The line up for 21C for 2026 has been announced. This is always one of the city’s best programmes of contemporary and related music. Details…

Friday, January 16, 2026 at 8pm in Temerty Theatre; The Happenstancers: Always Darkest … Dawn Always
…works by Kaija Saariaho, Josquin de Prez, Nicolas Gombert, Du Yun, Ana Sokolović, Arnold Schoenberg, Cristóbal de Morales andPhilip Glass.

Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 3pm in Koerner Hall; Gabriela Montero (piano)
…works by Stravinsky, Prokofiev and Rachmaninoff plus an improvised accompaniment to Charlie Chaplin’s The Immigrant.

Friday, January 23, 2026 at 8pm in Koerner Hall; Tony Yike Yang and Friends Celebrate Chinese New Year
… works by Vincent Ho, Xin Qiji, Alexander Scriabin, Nikolai Kapustin, Chen Gang, He Zhanhao and Huang Yijun

Saturday, January 24, 2026 at 10pm in Temerty Theatre; 21C Afterhours GGS New Music Ensemble
… works by Andile Khumalo, Alison Yun-Fei Jiang and Christopher Mayo. This concert is always a blast!

Sunday, January 25, 2026 at 2pm in Mazzoleni Concert Hall; New Worlds: Music of Golijov

Friday, May 8, 2026 at 8pm in Koerner Hall; Brad Mehldau with Kirill Gerstein (pianos)
… an exploratory concert of jazz, classical romanticism and pop

Full details are here… The Royal Conservatory 21C Music Festival