Syrinx Concerts Toronto

Syrinx Concerts Toronto Concert Series highlighting Canadian composers with performances by Canada's most dynamic musicians

A huge thank you to the Pamina String Quartet and guest pianist Sheng Cai, for making our final concert of the 2026 Spri...
06/03/2026

A huge thank you to the Pamina String Quartet and guest pianist Sheng Cai, for making our final concert of the 2026 Spring season so memorable! It was a great afternoon, wonderful performances and a stellar program.
Please stay tuned as we up update our website in the coming days with information about our upcoming 2027 season.

Please join us for the last concert of our 2026 season!!!On Sunday May 31, 3pm, Syrinx Concerts presents the Pamina St...
05/29/2026

Please join us for the last concert of our 2026 season!!!

On Sunday May 31, 3pm, Syrinx Concerts presents
the Pamina String Quartet with Sheng Cai, piano

It's going to be a wonderful afternoon.
Extraordinary musicians and a gorgeous program. What a finale!

The Pamina String Quartet is made up of four members of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra who love to play great chamber music alongside their work playing great symphonic works. They have collaborated together for many years in various combinations performing for concert series throughout Toronto including the TSO Chamber Soloists, Opera 5, and The Five Small Concerts.

Recently nominated for Canada's prestigious "2025 Oskar Morawetz Award for Excellence in Music Performance" Canadian pianist Sheng Cai has been delighting audience and critics across four continents with his electrifying performing charisma and individual personality.

Featured Canadian composer Srul Irving Glick was one of Canada's most prominent and prolific composers. In 1992, Mr. Glick received a Governor General's medal "for his contribution to Canadian culture". In 1994, Glick was appointed a Member of the Order of Canada for his "outstanding achievement, service to Canada and to humanity at large".

PROGRAM:

Dvorak: Piano Quintet #2 in A+ Op.81
*Glick: Suite Hebraique #3 for String Quartet
Mozart: String Quartet in Eflat K.428

Heliconian Hall, 35 Hazelton Avenue, Toronto

So pleased to announce that this Sunday May 31, the featured Canadian composer will be Srul Irving Glick.Srul Irving Gli...
05/26/2026

So pleased to announce that this Sunday May 31, the featured Canadian composer will be Srul Irving Glick.

Srul Irving Glick was one of Canada's most prominent and prolific composers, having written in most major forms including chamber, oratorio, orchestral, vocal and choral. In 2000, Glick received the extraordinary Yuval Award, presented by The Cantor's Assembly of America, for his "lifelong commitment to the composition of music that captures the heart and touches the soul". In 1992, Mr. Glick received a Governor General's medal "for his contribution to Canadian culture". In 1994, Glick was appointed a Member of the Order of Canada for his "outstanding achievement, service to Canada and to humanity at large".

Glick received his Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees in composition and theory at the University of Toronto. He continued his studies in Aspen and then in Paris with such masters as Darius Milhaud, Louis Saguer and Max Deutsch. Glick recognized the encouragement by Saguer and Deutsch to find and believe in his own voice. He commented that Deutsch sympathized with him and encouraged him to write what was natural to him and to be unconcerned with pressures to write serial or avant-garde music.

After completing his studies, and all the while composing, Srul Irving Glick joined the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) in 1962 where he worked as classical music producer until 1986. His involvement at the CBC in the field of production, recordings and programming won him seven Grand Prix du Disque and a Juno Award.


On Sunday May 31, 3pm.
Syrinx Concerts presents the Pamina String Quartet
with Sheng Cai, piano
PROGRAM:

Dvorak: Piano Quintet #2 in A+ Op.81
Glick: Suite Hebraique #3 for String Quartet
Mozart: String Quartet in Eflat K.428

Heliconian Hall, 35 Hazelton Avenue, Toronto

On Sunday May 31, at 3pm, Syrinx Concerts presents the Pamina String Quartet with Sheng Cai, pianoSheng Cai:Recently no...
05/22/2026

On Sunday May 31, at 3pm, Syrinx Concerts presents the
Pamina String Quartet with Sheng Cai, piano

Sheng Cai:

Recently nominated for Canada's prestigious "2025 Oskar Morawetz Award for Excellence in Music Performance" Canadian pianist Sheng Cai has been delighting audience and critics across four continents with his electrifying performing charisma and individual personality. Recently described as "with seemingly effortlessness and performing with gusto and a loving attention to detail" by Buffalo Hives in New York and as "having the inner passion paired with Rubinstein's nonchalance "by Thuringer Allgemeine in Germany, Sheng Cai has gained praises worldwide for his performances of major keyboard works of the past four centuries. With a number of prizes and awards, he continues to push the boundaries in interpreting both the established and rarities of the piano literature.

Since winning top prizes at Concours OSM (Montreal Symphony Competition/concours orchestre symphonique de Montréal) and Toronto Symphony's piano Competition at fifteen years old, Sheng Cai has performed a broad spectrum of over 35 different piano concertos from Mozart to 21st century living composers with invitations to more 60 orchestras worldwide as guest soloist.

In solo recitals, Sheng Cai has been presented at many prestigious venues in North America and Europe, such as Steinway Hall in New York, Jordan Hall in Boston, and Chicago's International Music Centre.

Sheng Cai is a passionate recording artist, his first recording was a CD of works by Mozart and Bohuslav Martinu for Canadian Broadcast Company. His most recent Liszt, Grieg and Rachmaninoff discs on ATMA classique label gained international acclaim from the American Record Guide, Classics Today, the International Music Web review in the UK, the Wholenote Magazine in Canada and the Fanfare Music Magazine in the US.

PROGRAM:

Dvorak: Piano Quintet #2 in A+ Op.81
Glick: Suite Hebraique #3 for String Quartet
Mozart: String Quartet in Eflat K.428

Sunday May 31, 3pm.
Heliconian Hall, 35 Hazelton Avenue, Toronto

Meet the cellist and violist of the Pamina String Quartet:Roberta Janzen and Theresa Rudolph Theresa Rudolph joined the ...
05/21/2026

Meet the cellist and violist of the Pamina String Quartet:
Roberta Janzen and Theresa Rudolph

Theresa Rudolph joined the Toronto Symphony Orchestra as Assistant Principal Viola in 2011, and is currently Acting Associate Principal Viola. She is also a member of the Santa Fe Opera Orchestra, and began her orchestral career as the youngest member of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. A passionate chamber musician and recitalist, Theresa has performed at festivals across North America, and appears regularly as a member of the TSO Chamber Soloists.
Theresa was raised in a musical household in Vancouver, BC. She studied at the Vancouver Academy of Music as a student of Gerald Stanick, who inspired her to pursue her passion for the rich, dark sound of the viola. The recipient of a grant from the Canada Council for the Arts, she then obtained her Bachelor of Music Degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music, studying with Robert Vernon. While at CIM, she toured and recorded with the Musicians from Ravinia’s Steans Music Institute, was a prizewinner at the prestigious Fischoff Competition, and performed in Carnegie Hall.

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Winnipeg-born cellist Roberta Janzen joined the Toronto Symphony Orchestra in 2004. A former member of the Canadian Opera Company orchestra, she has also performed as guest principal cellist with Les Violons du Roy, the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. She has appeared at festivals throughout North America, including Toronto Summer Music Festival, Elora Festival, Tanglewood, Ravinia Steans Institute, Rutgers Summerfest, and the Banff Festival of the Arts.
Roberta is passionate about chamber music. A founding member of the LARK Ensemble, she is a frequent guest artist in chamber music series throughout Toronto, including the Free Concert Series at the Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre, Aga Khan Pocket Performances, Music Mondays, Hart House and the Arts and Letters Club. She is a keen proponent of new music and has performed with TSO New Creations Players, Soundstreams, and Continuum. Roberta also enjoys presenting classical music in less conventional venues, from the intimate living rooms of Pocket Concerts to the stage of the Dakota Tavern.

PROGRAM:

Dvorak: Piano Quintet #2 in A+ Op.81
Glick: Suite Hebraique #3 for String Quartet
Mozart: String Quartet in Eflat K.428

On Sunday May 31, 3pm.
Syrinx Concerts presents the Pamina String Quartet
with Sheng Cai, piano

Heliconian Hall, 35 Hazelton Avenue, Toronto
Please visit SyrinxConcerts.ca for more information.

Introducing the violinists from the Pamina String Quartet:Amanda Goodburn & Eri Hattori Kosaka South African–born violin...
05/20/2026

Introducing the violinists from the Pamina String Quartet:
Amanda Goodburn & Eri Hattori Kosaka

South African–born violinist Amanda Goodburn is a founding member of the Tokai String Quartet and a member of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra.
She has collaborated as a chamber musician with the Art of Time Ensemble, ArrayMusic, and the ARC Ensemble; and has performed at the Ottawa Chamber Music Festival, Toronto Summer Music Festival, and the Ahuntsic en Fugue and Concerts aux Îles du Bic festivals in Québec. She has also performed as soloist with the Toronto Symphony, Cape Town Philharmonic,and KwaZulu-Natal Philharmonic orchestras. Amanda completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Stellenbosch, and holds a master’s degree from the University of Toronto and diplomas from the Royal Northern College of Music in England, where she was an Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music (ABRSM) scholar.


Eri Hattori Kosaka joined the Toronto Symphony Orchestra in 2012 and became Principal Second Violin in 2022. Prior to her current position, Ms. Kosaka was a member of the Kansas City Symphony for two seasons and a violin fellow at the New World Symphony in Miami Beach, where she was a rotating Concertmaster.
Growing up in Tokyo, Japan, Ms. Kosaka started playing the violin at age six. She was awarded a scholarship from the Yamaha Foundation to study abroad. Subsequently, Ms. Kosaka graduated with a Master of Music and Graduate Diploma from the New England Conservatory where she studied with Miriam Fried. She has participated in festivals and music academies across the U.S., Japan, and Europe, including the Aspen Music Festival and Sarasota Music Festival in the U.S., Pacific Music Festival in Japan, Schleswig-Holstein Festival in Germany, Salzburg Music Academy in Austria, and Courchevel International Music Academy in France.
As a soloist, she has performed with the San Diego Symphony, Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra, and Central Aichi Orchestra, and has won awards at the Japan Mozart Competition, New Classic Audition in Japan, and the All-Japan Student Music Competition.

PROGRAM:

Dvorak: Piano Quintet #2 in A+ Op.81
Glick: Suite Hebraique #3 for String Quartet
Mozart: String Quartet in Eflat K.428

On Sunday May 31, 3pm
Syrinx Concerts presents the Pamina String Quartet
with Sheng Cai, piano

Heliconian Hall, 35 Hazelton Avenue, Toronto

The grand finale of our 2026 concert season!On May 31, Syrinx welcomes the Pamina String Quartet:violinists Amanda Goodb...
05/18/2026

The grand finale of our 2026 concert season!

On May 31, Syrinx welcomes the Pamina String Quartet:
violinists Amanda Goodburn & Eri Hattori Kosaka; violist Theresa Rudolph; cellist Roberta Janzen

with Sheng Cai, piano

The Pamina String Quartet is made up of four members of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra who love to play great chamber music alongside their work playing great symphonic works. They have collaborated together for many years in various combinations performing for concert series throughout Toronto including the TSO Chamber Soloists, Opera 5, and The Five Small Concerts.

Canadian pianist Sheng Cai was recently nominated for Canada's prestigious "2025 Oskar Morawetz Award for Excellence in Music Performance." To date, he has gained praises worldwide and a number of prizes and awards for his performances of major keyboard works of the past four centuries.

PROGRAM:

Dvorak: Piano Quintet #2 in A+ Op.81
Glick: Suite Hebraique #3 for String Quartet
Mozart: String Quartet in Eflat K.428


Please visit SyrinxConcerts.ca for more information.
All concerts at 3pm.
Heliconian Hall, 35 Hazelton Avenue, Toronto

Syrinx was so lucky to have the opportunity to present the Quatuor Magenta (Ida Derbesse - violin, Elena Watson-Perry - ...
05/05/2026

Syrinx was so lucky to have the opportunity to present the Quatuor Magenta (Ida Derbesse - violin, Elena Watson-Perry - violin, Claire Pass-Lanneau - viola, Fiona Robson - cello) and guest pianist Maxime Alberti. I'm sure the sold out audience felt the same way! Thank you to the wonderful musicians for making last Sunday such a memorable afternoon. Your performances, program and interpretation was a gift to enjoy.

Please join us this Sunday May 3!Quatuor Magenta"Quatuor Magenta was born and raised in Paris, France, but the musical i...
05/01/2026

Please join us this Sunday May 3!

Quatuor Magenta

"Quatuor Magenta was born and raised in Paris, France, but the musical identity of our string quartet is a collage of the different cultures, educations, preferences and passions of its four members. This eclectic program captures that kaleidoscopic identity in music: works by Polish composer Grażyna Bacewicz and Canadian composer Dinuk Wijeratne reflecting the multicultural roots of our members; a chef d’oeuvreby F***y Mendelssohn, one of the first female composers to enter the standard classical cannon, whose music we are especially proud to share; and our first commission, a piece by Raphaël Merlin, brilliant composer, founding cellist of the Quatuor Ébène and one of our most important musical mentors."

Special guest Maxime Alberti, piano

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PROGRAM
Two Pop Songs on Antique Poems - Dinuk Wijeratne* (b. 1978)
String Quartet No. 5 - Grażyna Bacewicz (1909-1969)
La Jeune Fille - Raphaël Merlin (b. 1982)
Piano Quintet in F Minor, Op. 34 - Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)


This Sunday on May 3, Syrinx welcomes

Quatuor Magenta
Ida Derbesse - violin
Elena Watson-Perry - violin
Claire Pass-Lanneau - viola
Fiona Robson - cello

with guest Maxime Alberti, piano

Please visit SyrinxConcerts.ca for more information.
All concerts at 3pm.
Heliconian Hall, 35 Hazelton Avenue, Toronto

Welcome back pianist Maxime Alberti!Last year, the Syrinx audience was introduced to French pianist Maxime Alberti.His p...
04/29/2026

Welcome back pianist Maxime Alberti!

Last year, the Syrinx audience was introduced to French pianist Maxime Alberti.
His performance on our stage was sensational and we are thrilled to have him back as a guest pianist with the Quartuor Magenta.

Originally from Lyon, Maxime Alberti continued his musical training at the Geneva University of Music in the class of Sylviane Deferne, where he earned a Master's degree in solo performance with distinction. He then joined the École Normale Alfred Cortot in Paris to study with Rena Shereshevskaïa, and in 2020 received the unanimously awarded Diploma of Concert Performer. In 2022, he returned to Geneva to further develop his pedagogical approach with Cédric Pescia, obtaining a second Master's degree dedicated to teaching.

Curious, eclectic, and deeply committed to his artistic exploration, Maxime Alberti enriches his practice through encounters and travel. He has honed his skills under renowned pianists such as Dominique Merlet and Anne Quéffelec, and has received support from the Royaumont and Villecroze Foundations. His sensitivity, attentiveness, and spontaneity are fully expressed on stage, whether in solo recitals or chamber music. His career is rapidly gaining international recognition: he gave his first recital in the United States in the "Pink Room" of the French Consulate in New York, won the Vera-Lautard Competition in Yekaterinburg, Russia, and performed in China in 2024 as part of a tour with the Trio Ernest, in prestigious venues such as the Guotai Art Center in Chongqing and the Oriental Art Center in Shanghai.

A generous pianist, open to repertoires as well as collaborations, Maxime Alberti is building a career at the crossroads of classical excellence and creative freedom.

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PROGRAM
Two Pop Songs on Antique Poems - Dinuk Wijeratne* (b. 1978)
String Quartet No. 5 - Grażyna Bacewicz (1909-1969)
La Jeune Fille - Raphaël Merlin (b. 1982)
Piano Quintet in F Minor, Op. 34 - Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)


On May 3, Syrinx welcomes

Quatuor Magenta
Ida Derbesse - violin
Elena Watson-Perry - violin
Claire Pass-Lanneau - viola
Fiona Robson - cello

with guest Maxime Alberti, piano

All concerts at 3pm.
Heliconian Hall, 35 Hazelton Avenue, Toronto

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