Concerts

This page is a compendium of mostly free stuff so that I don’t have to keep sending emails to people event-by-event, and so that you, dear readers, don’t have to find those emails when you want them.

Last updated November 12, 2025 at 9:00 pm

Coming Soon / Recent Additions

Wiener Staatsoper:

Wigmore Hall:

Directory

Canadian Artists/Companies/Venues

Amici Chamber Ensemble

Angela Hewitt

  • Recital from the Chopin Institute on YouTube: Bach, Mozart & Chopin

Arts & Letters Club of Toronto

Art of Time

There are many excerpts from past concerts on YouTube.

Koerner Hall / Royal Conservatory of Music

There are many concerts/recitals in their library.

Tapestry Opera

Toronto Summer Music

The 2025 TSM season is concluded. Several performances from previous years are available in their library.

Toronto Symphony Orchestra

The TSO has announced its 2025/26 season.

Trio Arkel

Trio Arkel is now Arkel Chamber Concerts. They will no longer be streaming concerts, but will provide excerpts on their website and Facebook.

USA Artists/Companies/Venues

Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival

The 2025 festival ran from August 1 to 16.

Across the Pond

Concertgebouw Orchestra

There is a large library of free concerts available from the Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam including a performance conducted by the TSO’s music director, Gustavo Gimeno. Note that you will have to first create an account on their site to access the older material, but after that it’s a big collection including the complete Mahler symphonies.

Leeds International Piano Competition

Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra

The GSO has a page with their upcoming concerts and links to previously archived ones.

  • Clips from past concerts will go live on August 28.
  • The season opening will be live streamed on September 5, and excerpts will be available on September 25.

London Philharmonic Orchestra

A series of concerts is available free on Marquee TV for 48 hours after initial posting. You must create a free account on Marquee TV to watch. These are advertised but are not reliably posted during the “free” period which can last longer than advertised.

London Symphony Orchestra

No concerts are currently available.

L’orchestre de Paris

  • Sol Gabetta, Shostakovich Cello Concerto No. 2; Klaus Mäkelä, conductor

National Theatre

The National Theatre in London, UK, has an NT at Home program allowing subscription access to their library of plays with a choice of monthly or a discounted annual payment. Recent additions to the online library are Hamlet and Frankenstein (both casts), Ian McKellen On Stage, and Lear with McKellen in the lead role.

Wiener Staatsoper

To view screenings from the Staatsoper, you must create an account, but then they are free. Normally they are available for 72 hours from the live broadcast. Current listings are on their calendar page.

Wigmore Hall

You will need to create an account to watch stuff from Wigmore Hall, but it’s free! The streaming list is available here.

Past Concerts:

Time Limited Streams

Plus more in their library

Archive

National Film Board

The National Film Board has a lot of free online content including their animation page. Of course this includes the ever popular Blackberry Subway Jam.

A series of shorts on recipients of the Governor General’s Performing Arts Award:

University of Toronto Faculty of Music

Holland Baroque

  • Violinist Aislinn Nosky and Holland Baroque play a program of music by Telemann in the Polish style.
  • Bach: Art of Fugue arranged for string quartet and harpsichord