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Summer Music in the Garden 2011 | Toronto Music Garden
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Celebrating 12 years of free concerts
in a magical setting!

Curated for Harbourfront Centre by Tamara Bernstein.

Treat yourself to outstanding performances of classical and traditional music from around the world, as the popular Summer Music in the Garden returns with another superb season.

FREE concerts take place in the Toronto Music Garden most Thursdays at 7pm and Sundays at 4pm and are approximately one hour in length. Bench seating is available but limited, so feel free to bring a lawn chair – and don't forget your hat or umbrella and sunscreen as shade is also limited.

Concerts proceed weather permitting. Please call our info desk at 416-973-4000 for up-to-the-minute rain calls.

The annual Summer Music in the Garden series and tours are produced by Harbourfront Centre in partnership with City of Toronto Parks, Forestry and Recreation and Economic Development & Culture Divisions and the generous support of TD Bank Group. Thank you to Margaret & Jim Fleck, George & Katherine Dembroski, David Graham, KM Hunter Charitable Foundation, Michael & Sonja Koerner, Judy & Wil Matthews, Sandra & Jim Pitblado, Ben Saskin, and William & Phyllis Waters.

Interested in performing as part of Summer Music in the Garden? Click here.

Generously supported by
City of Toronto and TD

Bring the history of the Toronto Music Garden home!

Visit Toronto Parks and Trees online to order your copy of the book The Toronto Music Garden: Inspired by Bach, an in-depth guide by author and landscape designer Julie Moir Messervy to the creation of the three-acre public garden.

You can also purchase a copy at The Centre Shop.

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Subscribe now to our weekly What's On at Harbourfront Centre eNewsletter and we'll send you friendly reminders of upcoming performances all summer long.

Nagez, rameurs!Thursday, June 30 | 7pmQuebec's award-winning Genticorum gets toes tapping with passionate interpretations of traditional French-Canadian music.More >
'O solo il mio violoncello!Sunday, July 3 | 4pmThe brilliant, Montreal-based cellist Elinor Frey performs music by Italian cellist-composers from the Baroque, as well as powerful solos by Giovanni Sollima (b. 1962) and Canada's Chris Paul Harman.More >
MayaThursday July 7 | 7pmTabla virtuoso Subhajyoti Guha and violinist Jayadevan lead the South Asian Drum Ensemble in a concert that takes its inspiration from the Sanskrit word "maya," meaning "illusion." This performance is a co-production with Small World Music.More >
Labours of Love: Visionary works for string quartetThursday, July 14 | 7pmCanada's award-winning Cecilia String Quartet returns to the Music Garden with music by Mozart, Beethoven and Piazzolla.More >
"With joy and light encircled"Sunday, July 17 | 4pmRadiant and fiery chamber music from the German Baroque, performed by Kevin Skelton and friends, featuring intimate sacred cantatas and instrumental works by Telemann and Schütz. More >
Drumming on the BrightsideSunday, July 24 | 4pmTorQ Percussion Quartet takes you on a riveting rhythmic journey from American minimalism to the Middle East.More >
Soft-voiced heroThursday, July 28 | 7pmMusic for string trio and oboe by Mozart, Beethoven and Britten performed by Sharon Lee, Marcin Swoboda, Judith Manger and Caitlin Broms-Jacobs.More >
Reed Blowout in the Music GardenSunday, August 7 | 4pmTwo reed virtuosi – clarinetist Kornel Wolak and accordionist Joseph Macerollo – team up for an entertaining, sometimes dramatic, musical reunion of these two distant relatives of the reed family.More >
Music from the Back RowSunday, August 14 | 4pmThe four outstanding brass players in Quartico step forward to perform great music written for low brass quartet.More >
Mountain High, River Flow...(without end)Thursday, August 18 | 7pmVancouver's Juno-nominated Orchid Ensemble performs repertoire inspired by mountains and rivers.More >
The Root is OneSunday August 21 | 4pmThe Shiraz Ensemble takes Persian Classical music in new directions, exploring the roots of ancient melodic modes, and rhythms found in different regions of Iran and in ancient Persian poetry.More >
Hibiki: Echoes of the Past; Reverberations for HopeThursday, August 25 | 7pmToronto's exhilarating taiko ensemble Nagata Shachu makes its much-anticipated annual appearance.More >
Concert spirituelSunday, August 28 | 4pmThe Windermere String Quartet returns with repertoire from the classical and early romantic period, on period instruments. More >
Under a Starry SkyThursday, September 1 | 7pmChanteuse extraordinaire Beth Anne Cole sings songs of Night and Nature composed by herself, Kurt Weil, Gilles Vigneaul, Nino Rota and others. With Rob MacDonal, guitar.More >
Bach at DuskThursday, September 8 | 7pmThe superb baroque cellist Kate Bennett Haynes inaugurates a cycle of Bach's Six Suites for Solo Cello with the Suite No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007 – the piece that inspired the Music Garden.More >
BelongingSunday, September 11 | 4pmA concert featuring Toronto's Ton Beau String Quartet and accordionist Ina Henning.More >
I canti a Maria: Music for the MadonnaSunday, September 18 | 4pmThe Vesuvius Ensemble makes its Music Garden debut, and closes the 2011 season, with passionate traditional songs to the Madonna.More >
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