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2010/2011 Season Overview

February 2010

Tafelmusik Announces the 2010/2011 Season:
The Galileo Project premieres in Asia/
New Galileo Films for the Internet/
Bravo! Canada television broadcast of Tafelmusik's Sing-Along Messiah/
Return Engagements: Kent Nagano's Fesitval in Italy; Klang und Raum Festival in Irsee, Germany/
Beethoven Symphony No. 9 with Bruno Weil/
Chopin on Period Piano with Janina Fialkowska/
Bach Mass in B Minor

2010/2011 Toronto Season at a Glance

 

2009/2010 Season Overview

April 2009 Tafelmusik Announces the 2009/2010 Season:
Debut at Kent Nagano’s Festival in Italy/
Tours to Europe, California and Mexico’s Cervantino International Festival/
Earth Day® Project/
Mendelssohn, Purcell and Handel Anniversaries

 

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Toronto Concert Season

May 2010 9th Annual Tafelmusik Baroque Summer Institute
2nd Annual Tafelmusik Baroque Summer Festival
May 2010 Handel Israel in Egypt
Tafelmusik Chamber Choir and Baroque Orchestra
Directed by Ivars Taurins
Featuring Teri Dunn & Michele DeBoer, sopranos
Matthew White, countertenor
Lawrence Wiliford, tenor
Sumner Thompson & Andrew Mahon, baritones
March 2010 Tafelmusik celebrates Earth Day April 7 to 11
Forces of Nature: An Earth Day Celebration
Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra
Directed by Jeanne Lamon
Conceived and programmed by Tafelmusik violinist Julia Wedman
Production design by Raha Javanfar
March 2010 Soprano Karina Gauvin + Tafelmusik:
“Simply Unforgettable” (Globe and Mail)
Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra
Directed by Jeanne Lamon
With Karina Gauvin, soprano
February 2010 Tafelmusik’s time-travel combines words and music: Bach in Leipzig
Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra and Chamber Choir Directed by Jeanne Lamon and Ivars Taurins
Narrated by William Webster
Conceived by Alison Mackay
January 2010 Fortepianist Ronald Brautigam makes Toronto debut in Mostly Mozart
Tafelmusik Orchestra Guest Directed by Bruno Weil
January 2010 Tafelmusik Chamber Choir and Baroque Orchestra present Intimate Bach
Directed by Jeanne Lamon featuring Tyler Duncan, baritone
December 2009 Tafelmusik Chamber Choir and Baroque Orchestra present Handel’s Messiah + Sing-Along Messiah Directed by Ivars Taurins
November 2009 Electrifying Italian violinist and guest director Stefano Montanari featured in Vivaldi The Four Seasons
November 2009 Tafelmusik launches Sing-Along Messiah Video Contest
November 2009 Tafelmusik Presents King Arthur by Henry Purcell
October 2009 Tafelmusik’s Sizzling Strings Concerts featuring Aisslinn Nosky, violin
September 2009 Tafelmusik's Season Opening Concerts: Handel Royal Fireworks with Arion Baroque Orchestra
September 2009 Tafelmusik’s 2009/2010 Toronto Season at a Glance

 

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Touring

May 2010 Tafelmusik launches nine-city European tour
May 10 to 23, 2010
January 2010 Out of this world!
Tafelmusik takes The Galileo Project on United States Tour January 30 – February 6, 2010
October 2009 Tafelmusik performs at Mexico’s Cervantino International Festival
July 2009 Tafelmusik's European Summer Festival Tour
February 2009 Tafelmusik's Carnegie Hall Debut and United States Tour
January 2009

Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra and Chamber Choir perform Bach's Mass in B Minor as part of L'Orchestra Symphonique de Montréal's Signature Series

November 2008 Tafelmusik's Western Canada Tour: Vancouver, Salt Spring Island, Victoria, Langley, Sechelt and Winnipeg
October 2008 Tafelmusik Tours to Prestigious Mexico Festival: La Feria de las Artes Sinaloa
August 2008 Tafelmusik at the 16th Annual Klang und Raum Festival in Irsee, Germany
February 2008 Tafelmusik's United States Tour: Oneonta, NY; San Juan, Puerto Rico; Los Angeles, CA and Wolf Trap, VA
October 2007 A Music-Museum Collaboration featuring
Canada’s Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra: Beijing Museum of Natural History and Shanghai Science and Technology Museum.
October 2007 Tafelmusik's Asian Tour: Macau, Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai and Seoul
July 2007 Tafelmusik’s United States Tour:
Ravinia Festival, Aspen Music Festival and Dartmouth College

 

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CD Releases

November 2008 CBC Records Presents Celebration - 30 Years: 3 CD Set Re-release with the Complete Messiah Choruses
October 2008 Tafelmusik Releases CD and DVD: Beethoven Symphonies Nos. 7 & 8 with Conductor Bruno Weil
December 2007 Tafelmusik Releases 76th CD: Gloria in Excelsis Deo
October 2007 Tafelmusik Releases Recording of Vivaldi's L'estro armonico with Elizabeth Wallfisch, Plus Bonus DVD The Four Seasons Mosaic: Vivaldi's Four Seasons Reimagined
September 2006 Tafelmusik Releases Recording of Mozart Masterworks: Symphonies Nos. 40 & 41
November 2005 Tafelmusik’s Beethoven Recording on the Sony Classical Vivarte Label in Europe
October 2005 Tafelmusik Releases First Children's CD

 

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Awards

July 2, 2009 Tafelmusik Receives 2009 Betty Webster Award
April 10, 2008 Tafelmusik Completes Creative Trust's Working Capital for the Arts Program
February 6, 2008 Tafelmusik Nominated for 2008 JUNO Award
June 7, 2007 Tafelmusik’s Jeanne Lamon to Receive
2007 Betty Webster Award from Orchestras Canada
May 7, 2007 Jeanne Lamon to Receive Honourary Degree from
Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax
October 5, 2006 Music Director Jeanne Lamon Winner of the
2006 Roy Thomson Hall Award of Exceptional Achievement in Music
April 3, 2006 Tafelmusik Wins Two 2006 Juno Awards
December 8, 2004 Tafelmusik Nominated for Grammy Award
March 17, 2004 Tafelmusik's Jeanne Lamon Awarded 'Musician of the Year Award'

 

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General

January 7, 2010 Tafelmusik’s Sing-Along Messiah to be featured in live television recording by 90th Parallel Productions for Bravo! Canada
November 6, 2009 Tafelmusik announces 9th consecutive surplus for its 30th anniversary season and a 17% growth in ticket revenue
April 16, 2009 International Astronomical Union Names Asteroid after Tafelmusik
November 10, 2008 Tafelmusik Announces 8th Consecutive Operating Surplus
September 28, 2006 Tafelmusik Musicians Create Jeanne Lamon Instrument Bank
May 18, 2004 Tafelmusik Appointed as Baroque Orchestra in Residence at the University of Toronto

 

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