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In its Toronto series, the Consort is constantly exploring new repertoires and new ways to bring early music to the modern audience. The Consort often works in collaboration with other artists, such as actors, dancers and visual artists, to produce concerts which have dramatic as well as musical appeal. Recent projects have included all three Monteverdi operas performed in concert; a fully-staged production of a new transcription of The Play of Daniel; A Celtic Christmas with Puirt a Baroque; evenings of Renaissance dance with the Ken Pierce Dance Company; From Medieval to Millennial, a multi-media evening with video projections and Inuit throat-singers; An Elizabethan Entertainment with Veronica Tennant. The Toronto Consort has also recorded music for film, most recently the sound track for Academy Award-nominated The Sweet Hereafter directed by Atom Egoyan.
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"The Toronto Consort consists of musicians who excel equally as singers and performers on a wide variety of early instruments... No matter what the combination the quality of performance is of a standard that all ensembles, devoted to early music, would be very pleased to match." Glasgow Herald
The Toronto Consort
The Toronto Consort gratefully acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts , the Ontario Arts Council, and the Toronto Arts Council.
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Toronto Consort is Canada’s leading chamber ensemble specializing
in the music of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Formed in 1972,
the Consort presents an annual series of concerts in Toronto, and
performs throughout Canada, the United States, Great Britain and
Europe. It has performed and collaborated with many leading early
music specialists, including Paul O’Dette, Julianne Baird,
Colin Tilney, Paul Agnew, Ann Monoyios, Suzie LeBlanc, The King’s
Noyse, La Nef and Les Sonneurs de Montréal. The Toronto Consort
has appeared with the Toronto Symphony under Andrew Davis, the Montreal
Symphony under Charles Dutoit, and the North German Radio Orchestra.
