December 17-23, 2023

Messiah with the TSO

TMChoir joins the TSO and great soloists for this annual holiday Toronto favourite – Handel’s stirring Messiah. Composed in a mere three weeks, Messiah has endured for over 275 years. Rejoice greatly as the TSO presents its cherished perennial performances of Handel’s powerful and devotional tour de force! Get more details on the TSO website.

Dame Jane Glover, conductor
Lauren Snouffer, soprano
Krisztina Szabó, mezzo-soprano
Colin Ainsworth, tenor
Joshua Hopkins, baritone
Toronto Symphony Orchestra
Toronto Mendelssohn Choir
Jean-Sébastien Vallée, chorusmaster

February 28, 2024 – Grand Théâtre de Québec, Québec City
March 2, 2024 – Roy Thomson Hall, Toronto
March 7 & 8 2024 – Southam Hall, Ottawa

Alexander Shelley leads the combined forces of Canada’s National Arts Centre Orchestra and Orchestre symphonique de Québec, paying homage to one of Canada’s most original voices, Jacques Hétu, with a performance of his final work, the Fifth Symphony, originally commissioned by the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. The four movements of Hétu’s Fifth portray 1940 before, during, and after the Nazi invasion of France, capped off by the poem “Liberté” set to music. Hétu passed just three weeks before the TSO’s première of his work in 2010. Opening the performance is Saint-Saëns’s Piano Concerto No. 2, which, as one piano critic stated, “begins with Bach and ends with Offenbach”—a nod to the work’s contrasting themes and solo piano line, which is virtuosic yet not too flashy, performed by young artist Kevin Chen. Get more details on the NACO website.

Alexander Shelley, conductor
Kevin Chen, piano
National Arts Centre Orchestra
Orchestre symphonique de Québec
Toronto Mendelssohn Choir
Jean-Sébastien Vallée, chorusmaster

June 12-15, 2024

Mahler Symphony No. 3 with the TSO

The combined force of soprano and alto voices and a treble choir, and the soaring solo vocals of contralto Gerhild Romberger, bring the Toronto Symphony Orchestra Masterworks series to a magnificent close in Mahler’s Symphony No. 3. The six movements of this monumental work characterize the composer’s philosophy of the interconnectivity of nature and man to the heavens—each movement embellishing nature’s next plateau, from simple birdsong to celestial transformation, punctuated by choral passages. “Earth”, a movement from Elements, the avant-garde a cappella choral work of Canadian composer Katerina Gimon, is a complementary opener that celebrates the natural wonder of our own blue planet. Get more details on the TSO website.

Gustavo Gimeno, conductor
Gerhild Romberger, alto
Members of the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir
Toronto Symphony Orchestra
Jean-Sébastien Vallée, chorusmaster
Toronto Children’s Chorus
Zimfira Poloz Artistic Director, Toronto Children’s Chorus

December 17-21, 2022

Messiah with the TSO

TMChoir joins the TSO and great soloists for this annual holiday Toronto favourite – Handel’s stirring Messiah. Composed in a mere three weeks, Messiah has endured for over 275 years. Rejoice greatly as the TSO presents its cherished perennial performances of Handel’s powerful and devotional tour de force! Get more details on the TSO website.

Gustavo Gimeno, conductor
Lauren Fagan, soprano
Stephanie Wake-Edwards, mezzo-soprano
Michael Colvin, tenor
Elliot Madore, baritone
Toronto Symphony Orchestra
Toronto Mendelssohn Choir
Jean-Sébastien Vallée, chorusmaster

January 11-15, 2023

Mozart Requiem with the TSO

Mozart’s genius burns with brooding intensity in the legendary Requiem that was to become his own funeral music. Instantly recognizable thanks to its use in the multi-Academy-Award-winning film Amadeus, to experience it live is to feel its brilliance. Stellar vocal soloists join the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir, conductor Michael Francis, and the Orchestra for this must-see concert event. The stage is set with reverent choral works by Gregorio Allegri and Hildegard von Bingen, along with an intricate and visionary piece by Beethoven.  Get more details on the TSO website.

Michael Francis, conductor
Jane Archibald, soprano
Susan Platts, mezzo-soprano
Isaiah Bell, tenor
Kevin Deas, baritone
Toronto Symphony Orchestra
Toronto Mendelssohn Choir
Toronto Mendelssohn Singers
Jean-Sébastien Vallée, chorusmaster

December 15-19, 2021

Messiah with the TSO

TMChoir joins the TSO and great soloists for this annual holiday Toronto favourite – Handel’s stirring Messiah. This year conducted by TSO Resident Conductor and TMChoir Associate Conductor Simon Rivard! Get more details on the TSO website.

Simon Rivard, conductor
Toronto Symphony Orchestra
Toronto Mendelssohn Choir

June 15-19, 2022

Gimeno + Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” with the TSO

A triumphant rallying cry to hope, humanity, and universal fellowship, Beethoven’s eternal and transcendent Symphony No. 9—culminating in the ecstatic and uplifting “Ode to Joy”—reflects a moment in our history like no other. This unforgettable Toronto concert, which combines the Orchestra, chorus, and vocal soloists, will be one for the ages. More details on the TSO website.

Gustavo Gimeno, conductor
Toronto Symphony Orchestra
Toronto Mendelssohn Choir

December 2020

Messiah: Complex

TMChoir was thrilled to be part of Against the Grain Theatre (AtG) and the TSO’s innovative, multi-lingual cross-Canada project in December 2020. The Choir had the honour of singing the Hallelujah Chorus for this project. Learn more about the project here: https://atgtheatre.com/upcoming/messiah-complex/

May 2020

Fauré: Cantique de Jean Racine

In May 2020, 126 choristers and orchestral musicians from the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir, Toronto Symphony Youth Orchestra and Toronto Symphony Orchestra came together under the artistic leadership of conductor Simon Rivard to create a virtual performance of Fauré’s lyrical Cantique de Jean Racine. You can enjoy it on YouTube.