We’ve been here before… and we’ve survived

The Women’s Musical Club of Toronto has been holding Music in the Afternoon concerts since well before the flu pandemic of 1918-1919. We have endured two World Wars, depressions and recessions, and in 2020-21 another devastating virus. We will survive this one too.

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The 123rd season will continue mostly as planned, with virtual appearances by our promised artists. We have every intention of lasting another 123 years, giving you opportunities to enjoy Canadian and international chamber musicians, and supporting young artists with scholarships and awards.

March 11, 2021

Eric Lu has just been awarded an Avery Fisher Career Grant 
Pianist Eric Lu was just revealed as one of five recipients of the 2021 Avery Fisher Career Grants in a special hour-long program on WQXR. Eric joins a prestigious list of Grant recipients from the past 45 years including Hilary Hahn, Yuja Wang, and Jeremy Denk. 
His Music in the Afternoon recital of Schubert and Chopin was released on March 4, 2021

Five Extraordinary Concerts | 123rd Season | 2020-2021


  • Michael Bridge & Friends
    Livestreamed from Walter Hall November 12, 2020
  • Eric Lu, piano
    Video On demand March 4-25
  • Viano String Quartet
    Video On demand April 1-22
  • Joyce El Khoury
    May 2021 | Joyce El-Khoury, soprano
  • A special event in June

March 4, 2021 | 1.30 pm (Note Date Change) A Video Event

ERIC LU, piano
A solo piano recital of Schubert’s A major sonata D. 959 and two Chopin Preludes from op. 28 returns us to standard repertoire, with a brilliant performer.  Mr. Lu first came to international attention as a prize-winner at the 2015 Chopin International Competition in Warsaw aged just 17, becoming one of the youngest laureates in the history of the competition.  In 2018 he won First Prize at the Leeds International Piano Competition. He made his BBC Proms debut the following year and is currently a member of the prestigious BBC New Generation Artist scheme. 

April 1, 2021 | 1.30 pm | A Video Event
VIANO QUARTET

The WMCT’s hopes for a joint appearance by the two string quartets tied for the 1st prize at the most recent Banff International String Quartet competition have been crushed by the pandemic. Only the Viano Quartet was in a position to record a concert for us. Their performance of Schubert’s Quartet No. 14, “Death and the Maiden,” and Entr’acte by Caroline Shaw, youngest winner of the Pulitzer Prize for music, will be available April 1-22 on the Music in the Afternoon YouTube channel.

Joyce El Khoury

May, 2021 | 1.30 pm (Note Date Change) A Video Event

JOYCE EL-KHOURY, soprano; Serouj Kradjian, piano
Part of an expansive project involving national music and instrumentalists from the home countries (Lebanon, Armenia) of these artists. Songs by Bizet, Fauré, Chausson, Ravel and Saint-Saëns reflect Lebanon’s former colonial power, and twentieth-century Lebanese songs in Arabic demonstrate the vital culture of this jewel of the east.     MORE