“After a 100-plus-concert season with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, [Concertmaster Jonathan Crow] is diving straight into the 58-concert Toronto Summer Music Festival, running July 11 to August 3,” writes John Terauds in Friday’s (7/5) Toronto Star (Canada). “Crow took over as the festival’s artistic director in 2017. Not only is he responsible for the programming, he performs in some of the concerts. He is also in charge of matching up mentors and coaches for the academy that runs in parallel with the festival…. Crow had never been an artistic director before. He had helped curate small concert series, but 58 concerts [is] ‘a puzzle that you have to try and put together,’ he explains…. Toronto Summer Music is headquartered at University of Toronto [where] the majority of the Walter Hall concerts are now regularly sold out, or close…. Among the concerts Crow himself is performing in is one by the New Orford String Quartet on July 12 … [In coming years] Crow and the festival’s board are working on … including more of the academy fellows in the mainstage programming…. ‘They are all great artists. Some of them happen to be 20, some are 60,’ says Crow.”
Posted July 10, 2019
