VENUE ACCESSIBILITY UPDATE | Please note that the venue elevator will be out of service during the workshop. For anyone planning to attend the ONGAKU workshop, accessing the performance space will require use of the steps on the front lawn. We apologize for the inconvenience, and we encourage anyone who planned on attending who would be unable to under these circumstances to join the livestream presentation of the event!
If you have any accessibility-related questions, please contact matthew.fava@cmccanada.org.
More about the ONGAKU Festival | ONGAKU is a three day festival and cultural exchange featuring performances, an educational workshop, and multiple world premieres, celebrating some of Japan and Canada’s most exciting voices in contemporary and experimental music (September 20-22nd, 2019, Toronto). TENMC performers will be joined by visiting guest artists Miyama McQueen-Tokita (bass koto), Ko Ishikawa (shō), Ami Yamasaki (voice) and Akiko Nakayama (projections/visual artist/’alive painting’). ONGAKU showcases works by Canadian composers Hiroki Tsurumoto, Juliet Palmer, Daryl Jamieson, and Kotoka Suzuki alongside works by Yuka Shibuya, Takeo Hoshiya, Toshiya Watanabe, Yoshiaki Onishi, Jo Kondo, Malinka Kishino, and Miya Masaoka.
ONGAKU will take place at 918 Bathurst and the CMC Chalmers Performance Space in Toronto, with satellite concerts presented by NUMUS Concerts and Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario (September 18-19, 2019).
ONGAKU is presented by Toronto's Thin Edge New Music Collective with generous support from: The Canada Council for the Arts, The Japan Foundation, Arraymusic, Dream Cymbals, Urbanvessel and the Canadian Music Centre.