The Royal Conservatory of Music & Koerner Hall HIGHLIGHTS

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The Royal Conservatory The Royal Conservatory of Music & Koerner Hall Presents HIGHLIGHTS HIGHLIGHTS We participated in Nuit Blanche in 2009, 2010 (the first five seasons) and 2012. We participated in Culture Days: • 500+ concerts in Koerner Hall (500th • 2011 with Royal Conservatory Orchestra with will occur on March 27, 2015) Uri Mayer and Jan Lisiecki and Mayumi Seiler • 238 concerts presented by The Royal & Jeanie Chung Conservatory • 2013 with the ARC Ensemble with Peter Barrett • 2014 with Koerner Hall Free for All! and The • 100+ concerts presented by The Royal ARC Ensemble Conservatory in Mazzoleni Concert Hall and Conservatory Theatre Specially curated series included: • 2009-10 season: Grand Opening Festival Other RCM Events • 2010-11 season: Aspects of Oscar, African Music, • 31 film shoots for students and for The and Words & Music Royal Conservatory of Music • 2011-12 season: Music From Across the Middle East • 500+ free student recitals and master (Arab and Israeli musicians), Early Music, TD Jazz Series: A Year of Great Sax, and Kabaret at Koerner!; also that classes season we did Steward Goodyear’s 11-hour Beethoven • 343 receptions Sonata Marathon (co-presented with Luminato) • 2012-13 season: Montréal à Toronto (celebrating External Events francophone artists from Montreal), TD Jazz Series: • 27 film shoots Devoted to Dizzy (Gillespie), ¡Qué Rica Cuba! (celebrating the music of Cuba) • 135 weddings • 2013-14 season: La Dolce Musica (celebrating the • 117 conferences and meetings music of Italy), TD JAZZ: Celebrating Dinah and Sarah, • 262 external concerts, competitions, and All 10 Beethoven Violin Sonatas, and A Celebration of African Music (with a focus on the music of Mali) recitals • 2014-15 season: Music of the Americas (celebrating • 373 receptions, parties, and dinners the PanAm Games), Family Concerts (a new series designed for 6-13 year-olds and their families), TD Jazz: A Salute to the Big Bands) Chilly Gonzales Marie-Josée Lord James Ehnes

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International Scope and Diversity Canadian artists presented include: Artists from over 50 countries have been presented Piano: Jon Kimura Parker, Steward Goodyear, Louis in our first six seasons, including artists from Russia, Lortie, Angela Hewitt, Hélène Mercier, Jan Lisiecki, Ukraine, China, Israel, Palestine, Syria, Mali, Zimbabwe, Anton Kuerti, Marc-André Hamelin, Chilly Gonzales Uganda, Benin, Senegal, South Africa, Azerbaijan, Singers: Isabel Bayrakdarian, Gerald Finley, Adrianne Yemen, Turkey, Egypt, and Cuba. Each concert has Pieczonka, Russell Braun, Marie-Josée Lord, Ashley attracted audiences from those ethnic groups. Thouret, Joshua Hopkins, Adi Braun 21C Music Festival 2014 String players: James Ehnes, Leila Josefowicz, Luri Lee, Martin Beaver, Barry Shiffman Launched in May 2014, this is a festival of newly-minted Ensembles: ARC Ensemble (Artists of The Royal music, in which today’s most fearless musicians and Conservatory), Art of Time Ensemble, Les Violons du composers bring us fresh new sounds and ideas. Roy, Quartetto Gelato, Amici Chamber Ensemble, The inaugural festival lasted five days and consisted Canadian Brass, Afiara Quartet, Cecilia String Quartet of eight concerts featuring mostly music composed in the 21st century: 11 world, two North American, Jazz: Jane Bunnett, Christine Jensen, Guido Basso, two Canadian, and five Toronto premieres, in addition Joe Sealy with Jackie Richardson, Arlene Duncan, and to five more works by John Cage, Michael Colgrass, Ranee Lee, Rob McConnell’s Boss Brass, Robi Botos, Morton Feldman, Leo Ornstein, and Canadian icon Sicilian Jazz Project R. Murray Schafer. The Royal Conservatory of Music World music: Pavlo, Rik Emmett, and Oscar Lopez, has commissioned four pieces (Javier Limón’s Requiem Kiran Ahluwalia, Maryem Tollar, Alex Cuba, Amanda Flamenco, Chilly Gonzales’s Suite from “The Shadow,” Martinez Trichy Sankaran’s Hamsa, and Jennifer Higdon’s Pop and everything else: We have hosted the Dooryard Bloom) and co-commissioned three more Toronto Blues Society’s Maple Blues Awards every (by Jia Guoping, Zosha Di Castri, and Christopher year since Koerner Hall opened, Cowboy Junkies, John Mayo). The works traversed the worlds of classical, jazz, McDermott, Marc Jordan, Dan Hill & Jane Siberry, Sultans pop, and South Asian genres. of String, Bruce Cockburn, Lemon Bucket Orchestra The festival will return annually in May. International artists presented include: Koerner Hall Independent Piano: Menahem Pressler, András Schiff, Yefim Bronf- man, Yuja Wang, Daniil Trifonov Presentations String players: Midori, Yo-Yo Ma, Hilary Hahn, Itzhak The Royal Conservatory hosts many preeminent Perlman, Simon Shaheen, Alisa Weilerstein, Mischa orchestras, choirs, festivals, and events including: Maisky, Gidon Kremer • Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra Ensembles: Scharoun Ensemble of the Berlin • Toronto Mendelssohn Choir Philharmonic, The English Concert conducted by Harry • Esprit Orchestra Bicket; Smithsonian Chamber Players; Itzhak Perlman • Soundstreams with The Perlman Music Program; Valery Gergiev & the Stradivarius Ensemble • Nathaniel Dett Chorale Jazz: Paquito D'Rivera Quintet, Danilo Pérez, Hugh • Ontario Philharmonic Masekela, SFJAZZ Collective, Joe Lovano Us Five, • National Youth Orchestra Ravi Coltrane, Béla Fleck, Count Basie Orchestra, Eddie • Toronto Summer Music Festival Palmieri Salsa Orchestra, Chick Corea, Gary Burton • Luminato World music: Zakir Hussain & Edgar Meyer, Ravi Shankar • TD Toronto Jazz Festival & Anoushka Shankar, Baaba Maal, Buika, Johnny Clegg, • Jazz FM’s Jazz Lives Angélique Kidjo, Taj Mahal, Rokia Traoré, Fatoumata Diawara • Pax Christie Chorale Pop and everything else: Keb' Mo, Max Raabe and • NewChoir the Palast Orchester, The Manhattan Transfer, Peter • TEDxToronto Yarrow and Noel Paul Stookey, Mavis Staples, Mary • ideacity Chapin Carpenter, Bruce Hornsby, Béla Fleck, Natalie • Scotiabank Giller Prize “Between the Covers” Merchant Shortlist Readings Dance: Soledad Barrio and Noche Flamenca, Savion • CBC Massey Lectures Glover, Israel Galván, Rennie Harris Puremovement • CBC Massey Lectures • Walrus Talks • Writers’ Trust RBC Bronwen Wallace Awards