. Data here.
Esprit Orchestra: Tour de Drive
Sunday, November 30, 8 p.m.
Koerner Corridor, $20+
In distinction to the return of acquainted Christmas vacation repertoire, Esprit Orchestra presents music of our personal time. Thomas Adès’ Overture to the Tempest (2004), is without doubt one of the most unimaginable works of the up to date repertoire. A model new work by Christopher Goddard, a brace, a spherical, a bracing sound (2025), together with Ben Nobuto’s Serenity 2.0 (2021), and Gabriella Smith’s Tumblebird Contrails (2014), will fill the night. Usually, we set our personal expectations and decide the worth of issues with out precise bodily expertise — and up to date classical music, sadly, has a considerably horrible status. Nevertheless, as man doesn’t stay by bread alone, the marvel and pleasure of experiencing one thing new (particularly should you strongly hate it), is significant in our lives, to stay human with full emotional capabilities. Come right down to Koerner, and don’t fear — let the musicians take you thru the rabbit gap; for the aficionados, deliver a buddy or two, and share the enjoyment of this nice world of latest music. Learn our Preview here. Data here.
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Cecilia tumbled into ‘critical’ music research when she determined to keep away from attending medical college. At the moment working within the discipline 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.
