Media Releases

October 5, 2020

TMC Safety Procedures for Kannamma Recording Sessions

2020-21 Season

After careful consideration, the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir decided to record its professional core of singers in the creation of Kannamma-a concert of Thanksgiving. Recordings were done in early September. The TMC developed an extensive safety protocol for recordings that followed City of Toronto guidelines regarding performers being a minimum of two metres/6 feet apart.

September 17, 2020

Kannamma – TMC’s digital concert of Thanksgiving on Oct 10

2020-21 Season

From Bach to the Beatles, from visual arts to dance to drumming to singing – TMC’s concert of thanksgiving brings together an amazing group of artists in a program of choral music and more that evocatively expresses gratitude. Kannamma-a Concert of Thanksgiving will be livestreamed on Saturday, October 10 at 8 pm EDT

September 1, 2020

What does it take to sing together in the time of Covid-19?

2020-21 Season

Lots of planning. Location, masks, marked spots, print-at-home music, health questionnaires — and a love of choral music.

July 21, 2020

TMC announces appointment of Simon Rivard as Associate Conductor

2020-21 Season

Toronto Mendelssohn Choir is thrilled to announce the appointment of Simon Rivard as Associate Conductor. Simon Rivard has been serving as RBC Resident Conductor of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and Conductor of the Toronto Symphony Youth Orchestra since 2018. He comes to the position of TMC Associate Conductor having worked closely with the Choir: in preparing the TMC for their performances with the TSO; jointly conducting the TMC’s Festival of Carols concerts this past December which featured the TSYO as guest artists; and directing the TMC-TSYO-TSO collaboration in May to create the virtual performance of Gabriel Fauré’s Cantique de Jean Racine. 

July 7, 2020

TMC shares Andrew Balfour’s Mamachimowin

2019-20 Season

The TMC has released a video of its premiere of Andrew Balfour’s Mamachimowin, commissioned by the TMC for its 125th anniversary gala concert in October 2019.

June 1, 2020

TMC, TSYO and TSO collaborate on a virtual choral-orchestral work – Gabriel Fauré’s Cantique de Jean Racine

2019-20 Season

Concert cancellations due to Covid-19 and the desire to keep sharing music has led to performances all around the world by virtual choirs and by virtual orchestras. The TSO’s RBC Resident Conductor Simon Rivard thought, why not choir and orchestra together? 

Building on the long-standing collaboration between the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, and the Toronto Symphony Youth Orchestra, Simon set out to bring together (virtually) musicians from these three groups to share Gabriel Fauré’s lush and well-loved Cantique de Jean Racine.

May 25, 2020

TMC presents Great Poets in Music online on May 30th

2019-20 Season

TMC presents Great Poets in Music online on May 30th
Stratford actors Tom McCamus and Lucy Peacock join TMC Interim Conductor David Fallis for a celebration of great poetry set to music. The Toronto Mendelssohn Choir’s 2019/20 concert-– Great Poets in Music – scheduled for May 30th was cancelled due to Covid-19 but the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir has found a way to create an online program, in the spirit of this planned concert, that brings together the spoken word and the sung word – and can be enjoyed by everyone safely from their homes. 

March 13, 2020

TMC cancels March 21 Singsation Saturday and April 8 & 10 concerts

2019-20 Season

The Toronto Mendelssohn Choir is cancelling our Singsation Saturday workshop on March 21 and our Sacred Music concerts on April 8 and 10.

We have taken this decision in the interest of the physical and mental wellbeing of our choristers, patrons and workshop participants, and in support of Toronto, Ontario and Canada’s efforts to slow the impact of COVID-19 through physical distancing.

March 3, 2020

TMC presents its popular Sacred Music for a Sacred Space concerts at St Anne’s Anglican Church on April 8 and 10

2019-20 Season

The Toronto Mendelssohn Choir presents its popular Sacred Music for a Sacred Space concerts at St Anne’s Anglican Church on April 8 and 10. The Choir welcomes guest conductor Simon Rivard, TSO Resident Conductor, who takes over from Gregory Batsleer who was originally scheduled to conduct this concert.