Historical Performance Overview
Reimagine the music of the past and add historical perspectives to your own practices as a musician. Historical Performance is a strongly applied, performance-focused study area primarily for graduate students. It provides expert, historically informed instruction in voice and period instruments.
Programs
Join Excitement
Entrants join a talented, enthusiastic cohort of peers who learn and play together in small classes and established early music ensembles for instruments and voice. They benefit from one-to-one mentoring from distinguished faculty, masterclasses led by renowned visiting artists, and collaboration with professional ensembles such as the Theatre of Early Music. Students have opportunities to push boundaries through collaboration with students studying contemporary composition.
Embrace Distinction
As a major research university of international distinction, the University of Toronto supports Historical Performance students with an extraordinary depth of resources and expertise. While the Faculty of Music has particular strengths in the music of Handel, Bach, and their contemporaries, its instruction and scholarship encompass the entire tradition of Western art music. Among the many benefits it provides students are exciting opportunities to perform with the university’s well-known Schola Cantorum Vocal Ensemble and Collegium Musicum Baroque Ensemble.
Experience Excellence
Studying Historical Performance at U of T places students at the centre of one of North America’s great cities of musical culture. Toronto is home to internationally recognized historical ensembles closely connected with the Faculty of Music. They include the Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, the Toronto Consort medieval-renaissance ensemble, and the Baroque Opera Atelier.
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Contact our Historical Performance Area Head for more information about our Historical Performance area and programs.