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February 13, 2025
“When Music Meets Mindfulness” - An Introduction
I was living in New York, completing my master’s degree in classical voice at the Manhattan School of Music. Worries about being successful in my burgeoning career were constantly on my mind. Truth be told, I felt like a headless…
February 12, 2025
Halls of all sizes take the sting out of the season
February and March are not the most glamorous months of the year; between salt-stained boots, wind-whipped skin, and the knowledge that spring will mostly just be more winter, it’s a miracle that any of us get out at all. Things,…
February 12, 2025
Angela Garwood-Touw: Living a Zone 10 Classical Life
The “up here” in this month’s column is (mostly) Timmins, where Angela Garwood-Touw has a busy schedule. The New Brunswick born violinist is Concertmaster for the Timmins Symphony Orchestra, regular First Violinist for the Sudbury and North Bay Symphonies, and…
February 12, 2025
Jean-Sébastian Vallée’s Toronto’s Mendelssohn Choir
The comforting smell of coffee lingered in the air as conductor Jean-Sébastian Vallée listened to the fading notes of the morning’s final song. More than a hundred people had gathered in red-carpeted Yorkminister Park Baptist Church on a Saturday this…
February 12, 2025
When musicians meet at the crossroads
Tafelmusik Baroque Ensemble is making good use of its emerging hybrid artistic leadership model: a three-player artistic co-directorship (Brandon Chui, Dominic Teresi, and Cristina Zacharias), mentored by Principal Guest Director Rachel Podger. Together they are in the process of putting…
February 12, 2025
La Reine-garçon: A thoroughly modern Christina? Or not.
A feminist before the term existed, an intellectual and art connoisseur, a friend of René Descartes, a modern woman demanding freedom to live her life as she pleases, most likely a lesbian? The Montreal Opera - Canadian Opera Company co-production…
February 12, 2025
An intoxicating elixir - D.D. Jackson’s Poetry Project at the Redwood
For angsty teenagers (and I know this from personal experience), relatably disillusioned literary characters can provide a feeling of connection as the reader works through their own age-appropriate sense of despondent ennui. J.D. Salinger’s Holden Caulfield was (and perhaps still…
February 11, 2025
Ladies of the Canyon at Soulpepper
One of my favourite things at Soulpepper is their concert series. Under the leadership originally of creator and music director Mike Ross and now under Frank Cox-O’Connell, each concert explores a new theme, artist or group of artists, interweaving words…
February 04, 2025
Hot Damn, Let's Jam!
Much like the word “jazz” itself, the origin of the term “jam session” is up for debate, but there’s no denying the multi-layered potential that jam sessions unleash: community building, essential education, artistic exploration and audience engagement. Before we dive…
February 03, 2025
In With A Bang: The New Year's Vibrant Sound Array
February and March bring a vibrant array of new sounds, kicking off with an energetic start of multiple concerts in early February. And right in the middle, in early March, comes International Women’s Day on March 8 – a time…
December 12, 2024
Solo Journeys – boomerangs, loopers, and home from home
Shortly after I moved north I was having a conversation with one of my younger, wiser siblings, and they offered the general life philosophy that if you look at whatever it is you’re doing, and if it doesn’t scare the…
December 12, 2024
Perennials, panto, old favourites and modern takes highlight this year’s holiday fare
The holiday season’s musical shows run a wonderful gamut: perennial holiday fare; more modern takes on the holiday; year-round family favourites; and, of course, pantomime. Among the perennials this year are such shows as the National Ballet’s Nutcracker, the Shaw…
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