Concerts from 1982 to 2013

1982

Feb 21: Hart House, University of Toronto: An Aldeburgh Anthology  –  Aldeburgh and its festival

1983

Feb 20: Harbourfront, Toronto (Brunch with Bach): The Old Wizard of Bayreuth  –  Wagner and the French
Mar 13: Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, In Praise of Alexander  –  the life and legend of Alexander the Great
May 19: Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Serenissima  –  music inspired by the city of Venice
Nov 12/13: London Regional Art Gallery, London, ON, Self-Portraits  –  portraits of their creators in music
Nov 24: Holy Trinity, Eaton Centre, Toronto (CBC), A Nordic Serenade  –  music of Grieg and Grainger 

1984

Jan 31: Mackenzie High School, Deep River, ON, An Aldeburgh Anthology
Feb 4: Trinity United Church, Huntsville, ON, An Aldeburgh Anthology
Jun 17: Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, An Afternoon with Jane Austen
Nov 29:  Fort Garry Hotel, Winnipeg (CBC), A Burns Celebration

1985

Sunday Series (Walter Hall, University of Toronto):

Jan 27 Come into the Parlour, Maud  –  song during the reign of Queen Victoria
Mar 3: Noblesse Oblige –  music of Sir Hubert Parry and Lord Berners
May 12: A Country House Weekend  –  English song between the two World Wars
Nov 3: Many Happy Returns  –  the 300th birthday of Bach and Handel

Other performances:

Feb 17: Port Hope Music Club, Port Hope, ON, On Wings of Song  –  songs of many times and countries
May 8: Guelph Spring Festival, Guelph, ON, An Afternoon with Jane Austen
Oct 25: St George’s Soc., Toronto, On Wings of Song

1986

Sunday Series:

Feb 2: Robert and Clara at Home, with a visit from Johannes  –  songs of Schumann and Brahms
Mar 16: Upstairs/Downstairs  –  English music from the concert hall and the parlour, 1900 to 1930
May 11: The Princess and the Sewing Machine  –  music in the life of the Princesse de Polignac
Nov 30: A Christmas Party  –  seasonal music, and a concert staging of Britten’s Paul Bunyan

Other performances:

Feb 5: Barrie Concert Association, Barrie, ON, On Wings of Song
Oct 24: St George’s Soc., Toronto, Glamorous Night  –  Ivor Novello and Noël Coward
Nov 23: Mississauga Choral Society, Mississauga, ON, On Wings of Song
Nov 25: Prince Edward Arts Council, Picton, ON, On Wings of Song
Nov 27: Orangeville & District Concert Ass., Orangeville, ON, On Wings of Song 

1987

Sunday Series:

Feb 1: Winter Daydreams  –  the songs of Tchaikovsky
Mar 29: The Old Wizard of Bayreuth 
May 10: Brush Up Your Shakespeare! –  settings of Shakespeare
Nov 29: Auld Lang Syne  –  settings of Robert Burns

Other performances:

May 21: Wagner Society of New York, A Wagnerian Salon
Jul 8: Glimmerglass Festival, Cooperstown, NY, Winter Daydreams
Nov 9: Queen’s Univ., Kingston, ON, Robert and Clara At Home, with a visit from Johannes
Nov 13: St George’s Soc., Toronto, Piccadilly Follies  –  the London West End, 1900 to the 1950s
Dec. 2: Opera House, Orillia, ON, On Wings of Song 

1988

Sunday Series:

Jan 31: Northern Lights  –  composers from Scandinavia, Russia and Canada
Mar 13: 1888: Year of Song  –  particularly by Hugo Wolf
May 8: Lorelei  –  the femme fatale in music and literature
Nov 27: Scenes from Childhood – songs celebrating children

Other performances:

Jan 26: Mount Allison University, Sackville, NB, On Wings of Song
Jun 14: Aldeburgh Festival, England, Northern Lights
Jul 4: Shaw Festival, Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON, Upstairs/Downstairs
Jul 23: Sharon Festival, Sharon, ON, Scenes from Childhood
Aug 1: Shaw Festival, Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON, Noblesse Oblige
Aug 18: Elora Festival, Elora, ON,  Upstairs/Downstairs
Oct 15: Jane Austen Society of North America, Chicago, Jane Austen’s Music
Nov 17: North York Central Library, Toronto, I do like to be beside the seaside  –  songs on the sea
Nov 18: St George’s Soc., Toronto, I do like to be beside the seaside 

1989

Sunday Series:

Jan 29: St Patrick’s Music  –  music by Irish composers, with folksong arrangements
Mar 12: Madame Bizet at Home  –  the life of Bizet’s wife, later a close friend of Marcel Proust
May 7: A Spring Schubertiad
Nov 26: Opera of the Phantom  –  songs inspired by spirits, both good and evil

Other performances:

Feb 13: Young People’s Theatre, Toronto, The Owl and the Pussycat  –  songs about the animal kingdom
Feb 16: Muskoka Concert Association, Gravenhurst, ON, On Wings of Song
Jul 3: Shaw Festival, Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON, A Country House Weekend
Jul 21: Festival of the Sound, Parry Sound, ON, A Country House Weekend
Aug 9: Elora Festival, Elora, ON, From Sullivan to Sondheim  –  100 years of popular music theatre
Aug 14: Shaw Festival, Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON, The Lonely Heart  –  the songs of Tchaikovsky

1990

Sunday Series:

Jan 21: Matinée musicale  –  the songs of Rossini
Mar 11: Letzte Lieder  –  the songs of Richard Strauss (with some by Mahler)
May 13: The Journals of Susanna Moodie  –  the life of a Canadian pioneer
Nov 11: Remembrance  –  music relating to the two World Wars, and celebrating peace

Other performances:

Jan 25: Château Laurier, Ottawa, The Old Wizard of Bayreuth
May 11: Guelph Spring Festival, Guelph, ON, The Lonely Heart
May 25: St George’s Soc., Toronto, Glamorous Night
Jul 9: Shaw Festival, Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON, Glamorous Night 

1991

Sunday Series:

Jan 20: Abracadabra! –  the songs of Chabrier
Mar 3: Jane Austen’s Music
May 5: Das Lied im Grünen  –  songs about spring from the German repertoire
Nov 24: Cecilia’s Child  –  the  songs of Benjamin Britten, including a concert staging of Paul Bunyan

Other performances:

Jun 28/29: Winter Garden Theatre, Toronto  –  The Madcap Adventures of Fräulein Mozart  –  an afternoon of comedy
Jul 7: Music at Sharon, Sharon, ON  –  The Madcap Adventures of Fräulein Mozart
Jul 21: Festival of the Sound, Parry Sound, ON, The Madcap Adventures of Fräulein Mozart
Aug 9: Elora Festival, Elora, ON, Mozart Among Friends  –  Mozart and his admirers

1992

Sunday Series:

Jan 19: A Winter Schubertiad 
Mar 8: Clair de lune  –   the music of Gabriel Fauré
May 3: All Around the Circle  –  Canadian songs, with readings from Canadian women writers
Nov 22: Alfred, Lord Tennyson  –  settings of Tennyson’s poetry

Other performances:

Feb 12: Quinte Arts Council, Belleville, ON, Glamorous Night
Feb 21: Orangeville & District Concert Ass., Orangeville, ON, Glamorous Night
Mar 10: Opera House, Orillia, ON, Glamorous Night
Apr 4: Cornwall Concert Series Ass., Cornwall, ON, Glamorous Night
Apr 10: St Thomas Performing Arts, St Thomas, ON, Glamorous Night
Apr 24: Little Trinity Church, Toronto, In Chancel and Parlour  –  the church’s sesquicentennial
Jun 9: Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh, The Journals of Susanna Moodie
Jun 11: Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, Glasgow, The Journals of Susanna Moodie
Jun 13: Clothworkers’ Centenary Concert Hall, Univ. of Leeds, Soirée musicale  –  the songs of Rossini
Jun 16: Aldeburgh Festival, England, Matinée musicale
Jun 18: English-Speaking Union, Dartmouth House, London, Soirée musicale
Jun 21: Aldeburgh Festival, England, The Journals of Susanna Moodie
Jul 18: Music at Sharon, Sharon, ON, Christopher Columbus  –  a 500th anniversary celebration

1993

Sunday Series:

Jan 17: Fêtes galantes  –  the songs of Debussy
Mar 7: The Lonely Heart
May 2: Liebeslieder  –  Brahms’s Liebeslieder Waltzes and Schumann’s Spanische Liebeslieder
Nov 21: Brush Up Your Shakespeare!

Recital Series (Glenn Gould Studio, Toronto):

Feb 17:  Song Cycles by Francis Poulenc  –  Rosemarie Landry, Brett Polegato
Apr 13: Italienisches Liederbuch: Hugo Wolf  –  Monica Whicher, Russell Braun

Other performance:

Oct 29: Exultate Singers, St Thomas’s Church, Toronto, Benjamin Britten – A Festival of Music

1994

Sunday Series:

Jan 16: Greta’s Choice  –  music chosen by our Honorary Patron, Greta Kraus
Mar 6: Orpheus with her Lute  –  the life and times of Pauline Viardot
May 1: May Day Revels  –  music of the spirits associated with May Day
Nov 20: Carols and Canticles  –  seasonal music by English composers, with three of Britten’s Canticles

Recital Series:

Feb 2: Song Cycles by Gabriel Fauré  –  Catherine Robbin, Brett Polegato
Apr 12: Ann Monoyios
May 17: Die schõne Müllerin  –  Russell Braun
Oct 14: Gerald Finley
Dec 1: Linda Maguire

Other performances:

Aug 3: Elora Festival, Elora, ON, The Village Sings  –  the history of a small Ontario town
Nov 19: Wilfred Laurier University, Waterloo, ON, Carols and Canticles

1995

Sunday Series:

Jan 15: Serenissima
Mar 5: The Flight of the Eagle  –  the songs of Brahms
Apr 30: A Country House Weekend
Nov 12: Orpheus Then and Now  –  music for Sir Michael Tippett’s 90th birthday

Recital Series:

May 9: A Russian Song Recital  –  Joanne Kolomyjec, Mark Pedrotti
Oct 10: Norine Burgess, Michael Schade

Other performances:

Feb 5: Hart House, University of Toronto, Upstairs / Downstairs
Jul 23: Elora Festival, Elora, ON, Britten Canticles
Aug 9: Festival acadien, Caraquet, NB, Madame Bizet

1996

Sunday Series:

Jan 21: The Princess and the Sewing Machine
Mar 3: Lady Blarney  –  the life of Anna Jameson, 19th century visitor to Ontario
May 12: Voices of Spring  –   songs of Brahms, Schumann and others
Nov 3: Drawn from Life  –  portraits and songs from 18th and 20th century France

Recital Series:

Mar 25: The Britten Canticles
Apr 30: Die schöne Magelone  –  Russell Braun
Oct 21: Brett Polegato

Other performances:

Feb 29:  Glenn Gould Studio, Toronto, Happy Birthday, Rossini!
May 11: St John’s Church, Elora, ON, Voices of Spring 

1997

Sunday Series:

Feb 2: A Birthday Schubertiad 
Mar 16: Come into the Parlour, Maud 
Apr 27: Contrasts  –  music for four voices and two pianists
Nov 2: Harry Heine & Company  –  settings of Heine’s poetry

Recital Series:

Jan 31: Schubert’s Birthday Party
Feb 1: A Birthday Recital:  Schubert  –  Nancy Argenta, Catherine Robbin, Malcolm Bilson, Blaise Bryski
Apr 14: Schubert and Brahms  –  Catherine Robbin, Russell Braun
May 8: Schubert and Britten  –  Ann Monoyios, Benjamin Butterfield
Dec 9: James Westman

Other performance:

Sep 28: Opera House, Orillia, ON, Come into the Parlour, Maud

1998

Sunday Series:

Feb 1: A Celebration of Lois Marshall 
Mar 15: The Old Wizard of Bayreuth 
Apr 26: Noblesse Oblige
Nov 22: Letzte Lieder 

Recital Series:

Mar 9: Adrianne Pieczonka
Apr 15: Mark Pedrotti
Dec 1: Catherine Robbin

Young Artists (Walter Hall, University of Toronto):

Dec 4: Heidi Klann, Alexander Dobson

Other performance:

Jul 5: Royal York Hotel, Toronto, Thé chantant  –  songs for afternoon tea

1999

Sunday Series:

Jan 31: Miroir brûlant  –  the songs of Poulenc
Mar 7: Matinée musicale 
Apr 25: The Lyre of Orpheus  –  music in the life and writings of Robertson Davies
Nov 7: Robert and Clara at home, with a visit from Johannes

Recital Series:

Jan 29: A Poulenc Soirée
May 14: The Songs of Henri Duparc  –  Catherine Robbin, Gerald Finley
Jun 11: The 1st Greta Kraus Schubertiad

Young Artists:

Feb 5: Carla Huhtanen, Scott Belluz

Oct 19: Virginia Hatfield, Matthew Leigh
Dec 1: Katerina Tchoubar, Michèle Bogdanowicz

2000

Sunday Series:

Jan 30: A Nordic Serenade
Mar 12: Madame Bizet 
Apr 30: Toronto: a musical century
Nov 26: Auld Lang Syne

Recital Series:

Feb 7: Monica Whicher, Susan Platts
Feb 25: Nathan Berg
May 24: The 2nd Greta Kraus Schubertiad
Nov. 10: Donna Brown

Young Artists:

Oct 17: Maghan Stewart, Colleen Skull, James Levesque, Jesse Clark
Dec 6: Mehgan Atchison, Andrea Ludwig

2001

Sunday Series:

Jan 28: The 3rd Greta Kraus Schubertiad  –   A Winter Schubertiad
Mar 4: The Enchanted Garden  –  the songs of Ravel
Apr 29: Proud Songster  –  the songs of Finzi
Nov. 25: Abracadabra! 

Recital Series:

Feb 21: Valdine Anderson
Apr 26: Die schöne Müllerin. – Michael Schade
Oct 19: Donna Brown, Catherine Robbin
Nov 9: James Westman

Young Artists:

Oct 11: Eve-Rachel McLeod, Giles Tomkins
Dec 4: Katherine Whyte, Megan Latham, Stephen Erickson, Peter McGillivray

Other performance:

Apr 28: St John’s  Church, Elora, ON,  Remembering Gerald Finzi

2002

Sunday Series:

Jan 13: The Birthday Salon  –  20th anniversary gala concert (MacMillan Theatre, University of Toronto)
Mar 3: The Frankfurt Gang  –  the songs of Balfour Gardiner, Percy Grainger, Norman O’Neill, Roger Quilter and Cyril Scott
Apr 28: Music for the Masseys  –  a salute to one of Toronto’s distinguished families
Dec 1: Orpheus with her Lute 

Recital Series:

Jan 11: Gerald Finley
Jan 19: The Great Song Marathon  –  an all day event featuring 23 singers and 81 songs
Feb 8: A Britten Recital  –  Catherine Robbin, Colin Ainsworth
May 8: The 4th Greta Kraus Schubertiad
Oct 23: Susan Platts

Young Artists:

Oct 15: Saemi Chang, Susan Black, Stephen Erickson, Julien Patenaude
Dec 3: Joni Henson, Melinda Delorme

Other performance:

Oct 11: Hilton Hotel, Toronto, Jane Austen’s Music

2003

Sunday Series:

Jan 26: Anacreon’s Rest  –  the songs of Hugo Wolf
Mar 16: Upstairs/Downstairs 
Apr 27: Catherine Robbin and Friends  –  a farewell tribute to one of our favourite singers
Nov 23: The Heart of the Matter  –  the vocal music of Benjamin Britten

Recital Series:

Mar 25: Italienisches Liederbuch: Hugo Wolf  –  Monica Whicher, Russell Braun
May 7: The 5th Greta Kraus Schubertiad  –  Schubert and the Esterházys

Young Artists:

Feb 22: Hugo Wolf and his Poets
Dec 2: Leah Gordon, Philip Carmichael

Other performances:

Nov. 19: University of Western Ontario, London, ON, The Heart of the Matter
Nov 20: Guelph University, Guelph, ON, The Heart of the Matter
Nov 21: Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, ON, The Heart of the Matter

2004

Sunday Series:

Jan 25: Caliban’s Cave  –  the songs of Berlioz
Mar 14: St Patrick’s Music
May 2: The 6th Greta Kraus Schubertiad  –  A Schubertiad in May
Oct 31: The Flight of the Eagle
Dec 5: The 49th Parallel –  songs of Canada and the United States

Recital Series:

Jan 14: Colin Ainsworth
Mar 8: Nathalie Paulin
May 12: Brett Polegato

Young Artists:

Feb 3: Allison Allison, Kathryn Knapp, Michael McBride, Jason Nedecky/
Nov 30: Lisa DiMaria, Jillian Yemen, Stephen Hegedus

Other performance:

July 24: Town Hall, Bayfield, ON,  A Toast to Vienna 

2005

Sunday Series:

Jan 23: Valse des fleurs  –  Russian songs from Glinka to Tchaikovsky
Mar 13: Metamorphoses  –  the 2,000th anniversary of Ovid (MacMillan Theatre, University of Toronto)
May1: A Country House Weekend
Oct 30: Die schöne Postmeisterin  –  the marriage of Anna Plochl and Archduke John of Austria
Dec 4: A Christmas Party  

Recital:

Apr 14: The 7th Greta Kraus Schubertiad  –  Winterreise: Gerald Finley (Walter Hall, University of Toronto)

Young Artists:

Feb 1: Laura Albino, Tyrsa Gawrachynsky, Jonathan Estabrooks
Nov 22: Brenna Conrad, Michael Adair

Other performances:

May 12: Walter Hall, University of Toronto, A Toronto Songbook
Jul 23: Town Hall, Bayfield, ON, The Food of Love  –  settings of Shakespeare
Jul 24: Elora Festival, Elora, ON, The Food of Love

2006

Sunday Series:

Jan 15: Mozart among friends
Feb 19: Fêtes galantes
Apr 30: Lady Blarney
Oct 22: Our Own Story  –  the Aldeburgh Connection year by year
Dec 3: Masques et bergamasques  –  songs and partsongs by Fauré and Hahn

Recitals:

May 9: The 8th Greta Kraus Schubertiad  –  Schubert’s Florilegium
Jun 6: Eichendorff Lieder:  Michael Schade (Walter Hall, University of Toronto)

Young Artists:

Jan 31: Lucia Cesaroni, Hélène Couture, Sasha Bataligin, Trevor Bowes

Discovery Series:

Nov 28: Ileana Montalbetti, Charlene Santoni, Heather Jewson

Other performance:

May 13: Town Hall, Bayfield, ON, Voyage à Paris

2007

Sunday Series:

Jan 14: The 9th Greta Kraus Schubertiad  –  The Greta Kraus Centenary Schubertiad
Feb 18: The Anniversary Waltz: Silver Jubilee Gala (MacMillan Theatre, University of Toronto)
Apr 29: The Care of a Genius  –  the songs of Elgar
Oct 21: New York Exotic  –  music connected with the stay of Britten and Pears in Brooklyn, NY, 1940-41
Dec 2: Miroir brûlant

Recital:

Nov 28: The 10th annual Greta Kraus Schubertiad  –  Schubert’s Cosmology

Discovery Series:

Jan 30: Eve-Lyn de la Haye, Benjamin Covey
Nov 19: Allison Arends, Kathleen Promane

Bayfield Festival of Song (Town Hall, Bayfield, ON):

Jun 9, am: Coffee concert
Jun 9, pm: James Westman
Jun 10: The Village Sings 

2008

Sunday Series:

Jan 13: A Song of Enchantment  –  settings of Walter de la Mare
Mar 2: The Tale of the Ostrich  –  the songs of Richard Strauss
Apr 27: Ancestral Voices  –  music in the life and family of the Hon. Victoria Woods
Oct 26: The Enchanted Garden
Nov 30: Parnassus on Elm Street  –  the centenary of the Arts & Letters Club of Toronto

Recital:

Apr 9: Nathalie Paulin, Anita Krause

Discovery Series:

Jan 29:  Laura Klassen, Katarzyna Sadej, Paul Williamson, Philip Kalmanovitch
Nov 11: Aviva Fortunata, Frank Mutya, Jeremy Ludwig

Bayfield Festival of Song:

Jun 7, am: Schubert in the Morning
Jun 7, pm: Nathalie Paulin, Anita Krause
Jun 8: The Bayfield Cocktail Book 

2009

Sunday Series:

Feb 1: The Wings of Song  –  the songs of Mendelssohn
Mar 15: A James Joyce Songbook  –  settings of James Joyce and music from his writings
Apr 26: Thé chantant
Oct 18: Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Nov 22: Blessed Cecilia  –  songs to celebrate the patron saint of music

Recital:

Mar 25: The 11th Greta Kraus Schubertiad  –  Winterreise: Brett Polegato

Discovery Series:

Feb 10: Catherine Marchant, Mia Harris, Erica Huang, Patrick Jang, Giovanni Spanu
Nov 10: Lindsay Barrett, Vasil Garvanliev

Bayfield Festival of Song:

Jun 6, am: A Quatre mains
Jun 6, pm: Brett Polegato
Jun 7: A Bayfield Boat Song
Jun 10: Voices on the Square
Jun 13, am: Schubert in the Morning
Jun 13, pm: Shannon Mercer
Jun 14: A Bayfield Boat Song 

Other performance:

Oct 1: Integral House, Toronto, The Integral Art of Song 

2010

Sunday Series:

Jan 24: The 12th Greta Kraus Schubertiad  –  The Lady of the Lake, and other tales
Mar 14: Hugo Wolf, The Mighty Miniaturist  –  the songs of Wolf
May 2: City of Villages  –  a singers’ tour of Toronto
Oct 24: The Patrons’ Salon   – music chosen by our three Honorary Patrons
Dec 5: The Year of Song  –  songs written in 1840 by Schumann

Discovery Series:

Feb 10: Johane Ansell, Erica Huang, Christopher Enns, James Baldwin
Nov 2: Jessica Strong, Marta Herman

Bayfield Festival of Song:

Jun 5, am: Sleepers, Wake!
Jun 5, pm: Virginia Hatfield, Lauren Segal
Jun 6: A Harvest of Song
Jun 11: Primadonna Sails In  –  singer and comedian Mary Lou Fallis
Jun 12, am: Schumann in the Morning
Jun 12, pm: Susan Platts
Jun 13: A Harvest of Song

Other performance:

Mar 28: Lebovic Centre, Stouffville, ON, España!  

2011

Sunday Series:

Jan 30: A Shropshire Lad in Ontario  –  the life of baritone James Campbell McInnes
Mar 6: C’est mon plaisir  –  the life in Boston of Isabella Stewart Gardner
May 1: The 13th Greta Kraus Schubertiad  –  A Spring Schubertiad
Oct 16: Clair de lune
Nov 27: The Great Comet  –  the songs of  Liszt

Discovery Series:

Feb 15: Claire de Sévigné, Julia Barber, Andrew Haji, Geoffrey Sirett

Bayfield Festival of Song:

Jun 3: Die schöne Müllerin  –  Colin Ainsworth
Jun 4, am: An English Morning
Jun 4, pm: Lucia Cesaroni, Colin Ainsworth
Jun 5: Embraceable You!
June 10: Allyson McHardy
June 11, am: Schubert in the Morning
June 11, pm: Glamorous Night
June 12: Embraceable You! 

2012

Sunday Series:

Feb 19: The 30th Anniversary Gala (Koerner Hall, Toronto)
Mar 18: The 13th Greta Kraus Schubertiad  –  Schubert and the Esterházys
Apr 29: A Country House Weekend
Oct 21: The Lyre of Orpheus
Dec 2: Madame Bizet

Bayfield Festival of Song:

Jun 2, am: Schubert in the Morning
Jun 2, pm: Upstairs/Downstairs
Jun 3: Diamonds for a Queen
Jun 8: Monica Whicher, Laura Tucker
Jun 9, am: Wish you were here …
Jun 9, pm: Alexander Dobson
Jun 10: Diamonds for a Queen

Other performance:

Mar 4: University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, A Country House Weekend

2013

Sunday Series:

Jan 27: Valse des fleurs
Mar 10: The 14th Greta Kraus Schubertiad  –   Love Among the Ruins
May 26: A Time There Was

A Britten Festival of Song:

Apr 26: The Canticles
May 7: The Song-Cycles
[May 26: A Time There Was]