2018 - 2019 Season

Sunday, November 11, 4:00 p.m.

Polish Cultural Center, 4300 Cawthra Road, Mississauga

DROGA DO NIEPODLEGLEJ - PATH TO INDEPENDENCE

Celebration of 100 years of independent Poland

            Polish music and poetry from Renaissance to contemporary          

                        Soloists:        Julia Frodyma, soprano

                                               Wiktoria Korczyńska-Kogan, piano

                                               Katarzyna Konstanty, soprano

                                               Kinga Mitrowska, soprano

                                               Anna Wójcik, soprano

                                               Jan Vaculik, baritone

                        Young soloists: Adam Przyjemski, vocal

                                                   Michał Dziewiesz, vocal

                                                  Anna Leszońska, soprano

                        Dance Duo:    Faye Lopez and Bryant Lopez

                                 
                        Recitation:      Michał Kozłowski, Aleksandra Dąbrowska

                        Accompaniment: Bartosz Hadała, piano; Paul Pacanowski, clarinet

                        MC: Krzysztof Jasiński

                        Artistic Director: Dorota Paszuk

                        Stage Director: Maria Nowotarska

                        Music Director: Maciej Jaskiewicz

 

                        LECHOWIA, Polish Canadian Dance Company

                                    Richard Schmidt, artistic director

                        NOVI SINGERS TORONTO

                        TORONTO SINFONIETTA

Produced by St. Maksymilian Kolbe Polish Parish, Mississauga

Sunday, December 2, 4:00 p.m.

Calvin Presbyterian Church, 26 Delisle Avenue, Toronto

THE GLOW OF CHRISTMAS

  Ola Gjeilo                   Sunrise Mass

            Morten Lauridsen       Sure on this Shining Night    

            Bob Chilcott               Little Jazz Mass

                        Christina Haldane, soprano

                        OAKHAM HOUSE CHOIR at Ryerson University

                        RYERSON CONCERT BAND

                        TORONTO SINFONIETTA Strings

Produced by Oakham House Choir

Sunday, January 6, 4:00 p.m.

Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic Church, 3055 Bloor St. West, Etobicoke

BOG SIE RODZI - CHRIST IS BORN

  Polish Carols with Strings and Jazz Ensemble

                        arr. Bartosz Hadala, Mariusz Michalak, Maciej Jaskiewicz

            Carol Sing Along

            Contemporary Polish Carols

                        Anna Wojcik, soprano

                        Matylda Blakala, vocal

                        Karolina Podolak, soprano

                        Bartosz Hadala with Jazz Ensemble

                        RADOSC-JOY Vocal Dance Group

                        NOVI SINGERS TORONTO

                        TORONTO SINFONIETTA Strings

                        Matthew Jaskiewicz, music director

Produced by Novi Singers Toronto

Sunday, March 31, 4:00 p.m.

Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic Church, 3055 Bloor St. West, Etobicoke

PASSION AND RESURRECTION

Lent Concert commemorating Katyn Massacre of Polish officers in April 1940

            W.A. Mozart                          Requiem

            Marci Jozef Zebrowski          Magnificat                             

                        Jennifer Taverner, soprano

                        Michele Bogdanowicz, mezzo-soprano

                        Elias Theocharidis, tenor      

                        Clarence Frazer, baritone

                        CHAMBER CHOIR

                                    Zachodniopomorskiego Uniwersytetu Technologicznego

                                    Iwona Wisniewska-Salamon, music director

                        NOVI SINGERS TORONTO

                                    with members of Oakham House Choir at Ryerson University

                        TORONTO SINFONIETTA

                        Matthew Jaskiewicz, music director

Produced by Novi Singers Toronto with the support of the Polish Consulate General in Toronto

Sunday, April 28, 4:00 p.m.

St. Andrew’s Church, 73 Simcoe Street, Toronto

FROM TRAGEDY TO COMEDY - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

            – Requiem                              

            – The Magic Flute (large excerpts with narration)

                        Jennifer Krabbe, soprano                 

                        Zachary Rioux, tenor

                        Michele Bogdanowicz, mezzo-soprano

                        Justin Welsh, baritone

                        Iain Scott – Master of Ceremony

                        OAKHAM HOUSE CHOIR

                        NOVI SINGERS TORONTO

                        TORONTO SINFONIETTA

                        Matthew Jaskiewicz, music director

Produced by Oakham House Choir

Saturday, July 27, 2019 8:00 p.m.

Polish Cultural Center, 4300 Cawthra Road, Mississauga

TORONTO SPIEWA (NIE)ZAKAZANE PIOSENKI - TORONTO SINGS (NOT)FORBIDDEN SONGS

Kanadyjska Polonia czci pamiec uczestnikow

Powstania Warszawskiego w 75 rocznice tragicznego zrywu Polakow w sierpniu 1944

Commemoration of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising

            Piosenki warszawskich powstancow i piesni patriotycze

            Poezja Warszawskich powstancow

            Songs and poetry by the members of Warsaw Uprising

                        Julia Grzeskowiak, Julia Frodyma, Anna Leszonska

                        Pawel Szczepanek, Adam Przyjemski

                        MC: Krzysztof Ziemiec, Poland

                        Chor Polonijny “ZRYW”

                        ZESPOL INSTRUMENTALNY Bartosza Hadaly

                        TORONTO SINFONIETTA Strings

                        Music directors: Bartosz Hadala, Maciej Jaskiewicz, Mariusz Michalak

                        Stage director: Wojtek Gawenda

Produced by St.Stanislaus Polish Parish in Toronto