Back to the Future!
Artistic Director Simon Fryer has created a 125th Season of five Concerts: a celebration of past, present, and future, with generations of diverse artists, mentors and “mentees.”
Come back to Walter Hall to enjoy “Connection and Continuity:” chamber music repertoire highlights from the last 125 years, and the next.
125th Season | The Return to Walter Hall Read More »
If you are attending a concert in-person, please note the following COVID-related precautions:
Mezzo-soprano Alex Hetherington, WMCT 2018-19 Scholarship Winner, will perform as a soloist next season with the University of Toronto Student Orchestra. Watch the Concerto Competition on the UTFM YouTube channel.
Her performance of the Neruda Songs by Peter Lieberson begins at the 48:56 mark in the video.
Alex Hetherington Wins the UTSO Concerto Competition Read More »
Danuta was an outstanding patron of the arts. As President of the WMCT from 2001-2004, she led us during a period of remarkable growth in membership numbers, while overseeing four seasons of wonderful concert giving. As an active member for years before that, she had initiated the Tuning Your Mind series of pre-concert lectures in partnership with the Faculty of Music at the U of T. Later she chaired the planning for the special events and activities celebrating the 110th anniversary season.
In 2019 she received the Lieutenant-Governor’s Distinguished Service Award for her even more extensive volunteer work for the Royal Ontario Museum. Watch the ROM tribute video.
Born in France in 1937 and raised in Poland, she met Walter Buczynski in Warsaw in 1960. He was a Canadian composition student, there on grants from the Polish state, and she was working for the government in handling foreign visitors. They raised their family in midtown Toronto while he taught at the Faculty of Music, U of T, and she proudly and generously served her new country. Photo from the Funeral Home obituary.
In Memoriam: Danuta Buczynski († October 26, 2021) Read More »
Andrew Haji is the tenor in the Canadian Opera Company‘s new streaming production of Puccini’s popular comedy,
He will sing for Music in the Afternoon in Walter Hall on March 3, 2022.
*Andrew Haji stars in Gianni Schicchi Read More »
Cellist Cameron Crozman (left) will perform for Music in the Afternoon on March 31, 2022, with pianist Philip Chiu.
The $25,000 Prize is awarded to a musician under the age of 32 who demonstrates outstanding talent, musicianship and artistic excellence and who makes a valuable contribution to artistic life in Canada and internationally. Blake Pouliot, who opened the MitA 124th season, was the 2018 winner.
Virginia Parker Prize awarded to Cameron Crozman Read More »
Vladimir Soloviev, who completed his studies at the U of T with the support of the WMCT 2020-21 Graduate Fellowship, has joined the Canadian Opera Company Ensemble for 2021-22. In his letter of appreciation of the WMCT award, he wrote:
For more, see the announcement in LudwigVan
Fellowship winner joins COC Ensemble Read More »
April 2021 Newsletter 62 Read More »
