Composer/percussionist Germaine Liu is one of Toronto’s most fascinating musicians. Whether coaxing rhythms from a drum kit, a bag of marbles or coffee mugs, her percussive sound world is wide open. Still Life is her most ambitious project to date: a 45-minute composition/sounding installation composed of a collection of objects found in Toronto activated by seven players (Syreeta Hector, Susan...

2017 Polaris Prize winner Lido Pimienta debuts her much-anticipated follow up album Miss Colombia in a totally unique way. For this special one-off performance intended especially for the Music Gallery, Pimienta is accompanied by horns, brass and a six-piece choir. Over three years in the making Miss Colombia explores the simultaneous closeness and distance of Pimienta’s relationship to her hom...

Moderated by David Dacks, with Michael Rancic (NOW Magazine), Jessica Cho aka Korea Town Acid, Amanda Smith (FAWN Chamber Creative) and Rich Brown (Rinsethealgorithm, Jazzcast.ca). “Creative Music” is a term from the 1960s that has loomed large in the Music Gallery’s history to describe individuals striving to create original forms of music. What does creative music mean now and going forward i...

The exciting debut of an intergenerational collaboration between one of Toronto’s most iconic reggae elders and a grassroots electronic adventurer. New Chance, aka Victoria Cheong and Willi Williams (writer of “Armagideon Time” as covered by the Clash) create a new sound for your system with a project that grows from the roots forward into the future. Jamaica’s cultural has had a profound impac...

Moderated by Del Cowie, with Cheryl Duvall (Thin Edge New Music Collective), Ange Loft (Yamantaka//Sonic Titan), Chelsea McBride (Socialist Night School) and Keysha Fresh (The Sorority). A discussion that explores the joy and pain of keeping collectives and larger ensembles together in the long term.

Sarah Hennies, a composer/percussionist based in Ithaca, NY whose work is concerned with a variety of musical, sociopolitical, and psychological issues including queer & trans identity, love, intimacy and psychoacoustics. Following the worldwide acclaim of her documentary of trans peoples’ voices Contralto (2017) Hennies brings The Reinvention of Romance (2018) an epic 90-minute work for cello ...