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25/26

Announcing Our Upcoming Season

Welcome to NMC’s 55th Season! This year, we invite you into worlds where sound moves through time, memory, and body. From surreal musical encounters to internationally celebrated works, every performance is designed to challenge and expand our understanding of what a musical performance can be.

We open with a portrait of South African composer Andile Khumalo, whose intricate music blends African traditions, European modernism, and the energy of Johannesburg. Other highlights include Mystery of Clock, a theatrical confluence of light, sound, and movement, Black Box Music with its giant-screen spectacle of a percussionist’s hands, a Boulez tribute, and the second of three premieres by NMC Composer-in-Residence Rashaan Allwood. In partnership with Tapestry Opera, we present Ana Sokolović’s exceptional work Love Songs, a meditation on love and loss.

The season closes with the third edition of our Future Resonance Festival, a national platform for cross-cultural creation, filled with performances, panel discussions, and youth workshops.

It is a season of musical depth and discovery, and of the joy found in connection between artists, audiences, and the sublime unknown.

We’ll save you a seat!

Forward in music,

Brian Current and Emily Schimp

55th Season

Artistic Direction
Brian Current

Director of Operations and Communications
Emily Schimp

Tickets

Artists, venue, and repertoire subject to change without notice.

Season Lineup

  • Tracing Hollow Traces: A Portrait of Andile Khumalo

    Oct.04.25

    St.George’s Grange Park
    30 Stephanie St.
    Toronto, ON
    M5T 1X6

    Step into the intricate sound world of Andile Khumalo, one of the most compelling composers of our time, as performed by members of Chicago’s outstanding…

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  • Mystery of Clock

    Nov.09.25

    The Fleck at Harbourfront Centre Theatre (formerly Harbourfront Centre Theatre)
    231 Queens Quay W.
    Toronto, ON
    M5J 2G8

    Co-produced by the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Music. What if our lives were measured not by the hours on a clock, but by the…

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  • Black Box Music

    Feb.21.26

    Betty Oliphant Theatre
    404 Jarvis St.
    Toronto, ON
    M4Y 2G6

    Experience a bold evening of invention as Simon Steen-Andersen’s internationally celebrated Black Box Music makes its long-awaited Toronto debut. With a percussionist’s gestures projected onto…

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  • Ana Sokolović’s Love Songs

    Mar.26.26

    Tapestry Opera
    Nancy & Ed Jackman Performance Centre
    877 Yonge St.
    Toronto, ON
    M4W 3M2

    A Tapestry Opera Production in partnership with New Music Concerts. What happens when you can’t let go of lost love? A heartbroken woman embarks on…

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  • Future Resonance Festival: The New Canon

    May.29.26

    The Studio at STACKT Market
    28 Bathurst St.
    Toronto, ON
    M5V 0C6

    In partnership with the University of Toronto Faculty of Music. Join us in the vibrant setting of STACKT Market, where we bring together leading voices…

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  • Future Resonance Festival: The Swara Sutras Ensemble in Concert

    May.30.26

    St.George's Grange Park
    30 Stephanie St.
    Toronto, ON
    M5T 1X6

    A powerful evening of performance that brings together artists from across cultures and musical traditions. Building on our 2024 Swara Sutras Goes Electric performance, featuring…

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  • Future Resonance Festival: SONAXIS

    May.31.26

    BMO Atrium at Evergreen Brick Works
    550 Bayview Ave
    Toronto, ON
    M4W 3X8

    This afternoon workshop will take place at the beautiful Evergreen Brick Works and will bring together youth orchestras from across Toronto’s many musical and cultural…

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