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May 1, 2025
Presented by: Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts

One of the most internationally successful Finnish string quartets, Meta4 creates music that exists in a timeless dimension where folk, early, and contemporary blur their boundaries and engage in mutual interaction.

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May 6, 2025
Presented by: Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts

This program, by a signature Canadian ensemble and friend of the Isabel, features wonderful examples of baroque concertos.

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July 19, 2025
Presented by: Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts

Early Bird Concert - Celebrate 65 years of Canada’s brightest young musical talent with the National Youth Orchestra of Canada!

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October 19, 2025
Presented by: Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts

Family Series - Our Carmen is a newcomer to Canada, a feisty little girl, facing her first day in a Canadian school.

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November 8, 2025
Presented by: Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts

Five-time JUNO Award winner, Jane Bunnett has been nominated for three GRAMMY Awards, and numerous honours. With Maqueque, Bunnett has created a new and phenomenal ensemble in the world of jazz.

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November 12, 2025
Presented by: Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts

Conceived for two exceptional musicians—Aiyun Huang, percussionist, and Mark Fewer, violinist—this project examines how clocks respond to one another, to the passage of time, to stress, and to emotions.

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November 14, 2025
Presented by: Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts

The Elmer Iseler Singers, based in Toronto and led by Artistic Director Lydia Adams since 1998, mark their 47th Concert Season in 2025-2026.

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November 15, 2025
Presented by: Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Presented by: Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts

A painter now only known by the initials “I.S.” produced a small but significant body of work in seventeenth-century Northern Europe. For the first time, an international research and exhibition project has now shed more light on this mysterious artist, who has long been linked to the Dutch artist Rembrandt van Rijn (1606–1669). Renowned specialist in the history of dress, Dr. Marieke de Winkel discusses what clues can be found about the artist’s possible identity when carefully observing the clothing depicted in I.S.’s work.

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December 5, 2025
Presented by: Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts

Throughout Emily Fennell’s career as a singer, songwriter, and performer, the Christmas season has always been a time that unites her favourite themes—community, generational love, and family.

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January 18, 2026
Presented by: Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts

At twenty, in his first job as an organist and still barely beginning life as a composer, J.S. Bach got into such trouble that the only thing he could do was to walk away. J.S. Bach’s Long Walk in the Snow takes you on that trip: a 400km odyssey from Lübeck to the northern port city of Hamburg ...

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January 23, 2026
Presented by: Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts

Abby Stewart is a Kingston native, country singer, and songwriter. Abby’s career is soaring as she recently opened for Hunter Hayes on his Tattoo Your Name Canadian Tour, joining Dan and Shay.

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January 25, 2026
Presented by: Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts

This performance features violinist Chloe Kim and baritone Jonathon Adams, who will be joined by a stellar group of musicians in a program titled Out of the Deep. The program is inspired by the text of Bruhns’s lament, De Profundis (“Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O Lord…”).

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January 31, 2026
Presented by: Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts

Pianists Philip Chiu and Janelle Fung celebrate fifteen years of artistic collaboration, exploring the past, present, and future of the revolutionary /The Rite of Spring/ by Igor Stravinsky.

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February 5, 2026
Presented by: Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts

Founded in 2009 by Brad Wells, Roomful of Teeth was incubated at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art. As the world rapidly changes, the group is cultivating deeper relationships with technology, continuing to expand the capabilities of the human voice, aiming to be unburdened by physical limitations. Roomful of Teeth is known for new collaborative projects that focus on the stories of place, home, and community.

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February 13, 2026
Presented by: Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts

Founded in 1997 by Baroque scholar and harpsichordist Andrea Marcon, the Venice Baroque Orchestra is recognized as one of the premier ensembles in the world devoted to period instrument performance. This performance titled Vivaldi, Tartini, Veracini, Locatelli: A Bow’s Duel in Venice, features violinist Chouchane Siranossian, one of the leading virtuosos on the international Baroque scene today.

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February 15, 2026
Presented by: Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts

Genius! Stardom! Betrayal! Scandalous Romantics is a hilarious tabloid take on stories behind the most celebrated music stars across genres—and their spectacular lapses in judgement!

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February 27, 2026
Presented by: Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts

Rising star in vocal jazz and double JUNO Award winner, Dominique Fils-Aimé is a Montreal singer-songwriter who puts the history of African-American musical culture into the heart of her work.

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March 13, 2026
Presented by: Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts

Christina Foster, Savannah Shea and Anna Sudac grew up in very different families, each filled with music and laughter, and each producing a sensitive, perceptive, expressive daughter with excellent pitch and impeccable taste.

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