Performances

UPCOMING EVENTS

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Sunday October 2, 2022 - 3:00PM

Liszt & Mendelssohn: North York Concert Orchestra

Tickets available here.

Les préludes (Franz Liszt), Violin Concerto (Felix Mendelssohn), Méditation from Thaïs (Jules Massenet). With Aaron Schwebel, violin. 

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Saturday November 5, 2022 - 8:00PM

An Alpine Adventure: North York Concert Orchestra

Tickets available here​.

An Alpine Symphony (Richard Strauss).

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Sunday November 6, 2022 - 7:00PM

Silver Screen: Bedford Trio in Recital

Tickets available soon (here.)

918 Bathurst Centre for Culture, Arts, Media and Education

918 Bathurst St, Toronto, ON M5R 3G5 

Cinematic classics arranged for piano trio.

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Sunday December 4, 2022 - 3:00PM

Prize-Winners: North York Concert Orchestra

Tickets available here​.

Featuring the winners of the 2022 Youth Concerto Competition. Program to be published on October 17th.

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Tuesday December 6, 2022 - 12:10PM

From Requiem to Light: Third Year UofT Oratorio Class in Performance

Walter Hall, Faculty of Music, UofT

Programme in hommage to the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women, featuring multiple textual and symbolic references to women and several works by female composers. Class instructor, Mia Bach.

-"Lammah panêkha niz'amîm (Esther)" - Cristiano Giuseppe Lidarti (Leandra Dahm, soprano; Alessia Disimino, violin; Dakota Scott-Digout, piano)

-"O knowing, glorious Spirit!" - Benjamin Britten (Rhianna McDonald, soprano; Alessia Disimino, violin, Lucy Zuo, flute, Dakota Scott-Digout, piano)

-"Sanctus" (Messe solennelle in honor of St. Cecilia) - Charles Gounod (Frank Yu, tenor; Alessia Disimino, violin; Lucy Zuo, flute; Kathy Haddadkar-Ghavi, conductor; 3rd year Oratorio class Ensemble)

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Saturday, December 17, 2022

St. Joseph the Worker 40th Anniversary Christmas Concert

191 Wade Gate, Thornhill

Kreisler's Liebeslied and Tchaikovsky's "Waltz of the Flowers," with pianist Jialiang Zhu.

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Sunday January 29, 2023 - 7:00PM

Bedford Trio & Friends

Tickets available soon (here.)

918 Bathurst Centre for Culture, Arts, Media and Education

918 Bathurst St, Toronto, ON M5R 3G5 

Programme to come.

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Sunday February 12, 2023 - 3:00PM

Bruckner's 4th: North York Concert Orchestra

Tickets available here​.

Symphony No. 4 (Anton Bruckner). 

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Sunday March 26, 2023 - 3:00PM

A Visit to Spain: North York Concert Orchestra

Tickets available here​​.

Concierto de Aranjuez (Joaquin Rodrigo), The Three-Cornered Hat Suites 1 & 2 (Manuel de Falla). With Drew Henderson, guitar. 

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Sunday April 2, 2023 - 7:00PM

IMMERSED 2.0 : Bedford Trio in Recital

Tickets available soon (here.)

918 Bathurst Centre for Culture, Arts, Media and Education

918 Bathurst St, Toronto, ON M5R 3G5 

Highly anticipated IMMERSED 2.0 celebrates the work of new and emerging Canadian composers and artists. Also featuring the winning piece of the 2022-2023 University of Toronto Piano Trio Composition Competition. This is the second season of the IMMERSED project.

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Sunday April 30, 2023 - 3:00PM

A Family Concert - "The Composer is Dead": North York Concert Orchestra

Tickets available here​​.

"The Composer is Dead" (Nathaniel Stookey). A fun murder-mystery for children, intended to introduce young audiences to the instruments of the orchestra, for narrator and orchestra. Originally commissioned by the San Francisco Orchestra and composed by Stookey with narration by Lemony Snicket.

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Saturday June 4, 2023 - 3:00PM

Unforgettable & Unfinished: North York Concert Orchestra

Tickets available here​​​.

"Come Closer" (Ryan Trew), Symphony No. 8 "Unfinished" (Franz Schubert). With With Rachel Krehm, soprano. 

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Sunday June 25, 2023 - 7:00PM

1914: Bedford Trio in Recital

Tickets available soon (here.)

918 Bathurst Centre for Culture, Arts, Media and Education

918 Bathurst St, Toronto, ON M5R 3G5 

Featuring works written in 1914, before the outbreak of World War II. 

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RECENT EVENTS

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June 25 - August 6, 2022

Bowdoin International Music Festival: Chamber and Solo Fellowship

Various online and in-person performances. Tickets available soon here.

6300 College Station
Brunswick, ME 04011-8463

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1) July 5, 2022

The Highlands Community Outreach Concert: Featuring Bowdoin Festival Musicians

2:00pm - Private concert

- Harold Meltzer's "Piano Quartet" (featuring Bowdoin Festival Fellows Alessia Disimino, violin; Natalie Clarke, viola; Lyndon Ji, piano; Yunwen Chen, cello)

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The Highlands Retirement Community

30 Governor's Way

Topsham, ME 04086 

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2) July 7, 2022

"Echoes Through Time": Gamper New Music Festival 

7:30pm - Livestream available here.

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- Harold Meltzer's "Piano Quartet" (featuring Bowdoin Festival Fellows Alessia Disimino, violin; Natalie Clarke, viola; Lyndon Ji, piano; Yunwen Chen, cello)

-Patrick Castillo's Trio Peccata I & II (featuring Bowdoin Festival Fellows Julia Simpson, oboe; Nina Laube, bassoon; Susannah Greenslit, horn; Alessia Disimino, violin; Zach McMillan, bass)

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Studzinski Recital Hall

12 Campus Rd S, Brunswick, ME 04011

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3) July 15, 2022

Orli Shaham plays Mozart

7:30pm - Tickets available here.

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Acclaimed pianist Orli Shaham plays Ludwig van Beethoven's Septet in E-flat Major, Op. 20 and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K. 466, with Jayce Ogren, conductor, and the Festival Orchestra (Alessia Disimino, concertmaster). 

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Crooker Theatre,

116 Maquoit Rd, Brunswick, ME 04011

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4) July 20, 2022

Saint-Saëns, Thomas, & Brahms: Faculty Concert

7:30pm - Tickets available here, livestream here. 

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Faculty concert featuring Saint-Saëns's Fantasie for Violin and Harp in A Major, Op. 124 (Aaron Berofsky, violin; June Han, harp), Augusta Read Thomas (b. 1964) Stardust (2021) (Kamilla Dancsa, flute; Lauren Conroy, Alessia Disimino, violin; Aditi Prakash, viola; Dana Rath, cello), Johannes Brahms' Piano Trio No. 1 in B major, Op. 8 (Sergiu Schwartz, violin; Edward Arron, cello; Tao Lin, piano).

Studzinski Recital Hall

12 Campus Rd S, Brunswick, ME 04011

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5) August 5, 2022

Zlatomir Fung plays Elgar

7:30pm - Tickets available here.

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Faculty and Fellows play Beethoven's Sextet for Two Horns and Strings in E-flat Major, Op. 81b, Festival Fellows perform Derek Bermel's Intonations, and Zlatomir Fung performs Elgar's Concerto in E Minor for Cello and Orchestra, Op. 85, with conductor Angel Gil-Ordóñez and the Festival Orchestra. 

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Crooker Theatre,

116 Maquoit Rd, Brunswick, ME 04011

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