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Midori Marsh. Photo: Sam Gaetz.

Review | Midori Marsh Travels Through Generations of Sisterhood

By John Gilks on 4 April 2025 Art Song, Classical Music, Concert Reviews, Opera, Piano, Toronto, Vocal

The Women’s Musical Club of Toronto’s Music in the Afternoon series continued at Walter Hall on April 3rd with a song recital by soprano Midori Marsh and pianist Frances Armstrong. The theme was “sisters,” with each set designed to explore a particular aspect of sisterhood. The first set dealt with religious sisterhood. It began with the duet, Bone Jesu, fons amoris, by the Benedictine nun Chiara Margarita Cozzollani for which Midori was joined by mezzo-soprano Alex Hetherington. It’s a very lovely piece which sounds more polyphonic than two voices should. The blend was excellent too, with just the right difference…

Music TORONTO announces 2025-26 Season

By Newswire on 3 April 2025 Chamber Music, Classical Music, Newswire, Toronto

TORONTO (April 3, 2025) Roman Borys, Artistic and Executive Director announced details of Music TORONTO’s 2025-26 Season today. The season programming fulfills Music TORONTO’s commitment to three pillars – concerts, artistic development, and community engagement and education. “In addition to presenting great concerts featuring celebrated musicians and early career artists who are capturing the world’s attention, Music TORONTO’s investment in artist and audience development initiatives ensures that chamber music remains essential within the performing arts ecology of our very culturally diverse city,” said Roman Borys, Artistic and Executive Director. New this season, Music TORONTO launches the MUSE series (music unveiled,…

Upcoming Concerts

By Kaitlyn Chan on 3 April 2025 150/375, Classical Music, Montreal, Ottawa, Quebec City, Toronto, Vancouver

Montreal Concert Highlights Bourgie Hall Pianist Charles Richard-Hamelin returns to Bourgie Hall on April 12 to play works by Debussy, Albéniz, Poulenc, and Chopin. This concert concludes with the four Scherzos by Chopin, one of Richard-Hamelin’s favourite composers. In the following week, Les Idées heureuses performs their 17th Passion Concert. Since 2023, this project, established by Geneviève Soly, explores Christoph Graupner’s Passiontide cantatas, which were composed for Good Friday. Les Idées heureuses welcomes the same collaborators who have participated in this complete work since 2023 to perform four cantatas at Bourgie Hall on April 18. www.mbam.qc.ca Orchestre symphonique de…

Samuel Mariño. Photo: Diana Gomez

Samuel Mariño: From Prejudice To Pride

By Adrian Rodriguez on 31 March 2025 Classical Music, Interviews, Opera, Toronto, Vocal

Maricón! Parchita!! Mamita!!! (an alluvium of homophobic and demeaning insults)—these were the sort of taunts Samuel Mariño endured daily in school while growing up in Venezuela. His unusually high voice made him a target of constant ridicule. As a 14-year-old, desperate to fit in, Mariño visited the ENT, tried vocal therapy, and even considered surgery to lower his larynx. Each failed attempt to change his voice felt like another rejection of who he was. At the end of his rope, a laryngologist asked him a question that shattered his despair: “Why don’t you sing soprano?” The suggestion sparked a joyful…

Midori Marsh. Photo: Daniel Welch

Midori Marsh: The Fast-Rising Soprano Explores Sisterhood & Animal Rights

By Denise Lai on 31 March 2025 Classical Music, Interviews, Opera, Toronto, Vocal

Ever since American-Canadian soprano Midori Marsh won First Prize and the Audience Choice Award at the 2019 Canadian Opera Company Centre Stage competition, her career has been on a remarkable upward trajectory. After graduating from the COC Ensemble Studio in 2023, she has twice made her way to the semifinals of the Metropolitan Opera Eric and Dominique Laffont Competition. This year, she was one of two Canadians who competed in the semifinals of that prestigious Met competition. Marsh is drawn to a wide range of repertoire, and her two upcoming performances in Toronto represent her diverse artistic styles and interests.…

Industry News April 2025: Surprise Exits, Entrances & Honours

By Gianmarco Segato on 31 March 2025 Arts Industry, City, Classical Music, Montreal, Quebec City, Toronto

Appointments Vancouver Chopin Society has announced several new appointments. Pianist Charles Richard-Hamelin will be their new artistic director, with pianists Daria Fedorova and Ilya Takser as director of artistic and education programs and chief content executive, respectively. All three musicians have been friends and colleagues since their days studying at Conservatoire de Musique de Montréal. Fedorova and Takser form the Fedorova & Takser Piano Duo whose newest recording, featuring a newly published piece for two pianos by the Soviet composer Nikolai Kapustin, was released in early March. Clemens Schuldt, music director of the Orchestre symphonique de Québec, has been…

Toronto Summer Music Announces William Fedkenheuer as Next Artistic Director

By Newswire on 28 March 2025 Canadian Music, Chamber Music, Newswire, Strings, Toronto, Violin

Violinist William Fedkenheuer to become TSM’s next Artistic Director TORONTO (March 28, 2025) – Toronto Summer Music announces today the appointment of new Artistic Director: Canadian violinist and international chamber music player, William (Will) Fedkenheuer. He will take on this role in September following TSM’s 2025 Festival, which runs July 10 – August 2. Raised in Calgary, Will has built an international career as a violinist, member of the Miró Quartet, and professor at the Butler School of Music at the University of Texas. He brings a wealth of artistry, experience, and enthusiasm to TSM. Will’s early career was shaped by his…

Opera 5 Named Canadian Opera Company’s Newest Company-In-Residence

By Newswire on 27 March 2025 Newswire, Opera, Toronto, Vocal

Toronto – Opera 5 is pleased to announce that we will be the next Company-in-Residence at the Canadian Opera Company. The two-year artistic residency will commence on July 1, 2025, with one of the major collaborations of the partnership being the creation of an operatic work slated for presentation at the Canadian Opera Company. The COC’s Company-in-Residence program has been in place since 2016; through it, the COC is able to offer support and industry guidance to local opera companies, helping to ensure a flourishing environment for the art form to evolve. “The Opera 5 team is over the moon…

Gustavo Gimeno conducts the TSO. Photo: Jae Yang/Courtesy of the TSO

Review | TSO Offers a Sunny Mahler 4th and Vocal Drama from Anna Prohaska

By John Gilks on 21 March 2025 Classical Music, Concert Reviews, Orchestral, Toronto, Vocal

It seems like there is always a surprise at Roy Thomson Hall these days. On March 20, the concert was preceded by the investiture of Music Director Gustavo Gimeno as a Commander of the Order of Civil Merit of Spain by the ambassador of that nation who used the occasion to make a speech including a very obvious reference to Canada as an independent country. It was followed by the playing of the national anthems of both countries in case anyone missed the point. And so to the published program … Rufus Wainwright’s A Woman’s Face (Sonnet 20) starts with…

Toronto Symphony Orchestra to Bring Canadian Music to Europe in 2025/26 Season

By Newswire on 20 March 2025 Canadian Music, Classical, Classical Music, Orchestral, Toronto

Toronto Symphony Orchestra to Bring Canadian Music & Music-Making to Europe in Its 2025/26 Season Gustavo Gimeno’s first overseas tour with the TSO runs from January 27 to February 9, 2026, and marks the orchestra’s début in Spain and Luxembourg, and return to the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, and Austria. In the midst of an extraordinary 2025/26 season defined by international artistic explorations, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra (TSO) will proudly bring Canadian music, music-making, and spirit to Western Europe as part of a 14-day tour spanning eight cities in six countries. Running from January 27 to February 9, 2026, and continuing a rich…

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