It is a listing of concert events we’re attending, wishing we may attend, or interested by attending between July 21 and 27, 2025. For extra of what’s taking place round Toronto, go to our calendar right here.
Toronto Summer season Music: Allison Au: Migrations
Monday, July 21, 7:30 p.m.
Walter Corridor, 80 Queen’s Park, $20+
It’s pretty to have such riches through the conventional summer time break, due to Toronto Summer season Music — each the variability and excellence of programming have been improbable this yr, 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 increased 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 this point. Nevertheless, I hope you agree that it’s migrations, the move of individuals and tradition which have made us who we’re, bringing the riches we take with no consideration, particularly in Toronto, one of the numerous cities on this planet. Come and open your minds and ears to this improbable work, first premiered in January 2020 for the 21C Music Pageant; it was launched as a studio album in 2022, however there’s nothing extra visceral than a real-time human connection. Data right 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 Unbelievable DROM hosts many great 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 totally different, this simply is perhaps the factor — see what your ft 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 right 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 guide from the Toronto Public Library’s really useful studying shelf: Freeway of Tears, by Jessica McDiarmid. Ever since then, at any time when I hear about lacking ladies, my coronary heart drops — particularly if it includes an Indigenous girl. The quiet complacency that we selected over these lacking ladies over many years of Canadian historical past is really horrifying, and such a taboo topic wants our voices and a spotlight 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 lovely — usually it’s the arduous, ugly facet 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 Lengthy, soprano Melody Braveness, and mezzo-soprano Marion Newman right here. Data right 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 accessible
SOLT, a summer time fixture program the place younger singers and pianist/administrators can unfold their wings huge 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 spread, there’ll be one thing to go well with everybody! Come to expertise that particular power from younger artists as they fight their palms at these nice operas. Data right here.
Elora Pageant: Janina Fialkowska in Recital
Saturday, July 26, 4 p.m.
St. John’s Anglican Church, 36 Henderson St., Elora, $55 Grownup/$20 Scholar/$10 Little one
Fialkowska, recognized for her pretty Chopin interpretation and mentorship with Arthur Rubinstein, brings a good looking program of Grieg, Schumann, Ravel, and Chopin to lovely Elora. It’s a pleasure to move out within the Ontario summer time to the countryside — come out for this pretty matinee live performance in gorgeous Elora, earlier than gently heading again to the town, with coronary heart filled with huge area and wonder. Learn our Preview right here. Data right 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.