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Andrew Balfour’s Empire Étrange

Retelling Louis Riel’s story from an Indigenous perspective

Press Release: Mass for the Endangered

Soundstreams opens 2025/26 season with Mass for the Endangered:A powerful exploration of the natural world through music, featuring work bySarah Kirkland Snider, R. Murray Schafer, Olivier Messiaen, Arvo Pärt, Andrew… Read More

Introducing our free 2025/26 TD Encounters performance series!

SOUNDSTREAMS ANNOUNCES 2025/26 TD ENCOUNTERS PROGRAM Free concerts throughout the season featuring works by Andrew Balfour, Omar Daniel, Kalaisan Kalaichelvan, Maria-Eduarda Mendes Martins, Olivier Messiaen, Arvo Pärt, Corie Rose Soumah,… Read More

Celebrating RBC Bridges alumni from our 2024/25 season – Josema García Hormigo

Watch the performance from February 2025 featuring the Vancouver Chamber Choir performing Tres Cantes Flamencos by Josema García Hormigo Josema has also won First Prize and Gold Medal at the… Read More

Congratulations to our 2025/26 New Voices Curator Mentorship Program Winners, Anna Pidgorna & Haotian Yu!

Anna Pidgorna is a Ukrainian-Canadian composer, vocalist, multidisciplinary artist and producer with a sharp eye for society’s absurdities. Her work perches on the intersection between personal and political, fusing elements… Read More

Interview with Danika Lorèn

What drew you to this concert concept / how did it come together with Brad? I have had the pleasure of working on many projects with Brad, and I have… Read More

Review: Letters To God

Soundstreams’ Inventive Season Opener Letters To God Asks Big Questions With Sublime Music By Hye Won Cecilia Lee on October 25, 2024 The search for ways to understand the world… Read More

Soundstreams Presents: Keyed Up!

KEYED UP! FESTIVAL Variations on Goldberg Variations (Keyed Up! #1)Thu, Apr 18, 2024 – 7:30pmJANE MALLETT THEATRE J.S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations is one of the most famous works in the… Read More

Season-at-a-Glance – Announcing Soundstreams’ 2023/24 Season

Soundstreams aims to use the power of music to tell stories that resonate with our time and place. Music can bring us many rewards – inner peace, enlightenment, a moment… Read More

Colin Eatock’s Benedictus es: Alleluia

Much like other composers who have written Alleluias, Colin Eatock conceived of this piece as a kind of choral vocalise, and he has used the word as a vehicle to… Read More

Soundstreams presents STEVE REICH: Now & Then

Soundstreams presents STEVE REICH: Now & Thenfeaturing NEXUS, TorQ , SlowPitchSound and Ensemble Soundstreams and the Canadian Premiere of Reich/Richter for chamber orchestra and film February 8, 2023 // Toronto,… Read More

Season-at-a-Glance – Announcing Soundstreams’ 2022/23 Season

Our 2022-23 season explores provocative themes that resonate within our communities. It reflects a spectrum of genres ranging from unique instrumental music to soaring vocal and choral music, along with… Read More

The Guardian on Performances of Claude Vivier’s Music

From the article: “Unruly and utterly distinctive…harmonic soundscapes unlike anything else.” Read the full story here.

The Wall Street Journal: Book of Mountains & Seas is an exquisite masterpiece of suggestion

From the article: “Book of Mountains & Seas is an exquisite masterpiece of suggestion, a tapestry of sound and image that weaves itself into your consciousness and makes its point… Read More

Soundstreams Presents Noam Bierstone’s Percussion Theatre

Soundstreams presents Noam Bierstone’s Percussion Theatre “Bierstone demonstrates his percussive skills while delivering something that has the power to enthral for its duration.” – Vital Weekly June 9, 2022 //… Read More

Soundstreams Announces Beth Brown as New Executive Director

Soundstreams Announces New Additions to Team: Beth Brown is named New Executive Director; Coco Chen and Rebecca Cuddy elected to Board of Directors  Beth Brown. Photo by Dahlia Katz. October 25, 2021 (Toronto, ON) // Soundstreams… Read More

Soundstreams Announces World Premiere of Love Songs

October 18, 2021 // Toronto, ON – Lawrence Cherney, Founding Artistic Director, Soundstreams, today announced additional details about the company’s world premiere production of Love Songs, as part of the company’s 2021/22 season. The digital… Read More

Coco Chen & Rebecca Cuddy join the Soundstreams Board of Directors

September 29, 2021 – Soundstreams today announced the appointment of Coco Chen and Rebecca Cuddy as new members of the Soundstreams Board of Directors. Coco Chen began playing the violin… Read More

Soundstreams Announces Garden of Vanished Pleasures

September 1, 2021 // Toronto, ON – Lawrence Cherney, Founding Artistic Director, Soundstreams, today announced additional details about the company’s 2021/22 season premiere, Garden of Vanished Pleasures, produced as part of Soundstreams’ 2021 Digital… Read More

Soundstreams Announces 2021/22 Season – Renewal & Rebirth

WORLD PREMIERE WORK DEVISED BY MICHAEL GREYEYES, TIM ALBERY, LIEKE VAN DER VOORT, CHRISTOPHER MAYO & MORE  August 3, 2021 // Toronto, ON – Lawrence Cherney, Founding Artistic Director, Soundstreams, today… Read More

Soundstreams Announces the World Premiere of Quiet Time Curated by Robin Dann

July 13, 2021 // Toronto, ON – Soundstreams has announced details of the world broadcast premiere of Quiet Time, featuring new music from Canadian composers Robin Dann, Allison Cameron and Matthew Pencer. An audiovisual experience to be released on… Read More

Soundstreams Announces Emma Fowler as Interim Executive Director

Tuesday, April 6, 2021 (Toronto, ON): Soundstreams Board of Directors President Daniel Weinzweig has announced the appointment of Emma Fowler as the organization’s Interim Executive Director, as previous E.D. Menon Dwarka steps down to pursue new opportunities.   Emma joined Soundstreams in 2016 as Production and… Read More

MEDIA RELEASE: Soundstreams Announces the World Premiere of Electric Messiah 2020

TO BE BROADCAST THIS DECEMBER Friday November 27, 2020 // Toronto, ON – Soundstreams has announced its original reimagining of Handel’s masterpiece Messiah in a special broadcast event airing for free on December 17, 2020 at 8 PM EST. This… Read More