News & Events
The Latest:
Heather Kelly is Working with Royal Conservatory to Launch Koerner Hall in the new Telus Centre, and Manage the Marketing Campaigns for the new Jazz, Classical, and World Music Concert Season
Heather Kelly is working with The Royal Conservatory team to launch the Royal Conservatory’s stunning new 1,135-seat concert hall, Koerner Hall, in the Telus Centre for Performance and Learning. Heather is managing the marketing and audience development campaigns for the Grand Opening Festival and the first world music, jazz, and classical music concert season in the new Hall. The Royal Conseratory’s Telus Centre is located at 273 Bloor Street West (between the ROM and Varsity Stadium).
Visit the The Royal Conservatory’s Performance web site by clicking here.
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March 30, 2009:
Uncommonly Successful Canadian-Armenian World-Jazz Musician, Composer and Producer Levon Ichkhanian to Perform Intimate Concert and Clinic
Levon Ichkhanian — Toronto-based world/jazz musician, avid explorer of improvisation, composer, producer, international touring musician, recording artist, and master of things with strings including fretless and fretted electric and acoustic Guitars, Oud, Bouzouki (Greek and Irish), Banjitar, and Mandolin –- will be performing a public concert and clinic in Richmond Hill on Monday, April 20.
Click here to go to Levon Ichkhanian’s web site for more details.
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March 19, 2009:
Toronto Mendelssohn Choir presents
Sacred Music for a Sacred Space
On Good Friday April 10, the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir’s grand symphonic sound will envelop body and soul in the rich acoustics of St. Paul’s Basilica. For the first time ever, the TMC is combining its Good Friday concert tradition with the annual Sacred Music for a Sacred Space performance. Noel Edison will conduct the Mendelssohn Singers, Toronto Mendelssohn Choir and Festival Winds & Brass in a stirring concert of Anton Bruckner’s Motets and Mass No. 2 in E minor.
Click here to go to the TMC web site.
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March 18, 2009:
Kristin Sweetland Brings Uniquely “Sweetlandish” Multi-media Music Concert to Cities Across Central & Western Canada
Kristin Sweetland has been much-lauded for her intricate instrumental guitarwork, rich vocals and uniquely “Sweetlandish” multi-media concerts. A born performer and true road-warrior, Sweetland brings her tales of adventure to stages from Ontario to BC this springtime, with 25 concerts in 63 days in 5 provinces.
Songs and the complete tour itinerary are online at www.kristinsweetland.com and www.myspace.com/kristinsweetland
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March 12, 2009:
Artist Robin Pacific Makes “The Presence of Absence” Felt — Interactively Online, Broadcast from Downtown Toronto Video Billboards, at Two Indoor Exhibitions, and from an Outdoor Projection Exhibition
Robin Pacific’s latest public art project, The Presence of Absence, creates an ongoing shared urban experience of communal mourning. Using downtown video billboards, a publicly interactive web site, and three public exhibitions, The Presence of Absence combines art and new technology to knit the city back together through our shared losses. It aims to re-invent the social mourning that our culture has relinquished.
Click here to go to the Community Art Memorial web site
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February 11, 2009:
HKC at AMP Camp 2009
Heather Kelly will be returning to Manitoba March 1-7 to teach marketing and promotional skills and provide one-on-one consulting sessions for Aboriginal musicians from across Canada. AMP Camp is a one of a kind professional development retreat presented by MARIA (Manitoba Audio Recording Industry Association) and the Canada Council for the Arts.
Click HERE to visit the MARIA Aboriginal Music web site or HERE to go to the Canada Council for the Arts web site.
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February 10, 2009:
April Verch In Calgary & Edmonton To “Steal the Blue”
Virtuoso fiddler, stunning vocalist, and electrifying stepdancer April Verch is independently releasing her seventh CD, Steal The Blue - giving notice that she is emerging as the next front woman in the prominently masculine acoustic genre. April Verch and her band will perform on Friday February 27 in Edmonton, and Saturday February 28 at a sold-out concert in Calgary
Click here to go to April Verch’s web site.
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February 2, 2009:
Shakuntala Opens This Week
Shakuntala will take you on a magnificent journey of love, separation and reunion. The epic love story by the 5th century Indian playwright, Kalidasa, is ranked among the world’s theatrical masterpieces and appears on a Toronto stage for the first time. Starring Anita Majumdar and Sanjay Talwar, and adapted & directed by Charles Roy, this production of Shakuntala features exquisite costumes, enthralling music, dazzling choreography, and outstanding performances. Shakuntala is on stage February 4 -15 at Harbourfront Centre as part of the World Stage festival.
Click here for info and tickets.
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January 29, 2009:
New Leadership and Renovation
Signal Renewal of the Goethe-Institut Toronto
It’s a new year and a new era is about to begin for the Goethe-Institut Toronto. There’s a new leader at the helm of the international cultural organization that brings contemporary and cutting-edge German arts, culture, language, and ideas to Canadians. And the Goethe-Institut Toronto is about to start renovating their University Avenue space in downtown Toronto to update the language classrooms and offices, and to create a new multi-media library with the latest books, DVDs, magazines and other resources from Germany.
Click here to go to the Goethe-Institut Toronto web site.
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January 19, 2009:
Strung CD Release Tour in Ontario and Quebec
Doug Cox, Tony McManus, April Verch and Cody Walters are collectively known as Strung, a roots music supergoup that’s launching its debut CD Band of Gypsies with the following concerts in Ontario and Quebec:
Wednesday, February 18: Registry Theatre, Kitchener
Thursday, February 19: Hugh’s Room, Toronto
Friday, February 20: Sala Rossa (Wintergreen Series), Montreal
Saturday, February 21: Black Sheep Inn, Wakefield
Sunday, February 22: Almonte Town Hall, Almonte
Click here for info and to hear songs from the new CD.
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Selected 2008 Announcements:
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Toronto Mendelssohn Choir’s 115th Anniversary Season:
Powerful, Passionate and Personal
Powerfully human choral masterworks are at the heart of the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir’s grand symphonic sound. The 2008-09 season connects people with the profound, timeless and transformative sound of the human voice en masse.
Click Here for more info.
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Stories for Everyone
Stories bring people together in profound ways. From March 27 to April 5, 2009, story performers will gather in Toronto to entertain audiences of all ages at the Toronto Festival of Storytelling.
Click here to go to the Toronto Festival of Storytelling web site.
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The Guild Shop: A Renovated & Revitalized Venue for the Work of Professional Ontario Crafts people
The Ontario Crafts Council is working with prominent Toronto designer and architect Johnson Chou and Senior Associate and Project Architect Silke Stadtmueller to renovate The Guild Shop. The Guild Shop is located at 118 Cumberland St. in Yorkville.
Click Here for more info.
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Musideum: A World of Musical Instruments
Donald Quan Launches New Musical Instrument Store
Musideum is the first store of its kind in Canada; a place to find top-quality rare and unusual musical instruments from all corners of the earth, gorgeous musical gifts and eccentricities, hard to find scores, CDs and DVDs, instrument kits for kids, and more - all in a beautiful museum-shop environment. Musideum is at 401 Richmond Street West (Main Floor), Toronto.
Click Here for more info.
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