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This season explored 'the songbook' with a series of eight concerts featuring songs from traditional Irish to contemporary Canadian, classical to jazz.


PAST 2023-24 CONCERTS

 

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023 7:30PM
OCTOBER 1, 2023 4:00PM

IRISH SONGBOOK

Patricia O’Callaghan presents new and traditional Irish songs, inspired by her passion for Irish language and music.

featuring Larry Beckwith, Miranda Mulholland, Maeve Palmer, Tim Posgate, Yolanda Tapia and Maryem Tollar

Pre-concert talk 45 minutes prior to showtime

Heliconian Hall
35 Hazelton Avenue, Toronto

 

OCTOBER 13 & 14, 2023 7:30PM

Wound turned to light

James Rolfe’s beautiful settings of the work of a wide variety of poets, created during the pandemic.

Featuring Alex Samaras, Patricia O'Callaghan, Larry Beckwith, Anika Venkatesh, Andrew Adridge, Lara Dodds-Eden and George Elliott Clarke

Pre-concert talk at 6:45 p.m.

Heliconian Hall
35 Hazelton Avenue, Toronto

 

NOVEMBER 22 & 23, 2023 at 7:30PM

AUTORICKSHAW AT 20

A 20-year anniversary celebration of the Indo-Fusion band: traditional South Indian music, pop, jazz, folk, and funk.

Featuring Suba Sankaran, Dylan Bell and Ed Hanley.

Pre-concert talk at 6:45 p.m.

Heliconian Hall
35 Hazelton Avenue, Toronto

 

DECEMBER 12, 2023 7:30PM

Dreams of Home

Longing, dreams and memories merge through classical and contemporary repertoire.

Featuring our 2023-24 Young Artistic Associates, the KöNG Duo.

Pre-concert talk at 6:45 p.m.

Heliconian Hall
35 Hazelton Avenue, Toronto

Dreams of Home is generously sponsored by Kit and Barbara Moore

 

MARCH 21 & 22, 2024

SONGS FROM TORONTO

Music by some of Toronto’s
Finest Songwriters

Curated by Andrew Downing

Songs From Toronto celebrates some of the best and brightest songwriters who weave into our city’s musical fabric in its cafés, bars, festivals and living rooms. Discover the finely crafted and beautiful songs of John Southworth, Justin Orok, Rebecca Campbell and Lydia Persaud. This concert will introduce you to songs that will doubtlessly become some of your favourites.

The evening will vary in style from art song to troubadour ballad and deal with love, loss, joy, sadness and everything in between.

In addition to hearing the songwriters sing their own songs, Patricia O’Callaghan, Teiya Kasahara 笠原 貞野 and Maggie Keogh will add their voices to the evening, and the group will be joined by an ensemble of guitar, piano, strings and vibraphone.

Heliconian Hall
35 Hazelton Avenue, Toronto

 

MAY 3 & 4, 2024 7:30PM

DICHTERLIEBE: WHOSE LOVE?

A gender-expansive re-telling of Schumann’s Dichterliebe including additional musical settings by his contemporaries.

Co-curated by Confluence Artistic Associate Teiya Kasahara 笠原 貞野 and pianist David Eliakis.

Drawing inspiration from the original poetry of Heinrich Heine’s ‘Lyrisches Intermezzo’, Dichterliebe: Whose Love? takes us down a queer, chosen journey rather than the expected 19th century lieder recital of Robert Schumann’s music.

Exploring the central question, “Whose love is important, valid, and celebrated?” is the impetus for co-curators and performers Teiya Kasahara and David Eliakis’ inquiry into their classical music educations, the traditions which they have perpetuated in both music and life, and the sex and gender norms that still govern much of today’s performance practices and social discourse.

Dichterliebe: Whose Love? gives space for these performer-poets to express their gender-expansive interpretation of love through a variety of settings from Schumann’s original and those of his contemporaries.

Heliconian Hall
35 Hazelton Avenue, Toronto

 

MAY 29 & 30, 2024, 7:30PM

Confluence Songbook

A season-ending concert of our musical favourites.


Featuring the entire Confluence team

Heliconian Hall
35 Hazelton Avenue, Toronto