Works featured in this performance include the beautiful Sarasate’s Romance Andalucía, de Falla’s Danse Espagnole, Liszt’s Rhapsodie Espagnole, Sarasate’s Carmen Fantasy (Bizet), Piazzolla’s Histoire du Tango and other works by Albeniz and Lecuona.

Join Ellen Annor-Adjei, piano, Atis Bankas, violin with special guests Simon Wynberg, guitar & Sergei Filushkin, dancer for an evening celebrating the music of Spain.

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Bruce Cockburn and Michael Ondaatje share the stage at Glenn Gould Studio. Bruce will sing and play music, Michael will read from his work, and together they will discuss the joys and challenges of a creative life. The evening promises to be a unique and exciting collaboration of two legendary Canadian talents!

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Weston Silver Band, Toronto award winning 30 piece brass ensemble, welcomes special guests TorQ Percussion Quartet for an evening of classic and contemporary music for brass and percussion. Feel the beat and join in the excitement in an evening of powerful and exciting music sure to please.

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Programme:
Schubert , Sonatina in Gm , D.408
Beethoven , “Spring” Sonata, No.5, Op.24
Tartini , The Devil’s Trill ; Komitas (Crane)
Kreisler , Preludium & Allegro (in the style of Pugnani)
Brahms , Scherzo in Cm ; Khachaturian, Lullaby/Nocturne

Juno award winning and Grammy-nominated Canadian-Armenian pianist and composer Serouj Kradjian, described as "a keyboard acrobat" with "a technique to burn", performs with the Armenian virtuoso violinist, Khachik Babayan in his Canadian debut recital. A very rare performance of the “Crane” of Komitas , as well as a very rich Baroque, classical , and modern repertoire will take you through a unique and unforgettable musical experience.

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Tony Award winner Jason Robert Brown will be backed by his band the Caucasian Rhythm Kings. The evening will feature songs from his award winning and internationally performed musicals SONGS FOR A NEW WORLD, PARADE, THE LAST FIVE YEARS, and 13, his solo album Wearing Someone Else's Clothes, and some new material. Brown will be joined by the Toronto Youth Music Theatre Company Choir and some outstanding Canadian talent to be announced.

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Singer-songwriter Jenn Grant’s stardust voice and captivating sincerity make for beautiful music of which we often dream, but rarely find.

“ …vocals that evoke — sometimes simultaneously — both Feist and Patsy Cline…” — National Post

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This year marks the 200th Anniversary of the death of Joseph Haydn, a composer whose genius is all too often overshadowed by his lively contemporary, and friend, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. To honour the occasion, Aradia presents a concert of Haydn’s choral and vocal works.

The Mass Fragment Missa Sunt Bona Mixta Malis will be the world premiere, in a reconstruction by Kevin Mallon. The bittersweet Salve Regina in E Major was written when Haydn’s love Terese Keller chose to enter a convent rather than marry. The concert concludes with the glorious Lord Nelson Mass, so called because of Napoleon’s recent defeat by British Admiral Horatio Nelson.

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