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Six Emerging Conductors Take the Podium with Jean-Sébastien Vallée  and the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir
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Six Emerging Conductors Take the Podium with Jean-Sébastien Vallée and the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir

The Toronto Mendelssohn Choir and Artistic Director Jean-Sébastien Vallée welcome six emerging choral conductors to Toronto for Take the Podium, the TMChoir’s 2023 Conducting Symposium. This annual gathering offers an invaluable opportunity for emerging conductors from across North America to work with artistic director and conductor Jean-Sébastien Vallée and the full TMChoir for a five-day...

Barczablog | Mass in B minor from Toronto Mendelssohn Choir
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Barczablog | Mass in B minor from Toronto Mendelssohn Choir

Leslie Barcza barczablog March 29, 2023   Last night’s performance of the Bach B minor Mass by the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir at Koerner Hall with a baroque orchestra led by their new artistic director Jean-Sébastien Vallée has put us on notice, that maybe Toronto Mendelssohn Choir are changing. Yes they were already the big choir...

The Glory of the B Minor Mass
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The Glory of the B Minor Mass

Ken Stephen Large Stage Live! March 29, 2023 Toronto Mendelssohn Choir 2022-2023 # 3: The Glory of the B Minor Mass The Toronto Mendelssohn Choir crowned its season on Tuesday night at Koerner Hall with a powerful, majestic, thrilling performance of one of the most sublime works in the entire choral repertoire: Johann Sebastian Bach’s Mass...

Review | Toronto Mendelssohn Choir’s B Minor Mass a Fine Performance of a Great Work
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Review | Toronto Mendelssohn Choir’s B Minor Mass a Fine Performance of a Great Work

Joseph So La Scena Musicale March 29, 2023   With Easter just around the corner, we are at the height of the oratorio season. Toronto Mendelssohn Choir’s offering this year was Bach’s great B Minor Mass. It was a large and enthusiastic audience gathered last evening at Koerner Hall, where they were treated to a superlative...

TMChoir 23.24 Season
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Toronto Mendelssohn Choir Announces 2023/2024 Season

The Toronto Mendelssohn Choir is delighted to announce their 2023/2024 season under the artistic direction of Jean-Sébastien Vallée. Highlights of the upcoming season include two major choral masterworks: Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana, which features the TMChoir with a full orchestra at Roy Thomson Hall, and Verdi’s haunting Requiem at both Koerner Hall and George Weston...

Bach Mass in B Minor Program Notes
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Bach Mass in B Minor Program Notes

The program notes are written by Rena Roussin, Musicologist-in-Residence.   Hailed by Bach expert Christoph Wolff as Bach’s “musical and artistic creed,” the Mass in b minor is deservedly considered one of the most innovative and insightful works in the history of classical music. Yet in spite of its frequent performances and the extensive amount of...

operaramblings | Little Match Girl Passion
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operaramblings | Little Match Girl Passion

operaramblings March 20, 2023   On Saturday evening the Toronto Mendelssohn Singers gave a very beautiful, carefully constructed and thought provoking concert. To start with it was at the Church of the Holy Trinity which, as most Torontonians will know, is a sort of social hub servicing the spiritual and material needs of Toronto’s homeless...