Presenters, start your engines! With TIFF and "back-to-work" out of the way, the regular concert season rumbles to life, and, if our Editor's Opener can be trusted, "Seeking Synergies" seems to be the name of the game. Denise Williams' constantly evolving "Walk Together Children" touching down at the Toronto Centre for the Arts; the second annual Festival of Arabic Music and Arts expanding its range; a lesson in Jazz Survival with Steve Wallace; the 150 presenter and performer profiles in our 19th annual Blue Pages directory... this is an issue that is definitely more than the sum of its parts.
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KOERNER HALL 10 th ANNIVERSARY 2018.19 Concert Season Taylor Academy Orchestra SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20, 4:30PM MAZZOLENI CONCERT HALL Free tickets for this concert will be available starting Fri. Oct. 12, 2018 The Phil and Eli Taylor Performance Academy for Young Artists presents concerts by leading young classical musicians in Canada. Hear the stars of tomorrow! Susan Hoeppner & Friends SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2PM MAZZOLENI CONCERT HALL Tickets start at only Susan Hoeppner, who “plays her golden flute with cool confidence” (The New York Times) leads a program of outstandingly wild and difficult chamber music works written for the instrument. Joined by musical colleagues and friends, this program consists of ensemble variation of flute, harp, and strings. Daniel Hope and Friends: AIR – A Baroque Journey SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 8PM KOERNER HALL Tickets start at only British violinist Daniel Hope, “among the best in the world as well as the most thoughtful,” (The Observer) returns to Koerner Hall with an outrageous romp through the baroque with a dazzling ensemble of virtuosi wandering minstrels. Jamey Haddad’s Under One Sun and Cyro Baptista’s Vira Loucos FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26, 8PM KOERNER HALL Tickets start at only Two of the world’s greatest percussionists are joined by stellar improvisers in this double-bill of global music. “Highly recommended.” (AllMusic) Stephen Prutsman SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1PM MAZZOLENI CONCERT HALL Free tickets for this concert will be available starting Mon. Oct. 29, 2018 Pianist and composer Prutsman moves between classical, jazz, and world music styles. He will perform works by Bach and Ravel alongside Bill Evans’s Turn Out the Stars and Prutsman’s own Two Jazz Etudes. Generously supported by Dorothy Cohen Shoichet Martinů’s The Tears of the Knife and Hindemith’s Back and Forth FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 7:30PM SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 7:30PM MAZZOLENI CONCERT HALL Tickets: The gifted vocal students from The Glenn Gould School present a double bill of Paul Hindemith’s Hin und Zurück and Bohuslav Martinů’s Tears of the Knife. Peter Tiefenbach returns as Music Director for the production and Anna Theodosakis will direct. Part of the Price Opera Program TICKETS & SUBSCRIPTIONS ON SALE NOW! 416.408.0208 RCMUSIC.COM/PERFORMANCE 273 BLOOR STREET WEST 237 (BLOOR ST. STREET & AVENUE WEST RD.) (BLOOR TORONTO ST. & AVENUE RD.) TORONTO ´ ´ ´ ´
2018/19 Season VIVALDI CON AMORE Directed by Elisa Citterio A celebration of Vivaldi’s most energetic and amorous concertos, starring Tafelmusik’s own musicians. Oct 10-14, 2018 Jeanne Lamon Hall, Trinity-St. Paul’s Centre Oct 16, 2018 George Weston Recital Hall, Toronto Centre for the Arts tafelmusik.org up next: STEFFANI: DRAMA & DEVOTION Directed by Ivars Taurins Krisztina Szabó, mezzo-soprano Tafelmusik Chamber Choir Nov 8–11, 2018 Jeanne Lamon Hall, Trinity-St. Paul’s Centre GWRH Supported by MARGARET AND JIM FLECK
