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February 18
Shanghai Silk String Quintet performs traditional Chinese music
Celebrating the Chinese New Year, Toronto Yangqin virtuoso Anna Guo performs in a reunion concert with her own Shanghai Silk String Quintet. The group performs traditional Chinese music in a concert recorded by Music Around Us at the new Chinese Cultural Centre in Scarborough
February 25
The Grieg from Fialkowska and Orchestra London
To open - Tafelmusik's bassoon player Domini Teresi plays Boismortier and Vivaldi, with colleagues.
Then Janina Fialkowska headlines in the Grieg Piano Concerto, with Orchestra London under the direction of the young Vancouver conductor Kenneth Hsieh
March 4
The premiere of Mystical Visitations by Christos Hatzis
"I have always been of the opinion that music knows no boundaries and categories," said Toronto composer Christos Hatzis when writing his new world music piece for singer Maryem Tollar. Music Around Us recorded the premiere of "Mystical Visitations," together with Ernie Tollar's World Wasla
March 11
Wiki Mozart
The world premiere of Waterloo composer Peter Hatch's take on the Mozart Oboe Quartet - a live quartet in dialogue with web-based selections, making "an entry on Mozart as he is known at the beginning of the 21st century."
James Mason, Julie Baumgartel, Patrick Jordan and Margaret Gay also play the Mozart
March 18
The Tokai and the Aviv play Mendelssohn's Octet
Two up and coming quartets - Toronto's Tokai and Israel's Aviv (with Toronto cellist Rachel Mercer) collaborate
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