Performing
Tafelmusik performs over 50 concerts for its subscription season at its home venue in Trinity-St. Paul's United Church, a historic church in the Annex neighbourhood of Toronto, with selected performances at the George Weston Recital Hall in the Toronto Centre for the Arts. They have also collaborated with Opera Atelier.
Its annual Messiah and Sing Along Messiah have become very popular events during Toronto's Christmas season.
The orchestra tours about twelve weeks each year across Canada, the United States and Europe. It has also toured in the People's Republic of China, Hong Kong and Japan, as well as Israel and Greece.
Since 1993, Tafelmusik has been orchestra in residence at the German Klang und Raum Festival in the small village of Irsee in Bavaria.
The University of Toronto Faculty of Music has partnered with Tafelmusik and appointed the Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra as its Baroque Orchestra in Residence in 2004/05 until 2007/08.
In 2002 the Tafelmusik Baroque Summer Institute was created to provide pre-professional and professional musicians with a unique training programme in instrumental and vocal baroque performance practice. The institute is a two week program consisting of masterclasses, private lessons, choral and orchestral rehearsals and small ensemble work.
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