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Join us for a characteristically eclectic and entertaining season of
uplifting and life-affirming music-making.

Each concert looks at the power of music to elevate, comfort
and stimulate, and leads us to encounters with the mysteries and unknowns of life.

From Hildegard von Bingen to Queen...and everything in between....hope to see you there!

Confluence Concerts' season is generously sponsored by Ian Spears, Sarah Atkinson, Kit and Barbara Moore.

September 27 & 28, 2025 at 7:30 p.m.
Pre-show chat at 6:45 p.m.
Heliconian Hall, 35 Hazelton Avenue, Toronto

What is Divine? explores perspectives on the 'divine' in music. Musicians of differing backgrounds will select pieces that speak to them of reverence, spaciousness, sacredness; music that brings them inner stillness, spaciousness or peace.

The repertoire will range widely in genre, and we will hear stories of why these pieces mean so much to the performers.

Curated by Patricia O’Callaghan

Performers

Larry Beckwith (voice & violin), Máiri Demings (voice), Patricia O’Callaghan (voice), Gregory Oh (piano), Suba Sankaran (voice), Bijan Sepanji (violin), Maryem Tollar (voice), Waleed Abdulhamid

Patricia O'Callaghan is generously sponsored by Kit & Barbara Moore

November 7, 2025 at 7:30 p.m.
Pre-show chat at 6:45 p.m.
Heliconian Hall, 35 Hazelton Avenue, Toronto

Confluence Concerts is proud to present these exciting young performers in recital.Cellist Peter Eom and Japanese music collective the Hibiki Project are teaming up to present an eclectic concert that will include works by György Kurtág, Ana Sokolović, Francis Poulenc and more.

Guest Curated by Peter Eom and the Hibiki Project

Performers
Peter Eom (cello), The Hibiki Project: Sakurako Jayne Abe 阿部櫻子ジェーン(piano) Kento Stratford ストラットフォード賢人 (piano), Chihiro Yasufuku 安福知優 (voice)

December 3 & 4, 2025 at 7:30 p.m.
Pre-show chat at 6:45 p.m.
Heliconian Hall, 35 Hazelton Avenue, Toronto

Confluence Concerts welcomes celebrated Latvian singer Arta Jēkabsone to be a part of December’s concert ‘Winter Songs’. Curated by Andrew Downing, the concert will celebrate the beginning of winter with Andrew returning for a short time from Rīga, Latvia where he has been living for the year. Also featured on the program are Montréal’s Anna Atkinson and Confluence’s own Larry Beckwith and Teiya Kasahara, and Confluence regular Michael Spiroff. It will feature new and old arrangements for string quartet and piano, with the singers switching back and forth between their voices and their string instruments, in music by Arta, Anna, Henry Purcell, Jane Siberia and Sienna Dahlen, as well as some traditional Latvian winter songs and other traditional music.

Curated by Andrew Downing
Winter Nights is generously sponsored by David de Launay

Performers
Anna Atkinson (voice & viola), Larry Beckwith (voice & violin), Andrew Downing (double bass), Arta Jēkabsone (voice & violin), Teiya Kasahara 笠原貞野 (voice), Michael Spiroff (piano)

February 13 & 14, 2026 at 7:30 p.m.
Pre-show chat at 6:45 p.m.
Heliconian Hall, 35 Hazelton Avenue, Toronto

CENTURIES OF SOULS II explores spiritual and devotional vocal music through the ages, including a complete performance of the Missa Gaudeamus by Tomas Luis de Victoria. Featuring some of the most dynamic and engaging singers in Toronto. 

Curated by Larry Beckwith

Performers
Larry Beckwith, Katherine Hill, Suba Sankaran and others

March 9, 2026 at 7:30 p.m.
Pre-show chat at 6:45 p.m.
Heliconian Hall, 35 Hazelton Avenue, Toronto

Notes on Womanhood

Ahlam أحلام  was killed during the pandemic in Amman, Jordan in an honour killing. Her name translates to Dreams. Through song and arts of different mediums, this concert will thread her story along with other women's stories from different parts of the world, to explore individual and collective dreamings of women, juxtaposed with our society's often violent constructs of womanhood. What is womanhood in our current world, and how do we relate to this?

Curated by Confluence’s 2025-2026 Young Artistic Associate Natalie Fasheh.

PLEASE NOTE: This concert contains depictions of violence against women, including physical, sexual, emotional assault, and murder.

April 11, 2026 at 7:30 p.m.
April 12, 2026 at 3:00 p.m.
Pre-show chat 45 minutes prior to concert
Heliconian Hall, 35 Hazelton Avenue, Toronto

Mandala is a universal symbol meaning “circle” in Sanskrit. It is a spiritual and ritual symbol in Hinduism and Buddhism, representing the universe. The circular designs symbolizes that life is never ending and everything is connected. In this concert, and in every song spanning centuries and styles, you will experience a mandala within the music itself, be it as a singing round, a ground bass, an ostinato pattern, a recurring rhythmic cycle, or within the lyrical or poetic context.

The first iteration of this show was presented as a virtual offering in 2020, and we're thrilled to bring it back, live, in-person and on stage

Curated by Suba Sankaran

Performers
Larry Beckwith, Dylan Bell, Suba Sankaran, Trichy Sankaran, Bijan Sepanji and others

May 22 & 23, 2026 at 7:30 p.m.
Pre-show chat at 6:45 p.m.
Heliconian Hall, 35 Hazelton Avenue, Toronto

A neo-classical take on 20th and 21st centuries’ musical queens, divas and icons including epic songs made famous by Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Aretha Franklin, Amália Rodrigues, Tina Turner, Nina Simone, Mercedes Sosa, Freddy Mercury, Cher, Kate bush, k.d. lang, and more........with the Confluence Concerts team and special guests.

Curated by Teiya Kasahara 笠原貞野

Performers
The Confluence team and special guests