The Royal Conservatory 2020.21 Concert Season Brochure

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WELCOME TO THE 2020.21 CONCERT SEASON Nothing compares to the power of live music and the collective experience of sharing it together. In this uncertain time we are cautiously moving forward with plans to reopen in September.

We will, of course, adjust if health authorities prohibit gathering together for concerts. We are buoyed by your support and look forward to seeing you as soon as possible.

This season we bring you many of the performances from the spring that we had to postpone until we were able to get into Koerner Hall again.

We celebrate Ludwig van Beethoven — disruptor, innovator, and genius — with a Beethoven 250 Festival, co-curated with the inestimable violinist James Ehnes in a festival that brings you a range of perspectives and interpretations of Beethoven’s music with concerts and artists that you certainly will not hear anywhere else. Our 21C Music Festival in January 2021 features the Kronos Quartet in residence for masterclasses and three performances.

Our jazz and world music series brings artists from 27 countries and our annual Quiet Please, There’s a Lady On Stage series includes a tribute to Aretha Franklin, Rosanne Cash, and ten other fabulous women. Of course our piano, string, and vocal recital series, and all of our talented students return to take you on journeys you won't forget. Come to hear your favourites and delve into artists you did not know before. Let us enjoy being together again, celebrating and being moved and inspired by live music.

DR. PETER SIMON Michael and Sonja Koerner President & CEO, The Royal Conservatory of Music

MERVON MEHTA Executive Director, Performing Arts

THE BAILLIE VEIL, generously supported by Charles and Marilyn Baillie, floats above Koerner Hall. Evoking a musical instrument, it has been internationally acclaimed for its extraordinary beauty as well as its acoustical excellence.

The unique design creates a stunning sculptural display for audiences to enjoy and it has become a distinctive feature in many of The Royal Conservatory’s print and electronic materials, which feature stylized graphic representations of the magnificent Baillie Veil.

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Front Cover: Bobby McFerrin

JAMES ANAGNOSON Dean, The Glenn Gould School

Above: Koerner Hall Photo: Lisa Sakulensky

Chilina Kennedy

Sheila McCarthy

Ben Heppner

SEASON GALA: FOLLIES IN CONCERT Starring Chilina Kennedy, Cynthia Dale, Eric McCormack, and Thom Allison with Mary Lou Fallis, Denise Fergusson, Lorraine Foreman, Ben Heppner, Sheila McCarthy, Louise Pitre, Jackie Richardson, and Avery Saltzman

Eric McCormack

Book by James Goldman Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim Directed by Richard Ouzounian Music Director Paul Sportelli Designer Nick Blais Choreographer Robin Calvert Orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick Produced originally on Broadway by Harold Prince by special arrangements with Cameron Mackintosh and Music Theatre International (MTI) Saturday, October 17, 2020 8pm | KH An all-star cast of Canadian theatrical icons perform the sophisticated, heart-wrenching masterpiece considered to be one of the greatest musicals ever created. Hit songs include “Losing My Mind,”“I’m Still Here,”and “Broadway Baby.”

Denise Fergusson

Thom Allison

Cynthia Dale Mary Lou Fallis

Celebrate Sondheim’s 90th birthday with us!

ONLY AT KOERNER HALL. ONE NIGHT ONLY. A star-studded spectacular event in support of The Fund for Koerner Hall.

CONCERT TICKETS START AT ONLY $99 To learn more about attending the gala dinner & concert, please call 416.408.2824 x447.

Jackie Richardson

Lorraine Foreman

Avery Saltzman

Louise Pitre

FESTIVAL Curated by JAMES EHNES and MERVON MEHTA

James Ehnes with Andrew Armstrong: Violin Sonatas Part 1 Friday, November 13, 2020 8pm | KH See page 9 for details.

Dover Quartet with Davóne Tines Sunday, November 15, 2020 3pm | KH See page 8 for details.

Stewart Goodyear plays Symphony No. 9 (solo) Friday, November 20, 2020 8pm | KH See page 8 for details.

Marcus Roberts with the Modern Jazz Generation Saturday, November 21, 2020 8pm | KH Jazz improvisations on Beethoven’s “Moonlight” and “Waldstein” sonatas, as well as Leonard Bernstein’s West Side Story and On the Town.

Generously supported by an anonymous donor

Anne-Marie McDermott with Rolston String Quartet Sunday, November 22, 2020 3pm | KH See page 8 for details.

Peter Oundjian conducts Symphony No. 3 Friday, November 27, 2020 8pm | KH See page 21 for details.

Taylor Academy Showcase Concert Saturday, November 28, 2020 4:30pm | MCH See page 22 for details.

John O’Conor plays final three piano sonatas Sunday, November 29, 2020 1pm | MCH See page 4 for details.

Marc-André Hamelin Sunday, November 29, 2020 3pm | KH See page 16 for details.

Pamela Frank with Emanuel Ax Wednesday, December 2, 2020 8pm | KH See page 4 for details.

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Celebrate Ludwig van Beethoven: disruptor, innovator, genius.

The Festival brings you an eclectic range of his opera, symphonies, chamber music, songs, and sonatas alongside two world premieres and works by of some of his fellow disruptors.

Stay tuned for information about LvB250 classes, lectures, and films.

Adrianne Pieczonka and Michael Schade with the Canadian Opera Company Orchestra conducted by Johannes Debus Thursday, December 3, 2020 8pm | KH See page 17 for details.

Galilee Chamber Orchestra plays Symphony No. 1 Saturday, December 5, 2020 8pm | KH See page 8 for details.

Gryphon Trio with Jon Kimura Parker Sunday, December 6, 2020 3pm | KH See page 8 for details.

Amici Chamber Ensemble presents In Beethoven’s Shadow Sunday, December 6, 2020 7pm | MCH Program includes works by Beethoven, Erzherzog Rudolf von Österreich, and Ferdinand Ries Tickets start at only $50

Joaquin Valdepeñas Conducts Symphony No. 5 Monday, December 7, 2020 7:30pm | MCH See page 23 for details.

Ehnes Quartet and New Orford String Quartet Thursday, December 10, 2020 8pm | KH See page 9 for details.

ARC Ensemble plays Symphony No. 2 and English songs Saturday, December 12, 2020 8pm | MCH All Beethoven program includes his arrangement of Symphony No. 2 for Piano Trio, folk song arrangements for voice and piano trio featuring soprano Monica Whicher, and String Quintet in C Major, op. 29.

Tickets are $30

James Ehnes with Andrew Armstrong: Violin Sonatas Part 2 Sunday, December 13, 2020 3pm | KH See page 9 for details.

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CONCERTS RESCHEDULED FROM LAST SEASON

Angela Hewitt Sunday, October 18, 2020 3pm | KH “The Canadian pianist is one of the reliably mesmerising musicians of the day. You sit entranced…”

(The Sunday Times) Tickets start at only $50

Pamela Frank with Emanuel Ax Wednesday, December 2, 2020 8pm | KH With Pamela Frank, “even single notes don’t leave the strings without meaning” (Philadelphia Inquirer).

“Ax’s greatness, his overwhelming authority as a musician, technician, and probing intellect emerges quickly as he plays.” (Los Angeles Times) Tickets start at only $40 Generously supported by an anonymous donor

Angela Hewitt

Orbert Davis “Soul Migration” featuring members of Chicago Jazz Philharmonic Friday, October 23, 2020 8pm | KH Join celebrated Chicago trumpeter, composer, and bandleader, Orbert Davis, for a celebration of the “Great Black Migration” 1916-1970 from the southern states to Chicago.

Tickets start at only $35

The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain Tuesday, April 27 & Wednesday, April 28, 2021 8pm | KH George Hinchliffe’s group of all-singing, all-strumming ukulele players whose concerts are a funny, virtuosic, twanging, awesome, footstomping obituary of rock-n-roll featuring the “bonsai guitar” and a menagerie of voices.

Tickets start at only $35 April 27 presented in memory of Gary Miles

John O’Conor and Beethoven Sunday, November 29, 2020 1pm | MCH Beethoven specialist John O’Conor, who “has the kind of flawless touch that makes an audience gasp” (Washington Post), will perform the final three piano sonatas by Beethoven.

Tickets start at only $30 Meow Meow

Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain

Meow Meow Saturday, May 1, 2021 8pm | KH This spectacular crowd-surfing tragicomedienne is “sensational” (The Times), a “diva of the highest order” (New York Post), and “The Queen of Chanson” (Berliner Zeitung).

Tickets start at only $40 Presented in memory of Robert Calvin

John O’Conor

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WORLD MUSIC SERIES SUBSCRIPTION STARTS AT ONLY $193.00 OR MIX WITH CONCERTS FROM OTHER SERIES TO CREATE YOUR OWN PACKAGE

Ladysmith Black Mambazo

Ladysmith Black Mambazo Wednesday, March 3, 2021 8pm | KH “They are musical uniters and global boundarycrossers and, especially now ... as the rest of world has grown less connected, their warm-centered presence and harmonics both soothe and offer hope for a more empathetic world.” (The Chicago Tribune) Tickets start at only $45

Mokoomba and Wesli

KUNÉ

KUNÉ – Canada’s Global Orchestra and Moskitto Bar Saturday, November 14, 2020 8pm | KH “[KUNÉ fuses] eleven musical traditions and twentyfive instruments into an ear-spinning confection of leaping melodies and luscious timbres.” (Roots Music) Moskitto Bar is a musical journey across the world from Brittany to Bagdad, with stops in the Balkans and Ukraine. This night will be a party that spans the entire globe!

Tickets start at only $35

Wednesday, April 14, 2021 8pm | KH Zimbabwean band Mokoomba performs “sensational a capella harmonies ... beats that transform the audience into a rhythmic congregation of movers and shakers, dancing and clapping along.”(Morning Star, UK) Montreal-based Haitian musician Wesli won the 2019 Juno Award for Best World Music Album.

Tickets start at only $40 Wesli

Las Cafeteras and Patricia Cano Friday, May 7, 2021 8pm | KH Las Cafeteras is a “uniquely Angeleno mishmash of punk, hip-hop, beat music, cumbia and rock … Live, they’re magnetic” (Los Angeles Times).

Patricia Cano is an award-winning Peruvian-Canadian singer-songwriter, actor, and “a supremely talented songwriter and vocalist” (JazzdaGama).

Tickets start at only $40

Mariza

Patricia Cano

Mariza Thursday, February 4, 2021 8pm | KH “The Portuguese star dispels the idea that fado is gloomy with a set that mixe[s] passion with delicacy and humour.” (The Guardian) Tickets start at only $50

Las Cafeteras

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JAZZ CONCERTS: JAZZ FROM AROUND THE WORLD SERIES SUBSCRIPTION STARTS AT ONLY $256.80 OR MIX WITH CONCERTS FROM OTHER SERIES TO CREATE YOUR OWN PACKAGE

Miles from India

Miles from India A Celebration of the Music of Miles Davis

Youn Sun Nah

Saturday, October 3, 2020 8pm | KH “The beauty of Miles from India is how the players from different cultures and backgrounds meet on Miles’ turf with their individual voices completely intact. Miles from India is not only an amazing celebration of the music of Miles Davis, it’s also a tribute to the way Miles and Teo Macero changed the way jazz music can be made.” (All Music Guide) Tickets start at only $45

Cuba – Cameroon Richard Bona and Alfredo Rodriguez Band and Pedrito Martínez Group

Japan – South Korea Makoto Ozone Trio and Youn Sun Nah Saturday, February 6, 2021 8pm | KH Japanese jazz and classical pianist Makoto Ozone has performed with Chick Corea, Branford Marsalis, and was a favourite of Oscar Peterson. He founded the group No Name Horses, hosts a jazz radio program, and writes music for live theatre and TV. “The astonishing Seoul-born singer Youn Sun Nah ... [is] a discreet, diminutive vocal giant.” (The Guardian) “Youn Sun Nah is “a UFO touching the universe of music with a magnificent voice and passionate originality” (Le Monde).

Tickets start at only $45

Saturday, October 24, 2020 8pm | KH Grammy Award-winning Cameroonian bassist Richard Bona and Cuban pianist Alfredo Rodríguez met through Quincy Jones. After years of friendship, the duo released two songs and added Cuban percussionist and vocalist, Pedrito Martínez, to create this phenomenal powerhouse group.

Martínez will also open the show with his own band.

Tickets start at only $50

Alfredo Rodríguez Richard Bona

Pedrito Martínez Group

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Makoto Ozone

Brazil Ivan Lins Quintet and Ivan Lins Supergenerous featuring Cyro Baptista and Kevin Breit Tigran Hamasyan

Armenia – Israel Tigran Hamasyan and Guy Mintus Trio Saturday, March 6, 2021 8pm | KH Pianist/composer Tigran Hamasyan “merges ancient Armenian sacred music with jazz piano” (The New York Times). “[He] likes to mix things up, whether it’s bebop, thrash metal or dubstep. But his heart is in the folk music of his native land, Armenia.” (The Guardian) Israeli pianist Guy Mintus, with a mixed heritage of Iraqi, Moroccan, and Polish Jews, is a “talented young musical emissary who expertly blends the folkloric sounds of his homeland with the improvising aesthetic of jazz” (Ottawa Citizen).

Tickets start at only $40 Guy Mintus

Saturday, April 24, 2021 8pm | KH Ivan Lins is a Latin Grammy Award-winning songwriter, vocalist, and pianist, whose songs have been performed by Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, George Benson, Michel Legrand, Sting, Diana Krall, and Quincy Jones. Brazilian percussionist Cyro Baptista and brilliant Toronto guitarist, Kevin Breit, teamed up to create Supergenerous. “Weird, frightening and funny, but never remotely predictable. (Dallas Morning News) “Supergenerous is pure aural pleasure.” (Billboard) Tickets start at only $50

Cyro Baptista

Indonesia – Turkey Joey Alexander Quartet and Selcuk Suna Quartet Saturday, May 8, 2021 8pm | KH Jazz pianist, Joey Alexander, became the first Indonesian musician to chart on Billboard 200 with his album, My Favorite Things, released when he was 11 years old – in 2015. He is one of the youngest musicians ever nominated for a Grammy Award in a jazz category.

Toronto-based Turkish clarinetist and saxophonist, Selcuk Suna, a member of KUNÉ – Canada’s Global Orchestra and the Istanbul Trio, plays “jazz (but still with busy, virtuosic melody lines), touches of funk and evocations of Turkish clubs replete with belly dance rhythms”(The Wholenote).

Tickets start at only $50

Joey Alexander

Selcuk Suna

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Galilee Chamber Orchestra

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Dover Quartet with Davóne Tines Sunday, November 15, 2020 3pm | KH “Mr. Tines has a depths-plumbing bass-baritone voice that can find a range of contradictions within a single note. And his body and face match that voice in their expressiveness.” (The New York Times) The Dover Quartet offers “exceptional interpretative maturity, tonal refinement, and taut ensemble”(Strad). Program includes Beethoven’s String Quartets Nos. 2 and 13 (including the Grosse Fuge), Barber’s “Dover Beach,” and Caroline Shaw’s By and By. Dover Quartet Tickets start at only $35

Stewart Goodyear with the Penderecki String Quartet and the Toronto Stewart Goodyear Mendelssohn Choir Friday, November 20, 2020 8pm | KH Royal Conservatory alumnus, Goodyear has played all 32 LvB piano sonatas and premiered several of his own works in Koerner Hall. At this concert, he gives the world premiere his piano quintet based on themes from Beethoven, then plays Beethoven’s monumental Symphony No. 9, pared down to solo piano, choir, and a quartet of singers.

Tickets start at only $45

Anne-Marie McDermott with Rolston String Quartet Sunday, November 22, 2020 3pm | KH A rare performance of a chamber version of Beethoven’s “Emperor” concerto, alongside “Moonlight” piano sonata and the “Razumovsky” string quartet.

“The music comes alive under her fingers,” Anne-Marie says the St. Louis Post Dispatch of McDermott.

McDermott Banff International String Quartet Competition winner, “The Rolston String Quartet performed with a maturity and cohesion rivaling the best string quartets in the world” (Musical Toronto).

Tickets start at only $35

Galilee Chamber Orchestra with Jon Kimura Parker conducted by Saleem Abboud Ashkar

Jon Kimura

Saturday, December 5, 2020 8pm | KH Parker From Nazareth, Ashkar and the GCO broke ground as the first professional orchestra in Israel comprised of equal Israeli and Palestinian members. Parker has been praised for his “absolutely top-notch music-making, as fine as one could ever expect to hear” (Washington Post).

Program will include Beethoven’s Symphony No. 1 and Shostakovich’s Piano Concerto No. 1.

Tickets start at only $40 Generously supported by the Sir Jack Lyons Charitable Trust and an anonymous donor

Gryphon Trio with Jon Kimura Parker Sunday, December 6, 2020 3pm | KH Gryphon Trio is “music-making at its most communicative” (Toronto Star) and Parker is “insightful, energetic” (The New York Times). All Beethoven program consists of Piano Trio in E flat Major; Quintet for Piano, Oboe, Clarinet, Horn, and Bassoon in E flat Major; and the Piano Trio in B flat Major (“Archduke”).

The piano-playing Parker brothers are sure to add some fireworks!

Tickets start at only $45

Gryphon Trio

Jeremy Denk with Les Violons du Roy Friday, February 5, 2021 8pm | KH Led by the charismatic, award-winning pianist Jeremy Denk, Les Violins de Roy perform Renaissance and Baroque works culminating with J.S. Bach’s Keyboard Concerti in E Major and D Minor. “Is Les Violons du Roy perhaps the best early-music ensemble in North America? Check.”

(The Washington Post) “Mr. Denk is a pianist you want to hear no matter what he performs, in whatever combination.”

(The New York Times) Tickets start at only $50

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Jeremy Denk

STRING CONCERTS

Generously supported by an anonymous donor

VENUE LEGEND: KH Koerner Hall MCH Mazzoleni Concert Hall TT Temerty Theatre

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James Ehnes with Andrew Armstrong Beethoven’s Violin Sonatas Nos. 1-5 Friday, November 13, 2020 8pm | KH

Beethoven’s Violin Sonatas Nos. 6-10 Sunday, December 13, 2020 3pm | KH Enjoy hearing the complete Beethoven Violin Sonatas in two concerts. Purchase tickets to one or both concerts at the same time. “The wondrous James Ehnes [is] a thinker of the violin as well as a supreme virtuoso of the violin.” (The Daily Telegraph) Tickets start at only $40 December 13 generously supported by The Cheng Family Fund

Beatrice Rana with Renaud Capuçon Tuesday, February 23, 2021 8pm | KH “In terms of thrilling depth of tone his equal is hard to find among violinists today,” declared Telegraph of French violinist Renaud Capuçon.

“Rana’s playing has a kind of Orphic seductiveness, a transcendent lightness of touch.” (The Times) Program includes violin sonatas

by Prokofiev and Schumann.

Tickets start at only $45 Generously supported by an anonymous donor

Gidon Kremer and Kremerata Baltica

Ehnes Quartet with New Orford String Quartet New Orford Thursday, December 10, String Quartet 2020 8pm | KH The Ehnes Quartet is hailed as a “dream-team line-up” (Strings). The New Orford Quartet includes violinists Jonathan Crow (Toronto Symphony Orchestra) and Andrew Wan (Orchestre symphonique de Montréal), violist Eric Nowlin, and cellist Brian Manker. For this concert, each ensemble will play a favourite Beethoven quartet and then join forces for the Enescu Octet.

Tickets start at only $40

Generously supported by Janet & Willard L’Heureux

Maisky Trio Friday, February 19, 2021 8pm | KH The great Latvian cellist Mischa Maisky is joined by his Mischa Maisky son, violinist Sascha Maisky, and his daughter, pianist Lily Maisky, to perform works

by Schubert, Rachmaninov, Scriabin, and Mendelssohn.

The “ensemble is almost miraculous” (The Strad).

Tickets start at only $40 Co-presented with Show One Productions

Beatrice Rana

Renaud Capuçon

Sunday, March 21, 2021 3pm | KH This extraordinary program, titled Last Words, interweaves movements from Haydn’s Seven Last Words of Christ and Shostakovich’s final string quartet with texts by authors Primo Levi, Stephen Hawking, Rose Ausländer, Jorge Luis Borges, Harold Pinter, and Steve Jobs.

Tickets start at only $50 Gidon Kremer

Jordi Savall: The Distant Voices Thursday, April 22, 2021 8pm | KH For more than 50 years, Jordi Savall has rescued musical gems from the obscurity of neglect and oblivion, for the world to enjoy. A tireless researcher into early music, he interprets and performs the repertory both as a gambist and a conductor.

This program will feature works “from the Old Europe and the New World.”

Tickets start at only $45 Jordi Savall

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QUIET PLEASE, THERE’S A LADY ON STAGE! SERIES SUBSCRIPTION STARTS AT ONLY $229.00 OR MIX WITH CONCERTS FROM OTHER SERIES TO CREATE YOUR OWN PACKAGE

Artemis Saturday, February 20, 2021 8pm | KH This international all-star group includes Canadians Renee Rosnes (piano) and Ingrid Jensen (trumpet), plus Anat Cohen (clarinet), Melissa Aldana (tenor sax), Noriko Ueda (bass), and Allison Miller (drums). “Their set played like an expertly crafted mixtape, moving from a knotty version of Thelonious Monk’s ‘Brilliant Corners’ to a surprisingly dramatic arrangement of the Beatles’ ‘Fool on the Hill.’” (Rolling Stone) Tickets start at only $50 Daymé Arocena

Presented in association with The Oscar Peterson International Jazz Festival

Nella and Daymé Arocena Friday, November 6, 2020 8pm | KH Award-winning Afro-Cuban jazz singer from Havana, “Arocena is one of the world’s fastestrising jazz vocalists” (The New Yorker) whose “voice is the perfect combination of Aretha Franklin and Celia Cruz” (NPR). Nella is the new voice from the Venezuelan island of Margarita with a 2019 Latin Grammy Award for Best New Artist, produced by the legendary Javier Limón.

Tickets start at only $40

Nella

Artemis

A Tribute to Aretha Franklin: The Queen of Soul featuring Damien Sneed and Karen Clark Sheard Saturday, February 27, 2021 8pm | KH Aretha Franklin truly earned her title “The Queen of Soul.” Damien Sneed toured with Franklin, and tonight he and four-time Grammy Award-winning gospel music legend, Karen Clark Sheard, pay homage with fresh renditions of her most cherished hits, including “Respect,”“Bridge Over Troubled Water,” “Until You Come Back To Me,” “Daydreaming,” “Freeway,” “Natural Woman,” and others.

Tickets start at Damien Sneed only $50

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Rosanne Cash Sunday, April 11, 2021 7pm | KH “You might know her as the cranberry-haired commentator in Ken Burns’ recent ‘Country Music’ documentary, the Americana music titan singing about life and death, or the country music star trying to cure her ’Seven Year Ache.’” (Star Tribune) “Rosanne Cash has been making great records for forty years, but she’s never played or written better music than she’s doing right now.” (NPR Music) Tickets start at only $60 Presented in honour of Ted Cape

Dianne Reeves

Dianne Reeves: Beleza Brazil Saturday, March 27, 2021 8pm | KH Five-time Grammy Award-winning vocalist Dianne Reeves’s timeless voice and enthralling performances have made her the “most admired jazz diva since the heyday of Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, and Billie Holiday” (The New York Times). Her latest project, Beleza Brazil, explores that country’s sensuous rhythms and “the beauty of Brazil.”

Tickets start at only $50

Rosanne Cash

Karen Clark Sheard

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TODAY’S MOST FEARLESS MUSICIANS BRING US FRESH NEW SOUNDS AND IDEAS #21Cmusic TICKETS START AT ONLY $21 FESTIVAL PASSES: $179/$225 THE 21C MUSIC FESTIVAL IS MADE POSSIBLE THROUGH THE GENEROUS SUPPORT OF MICHAEL AND SONJA KOERNER

MUSIC FESTIVAL Soundstreams presents: Choral Splendour: The Music of Pärt and Frehner

FLIPBOOK: Music and Images Friday, January 15, 2021 7:30pm | TT Curated and conducted by Brian Current, The Glenn Gould School New Music Ensemble brings you to the movies with compositions by Martin Matalon, Nicole Lizée, Kotoka Suzuki, and Pierre Jodlowski alongside projected images.

Friday, January 22, 2021 8pm | KH Arvo Pärt’s longtime collaborator, Tõnu Kaljuste, conducts Pärt’s austere yet passionate Stabat Mater in Koerner Hall, coupled with Paul Frehner’s LEX, a monumental world premiere that sets to music religious, poetic, and even scientific text – including Newton’s laws of gravity!

ARC Ensemble: Marc Neikrug’s A Song by Mahler Saturday, January 16, 2021 8pm | KH A celebrated concert singer, famous for a particular Mahler love song, develops early onset Alzheimer’s. The drama follows her (mezzo-soprano Jennifer Johnson Cano) and her husband (baritone Kelly Markgraf), who is also her pianist, as they confront their new reality. The tragic end result resolves in a new, elevated understanding of their love.

A Canadian premiere.

Marc Neikrug

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21C Cinq à Sept: Eve Egoyan

Morgan-Paige Melbourne

Saturday, January 23, 2021 5pm | TT This event will launch a new kind of piano, imagined by Egoyan and designed by a team of programmers. The afternoon will feature the world premieres of works for this newly-imagined piano.

Sunday, January 24, 2021 1pm | MCH Pianist and Royal Conservatory alumna will perform works by Dawn Davi, Nauroz Tanya, Kathryn Knowles, Tom MacCammon, Nikolai Kapustin, and Brian Current.

Free (ticket required)

Eve Egoyan

Angèle Dubeau & La Pietà Saturday, January 23, 2021 8pm | KH Violinist Dubeau and her brilliant string ensemble perform works

by Craig Armstrong, Abel Korzeniowski, Ludovico Einaudi, Peter Gregson, Jean-Michel Blais, Ólafur Arnalds, Max Richter, and more.

Angèle Dubeau & La Pietà

Morgan-Paige Melbourne

SPOTLIGHT ON KRONOS Kronos Quartet Kronos Quartet on Film: with students from A Thousand Thoughts The Glenn Gould Tuesday, January 26, 2021 8pm | KH School: Fifty Forward A multimedia performance piece, A Thousand Thoughts blends live music by Kronos and narration as well as archival footage and filmed interviews with artists like Philip Glass, Tanya Tagaq, Steve Reich, Wu Man, and Terry Riley. “It’s as magical an amalgamation as you can imagine.” (Los Angeles Times)

Thursday, January 28, 2021 8pm | MCH Built around Kronos’s Fifty for the Future initiative, four quartets from The Glenn Gould School will participate in a 2-day mentorship with Kronos, culminating in this performance.

Kronos Quartet

Kronos Quartet – Music for Change: The Banned Countries Friday, January 29, 2021 8pm | KH San Francisco’s Grammy Awardwinning Kronos Quartet brings a program of music from the original seven countries “banned” by the USA — Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen, alongside protest music inspired by Pete Seeger.

Presented in partnership with the Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema and part of the Music on Film series

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ENHANCE YOUR CONCERT EXPERIENCE PRE-CONCERT TALKS Royal Conservatory Orchestra and select 21C Music Festival concerts are preceded by a fascinating and informative Pre-concert Talk. Check our website for more details.

PRELUDE RECITALS AND POSTLUDE PERFORMANCES Many of our Koerner Hall concerts start or end with a musical appetizer or dessert, where the main concert is preceded or followed by a short performance by talented students of The Glenn Gould School and some of the best emerging artists in Toronto. You are invited to enjoy a beverage, socialize, and hear more wonderful music.

MUSIC APPRECIATION COURSES Deepen your understanding and enjoyment of music across genres and historical periods. Choose from a range of daytime or evening classes and join a growing community of music appreciators!

Visit rcmusic.com/music-appreciation for more information.

LISTENING ROOM Guests are able to request seats in our Listening Room, located in Koerner Hall, separate from the main audience. The Listening Room is for people with sensory considerations to be able to enjoy the concert away from the crowd in a scent free environment, where the volume can be controlled as the concert is watched through a glass window.

ACCESSIBLE OPTIONS THE ROYAL CONSERVATORY IS PLEASED TO OFFER: A SPECIAL LISTENING ROOM for people with sensory considerations.

SEATING OPTIONS for people with mobility devices.

LISTENING DEVICES for people with hearing considerations.

LARGE PRINT PROGRAMS for people who require visual support.

WE WELCOME SERVICE DOGS in all of our concert halls and public spaces.

PUBLIC MASTER CLASSES Everyone is welcome to listen and learn as international master musicians instruct students of The Glenn Gould School and The Phil and Eli Taylor Performance Academy for Young Artists in free public master classes. More than 60 master classes are presented each season.

For more information visit Master Classes & Performances at rcmusic.com/ggs.

THE GLENN GOULD SCHOOL AND TAYLOR ACADEMY STUDENT RECITALS Hear great young musicians in intimate recitals!

More than 100 recitals are presented by students of the GGS and The Taylor Academy throughout the academic year in Mazzoleni Concert Hall and Temerty Theatre. For more information visit Master Classes & Performances at rcmusic.com/ggs.

Generously supported by The Cheng Family Fund

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Cameron Carpenter plays Goldberg Variations on the organ Saturday, November 7, 2020 8pm | KH “One of the rare musicians who changes the game of his instrument” (Los Angeles Times), Cameron Carpenter returns with his revolutionary International Touring Organ, to perform Bach’s iconic work.

Tickets start at only $45 Cameron Carpenter

Víkingur Ólafsson Sunday, February 7, 2021 3pm | KH “Breathtakingly brilliant pianist” (Gramophone), Ólafsson has been called “Iceland’s Glenn Gould” by The New York Times and was Víkingur Ólafsson named Artist of the Year at the Gramophone awards in 2019. His program, Pour le piano, features works by Jean-Philippe Rameau, Claude Debussy, and Modest Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition.

Tickets start at only $50 Generously supported by an anonymous donor

Seong-Jin Cho

Marc-André Hamelin

Marc-André Hamelin Sunday, November 29, 2020 3pm | KH “A performer of near-superhuman technical prowess” (The New York Times), pianist Marc-André Hamelin pairs Beethoven Piano Sonatas Nos. 3 and 23 (“Appassionata”) with Canadian composer John Oswald, whom he has commissioned to write a new piece for solo piano. Program also includes works by Bach and Haydn.

Tickets start at only $45 Generously supported by Brayton Polka

Nicholas Angelich Sunday, January 31, 2021 3pm | KH Pianist Nicholas Angelich is known for “spellbinding, rapt playing” (Bachtrack) and “strikingly imaginative performance” (The Boston Globe). Program includes works by Beethoven, Nicholas Angelich Prokofiev, Bach, and Brahms.

Tickets start at only $40

Tuesday, March 23, 2021 8pm | KH “Cho’s mix of imagination, pacing, balance and control … moments of spellbinding sonic art.”

(The Artsdesk) Korean pianist Seong-Jin Cho will perform works by Schumann, Szymanowski, and Chopin.

Tickets start at Seong-Jin Cho only $50

Jean-Yves Thibaudet Sunday, April 18, 2021 3pm | KH French pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet, “a musician with fearless, flawless fingers” (The West Australian), plays with “great energy, brilliant technique and unassailable artistry” (Cleveland Plain Dealer).

He makes his Koerner Hall debut with both books of the Préludes by Claude Debussy.

Tickets start at only $50 Generously supported by an anonymous donor

Jean-Yves Thibaudet

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Adrianne Pieczonka and Michael Schade with the Canadian Opera Company Orchestra conducted by Johannes Debus

Anne Sofie von Otter with Kristian Bezuidenhout

Adrianne Pieczonka

Thursday, December 3, 2020 8pm | KH Two of Canada’s biggest names in opera join the COC Orchestra and their Music Director, Johannes Debus, for a special evening of Beethoven’s opera Fidelio (excerpts) and Symphony No. 2, as well as works by von Weber, Schubert, and Wagner.

Tickets start at only $55

Kristian Bezuidenhout

Angelika Kirchschlager with Julius Drake Wednesday, February 10, 2021 8pm | KH Angelika Kirchschlager, Austrian mezzo-soprano opera and lieder singer recognized for her dramatic skills, presents Franz Schubert’s Winterreise with Julius Drake, “the nonpareil collaborative pianist” (The New Yorker).

Tickets start at only $40 Generously supported by Deanne & Joseph Bogdan

Sunday, March 7, 2021 3pm | KH Swedish mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter, who “possesses one of the most flexible and natural vocal instruments of any living artist” (Opera Now), and world-renowned South African keyboard artist Kristian Bezuidenhout, perform works by Fanny Mendelssohn, Clara Schumann, Robert Schumann, Franz Schubert, and Adolf Lindblad.

Tickets start at only $45

Anne Sofie von Otter

Joshua Hopkins: Love and Loss

Angelika Kirchschlager

Julius Drake

Saturday, April 17, 2021 8pm | KH Works by Schubert, Duparc, Debussy, and the Canadian premiere of Jake Heggie’s Songs for Murdered Sisters (voice and piano version) with text by Margaret Atwood, highlight how these songs use women as objects and obsessions.

The first half of the program begins seemingly innocent and positive, then begins to unravel as the program proceeds.

Tickets start at only $40

Joshua Hopkins

The King’s Singers: Finding Harmony Sunday, February 21, 2021 3pm | KH An afternoon of iconic anthems of struggle and revolution through history. From the Protestant Reformation in Europe during the 1500s to the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, songs have united nations, cultures, and causes. Finding Harmony is evidence that music has always been our common language.

Tickets start at only $45

The King’s Singers

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Daniel Lanois and Heavy Sun Friday, October 30, 2020 8pm KH Daniel Lanois is a gifted musician, renowned producer, and ambient pioneer. From electro dynamics to soul singing, his new entourage continues to troubadour its way to the stage with harmony singing that has a special capacity to raise the spirit.

Tickets start at only $40

Ashley MacIsaac with special guests Jully Black and Madison Violet Friday, December 4, 2020 8pm | KH Musician and storyteller Ashley MacIsaac brings together Canada’s queen of R&B soul, Jully Black, and gorgeous singing-songwriting duo, Madison Violet, for this powerful evening of Canadian roots music.

Tickets start at only $40

Ashley MacIsaac

Jully Black

Bobby McFerrin Daniel Lanois

Brubeck Brothers Quartet Celebrate Dave Brubeck’s Centennial Saturday, November 28, 2020 8pm | KH Celebrate the life and music of Dave Brubeck with his sons, pianist Darius, bassist Chris, drummer Dan, and cellist Matt plus saxophonist Bobby Militello, who performed and recorded with Brubeck from the 1970s.

This multimedia show with stories, video, and music performed by the Brubeck Brothers Quartet takes us on a journey along the timeline of Brubeck’s extraordinary life and career.

Tickets start at only $45

Saturday, December 12, 2020 8pm | KH Listening to Bobby McFerrin sing may be hazardous to your preconceptions. Side effects may include unparalleled joy, a new perspective on creativity, rejection of the predictable, and a sudden, irreversible urge to lead a more spontaneous existence.

Tickets start at only $65 Bobby McFerrin

Brubeck Brothers Quartet

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Maple Blues Awards

Skratch Bastid and DJ QBert

Monday, February 1, 2021 7pm | KH Canada’s blues music all-star concert and annual awards event features performances by some of the hottest blues musicians from across the country.

Tickets start at only $35

Friday, March 5, 2021 8pm | KH Skratch Bastid is a world-renowned DJ, producer, and three-time winner of the coveted Scribble Jam DJ Battle, known for his comfort and versatility in different styles — hip hop, funk, disco, club, rock, and just about anything that makes people dance.

DJ QBert’s long career of innovating DJ culture has influenced a worldwide generation of DJs who are now regarded as musicians and not just DJs that play records.

Tickets start at only $40

Presented in partnership with the Toronto Blues Society

Skratch Bastid

DJ QBert

Music on Film The Royal Conservatory and Hot Docs together showcase inspiring music documentaries that explore different musical genres, followed by short performances and post-screening discussions between accomplished musicians and Mervon Mehta, Executive Director of Performing Arts at The Royal Conservatory.

Tues., Sept. 29, 2020 / Tues., Oct. 27, 2020 / Tues., Nov. 10, 2020 / Wed., Feb. 24, 2021 / Wed., Mar. 24, 2021 Film screenings at 6:30pm at the Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema, 506 Bloor St. W.

Blair Packman

SongBird North Saturdays at 8pm | TT September 26, 2020 / March 6, 2021 / May 1, 2021 Top Canadian songwriters come together with host Blair Packham to perform their music and tell us about the inspiration, the songwriting process, and the stories behind the songs.

Tickets: $40 (each evening) Presented in partnership with the Songwriters Association of Canada (S.A.C.)

Tickets: $17 (Hot Docs Members: $12, $10, Free) Tickets can be purchased at the Hot Docs box office (506 Bloor St.W.) or online at www.hotdocscinema.ca

Plus! A special 21C Music Festival screening of Kronos Quartet on Film: A Thousand Thoughts at Koerner Hall on January 26, 2021 (see page 13).

Tickets start at $21 at 416.408.0208 or rcmusic.com/performance.

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SUNDAY INTERLUDES

Generously supported by Dorothy Cohen Shoichet

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Each of these free concerts is 75 minutes, with no intermission.

Admission is free but tickets are required and can be reserved starting a week before each concert date.

What a lovely way to enjoy a Sunday afternoon!

Anwar Kurshid and Friends Sunday, September 13, 2020 1pm | MCH Sitarist Anwar Kurshid’s music has been featured in the Oscar Award-winning film, Life of Pi, and Kama Sutra. He performs all over the globe with musicians from other genres and is a member of KUNÉ – Canada’s Global Orchestra.

Morgan-Paige Melbourne Sunday, January 24, 2021 1pm | MCH See page 13 for details.

Morgan-Paige Melbourne

Glenn Gould School All Stars Sunday, February 21, 2021 1pm | MCH This all star concert features pianist Robert McDonald, pianist and Dean of The Glenn Gould School James Anagnoson, Alexandra Koerner Yeo Chair in Cello Andrés Díaz, Associate Dean Barry Shiffman, and friends.

Anwar Kurshid

Ladom Ensemble Sunday, September 27, 2020 1pm | MCH “Elegant and contemplative ... rocking and fiery!”

(CBC Radio) Passionate, sophisticated, and wild acoustic chamber world music with inspiration from Argentine tango, Serbian folk and dance traditions, Persian classical repertoire, and progressive rock.

Ladom Ensemble

Fern Lindzon Sunday, October 4, 2020 1pm | MCH “Fern Lindzon is an engaging pianist and singer who brings an unassuming authority, an inquiring spirit, and a natural grace to contemporary jazz.”

(Mark Miller) For this concert, she delves into Duke Ellington Fern Lindzon and his suites.

Robert McDonald

Andrés Díaz

Barry Shiffman

James Anagnoson

ARC Ensemble: Ottoman Treasures Sunday, March 14, 2021 1pm | MCH Three time Grammy-nominated ARC Ensemble (Artists of The Royal Conservatory) perform the remarkable music of two little-known Jewish composers: the Sephardic works of Alberto Hemsi and the elegant classical compositions of Vittorio Rieti.

ARC Ensemble

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RCO CONCERTS

Part of the Temerty Orchestral Program

SERIES SUBSCRIPTION STARTS AT ONLY $93.20 The Royal Conservatory Orchestra (RCO) consists of instrumental students in the Bachelor of Music, Performance (Honours) and OR MIX WITH CONCERTS FROM OTHER SERIES TO Artist Diploma programs of The Glenn Gould School.

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Trevor Pinnock conducts the Royal Conservatory Orchestra Friday, October 2, 2020 8pm | KH Prelude Recital 6:45pm | KH Pre-concert Talk 7:15pm | KH Trevor Pinnock is one of the pioneers of the modern revival of early music performance, founding The English Concert in 1972 and the European Brandenburg Ensemble in 2006. Program includes Mozart’s Symphony No. 1 in E Flat Major and Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5 (“Emperor”) with Ihnatowycz Prize in Piano recipient, Sae Yoon Chon.

Tickets start at only $25

Trevor Pinnock

Johannes Debus

Johannes Debus conducts the Royal Conservatory Orchestra Friday, February 26, 2021 8pm | KH Prelude Recital 6:45pm | KH Pre-concert Talk 7:15pm | KH Johannes Debus has been Music Director of the Canadian Opera Company since 2009, having been appointed immediately following his debut. Program consists of Haydn’s Symphony No. 88, Bartók’s The Miraculous Mandarin suite, and Brahms’s Violin Concerto with guest violinist Ji Soo Choi.

Tickets start at only $25

Peter Oundjian conducts the Royal Conservatory Orchestra Friday, November 27, 2020 8pm | KH Prelude Recital 6:45pm | KH Pre-concert Talk 7:15pm | KH Named Conductor Emeritus of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra after a 14-year tenure as music director, Peter Oundjian has been hailed as a masterful and dynamic presence in the conducting world.

Program includes Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3 (“Eroica”), Hindemith’s Symphonic Metamorphosis, and Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with guest pianist Jean-Luc Therrien.

Tickets start at only $25 Generously supported by Dr. David Goldbloom & Dr. Nancy Epstein

Gábor Takács-Nagy

Gábor Takács-Nagy conducts the Royal Conservatory Orchestra Friday, April 16, 2021 8pm | KH Prelude Recital 6:45pm | KH Pre-concert Talk 7:15pm | KH Gábor Takács-Nagy is Music Director of Manchester Camerata, Principal Guest Conductor of the Budapest Festival Orchestra, and Principal Artistic Partner of the Irish Chamber Orchestra. Program includes Beethoven’s Overture from King Stephen, Borodin’s “Polovtsian Dances” from Prince Igor, Kodály’s Háry János Suite, and Saint-Saëns’s Piano Concerto No. 5 (“Egyptian”) with guest pianist Thomas Torok.

Tickets start at only $25

Peter Oundjian

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SONGMASTERS Elliot Madore: Troubled Times Sunday, November 22, 2020 1pm | MCH Grammy Award-winning baritone, Elliot Madore, enthralls audiences with his “robust singing and takeno-prisoners acting” (The New York Times), “exquisite vocal beauty” (Opera News), and “movie star good looks” (Merkur). He and pianist Rachel Andrist will perform works

by Benjamin Britten, John Musto, Jennifer Higdon, and John Adams.

Tickets: $30

Elliot Madore

Generously supported by J. Hans Kluge

Jacqueline Woodley & Krisztina Szabó: In the Words of Women

To the Distant Beloved Sunday, March 21, 2021 1pm | MCH Acclaimed soprano, Alexandra Smither, will join baritone Russell Braun and pianist Carolyn Maule to perform Beethoven’s An die ferne Geliebte and a world premiere piece by award-winning IranianCanadian composer, Afarin Mansouri, commissioned by Canadian Art Song Project.

Tickets: $30

Sunday, February 7, 2021 1pm | MCH Inspired by the words of women poets, this concert features pianist Rachel Andrist and cellist David Hetherington playing the John Taverner songs of Anna Akhmatova. Soprano Jacqueline Woodley “sings with a touch of eroticism as well as seductive simplicity ... [she] will take your breath away” (Now). Mezzosoprano Krisztina Szabó’s voice has a “rich, creamy tone” (The Morning Call).

Jacqueline Woodley Tickets: $30

Krisztina Szabó

STUDENT CONCERTS The Phil and Eli Taylor Performance Academy for Young Artists Taylor Academy Showcase Concerts Saturday, October 24, 2020 4:30pm | MCH Saturday, November 28, 2020 4:30pm | MCH Saturday, February 6, 2021 4:30pm | MCH Saturday, March 13, 2021 4:30pm | MCH The Phil and Eli Taylor Performance Academy for Young Artists presents concerts by the leading young classical musicians in Canada. Hear the stars of tomorrow!

Free (ticket required)

Rebanks Family Fellowship Concert Series Rebanks Family Fellowship Concerts Wednesday, December 2, 2020 7:30pm | MCH Wednesday, April 7, 2021 7:30pm | MCH Hear artists on the cusp of major careers. These concerts feature solo and chamber works performed

by Rebanks Fellows currently enrolled in the one-year Rebanks Family Fellowship and International Performance Residency Program at The Glenn Gould School.

Free (ticket required) Presented with the generous support of the

Rebanks Family and

Academy Chamber Orchestra Saturday, December 19, 2020 7:30pm | MCH Sunday, May 2, 2021 7:30pm | KH String students from The Phil and Eli Taylor Performance Academy for Young Artists come together as the Academy Chamber Orchestra to perform two special concerts.

Free (ticket required) 2019.20 Rebanks Fellows

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STUDENT CONCERTS Discovery Series Joaquin Valdepeñas Conducts Monday, December 7, 2020 7:30pm | MCH Toronto Symphony Orchestra Principal Clarinet and Royal Conservatory Orchestra Resident Conductor, Joaquin Valdepeñas, conducts Glenn Gould School students in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5.

Tickets: $20

The Glenn Gould School Concerto Competition Finals Wednesday, January 20, 2021 10am | KH Hear the talented solo performers of The Glenn Gould School compete for the opportunity to perform a concerto with the Royal Conservatory Orchestra during the 2021-22 concert season.

Free (ticket required)

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Joaquin Valdepeñas

The Glenn Gould School Vocal Showcase

The Glenn Gould School Piano Showcase

Saturday, January 30, 2021 7:30pm | MCH A wonderful opportunity to see the GGS’s talented voice students present an evening of art songs and opera excerpts.

Tickets: $20

Saturday, April 10, 2021 7:30pm | MCH An all French program including the complete 1st Book of Debussy Preludes and various works for two pianos and one piano four hands.

Tickets: $20

The Glenn Gould School Chamber Competition Finals

The Glenn Gould School New Music Ensemble: Sometimes the Devil Plays Fate

Wednesday, April 21, 2021 7pm | KH Hear the talented ensembles of The Glenn Gould School compete for over $11,000 in prizes.

Free (ticket required) Presented in honour of R.S. Williams & Sons Company Ltd.

Glenn Gould School Operas The Glenn Gould School Fall Opera Friday, November 6, 2020 7:30pm | MCH Saturday, November 7, 2020 7:30pm | MCH The gifted students from The Glenn Gould School’s vocal program present their annual fall opera. Peter Tiefenbach returns as Music Director for the production.

Tickets: $20

The Glenn Gould School Fall Opera

Monday, May 3, 2021 7:30pm | TT Curated and conducted by Brian Current, the students of The Glenn Gould School perform the world premiere of Paul Frehner’s Sometimes the Devil Plays Fate, for mezzo-soprano and chamber orchestra, and works by visiting composer, Sandeep Bhagwati.

Free (ticket required)

Part of the Price Opera Program

The Glenn Gould School Spring Opera: Benjamin Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia Wednesday, March 17, 2021 7:30pm | KH Friday, March 19, 2021 7:30pm | KH The extraordinary artists of The Glenn Gould School vocal program and Royal Conservatory Orchestra perform their annual staged opera in Koerner Hall.

Tickets start at only $25 The Glenn Gould School Spring Opera

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Rush tickets are limited to 1 ticket per person in line.

Seat locations are assigned at the discretion of the box office and locations may vary. We recommend that you arrive early to secure your place in line. Rush tickets are available in person only, on a first-come first-served basis.

Special note: if the number of attendees per concert must be restricted, we will honour ticket buyers in the order which their purchases were received.

Please purchase early to ensure your seat.

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