The 5th Annual Toronto Bach Festival will take place from May 29th to 31st.  All the details are at www.TorontoBachFestival.org. The big event is a performance of the B minor Mass on the 31st at 4pm at Eastminster United Church on the Danforth.  The line up of soloists is quite impressive; Hélène Brunet, Ellen McAteer, Daniel Taylor, Charles Daniels and Joel Allison.  They will be joined by a small choir and period instrument ensemble.  John Butt conducts.  In addition there’s a line up of recitals, concerts and lectures.

Tafelmusik have also announced their 2020/21 season.  Full details at tafelmusik.org.  Highlights include:

• Bach’s Christmas Oratorio (November 26th to December 1st 2020)
• The inevitable Beethoven.  In this case it’s the Fourth Symphony and the Triple Concerto (February 11th to 14th 2021)
• A Vivaldi concert with Krisztina Szabó (May 13th to 16th 2021)
• The return of the Haus Musik series