HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Here’s to an artistically fulfilling 2024! We hope you’ll tag along with the TORPA Newsletter this year for a curated list of weekly events across the GTA and beyond. Thank you to everyone who filled out our last poll where we learned (to no surprise!) that newsletters like this remain the top resource for discovering the concerts and events happening around you. For this week’s poll, we want to hear the type of art experiences you’re searching for in this new year:
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STRINGS: Hilary Hahn’s "Eclipse"
INTERVIEW | “Listening to music like this resonates with the dissonance that you might be experiencing”
Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity
INTERVIEW | Chris Lorway, recently appointed CEO of the Banff Centre, hits the ground running for his community-centric tenure
OPUS IV: From The Heart | Jan 7, 9 | TORONTO — OPUS Chamber Music welcomes presents violinist Stella Chen, violist Matthew Lipman, cellist Brannon Cho, violinist Isabella Perron, and OPUS Artistic Director Kevin Ahfat.
Marion Newman | Jan 9 | TORONTO — Voice Studies welcomes back Marion Newman, critically acclaimed mezzo-soprano, Co-Founder of Amplified Opera, and host of CBC’s Saturday Afternoon at the Opera.
The Dance Barre Ballet | Jan 13 | WINDSOR — The Windsor Symphony Orchestra partners with the Dance Barre Ballet and presents a ballet performance with live music specially designed for families and kids with a selection of melodies from the greatest ballets of all time like Swan Lake, Don Quixote, Coppelia, and more.
Tumbao Bravo | Jan 12 | TORONTO — Winner of the 2005, 2007 and 2013 Detroit Music Awards for Best Jazz Recording and Best World Music Band, Tumbao Bravo has performed at all the major Michigan jazz/music festivals including Detroit, Michigan, Lansing, Birmingham, Raisin River, and Ann Arbor to name a few.
Samson et Delila | Jan 9 | STRATFORD — Music and Opera Appreciation 2024 Winter Series: Sacred. After being rejected in Paris, Samson et Delila had its premiere in Weimar in 1877, in a German translation. Drawing on the well-known biblical story, the score dramatizes lust, seduction, betrayal, and the violent, inescapable conclusion.
Sp | Fowl play is encouraged here
Between Pheasants Contemporary hosts a unique gallery experience
Mt | INK: A black river runs through
Kira Petrasch - the Leipzig-based artist behind Nein Tattoo - is pushing inkwork to new depths
Ss | CLOISTRAL with Kelcy Timmons Chan
Balancing communality and isolation within the pop art vernacular