notes2017-2018 SEASON OF EVENTS welcomeTO ANOTHER EXCITING YEAR AT UOFT MUSIC!

CHAMBER MUSIC 3 OPERA 4 CHOIRS IN CONCERT 6 EARLY MUSIC 8 University of Faculty of Music VOICE 10 Edward Johnson Building 80 Queen’s Park ORCHESTRA 11 Toronto, ON M5S 2C5 WINDS & BRASS 12 JAZZ 14 THURSDAYS AT NOON 16 Box Office services provided by the NEW MUSIC FESTIVAL 18 Weston Family Box Office VISITORS 20 at the TELUS Centre, RCM 273 Bloor Street West WORLD OF MUSIC 22 416-408-0208 MONTHLY LISTING 24 music.utoronto.ca GENERAL INFORMATION 30 Tickets can also be purchased at the door CONTACT US / MAP 31 90 minutes prior to each performance.

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2 Tickets: 416-408-0208 music.utoronto.ca CHAMBER MUSIC All performances $40, $25 senior, $10 student Musicians from Marlboro 7:30 pm | Walter Hall

From Public Stage to Private Symphony No. 4 with featured soloists Parlour: An Introduction tenor Darryl Edwards and soprano Monica to Rarely Performed Piano Whicher. Works from Rossini’s “Years of Musicians from Marlboro Silence” Mon Jan 22 Mon Oct 2 The Musicians from Marlboro include Join pianist Enrico Elisi for a lecture-recital Anthony McGill, clarinet, Emilie-Anne highlighting the keyboard compositions Gendron, violin, David McCarroll, violin, of Gioachino Rossini. The lecture portion Daniel Kim, viola and Marcy Rosen, cello. will be interspersed with several played examples and will end with a performance BEETHOVEN String Trio in C minor, Op. 9, of selections from Péchés de vieillesse No. 3 (Sins of Old Age). PENDERECKI Quartet BRAHMS Clarinet Quintet in B minor, New Orford String Quartet Op. 115 Thu Oct 5 Marlboro Music and the GELLMAN Musica Aeterna express their sincere appreciation to Dr. Günes N. RAVEL String Quartet in F major Ege-Akter for making this concert possible. TCHAIKOVSKY String Quartet No. 3 in E flat minor, Op. 30 Cecilia String Quartet with Patricia Parr, piano Mon Mar 5 Joseph Johnson, cello and James Parker, piano HAYDN String Quartet in D major, Op. 64, Mon Oct 30 No. 5 “The Lark”

CURCIN String Quartet No. 3 Joseph Johnson, Principal Cello with the DVOŘÁK Piano Quintet No. 2, Op. 81 Toronto Symphony Orchestra, and James Parker, Gryphon Trio pianist, team up for an The Cecilia String Quartet is the James D. Stewart unforgettable evening. Quartet in Residence.

DEBUSSY Sonata for Cello and Piano in D The Artist’s Life Through Song: minor BEETHOVEN Sonata for Cello and Piano, Krisztina Szabó, mezzo- No. 2 in G minor, Op. 5 soprano, Christopher Enns, BRAHMS Sonata for Cello and Piano No. 2 tenor and Steven Philcox, piano in F major, Op. 99 Mon Mar 19 An evening of song including Ben

Faculty Artists Ensemble Moore’s Dear Theo, inspired by the letter Mon Nov 20 correspondence between Vincent van URI MAYER conductor Gogh and his brother Theo. Canadian EDWARD TAIT music director Art Song Project also premieres their commission for 2018, a song cycle by Members of the Faculty of Music present Jeffrey Ryan based on the journal writings Gustav Mahler’s Songs of a Wayfarer and of Emily Carr.

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Micah Schroeder and can can dancers in last year’s production of Orpheus in the Underworld.

Major opera productions are made possible through a generous gift from David G. Broadhurst.

FALL MAJOR OPERA PRODUCTION OPERA STUDENT COMPOSER COLLECTIVE Thu Nov 23 | 7:30 pm | MacMillan Theatre Vengeance Fri Nov 24 | 7:30 pm | MacMillan Theatre Sun Jan 21 | 2:30 pm | MacMillan Theatre Sat Nov 25 | 7:30 pm | MacMillan Theatre Sun Nov 26 | 2:30 pm | MacMillan Theatre A highlight of the annual New Music Festival is a complete new opera by W. A. Mozart’s towering collaboration our student composers. Vengeance is with Lorenzo da Ponte is considered his a reimagining of Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s operatic masterpiece. Don Giovanni’s chilling drama Der Besuch der alten timeless brilliance lies not only in its Dame (The Visit of the Old Lady) in which magnificent score but in its latitude for the world’s richest woman returns to her theatrical interpretation. We are delighted impoverished birthplace to confront the to announce that the UTSO’s Uri Mayer will man she once loved and the townspeople conduct this new production sung in the who betrayed her. Michael Patrick Albano original Italian. Don Giovanni is designed directs and Sandra Horst conducts this by Melanie McNeill (set), Lisa Magill dark tale of revenge. (costumes) and Siobhán Sleath (lighting), and directed by Marilyn Gronsdal, who Free previously staged the Faculty of Music’s Made possible through a generous gift from highly successful productions of Handel’s Dianne W. Henderson. Alcina and Mozart’s La finta giardiniera.

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Sarah Amelard and Joel Allison in last year’s production of Imeneo.

4 Tickets: 416-408-0208 music.utoronto.ca SYMPOSIUM Horst conducts this Canadian premiere Canadian Opera 151 - Where with costumes by Lisa Magill, set by Anna Do We Go From Here? Treusch, lighting by Paul Major and stage Sun Jan 21 | 11 am to 1:30 pm direction by Michael Patrick Albano. Geiger-Torel Room $40, $25 senior, $10 student In celebration of the 20th anniversary of the Additional support provided by Janet Stubbs in Faculty of Music’s student composer honour of Michael Patrick Albano. collective, we invite you to join a stimulating panel of young Canadian creative artists as From the 19th Century... they imagine the future of Canadian opera. Tue Apr 3 | 5 pm | Walter Hall Following the symposium, audience and participants are invited to attend UofT Opera’s season concludes with Vengeance (see previous page). costumed and staged scenes from the 19th century operatic repertoire. Although Free opera had its beginnings in the late 16th century and continues with vitality to SPRING MAJOR OPERA PRODUCTION our present day, it is the 19th century Of Thee I Sing which many consider to be the apogee of romantic vocal writing. From Donizetti to Production co-sponsored by Richard and Donna Delibes, Verdi to Wagner, join us for this Holbrook and Marina Yoshida. exciting, one-time performance as we highlight opera’s golden age. Thu Mar 15 | 7:30 pm | MacMillan Theatre Fri Mar 16 | 7:30 pm | MacMillan Theatre $20, $10 student Sat Mar 17 | 7:30 pm | MacMillan Theatre Sun Mar 18 | 2:30 pm | MacMillan Theatre Made possible through a generous gift from Earlaine Collins. Awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1932, this early George Gershwin work not only showcases the composer’s breezy, Opera Talk, a pre-performance lecture, will signature jazz style but exemplifies the be given half an hour prior to performances period of American musical theatre when of Don Giovanni and Of Thee I Sing in composers wrote for legitimate, non- Room 130 at 80 Queen’s Park. amplified voices. The plot which involves a beleaguered president and a topsy- All MacMillan Theatre productions are turvy White House adds an amusing given with SURTITLESTM. contemporary resonance. Sandra

Daevyd Pepper, Caitlin McCaughey and Rebecca Gray in last year’s production of Prima Zombie.

Simona Genga in last year’s production of Prima Zombie.

All programs are subject to change. @UofTMusic 5 CHOIRS IN CONCERT Celebrating the Choral and In Low Voice Vocal Music of Imant Raminsh Sun Oct 29 | 2:30 pm with the UofT Symphony Church of the Redeemer, 162 Bloor Street West Orchestra Sat Oct 21 | 7:30 pm | MacMillan Theatre MARK RAMSAY, GREG RAINVILLE conductors HILARY APFELSTADT conductor IMANT RAMINSH composer and The UofT Men’s Chorus and the Canadian conductor Men’s Chorus present an afternoon of WILMA AND CLIFFORD SMITH music for male choruses, showcasing a VISITOR IN MUSIC variety of styles and composers.

The MacMillan Singers, Women’s Chamber $30, $20 senior, $10 student Choir, Women’s Chorus, Men’s Chorus and the UofT Symphony Orchestra celebrate Sing and Rejoice! composer Imant Raminsh’s choral Sun Dec 3 | 2:30 pm | MacMillan Theatre

compositions by performing a variety of HILARY APFELSTADT, ELAINE CHOI, works including the Missa Brevis in C minor MARK RAMSAY, TRACY WONG for treble voices and orchestra and his conductors well-known setting of “Ave verum corpus,” featuring invited alumni and led by the This seasonal celebration features a composer. mixture of familiar and new music sung

$30, $20 senior, $10 student by the Men’s Chorus, Women’s Chorus, Women’s Chamber Choir and MacMillan Singers. Program includes Jocelyn Hagen’s How to Survive Winter for women’s voices and string quartet. Lecture with $30, $20 senior, $10 student composer Imant Raminsh Wed Oct 18 at Music for a Sunday Afternoon 7:30 pm. Sun Feb 4 | 2:30 pm | MacMillan Theatre Conducted by graduate students in the See Visitors pages choral conducting program. 20-21 for details. The Women’s Chamber Choir, Men’s Chorus (SATB recital choir) and Women’s Chorus perform music from a variety of time periods including a set of pieces by Canadian composer Nancy Telfer, conducted by Tracy Wong. $30, $20 senior, $10 student

6 Tickets: 416-408-0208 music.utoronto.ca In High Voice Annual High School Sun Mar 11 | 2:30 pm Choral Festival Timothy Eaton Memorial Church, Tue Apr 3 | 9 am to 4 pm 230 St. Clair Avenue West MacMillan Theatre

ELAINE CHOI, TRACY WONG conductors HILARY APFELSTADT coordinator

The Women’s Chorus hosts an afternoon Local high school groups sing and work- of music for treble voices featuring guest shop with choral faculty, and participate in ensembles. voice classes and a massed choir piece. The final concert features outstanding $30, $20 senior, $10 student student soloists from the Voice department at the Faculty of Music. The public is invited Cherubini Requiem with the to observe workshops from 9:30 am to UofT Symphony Orchestra 12 pm and from 1 to 4 pm. Sat Mar 24 | 7:30 pm | MacMillan Theatre Free URI MAYER conductor In the Choirs in Concert season finale, the combined choruses present Cherubini’s glorious setting of Requiem in C minor accompanied by the UofT Symphony Orchestra. Cherubini composed this stunning work for chorus without soloists and the choirs are equal partners with the orchestra. See Orchestra page 11 for details. $30, $20 senior, $10 student

This concert marks the end of Professor Hilary Apfelstadt’s tenure as Director of Choral Activities at the University of Toronto.

Hilary Apfelstadt and massed choir

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Daniel Taylor

Historical Performance Area, UofT Schola Cantorum and Theatre of Early Music

DANIEL TAYLOR director

The Early Music concerts are made possible in part through a generous gift from Ethel Harris.

Fall Baroque Academy Handel’s Messiah Wed Sep 20 to Sun Sep 24 Sat Oct 28 | 2:30 pm Trinity College Chapel, 6 Hoskin Avenue Sun Oct 29 | 7:30 pm Trinity College Chapel, 6 Hoskin Avenue Final Concert: Highlights from Handel’s Giulio Cesare JEANNE LAMON, DANIEL TAYLOR Sun Sep 24 | 7:30 pm conductors Trinity College Chapel, 6 Hoskin Avenue Handel’s masterpiece, the Messiah is JEANNE LAMON, DANIEL TAYLOR inspiring and deeply moving. Hear the story conductors of the crucifixion, resurrection, ascension, the promise of a second coming and The annual Baroque Academy presents the resurrection of the dead to eternal guest lectures and master classes by life. Experience student soloists from Faculty of Music professor Mary Ann the Schola Cantorum supported by the Parker with Krisztina Szabó, and guest Baroque Orchestra as they break from faculty Nancy Argenta, Ingrid Attrot the bindings of today and strive to find the and Marshall Pynkoski. The Academy heart of the matter. concludes with a concert of excerpts from Handel’s Giulio Cesare featuring $30, $20 senior, $10 student Faculty of Music students from Historical Performance, Voice and Opera with Made possible through a generous gift from the William and Nona Heaslip Foundation and Jean orchestra. Patterson Edwards.

Free

8 Tickets: 416-408-0208 music.utoronto.ca “It’s clear that Daniel Taylor adores the human voice. He has meticulously chosen the singers he works with and shepherds these talents with sensitivity and a deep understanding of the music.” La Scena Musicale

The Tallis Scholars Mozart’s Requiem Videte Miraculum – Sun Mar 4 | 7:30 pm The Path of Miracles St. Basil’s Church, 50 St. Joseph Street Sun Dec 3 | 8 pm DANIEL TAYLOR conductor Grace Church on-the-Hill, 300 Lonsdale Road Mozart’s unfinished masterpiece, the Requiem is a spiritually profound work PETER PHILLIPS, DANIEL TAYLOR leading to a glorious ending of the Early conductors Music season. The choristers of the The finest choral ensemble in the world Ottawa Bach Choir and the York University – The Tallis Scholars – join soloists from Chamber Choir join students from the the Theatre of Early Music and students Schola Cantorum with Baroque Orchestra from the Schola Cantorum in an evening in the sweeping architecture of St. Basil’s of remarkable emotional intensity. The Church.

Tallis Scholars, under founder and director $30, $20 senior, $10 student Peter Phillips, have developed and – in brief and shining moments – perfected a Made possible in part through a generous gift from distinctive and emblematic sound that has Catherine Ukas. become so closely associated with English Renaissance music that it is easy to forget there is any other way of approaching it.

$40, $25 senior, $10 student

The Tallis Scholars Friends of Early Music Annual donors of $500 or more to Mon Dec 18 to Sat Dec 23 | various times Early Music, in addition to a tax Roy Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe Street receipt, program recognition and our thanks, receive priority seating for all During the 2017 holiday season, members ticketed Early Music events. For further of the UofT Schola Cantorum join the information, please contact Bruce Toronto Mendelssohn Choir and the Blandford, Director of Advancement, Toronto Symphony Orchestra for Handel’s at 416-946-3145 or Messiah. [email protected]. Ticket information available at tso.ca.

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All events are free. Thu Oct 12 | 12:10 pm | Walter Hall Italian Treasures The Tuesday performance classes and Vocalis series are made possible Curated by Sara Maida-Nicol and the Italian through a generous gift from Dianne Language Department, University of Toronto. W. Henderson. Mon Dec 4 | 7:30 pm Tuesday Performance Class Heliconian Hall, 35 Hazelton Avenue An Evening with the Parnassians for Singers 12:10 pm | Walter Hall Curated by Jason Nedecky and the French

Language Department, University of Toronto. Sep 12 Welcome Back and Showcase Wed Feb 7 | 7:30 pm | Victoria College Sep 19 Chapel, 91 Charles Street West Master’s/DMA students perform Winternächte: Lieder über Träume und Sep 26 Sehnsucht (Winternights: Songs of Master class with Jane Archibald Dreams and Longing) Oct 3 Fourth year students perform Curated by Mia Bach and Marje Zschiesche Oct 10 Stock, Goethe-Institut Toronto, with Master class with John Greer support from the Germanic Languages Oct 17 and Literatures Department, University of Third year students perform Toronto. Oct 24 Second year students perform Sun Mar 11 | 7:30 pm | Victoria College Oct 31 Chapel, 91 Charles Street West First year students perform Chamber in the Chapel Nov 14 Songs of Requiem and Light (singers from Curated by Kathryn Tremills. the third year Oratorio Ensemble with Mia Bach) A Family Affair: Music of Nov 21 Rodgers and Guettel Students from the fourth year Lieder class Tue Mar 27 | 7:30 pm with Kathryn Tremills Hart House Theatre, 7 Hart House Circle Nov 28 Made possible through a generous gift from Alumna Alexandra Smither, 2017 Eckhardt- Roy and Marjorie Linden. Gramatté Winner, in conversation Dec 5 Judith Forst Songs of the Season (singers from the third JOHN R. STRATTON VISITOR IN MUSIC year Oratorio Ensemble with Mia Bach) Mon Oct 16 | 7:30 to 9:30 pm | Walter Hall Jan 9 To be announced Jan 16 Orastoryo (singers from the fourth year and graduate Oratorio Ensemble with Darryl Master class Edwards and Mia Bach) with Canadian mezzo-soprano Vocalini Judith Forst. Fri Feb 16 | 7:30 pm | Walter Hall See Visitors An evening with our outstanding pages 20-21 for undergraduate voice performance majors. details.

10 Tickets: 416-408-0208 music.utoronto.ca UofT Symphony Orchestra All performances ORCHESTRA $30, $20 senior, $10 student 7:30 pm

Fri Oct 6 | MacMillan Theatre Sat Feb 3 | MacMillan Theatre URI MAYER conductor Wind Ensemble: Disparate Places GILLIAN MACKAY conductor BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 6, Op. 68 in F major “Pastoral” See Winds & Brass pages 12-13 for details. HATZIS The Isle Is Full of Noises DEBUSSY La Mer Sat Mar 24 | MacMillan Theatre URI MAYER conductor Sat Oct 21 | MacMillan Theatre UNIVERSITY CHOIRS Celebrating the Choral and Vocal Music of Imant Raminsh CHERUBINI Requiem in C minor HILARY APFELSTADT conductor VERSLUIS Lauds for Symphony Orchestra BRAHMS Symphony No. 2, Op. 73 in D major See Choirs in Concert pages 6-7 for details. Sat Apr 7 | MacMillan Theatre Fri Nov 17 | Walter Hall URI MAYER, FRANÇOIS KOH conductors CHAD HELTZEL, ESZTER HORVATH, FRANÇOIS KOH conductors FREEDMAN Suite from Oiseaux Exotiques NAOKO TSUJITA marimba VAUGHAN WILLIAMS The Lark Ascending STRAVINSKY Suite from The Firebird (1919 HAYDN Symphony No. 30 in C major “Alleluja” version) MOZART Symphony No. 29, K. 201 (186a) in A major Symphony Talk, a pre-performance chat, will SÉJOURNÉ Concerto for Marimba and be given before each UTSO performance. Strings Check music.utoronto.ca for details. RAVEL Le tombeau de Couperin UofT Concert Orchestra Fri Dec 8 | MacMillan Theatre Thu Oct 12, Tue Nov 28 and Wed Feb 14 URI MAYER, CHAD HELTZEL conductors at 7:30 pm AISA SAYAMA piano Wed Apr 4 at 12 pm

Walter Hall ZEMLINSKY Sinfonietta, Op. 23 MENDELSSOHN Piano Concerto No. 1, PAUL WIDNER conductor Op. 25 in G minor Free DVOŘÁK Symphony No. 9, Op. 95 in E minor “From The New World” UofT Symphony Orchestra Sat Jan 27 | MacMillan Theatre Concerto Competition Finals At the New Music Festival Sun Jan 21 | starts at 1 pm | Walter Hall URI MAYER, SAMUEL TAM conductors BRITTANY CANN soprano Competition to select soloists for UTSO concerts in the 2018-2019 season. MOZART Symphony No. 38, K. 504 Free in D major “” STRAUSS Four Songs: Op. 10, Nos. 1 & 8 and Op. 48, Nos. 2 & 3 KORNGOLD Theme and Variations, Op. 42 HINDEMITH Symphony: Mathis der Maler

Uri Mayer and the UTSO

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All performances Sat Feb 3 $30, $20 senior, $10 student Disparate Places 7:30 pm MacMillan Theatre GIROUX Just Flyin’ NISHIMURA Lake Superior Suite Wind Ensemble MCPHEE Concerto for Wind Orchestra GILLIAN MACKAY conductor SIGUR RÓS Ára Bátur KODÁLY Háry János Suite with the strings of Sat Oct 14 the UofT Symphony Orchestra

Borrowings and Inspirations Thu Apr 5

POLGÁR Fanfare of Pride and Joy Loss and Reflection HOGG In Stillness SHAPIRO Liquid Compass GEORGE Firefly BEDFORD Ronde for Isolde BRYANT Nothing Gold Can Stay GOTO Fantasma Lunare MORAWETZ Memorial to Martin Luther King TICHELI Angels in the Architecture with Shauna Rolston, cello BLACKSHAW Soulström Sat Dec 2 MASLANKA Traveler

Music Responding to Crisis

BALMAGES Fanfare Canzonique Shauna Rolston BENSON The Leaves Are Falling MEECHAN Korn Symphony GILLINGHAM Waking Angels SWEELINCK Mein junges Leben hat ein End

Concert will include a new work by August Murphy-King, 2016-2017 Graduate Student Composer-in-Residence.

12 Tickets: 416-408-0208 music.utoronto.ca All performances Instrumentalis $30, $20 senior, $10 student Master’s/DMA Series 7:30 pm MacMillan Theatre Thu Nov 23 | 12:10 pm | Walter Hall Aces and Deuces Wind Symphony JEFFREY REYNOLDS conductor Graduate student instrumentalists perform solo and duo repertoire. Fri Oct 20 Fri Feb 2 | 7:30 pm | Walter Hall LAVALLÉE/CABLE O Trios and Quartets LAVALLÉE La Rose Nuptiale LAURIDSEN O Magnum Mysterium Graduate student instrumentalists collaborate on trio and quartet repertoire. BARNES Fantasy Variations CABLE Stratford Suite Free NISHIMURA Chasing Sunlight GIROUX One Life Beautiful HOLST First Suite in E-flat

Sat Dec 9

IRVINE Hannaford Overture LO PRESTI Elegy for a Young American FORSYTH Songs from the Qu’Appelle Valley MEECHAN Letters for Home MILHAUD Suite Française

Fri Feb 9

WILSON Sang! KULESHA Dance Suite for Concert Band STETNER Under the Butterfly’s Wing KUSTER Interior MASLANKA St. Francis CALVERT Suite on Canadian Folk Songs

Thu Mar 29

BUCKLEY Free Running HEALEY One Midsummer Morning TOWER Fascinating Ribbons GIROUX Symphony No. 4, Bookmarks from Japan

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All performances are at 7:30 pm in Jazz Composers Concert Walter Hall. Thu Feb 1

Free UofT 12tet Wed Oct 25 UofT Jazz Orchestra Thu Feb 15 TERRY PROMANE director

Free GORDON FOOTE director Free UofT Jazz Orchestra Wed Nov 15 UofT 12tet with Ineke van GORDON FOOTE director Doorn and Marc van Vugt Fri Mar 9 Free Made possible through a generous gift from TERRY PROMANE director J. Hans Kluge. INEKE VAN DOORN vocals MARC VAN VUGT guitar

Vocal Jazz Ensemble and With fairy-like sounds, funky arrangements, 11 O’Clock Jazz Orchestra modern music full of harrowing and twisting Wed Nov 29 harmonies and sadly comforting songs,

singer Ineke van Doorn and guitarist CHRISTINE DUNCAN director Marc van Vugt explore the boundaries JIM LEWIS director between improvisation and composition, Free in original songs with regular lyrics and in pure improvisations, by giving their Jazz Faculty with special guests characteristic interpretation of standards At the New Music Festival or by amalgamation of different musical Sun Jan 28 expressions.

UofT Jazz presents jazz faculty and special $20, $10 student guests, along with current students, in a Made possible through a generous gift from John night of improvising and new music. Our and Claudine Bailey. Jazz faculty includes some of the finest in Canadian improvisers, and the music is Vocal Jazz Ensemble influenced by modern trends in improvised Thu Mar 22 music, composition, and the jazz tradition of free improvising. Presented by Jim CHRISTINE DUNCAN director Lewis. Free Free

14 Tickets: 416-408-0208 music.utoronto.ca Gordon Foote, Norma Winstone, Dave Liebman and the UTJO

UofT Jazz Orchestra and You can also find Jazz at: 11 O’Clock Jazz Orchestra with Renee Rosnes The Upper Jazz Concert Series Wed Mar 28 Performances and jam sessions throughout the year. GORDON FOOTE director JIM LEWIS director Ken Page Memorial Trust RENEE ROSNES piano UofT Jazz Master Class Series JOHN AND CLAUDINE BAILEY The Jazz Master Class series, supported DISTINGUISHED VISITOR IN JAZZ by a grant from the Ken Page Memorial Canadian-born Renee Rosnes is one of Trust, features guest artists throughout the the foremost jazz pianists and composers school year. Master classes take place on of her generation. She has toured and Friday afternoons and are free and open to recorded with bands led by such legends the public. as Joe Henderson, Wayne Shorter, J.J. Johnson, James Moody, Bobby Both series take place in the Upper Jazz Hutcherson, Niels-Henning Ørsted Studio at 90 Wellesley Street West. Pedersen, Buster Williams, and Ron Check www.uoftjazz.ca/events for details. Carter. Rosnes is a founding member of the all-star octet SFJAZZ Collective. In UofT Jazz Ensembles at 2003, SOCAN named Rosnes Composer The Rex of the Year. As a leader, she has released UofT Jazz Ensembles perform at the 15 acclaimed albums and is a four time classic Rex Hotel Jazz & Blues Bar (194 winner. Queen Street West) most Mondays from 6:30 to 9 pm during the school year. Free. $20, $10 student

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Additional funding for UofT Jazz Studies concerts is provided by Long and McQuade Musical Instruments, Yamaha Canada and the Ken Page Memorial Trust. Renee Rosnes

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Sep 14 Oct 26 GRYPHON TRIO WITH JAMES CAMPBELL MUSICAL CHAIRS II: ON THE MOVE The Gryphon Trio (Annalee Patipatanakoon, Soprano Elizabeth McDonald, bass- violin, Roman Borys, cello and James Parker, baritone Giles Tomkins, trombonist Achilles piano) with guest clarinetist James Campbell Liarmakopoulos and pianist Kathryn perform Haydn, Bernstein and Schickele. Tremills perform Vaughan Williams, Bach, Piazzola, Strauss and Mahler. Sep 21 WINONA ZELENKA, CELLO AND Nov 2 JAMES PARKER, PIANO OPERA SPOTLIGHT Winona Zelenka, Assistant Principal Cello A preview of UofT Opera’s production of with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, and Mozart’s Don Giovanni. the Gryphon Trio’s James Parker perform Bach’s Three Sonatas for Viola da Gamba Nov 16 and Harpsichord. STARTING FROM PORCUPINE William Aide draws on 58 years as a Sep 28 professional pianist in a presentation DAVE YOUNG, BASS, DAVE RESTIVO, including selections from CBC broadcasts PIANO AND GORDON FOOTE, and readings from his five books. SAXOPHONE, WITH GUESTS Nov 23 Oct 12 INSTRUMENTALIS: ACES AND DEUCES VOCALIS: ITALIAN TREASURES Graduate student instrumentalists perform Graduate student singers perform a solo and duo repertoire. program curated by Sara Maida-Nicol and UofT’s Italian Language Department. Nov 30 ENRICO ELISI, PIANO Oct 19 Enrico Elisi presents a solo recital with JONATHAN CROW, VIOLIN AND music by J.S. Bach and Kye Ryung Park. JOSEPH JOHNSON, CELLO The Toronto Symphony Orchestra’s Dec 7 Concertmaster and Principal Cellist present STUDENT CHAMBER MUSIC a recital of works by Ravel and Kodály. ENSEMBLES

Walter Hall

16 Tickets: 416-408-0208 music.utoronto.ca Jan 11 Feb 15 BEV @ 60! TENG LI, VIOLA AND LYDIA WONG, Percussionist Beverley Johnston and PIANO guests mark her 60th birthday year with a PRIMROSE Viola Transcriptions of works from retrospective of commissioned works by a variety of composers. Kontogiorgos, Hatzis, Wijeratne and Ho. Mar 1 Jan 18 OPERA SPOTLIGHT TIMOTHY YING, VIOLIN AND A preview of UofT Opera’s production of LYDIA WONG, PIANO Gershwin’s Of Thee I Sing. Present a program of music for violin and piano by UofT faculty and student Mar 15 composers, both current and past. MUSIC AND POETRY Soprano Monica Whicher, pianist Steven Jan 25 Philcox and speaker Eric Domville perform NEW MUSIC FESTIVAL: Schumann’s Liederkreis, Op. 24. ELECTROACOUSTIC MUSIC Works with live electronics and surround Mar 22 sound including the winner of the Ann H. STUDENT CHAMBER MUSIC Atkinson Prize in Composition. ENSEMBLES

Feb 1 Mar 29 ROB MACDONALD, GUITAR WINNERS’ RECITAL: JIM AND Rob MacDonald presents a solo recital of CHARLOTTE NORCOP PRIZE IN SONG K.A.L.T. by Helmut Oehring. & GWENDOLYN WILLIAMS KOLDOFSKY PRIZE IN ACCOMPANYING Feb 8 DMA COMPETITION WINNER: Apr 5 RUDIN LENGO, PIANO ASHER IAN ARMSTRONG, PIANO AND BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No. 31 in A flat EMILY KRUSPE, VIOLIN major, Op. 110 Present an all-Brahms program of Variations MUSSORGSKY Pictures at an Exhibition on a Theme by Robert Schumann, Op. 9 and

Sonata for Violin and Piano, No. 1 in G major, Made possible through a generous gift from Ron Atkinson and Bruce Blandford. Op. 78.

Rudin Lengo Teng Li

James Campbell Beverley Johnston Rob MacDonald

Teng Li

Gryphon Trio

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Sun Jan 21 to Sun Jan 28 NORBERT PALEJ festival coordinator Musicians from Marlboro Mon Jan 22 | 7:30 pm | Walter Hall Events are free unless noted otherwise. The Musicians from Marlboro include The 2018 New Music Festival features Anthony McGill, clarinet, Emilie-Anne Canadian composer, sound artist and Gendron, violin, David McCarroll, violin, keyboardist Nicole Lizée. Known for Daniel Kim, viola and Marcy Rosen, cello. creating new music from an eclectic mix of influences including the earliest BEETHOVEN String Trio in C minor, Op. 9, MTV videos, turntablism, rave culture, No. 3 Hitchcock, Kubrick, 1960s psychedelia PENDERECKI Quartet and modernism, Lizée is fascinated by the BRAHMS Clarinet Quintet in B minor, glitches made by outmoded and well-worn Op. 115 technology. Offering a wide spectrum of $40, $25 senior, $10 student chamber, electroacoustic, opera, jazz and orchestral music, master classes Marlboro Music and the University of Toronto and a composers’ forum, the festival will express their sincere appreciation to Dr. Günes N. explore Lizée’s ever-evolving oeuvre and Ege-Akter for making this concert possible. contemporary creativity. Composers’ Forum with OPERA STUDENT COMPOSER Nicole Lizée COLLECTIVE Tue Jan 23 | 7 pm | Walter Hall Vengeance Sun Jan 21 | 2:30 pm | MacMillan Theatre Composition Master Classes with Nicole Lizée A highlight of the annual New Music Wed Jan 24 | 10 am to 12 pm | Walter Hall Festival is a complete new opera by Fri Jan 26 | 10 am to 12 pm | Walter Hall our student composers. Vengeance is a reimagining of Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s Karen Kieser Prize Concert chilling drama Der Besuch der alten Wed Jan 24 | 7:30 pm | Walter Hall Dame (The Visit of the Old Lady) in which the world’s richest woman returns to her The Karen Kieser Prize is awarded annually impoverished birthplace to confront the to a graduate student in composition. This man she once loved and the townspeople year’s concert features Tyler Versluis’ 2017 who betrayed her. Michael Patrick Albano prize-winning work 3 Unuttered Miracles directs and Sandra Horst conducts this for accordion and percussion performed dark tale of revenge. by Michael Bridge and Michael Murphy. Past prize winner Riho Maimets’ Three Made possible through a generous gift from Movements for Marimba will be performed Dianne W. Henderson. by Jonny Smith. The Cecilia String Quartet will perform Nicole Lizée’s Isabella Blow at Somerset House, as well as the winning student piece of the 2017 University of Toronto String Quartet Composition Competition. Presented by Dennis Patrick.

18 Tickets: 416-408-0208 music.utoronto.ca Electroacoustic Music Concert UofT Symphony Orchestra Thu Jan 25 | 12:10 pm | Walter Hall Sat Jan 27 | 7:30 pm | MacMillan Theatre

A concert of multimedia works featuring URI MAYER, SAMUEL TAM conductors Malfunctionlieder by Nicole Lizée BRITTANY CANN soprano performed by Maeve Palmer and Joy Lee, an improvisation by Eugene Martynec, and MOZART Symphony No. 38, K. 504 the winning work for the Ann H. Atkinson in D major “Prague” Prize in Electroacoustic Composition. STRAUSS Four Songs: Op. 10, Nos. 1 & 8 Presented by Dennis Patrick. and Op. 48, Nos. 2 & 3 KORNGOLD Theme and Variations, Op. 42 HINDEMITH Symphony: Mathis der Maler Architek Percussion

Thu Jan 25 | 7:30 pm | Walter Hall $30, $20 senior, $10 student ’s Architek Percussion performs an amplified concert of pop culture Jazz Faculty with special technology infused works by Nicole Lizée guests and Eliot Britton. Presented by Eliot Britton. Sun Jan 28 | 7:30 pm | Walter Hall

UofT Jazz presents jazz faculty and special In memory of Steven Stucky guests, along with current students, in a A piano recital by Xak Bjerken night of improvising and new music. Our Fri Jan 26 | 7:30 pm | Walter Hall Jazz faculty includes some of the finest in Canadian improvisers, and the music is Presented by Norbert Palej. influenced by modern trends in improvised music, composition, and the jazz tradition of free improvising. Presented by Jim Lewis.

Nicole Lizée

All programs are subject to change. @UofTMusic 19 received numerous awards including the Outstanding Choral Composition Award VISITORS from the Association of Canadian Choral Communities, and in 2007 he was made Judith Forst an Officer in the Order of the Three Stars of JOHN R. STRATTON VISITOR IN MUSIC the Republic of . He is the founding conductor of the Prince George Symphony, Master Class Mon Oct 16 | 7:30 to 9:30 pm | Walter Hall the Youth Symphony of the Okanagan, Free NOVA Children’s Choir and AURA Chamber Choir. See Choirs in Concert pages 6-7 for Canadian mezzo-soprano Judith Forst details. has sung with major opera companies throughout North America and Europe, George E. Lewis including over 250 performances in 20 KENNETH H. PEACOCK LECTURER years with the New York Metropolitan Thu Jan 18 | 3:30 pm | Room 130 | Free Opera. European engagements have included performances in Italy, the Czech George E. Lewis is the Edwin H. Case Republic and the Netherlands. She made Professor of American Music at Columbia her debut at Italy’s La Scala in 2006 University. Lewis studied composition with singing Kabanichka in Katya Kabanova. Muhal Richard Abrams and trombone with In 2010, Forst scored a personal and Dean Hey. A member of the Association critical triumph with her world premiere for the Advancement of Creative performance as Lilian Alling with the Musicians (AACM) since 1971, Lewis’ Vancouver Opera Association. A year later work in electronic and computer music, she performed another world premiere with computer-based multimedia installations, the Calgary Opera, singing in Bramwell and notated and improvisative forms is Tovey’s The Inventor. Forst is a member documented on more than 150 recordings of the Order of Canada and of the Order and performed throughout the world. of , and is a recipient of Professor Lewis is the co-editor of the Canada’s prestigious Ruby Award marking two-volume Oxford Handbook of Critical her distinguished worldwide career. Improvisation Studies, and his 2008 book A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and Imant Raminsh American Experimental Music received the WILMA AND CLIFFORD SMITH American Book Award and the American VISITOR IN MUSIC Musicological Society’s Music in American Culture Award. Lecture Wed Oct 18 | 7:30 pm | Walter Hall | Free Nicole Lizée ROGER D. MOORE DISTINGUISHED Concert: Celebrating the Choral and Vocal VISITOR IN COMPOSITION Music of Imant Raminsh Sat Oct 21 | 7:30 pm | MacMillan Theatre New Music Festival $30, $20 senior, $10 student Tue Jan 23 to Fri Jan 26

Born in 1943 in Ventspils, Latvia, Imant Nicole Lizée is a Canadian composer, Raminsh arrived in Canada with his family sound artist and keyboardist based in 1948. He pursued musical studies at the in Montreal. Her compositions range Royal Conservatory of Music, the University from works for large ensemble and solo of Toronto, the Akademie “Mozarteum” turntablist featuring DJ techniques fully in , , and the University notated and integrated into a concert music of British Columbia. Raminsh has written setting, to other unorthodox instrument in most musical genres including solo combinations that include the Atari voice, chamber music, choral, symphonic, 2600 video game console, omnichord, concerto and opera. His works have stylophone, hand held games and karaoke been performed on six continents in tapes. Lizée received her Master of Music such renowned halls as Carnegie Hall degree from McGill University in 2001 and and the Forbidden City. Raminsh has has since received over 40 commissions

20 Tickets: 416-408-0208 music.utoronto.ca and had her music performed worldwide. Cronenberg, six for Martin Scorsese, In 2013 she was awarded the prestigious and provided music for many esteemed Canada Council for the Arts Jules Léger directors over the past 40 years. Shore Prize for New Chamber Music and was is an officer of the Order of Canada, an recently selected by acclaimed composer Officier de l’ordre des Arts et des Lettres and conductor Howard Shore to be his de la France, and the recipient of Canada’s protégée as part of the Governor General’s Governor General’s Performing Arts Award. Performing Arts Awards Mentorship Program. See New Music Festival pages John Hess 18-19 for details. COLLABORATIVE PIANIST

Johannes Debus Master Class RIKI TUROFSKY MASTER CLASS Wed Mar 7 | 1 to 3 pm | Walter Hall | Free IN VOICE John Hess is the recognized authority on Thu Feb 15 | 2 to 4 pm contemporary opera and song in Canada. Geiger-Torel Room | Free Hess was the co-founder and co-artistic director of the Queen of Puddings Music German-born conductor Johannes Debus Theatre and has served as Associate was appointed Music Director of the Artistic Director of the 20th Century Opera Canadian Opera Company (COC) in 2009, and Song program at the Banff Centre having already established himself in many for the Arts. Equally in demand as a vocal of the great opera houses and festivals coach and pianist, Hess has worked of Europe. He made his COC debut in regularly with Ben Heppner in Canada 2008 conducting War and Peace, and has and with many other Canadian singers captivated Toronto and international critics and instrumentalists. He has recorded alike in the years since. This past season numerous CDs, including the complete Debus returned to the COC podium to vocal works of Canadian composer Harry conduct Ariodante, Götterdämmerung and Somers. As a member of the music faculty Louis Riel. When he is not conducting at at Western University, Hess directs the the COC, he is very active with international graduate programs in collaborative piano. engagements, most recently making his debut. Residency made possible through a generous gift from James Norcop. Howard Shore LOUIS APPLEBAUM DISTINGUISHED Renee Rosnes JOHN AND CLAUDINE BAILEY VISITOR IN FILM COMPOSITION DISTINGUISHED VISITOR IN JAZZ Lecture Concert with the UofT Jazz Orchestras Tue Mar 6 | 7:30 pm | Walter Hall | Free Wed Mar 28 | 7:30 pm | Walter Hall As one of today’s premier composers, $20, $10 student

Howard Shore’s music is being performed Renee Rosnes is one of the foremost jazz by the most prestigious orchestras in pianists and composers of her generation. concert halls and theatres around the She has toured and recorded with bands world. The music Shore created for J.R.R. led by such legends as Joe Henderson, Tolkien’s imaginative world of The Lord Wayne Shorter, J.J. Johnson, James of the Rings and The Hobbit films have Moody, Bobby Hutcherson, Niels-Henning enthralled people of all generations. This Ørsted Pedersen, Buster Williams, and work stands as one of his most acclaimed Ron Carter. Rosnes is a founding member compositions to date and was honoured of the all-star octet SFJAZZ Collective. In with three Academy Awards, four Grammy 2003, SOCAN named Rosnes Composer Awards, two Golden Globes as well as of the Year. As a leader, she has released numerous critic and festival awards. 15 acclaimed albums and is a four time More recently Shore wrote the scores for Juno award winner. See Jazz pages 14-15 Denial and the Best Picture Oscar winner for details. Spotlight. He has scored 15 films for David

All programs are subject to change. @UofTMusic 21 Flute Day Sun Oct 15 | starts at 10 am | Walter Hall WORLD OF Flute Day will offer an interactive Alexander Technique presentation by Gary Labovitz MUSIC as well as a panel discussion by Faculty of Music flutists. Students will be able to play with faculty in a special flute choir in the afternoon. Guest artist Bonita Boyd will present a master class and will give a recital at 7 pm. Bonita Boyd is sponsored by Verne Q. Powell Events are free unless noted otherwise. Flutes, Boston.

Mysterious Barricades Student Composers Concerts Sun Sep 10 | 12 to 1:30 pm | Walter Hall Tue Oct 17, Tue Nov 21, Tue Jan 16, Tue Feb 13 and Tue Mar 13 | 7 pm | Walter Hall Mysterious Barricades is a cross-Canada concert in honour of World Suicide Fall Campus Day Prevention Day. Free concerts from coast Sat Oct 21 to coast present 22 continuous hours of music to raise awareness about mental Explore the Faculty of Music and the illness and health, encourage public Edward Johnson Building at 80 Queen’s discourse about the prevalence of suicide Park. Talk to students and professors, learn and measures for suicide prevention, and about courses and programs, and attend a raise funds for education and support master class or workshop. Check of those at risk and those impacted by music.utoronto.ca for details. suicide. Visit mysteriousbarricades.org for more information. Percussion Ensembles The Toronto concert includes Russell Sun Oct 22, Sun Mar 25 and Sun Apr 8 Braun, Judy Loman, Carolyn Maule, Lorna at 2:30 pm Sun Dec 3, Sun Dec 10 and Sun Feb 11 MacDonald, Nathalie Paulin, Monica at 7:30 pm Whicher and Tracy Wong. Walter Hall

Bass Day Made possible through a generous gift from Sun Oct 1 | 10 am to 4 pm Ann H. Atkinson. Boyd Neel Room Woodwind Chamber Ensembles Calling all high school bassists: meet and Wed Nov 22 at 7:30 pm and Fri Mar 23 work with UofT Music’s bass faculty from at 1 pm our Classical, Jazz and Early Music areas. Walter Hall

Sun Oct 1 | 4 to 5 pm | Philosopher’s Walk Brass Chamber Ensembles (weather permitting) Mon Nov 27 at 7:30 pm and Thu Mar 22 Following Bass Day, join in our world at 1 pm record attempt for the most bassists ever Walter Hall to play “The Elephant” from Carnival of the Animals by Camille Saint-Saëns and World Music Ensembles check out the Bass Petting Zoo (open to Thu Nov 30 | 7:30 pm | Walter Hall

the public). Iranian Music Ensemble, Klezmer Ensemble and Japanese Drumming Ensemble perform.

22 Tickets: 416-408-0208 music.utoronto.ca Guitar Orchestra Felix Galimir Chamber Music Mon Dec 4 | 7:30 pm | Walter Hall Award Concert Wed Apr 4 | 7:30 pm | University of Toronto Mon Apr 23 | 7:30 pm | Walter Hall Art Museum, 15 King’s College Circle Concert featuring this year’s prize-winning JEFFREY MCFADDEN director ensembles.

Pay what you can gamUT: Contemporary Music Ensemble Proceeds to benefit the Felix Galimir Chamber Tue Dec 5 and Tue Mar 27 | 7:30 pm Music Award Fund. Walter Hall Music Research Colloquia WALLACE HALLADAY director Throughout the year, come hear distinguished speakers in Musicology, PianoFest Ethnomusicology, Music Theory, Music Wed Dec 6 and Thu Dec 7 at 7:30 pm Education and Music and Health Sciences. Sat Dec 9 at 2:30 pm Walter Hall All talks are free and open to students, faculty and the general public, and take Students from the piano area perform. place on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons in the Edward Johnson Building at These concerts are made possible through a 80 Queen’s Park. Check music.utoronto.ca generous gift from Paul Hahn & Co. for details. DM@X Fourth Annual Conference Sat Jan 27 | 9 am to 5 pm | Walter Hall

Digital Media at the Crossroads returns to examine the future of content in digital media. DM@X keynote speakers, panels and guest speakers offer digital media students and professionals a full day of wide-ranging, informative and provocative programming. Open to students, faculty and the general public.

Visit digitalmediaatthecrossroads.ca for conference details and registration information.

World Music Ensembles Sat Apr 7 | 2:30 pm | Walter Hall

African Drumming and Dancing Ensemble, Latin American Music Ensemble and Steel Pan Ensemble perform.

All programs are subject to change. @UofTMusic 23 2017-2018 SEASON AT A GLANCE LISTINGS KEY Free events Ticketed events SERIES CIC: Choirs in Concert (p. 6-7) ORC: Orchestra (p. 11) CM: Chamber Music (p. 3) TNS: Thursdays at Noon (p. 16-17) EM: Early Music (p. 8-9) VIS: Visitors (p. 20-21) JAZ: Jazz (p. 14-15) VOC: Voice (p. 10) NMF: New Music Festival (p. 18-19) WB: Winds & Brass (p. 12-13) OPR: Opera (p. 4-5) WOM: World of Music (p. 22-23) VENUES AM: Art Museum @ UofT, 15 King’s College Circle SB: St. Basil’s Church, 50 St. Joseph Street BN: Boyd Neel Room, 80 Queen’s Park TC: Trinity College Chapel, 6 Hoskin Avenue CR: Church of the Redeemer, 162 Bloor Street West TE: Timothy Eaton Memorial Church, GC: Grace Church on-the-Hill, 300 Lonsdale Road 230 St. Clair Avenue West GT: Geiger-Torel Room, 80 Queen’s Park VC: Victoria College Chapel, 91 Charles Street West HH: Heliconian Hall, 35 Hazelton Avenue WH: Walter Hall, 80 Queen’s Park HT: Hart House Theatre, 7 Hart House Circle 130: Room 130, 80 Queen’s Park MT: MacMillan Theatre, 80 Queen’s Park FALL 2017 September

10 MYSTERIOUS BARRICADES | (WOM) | 12 pm | WH

12 VOICE PERFORMANCE CLASS | (VOC) | 12:10 pm | WH

14 GRYPHON TRIO WITH JAMES CAMPBELL | (TNS) | 12:10 pm | WH

19 VOICE PERFORMANCE CLASS | (VOC) | 12:10 pm | WH

20-24 FALL BAROQUE ACADEMY | (EM) | TC

21 WINONA ZELENKA & JAMES PARKER | (TNS) | 12:10 pm | WH

24 FALL BAROQUE ACADEMY FINAL CONCERT | (EM) | 7:30 pm | TC

26 VOICE PERFORMANCE CLASS | (VOC) | 12:10 pm | WH

28 DAVE YOUNG, DAVE RESTIVO & GORDON FOOTE | (TNS) | 12:10 pm | WH

October

1 BASS DAY | (WOM) | 10 am - 4 pm | BN

2 ENRICO ELISI: FROM PUBLIC STAGE TO PRIVATE PARLOUR | (CM) | 7:30 pm | WH

3 VOICE PERFORMANCE CLASS | (VOC) | 12:10 pm | WH

5 NEW ORFORD STRING QUARTET | (CM) | 7:30 pm | WH

6 UOFT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | (ORC) | 7:30 pm | MT

24 Tickets: 416-408-0208 music.utoronto.ca 10 VOICE PERFORMANCE CLASS | (VOC) | 12:10 pm | WH

12 VOCALIS: ITALIAN TREASURES | (VOC/TNS) | 12:10 pm | WH

12 UOFT CONCERT ORCHESTRA | (ORC) | 7:30 pm | WH

14 WIND ENSEMBLE: BORROWINGS AND INSPIRATIONS | (WB) | 7:30 pm | MT

15 FLUTE DAY | (WOM) | starts at 10 am, recital with Bonita Boyd at 7 pm | WH

16 MASTER CLASS WITH JUDITH FORST | (VOC/VIS) | 7:30 - 9:30 pm | WH

17 VOICE PERFORMANCE CLASS | (VOC) | 12:10 pm | WH

17 STUDENT COMPOSERS | (WOM) | 7 pm | WH

18 LECTURE WITH IMANT RAMINSH | (VIS) | 7:30 pm | WH

19 JONATHAN CROW & JOSEPH JOHNSON | (TNS) | 12:10 pm | WH

20 WIND SYMPHONY | (WB) | 7:30 pm | MT

21 FALL CAMPUS DAY | (WOM) CELEBRATING THE CHORAL AND VOCAL MUSIC OF IMANT RAMINSH 21 (CIC/ORC/VIS) | 7:30 pm | MT 22 PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE | (WOM) | 2:30 pm | WH

24 VOICE PERFORMANCE CLASS | (VOC) | 12:10 pm | WH

25 UOFT 12TET | (JAZ) | 7:30 pm | WH

26 MUSICAL CHAIRS II: ON THE MOVE | (TNS) | 12:10 pm | WH

28 HANDEL’S MESSIAH | (EM) | 2:30 pm | TC

29 IN LOW VOICE | (CIC) | 2:30 pm | CR

29 HANDEL’S MESSIAH | (EM) | 7:30 pm | TC

30 JOSEPH JOHNSON & JAMES PARKER | (CM) | 7:30 pm | WH

31 VOICE PERFORMANCE CLASS | (VOC) | 12:10 pm | WH

November

2 OPERA SPOTLIGHT: DON GIOVANNI | (TNS) | 12:10 pm | WH

14 VOICE PERFORMANCE CLASS | (VOC) | 12:10 pm | WH

15 UOFT JAZZ ORCHESTRA | (JAZ) | 7:30 pm | WH

16 STARTING FROM PORCUPINE | (TNS) | 12:10 pm | WH

17 UOFT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA WITH NAOKO TSUJITA | (ORC) | 7:30 pm | WH

20 FACULTY ARTISTS ENSEMBLE | (CM) | 7:30 pm | WH

All programs are subject to change. @UofTMusic 25 21 VOICE PERFORMANCE CLASS | (VOC) | 12:10 pm | WH

21 STUDENT COMPOSERS | (WOM) | 7 pm | WH

22 WOODWIND CHAMBER ENSEMBLES | (WOM) | 7:30 pm | WH

23 INSTRUMENTALIS: ACES AND DEUCES | (WB/TNS) | 12:10 pm | WH

23-25 DON GIOVANNI | (OPR) | 7:30 pm | MT

26 DON GIOVANNI | (OPR) | 2:30 pm | MT

27 BRASS CHAMBER ENSEMBLES | (WOM) | 7:30 pm | WH

28 VOICE PERFORMANCE CLASS | (VOC) | 12:10 pm | WH

28 UOFT CONCERT ORCHESTRA | (ORC) | 7:30 pm | WH

29 VOCAL JAZZ ENSEMBLE & 11 O’CLOCK JAZZ ORCHESTRA | (JAZ) | 7:30 pm | WH

30 ENRICO ELISI | (TNS) | 12:10 pm | WH

30 WORLD MUSIC ENSEMBLES | (WOM) | 7:30 pm | WH

December

2 WIND ENSEMBLE: MUSIC RESPONDING TO CRISIS | (WB) | 7:30 pm | MT

3 SING AND REJOICE! | (CIC) | 2:30 pm | MT

3 PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE | (WOM) | 7:30 pm | WH

3 THE TALLIS SCHOLARS | (EM) | 8 pm | GC

4 VOCALIS: AN EVENING WITH THE PARNASSIANS | (VOC) | 7:30 pm | HH

4 GUITAR ORCHESTRA | (WOM) | 7:30 pm | WH

5 VOICE PERFORMANCE CLASS | (VOC) | 12:10 pm | WH

5 GAMUT: CONTEMPORARY MUSIC ENSEMBLE | (WOM) | 7:30 pm | WH

6 PIANOFEST | (WOM) | 7:30 pm | WH

7 STUDENT CHAMBER MUSIC ENSEMBLES | (TNS) | 12:10 pm | WH

7 PIANOFEST | (WOM) | 7:30 pm | WH

8 UOFT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA WITH AISA SAYAMA | (ORC) | 7:30 pm | MT

9 PIANOFEST | (WOM) | 2:30 pm | WH

9 WIND SYMPHONY | (WB) | 7:30 pm | MT

10 PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE | (WOM) | 7:30 pm | WH

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9 VOICE PERFORMANCE CLASS | (VOC) | 12:10 pm | WH

11 BEV @ 60! | (TNS) | 12:10 pm | WH

16 VOICE PERFORMANCE CLASS | (VOC) | 12:10 pm | WH

16 STUDENT COMPOSERS | (WOM) | 7 pm | WH

18 TIMOTHY YING & LYDIA WONG | (TNS) | 12:10 pm | WH

18 LECTURE WITH GEORGE E. LEWIS | (VIS) | 3:30 pm | 130

21 SYMPOSIUM: CANADIAN OPERA 151 | (OPR) | 11 am - 1:30 pm | GT

21 UTSO CONCERTO COMPETITION FINALS | (ORC) | starts at 1 pm | WH

21 VENGEANCE | (OPR/NMF) | 2:30 pm | MT

22 MUSICIANS FROM MARLBORO | (CM/NMF) | 7:30 pm | WH

23 COMPOSERS’ FORUM WITH NICOLE LIZÉE | (NMF/VIS) | 7 pm | WH

24 COMPOSITION MASTER CLASS WITH NICOLE LIZÉE | (NMF/VIS) | 10 am - 12 pm | WH

24 KAREN KIESER PRIZE CONCERT | (NMF) | 7:30 pm | WH

25 ELECTROACOUSTIC MUSIC | (NMF/TNS) | 12:10 pm | WH

25 ARCHITEK PERCUSSION | (NMF) | 7:30 pm | WH

26 COMPOSITION MASTER CLASS WITH NICOLE LIZÉE | (NMF/VIS) | 10 am - 12 pm | WH

26 IN MEMORY OF STEVEN STUCKY: XAK BJERKEN | (NMF) | 7:30 pm | WH

27 DM@X FOURTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE | (WOM) | 9 am - 5 pm | WH

27 UOFT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA WITH BRITTANY CANN | (ORC/NMF) | 7:30 pm | MT

28 JAZZ FACULTY WITH SPECIAL GUESTS | (JAZ/NMF) | 7:30 pm | WH

February

1 ROB MACDONALD | (TNS) | 12:10 pm | WH

1 JAZZ COMPOSERS | (JAZ) | 7:30 pm | WH

2 INSTRUMENTALIS: TRIOS AND QUARTETS | (WB) | 7:30 pm | WH

3 WIND ENSEMBLE: DISPARATE PLACES | (WB/ORC) | 7:30 pm | MT

4 MUSIC FOR A SUNDAY AFTERNOON | (CIC) | 2:30 pm | MT

All programs are subject to change. @UofTMusic 27 VOCALIS: WINTERNÄCHTE: LIEDER ÜBER TRÄUME UND SEHNSUCHT 7 (WINTERNIGHTS: SONGS OF DREAMS AND LONGING) | (VOC) | 7:30 pm | VC 8 DMA COMPETITION WINNER: RUDIN LENGO | (TNS) | 12:10 pm | WH

9 WIND SYMPHONY | (WB) | 7:30 pm | MT

11 PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE | (WOM) | 7:30 pm | WH

13 STUDENT COMPOSERS | (WOM) | 7 pm | WH

14 UOFT CONCERT ORCHESTRA | (ORC) | 7:30 pm | WH

15 TENG LI & LYDIA WONG | (TNS) | 12:10 pm | WH

15 MASTER CLASS WITH JOHANNES DEBUS | (VIS) | 2 - 4 pm | GT

15 UOFT JAZZ ORCHESTRA | (JAZ) | 7:30 pm | WH

16 VOCALINI | (VOC) | 7:30 pm | WH

March

1 OPERA SPOTLIGHT: OF THEE I SING | (TNS) | 12:10 pm | WH

4 MOZART’S REQUIEM | (EM) | 7:30 pm | SB

5 CECILIA STRING QUARTET WITH PATRICIA PARR | (CM) | 7:30 pm | WH

6 LECTURE WITH HOWARD SHORE | (VIS) | 7:30 pm | WH

7 MASTER CLASS WITH JOHN HESS | (VIS) | 1 - 3 pm | WH

9 UOFT 12TET WITH INEKE VAN DOORN AND MARC VAN VUGT | (JAZ) | 7:30 pm | WH

11 IN HIGH VOICE | (CIC) | 2:30 pm | TE

11 VOCALIS: CHAMBER IN THE CHAPEL | (VOC) | 7:30 pm | VC

13 STUDENT COMPOSERS | (WOM) | 7 pm | WH

15 MUSIC AND POETRY | (TNS) | 12:10 pm | WH

15-17 OF THEE I SING | (OPR) | 7:30 pm | MT

18 OF THEE I SING | (OPR) | 2:30 pm | MT

19 THE ARTIST’S LIFE THROUGH SONG | (CM) | 7:30 pm | WH

22 STUDENT CHAMBER MUSIC ENSEMBLES | (TNS) | 12:10 pm | WH

22 BRASS CHAMBER ENSEMBLES | (WOM) | 1 pm | WH

22 VOCAL JAZZ ENSEMBLE | (JAZ) | 7:30 pm | WH

23 WOODWIND CHAMBER ENSEMBLES | (WOM) | 1 pm | WH

28 Tickets: 416-408-0208 music.utoronto.ca 24 CHERUBINI REQUIEM: UTSO WITH UNIVERSITY CHOIRS | (ORC/CIC) | 7:30 pm | MT

25 PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE | (WOM) | 2:30 pm | WH

27 A FAMILY AFFAIR: MUSIC OF RODGERS AND GUETTEL | (VOC) | 7:30 pm | HT

27 GAMUT: CONTEMPORARY MUSIC ENSEMBLE | (WOM) | 7:30 pm | WH UOFT JAZZ ORCHESTRA AND 11 O’CLOCK JAZZ ORCHESTRA WITH 28 RENEE ROSNES | (JAZ/VIS) | 7:30 pm | WH 29 NORCOP AND KOLDOFSKY PRIZE WINNERS’ RECITAL | (TNS) | 12:10 pm | WH

29 WIND SYMPHONY | (WB) | 7:30 pm | MT

April

3 HIGH SCHOOL CHORAL FESTIVAL | (CIC) | 9 am - 4 pm | MT

3 FROM THE 19TH CENTURY... | (OPR) | 5 pm | WH

4 UOFT CONCERT ORCHESTRA | (ORC) | 12 pm | WH

4 GUITAR ORCHESTRA | (WOM) | 7:30 pm | AM

5 ASHER IAN ARMSTRONG & EMILY KRUSPE | (TNS) | 12:10 pm | WH

5 WIND ENSEMBLE: LOSS AND REFLECTION | (WB) | 7:30 pm | MT

7 WORLD MUSIC ENSEMBLES | (WOM) | 2:30 pm | WH

7 UOFT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | (ORC) | 7:30 pm | MT

8 PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE | (WOM) | 2:30 pm | WH

23 FELIX GALIMIR CHAMBER MUSIC AWARD | (WOM) | 7:30 pm | WH

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