Performing[edit]

Tafelmusik performs over 50 concerts for its subscription season at Jeanne Lamon Hall in Trinity-St. Paul's United Church, a historic church in the Annex neighbourhood of Toronto, and at Koerner Hall, TELUS Centre for the Performing Arts, Royal Conservatory of Music. They also collaborate with Opera Atelier each season at the Elgin Theatre in downtown Toronto. Tafelmusik's annual Sing Along Messiah is traditionally held at Massey Hall.


The orchestra has toured in 350 cities in 32 countries,touring regularly across Canada, the United States, Europe, Asia and Australia.[5] From 1993 to 2011, Tafelmusik was orchestra in residence at the German Klang und Raum Festival in the small village of Irsee in Bavaria.


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, orchestral and choral rehearsals, chamber ensemble work, lectures and seminars, and baroque dance classes.


The orchestra also performs at times without sheet music and has offered insightful multimedia shows shining a light on various historical topics and making interesting connections. Notable projects include The Galileo Project, House of Dreams, Circle of Creation and Tales of Two Cities.[6][7][5]

9 JUNO Awards, most recently for Classical Album of the Year for Beethoven's Symphonies Nos. 5 and 6, and Children's Album Of The Year for Baroque Adventure: The Quest for Arundo Donax

The 1996 Echo Klassik Award for Best Orchestra of the Year (Germany's highest recording accolade)

The orchestra's recordings have also received the following awards:

Bach's Brandenburg Concertos

The complete symphonies of Beethoven (conducted by )

Bruno Weil

Vivaldi concertos, including most recently Vivaldi con amore

Handel's Music for the Royal Fireworks coupled with Concerti a duo cori Nos. 1-3

Works by

Salamone Rossi

Haydn symphonies (conducted by )

Bruno Weil

The orchestra has made over 80 recordings, DVDs and CDs. Some are to be found in Sony Classical's Vivarte series, Analekta and CBC Records. Tafelmusik launched the independent label Tafelmusik Media in January 2012.


The recordings include:

List of symphony orchestras

Canadian classical music

Music of Canada

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Colbert Artists Management Inc.

November 11, 1993

Interview with Jeanne Lamon