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"THE MAGICAL WORLD OF MUSIC"
TORONTO SUMMER MUSIC FESTIVAL
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WHAT:
Toronto Summer Music Festival is a four week festival that is looking to explore the ways music affects our moods and emotions through the theme, “The Magical World of Music.” The Festival features over 60 internationally acclaimed artists performing in over 30 events, such as, concerts, workshops and lectures. The Festival dovetails with the Toronto Summer Music Academy, which gives young musicians, at the threshold of their careers, an opportunity to study with an international faculty through master classes, chamber music coaching, percussion and voice workshops and student performance opportunities.
WHO:
Canadian and international artists such as, pianist Anton Kuerti, the Berlin Philharmonic Woodwind Quintet, the Leipzig String Quartet, pianist Menahem Pressler, vocal performers Karina Gauvin and Lorna MacDonald, Juno-Award winning Gryphon Trio and many others. The Festival also includes Academy student concerts featuring musicians at the threshold of their careers and culminates with four fully-staged performances of Rossini’s Barber of Seville, conducted by Maestra Agnes Grossmann with stage direction by Michael Patrick Albano. In addition, various vocal and instrumental masterclasses are open to the public to audit.
WHEN:
Monday July 23rd – Sunday August 19th
Schedule Highlights:
| July 24 | Festival Opening Concert – A World of Fantasies |
| July 26 | The Golden Sounds of Winds |
| July 28 | Passionate String Music Leipzig String Quartet with Menahem Pressler, piano Pre-concert lecture by David Beach, Ph.D. |
| August 11 | A Night at the Movies |
| August 16-19 | G. Rossini’s The Barber of Seville Music Direction, Agnes Grossman Stage Direction, Michael Patrick Albano |
For More Scheduling Information Please Visit
www.torontosummermusic.ca
WHERE:
Edward Johnson Building
Faculty of Music, University of Toronto
80 Queen’s Park Crescent, Toronto
MacMillan Theatre, on the main floor
Walter Hall, in lower basement
For more information, please contact:
Stephen Shinn or Jessica Kaplan
Aerial Communications Group
416.787.6577
stephen@aerialpr.com; jessica@aerialpr.com