Find a welcoming home. Accordion studies at the University of Toronto are dedicated to exploring the full artistic possibilities of a remarkable instrument. Students join an intimate community of mutually supportive peers and teachers passionately engaged in a common musical interest.
DMA Instrumental Performance graduate Matti Pulkki, photo Alejandro Lorenzo.
Discover Your Potential
In programs at all levels, weekly accordion performance instruction is central to the study experience. Students gain personal attention from accordion musicians and scholars of international repute. An appreciation of music and accordion traditions, developments in instrument technology, and contemporary trends in accordion music-making inform all aspects of teaching and learning.
The U of T Accordion area is led by faculty who have been at the forefront of changing perceptions internationally of what the accordion can do. The University of Toronto was the first North American university to offer programs in this area and remains one of the few.
Michael Bridge & Joseph Macerollo
Massey Hall, downtown Toronto
Embrace a City of Opportunity
One of the world's great multicultural cities, Toronto offers Accordion students a remarkable diversity of musical experiences. The city is home to an astonishing range of classical, jazz, contemporary and world musical styles and genres in which the accordion can figure. Students have opportunities for solo and ensemble performance in venues throughout the Greater Toronto Area.
– Michael Bridge
