Bach St John Passion at Tafelmusik

Tafelmusik Unveils 2022/23 Season Featuring Jonathon Adams, Karina Gauvin & More

April 26, 2022

Live music is back! With a sense of hope and optimism for the future, Tafelmusik has unveiled its 2022/23 Season, which celebrates beauty through music of the past. Full-season live concert subscriptions, and advance purchase of Handel Messiah and the Digital Series Pass for subscribers, are now available.

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Tafelmusik to Pay Tribute To Jeanne Lamon; Tickets On Sale February 24

February 16, 2022

Tafelmusik has unveiled further details about a special live tribute concert honouring Music Director Emerita Jeanne Lamon, C.M. O.Ont., who passed away in June 2021.

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The Royal Conservatory Announces 2021/22 Concert Season

August 31, 2021

Dr. Peter Simon, Michael and Sonja Koerner President & CEO of The Royal Conservatory of Music, Mervon Mehta, Executive Director of Performing Arts, and James Anagnoson, Dean of The Glenn Gould School, today revealed details of the diverse concerts that will make up the 13th concert season at The Royal Conservatory of Music.

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Tafelmusik Announces Cancellation of Remainder of 2019/20 Season

March 27, 2020

With sadness and regret, today Music Director Elisa Citterio and Executive Director Carol Kehoe announced the cancellation of the remainder of Tafelmusik's 2019/20 season due to the ongoing impact of the COVID-19 global pandemic.

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Tafelmusik Suspends Performances Through March 30 Due to COVID-19

March 14, 2020

Tafelmusik has stated that performances will be suspended through March 30, 2020.

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Tafelmusik Will Illuminate Bach's ST JOHN PASSION at Koerner Hall

February 12, 2020

One of the highlights of Tafelmusik's 2019/20 season is sure to be Bach's St John Passion, a profound work based on text from the gospel according to St John, March 26 to 29, 2020 at Koerner Hall, TELUS Centre for Performance and Learning. Ivars Taurins directs Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra and Chamber Choir, along with guest soloists Jana Miller, soprano; Krisztina Szabó, mezzo-soprano; Charles Daniels, tenor; William Sharp, baritone; and Andrew Mahon, bass-baritone. For full program details, visit tafelmusik.org.

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Fourth Annual Toronto Bach Festival Offers The Best In Baroque, May 24-26

March 18, 2019

The fourth annual celebration of one the world's most prolific and best loved composers, the Toronto Bach Festival takes place Friday-Sunday, May 24-26 at St. Barnabas-on-the-Danforth, 361 Danforth Avenue, Toronto, and at an added nearby location - The Black Swan, at 154 Danforth - where, in a new Festival feature, patrons can enjoy a beer with some late night Bach.

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Old Meets New As Tafelmusik Unveils 2019/20 Season

February 12, 2019

Today Music Director Elisa Citterio unveiled Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra's 2019/20 season, which highlights the freshness and vigour at the heart of everything Tafelmusik undertakes. Old meets new in unprecedented ways, including Tafelmusik's first-ever foray into the music of the late Romantic composer Tchaikovsky, a new multimedia program by Alison Mackay, the return of Vesuvius Ensemble, six world premieres by living composers, and Tafelmusik premieres of Lotti's Missa Sapientiae and of Citterio's own orchestral arrangement of Bach's Goldberg Variations. Citterio's debut Tafelmusik recording, Vivaldi con amore, will be released in September 2019, and a live recording of A Handel Celebration takes place at Koerner Hall in May 2020. In November 2019 Tafelmusik returns to Europe for the first time in a decade, with soprano Karina Gauvin, and the critically acclaimed Safe Haven multimedia program will travel across Ontario in 2020.

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