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 June 3, 2023 at 11:55pm
Recent Concerts
Monday, May 29
- Wigmore Hall
- Mariam Batsashvili piano
- Chopin, Liszt and Schubert
- Mariam Batsashvili piano
Coming Soon
Saturday, June 3
- Wigmore Hall
- Elizabeth Connell Prize International Singing Competition Final (Avl to July 1/23)
- London Philharmonic
- Don Quixote Rides Again (Avl to June 4/23)
Monday, June 5
- Wigmore Hall
- Orsino Ensemble (Avl to Sept 3/23)
- Britten, Janáček and Reicha
- Orsino Ensemble (Avl to Sept 3/23)
Saturday, June 10
- London Symphony Orchestra
- 11:50 am EDT Live from Trafalgar Square
Monday, June 12
- Wigmore Hall
- Pavel Haas Quartet (Avl to Sept 10/23)
- Korngold, Martinů and Suk
- Pavel Haas Quartet (Avl to Sept 10/23)
- Wiener Staatsoper (1:00 pm EDT live, Avl to June 14/23)
- Shostakovich: Lady MacBeth Of Mtsensk
Monday, June 19
- Wigmore Hall
- Carousel Ensemble (Avl to Sept 17/23)
- Debussy, Henderickx & Ravel
- Carousel Ensemble (Avl to Sept 17/23)
Saturday, June 24/23
- London Philharmonic
- Mahler’s Fifth (Avl to June 25/23)
Monday, June 26
- Wigmore Hall (8am EDT)
- VOCES8
- Choral Dances
- VOCES8
Directory
- Against The Grain Theatre
- Amici Chamber Ensemble
- Angela Hewitt
- Arts & Letters Club of Toronto
- Art of Time
- Concertgebouw Orchestra
- Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra (Sweden)
- Holland Baroque
- Koerner Hall
- London Philharmonic Orchestra
- National Film Board
- National Theatre (UK)
- Tapestry Opera
- Toronto Consort
- Toronto Summer Music
- Toronto Symphony Orchestra
- Trio Arkel
- University of Toronto Faculty of Music
- Wiener Staatsoper
- Wigmore Hall (London)
Canadian Artists/Companies/Venues
Against the Grain Theatre
No current attractions.
Amici Chamber Ensemble
- Celebrating Canada with Mireille Asselin
- Bohemian Rhapsody
- Our Finest Hour
- Music by Finzi and Elgar
- Armenian Treasures
- American Berserk
- Music by John Adams, T.J. Anderson, John Corigliano and Charles Ives
Angela Hewitt
- Recital from the Chopin Institute on YouTube: Bach, Mozart & Chopin
Arts & Letters Club of Toronto
- Piano Recitals:
- Alexander Panizza plays Chopin
- Younggun Kim plays Poulenc, Albéniz, Chopin, Bach/Busoni, Piazzola
- Alexander Malikov plays Haydn and Moussorgsky
- Ben Smith plays Handel, Beethoven, Glazunov and Medtner
- Jean-Luc Therrien plays Jacques Hétu, David McIntyre (Alberta), Debussy and Liszt
- Elena Howard-Scott, soprano with Peter Tiefenbach, piano
Art of Time
There are many excerpts from past concerts on YouTube.
Koerner Hall / Royal Conservatory of Music
Koerner Hall has announced their 2023/24 season.
There are many concerts/recitals in their library.
Tapestry Opera
- Our Song D’Hiver with Mireille Asselin and Frédéric Lacroix
Toronto Consort / Early Music TV
The Toronto Consort’s 2022/23 season has been announced for in-person attendance. Concerts will be recorded and streamed on Early Music TV (paid service).
Toronto Summer Music
Some past concerts remain available online. The 2023 season has been announced.
Toronto Symphony Orchestra
The TSO has announced its 2023/24 season.
Trio Arkel
Trio Arkel has resumed live performances with no seating restrictions. They will no longer be streaming concerts, but will provide excerpts on their website. Some performances from past concerts are available there.
Their program La Bonne Chanson is available for free viewing.
- Russell Braun, Carolyn Maule, Rémi Pelletier and Erika Raum as well as Trio Arkel’s Marie Berard and Winona Zelenka in a program of Beethoven, Vaughan Williams, Shostakovich and Fauré.
USA Artists/Companies/Venues
Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival
The 2023 festival will run from August 4 to 18 and five concerts will be livestreamed free.
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.
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra
The GSO has a page with their upcoming concerts.
- No concerts pending
… and links to previously archived ones.
- Berlioz: Symphone fantastique (Avl to July 2/23)
- Schoenberg: Violin Concerto, Ava Bahari , violin (Avl to July 11/23)
- Shostakovich: Symphony No. 7 “Leningrad” (Avl to Aug 2/23)
- Barbara Hannigan conducts Stravinsky, Messiaen and Ligeti
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
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.
- June 24/23: Mahler’s Fifth
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 now available here.
Time Limited Streams
- Héloïse Werner soprano; Tippett Quartet (Avl to June 6/23)
- Caroline Shaw, Carwithen, Freya Waley-Cohen, Héloïse Werner and Kate Whitley
- The Hermes Experiment (Avl to June 6/23)
- Ayanna Witter-Johnson, C Schumann, Caroline Shaw and more
- Gramophone 100th Anniversary Concert (Avl to June 12/23)
- Steven Isserlis cello; Jonian Ilias Kadesha violin; Irène Duval violin; Eivind Ringstad viola; Tim Posner cello; Lucy Shaw double bass; Maggie Cole harpsichord (Avl to June 25/23)
- Boccherini
- Fleur Barron mezzo-soprano; Kunal Lahiry piano (Avl to July 1/23)
- Meta4 (Avl to July 8/23)
- Barber, Beach, Krishna Nagaraja and Purcell
- Nash Ensemble (Avl to July 15/23)
- Fauré and Mozart
- Lawrence Power viola, violin; Sergio Bucheli lute (Avl to July 22/23)
- Ning Feng violin; Thomas Hoppe piano (Avl to Aug 6/23)
- Falla, Korngold, Prokofiev and Schnittke
- Alina Ibragimova violin; Cédric Tiberghien piano (Avl to Aug 12/23)
- R Schumann
- Sitkovetsky Trio (Avl to Aug 19/23)
- Beethoven, Felix Mendelssohn and Sam Perki
Plus many 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:
- Congratulations, Mr. Levy celebrates the self-promoting Eugene Levy (2008)
- Brian Macdonald, Virtuoso Eclectic (2008)
- Source with Margie Gillis (2011)
- William Shatner sings O Canada with some amendments along the way (2011)
- Des McAnuff in Mise en Scène (2012)
- Eric Peterson in Canadian Famous (2013)
- Brent Carver: Home Through the Night (2014)
- Solo: A Portrait of Angela Hewitt (2018)
- Rick Mercer Take Action Figures (2019)
- The Afterlifetime of Colm Feore (2019)
University of Toronto Faculty of Music
- Monica Whicher, mezzo; Steven Philcox, piano
- Scott St. John, violin; Angela Park, piano; Ethan Allers, cello; Kevin Weiss, clarinet
- Vocal Master Class with Adrianne Pieczonka
- Vocal Master Classes with Joyce DiDonato:
- Winners’ Recital of the Norcop and Koldofsky prizes:
- Alex Hetherington, mezzo-soprano and Dakota Scott-Digout, piano
- Katy Clark & Jialiang Zhu
- Maeve Palmer & Joel Goodfellow
- Jamal Al Titi and collaborative pianist Indra Egan
- Vocal Master Classes with Susan Graham
Steve Munro 