See Tafelmusik on Sunday, June 30 at 1 pm.

Through its extensive national and international tours, its critically-acclaimed recordings  and TV broadcasts, its new media initiatives and growing web of community and artistic partnerships, Tafelmusik is one of the most prolific orchestras in the world.

Tafelmusik, Canada’s award-winning period instrument orchestra, was founded in 1979 and has long been renowned in North America and internationally for its distinct, exhilarating and soulful performances.  Under the outstanding leadership of Chief Artistic Advisor Jeanne Lamon, C.M., it has excelled equally in music ranging from the baroque and classical eras and beyond, including adventurous cross-cultural reinventions of baroque classics.  In the words of Gramophone, Tafelmusik is “one of the world’s top baroque orchestras.”

Based in Toronto, the renowned Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra has seventeen permanent members, all of whom are specialists in historical performance practice. Get to know the Tafelmusik musicians by clicking on their names for a biography and photo.

Elisa Citterio - Music Director/Violin

Jeanne Lamon - Music Director Emerita

Patricia Ahern - Violin

Thomas Georgi - Violin

Geneviève Gilardeau - Violin

Christopher Verrette - Violin

Julia Wedman - Violin

Cristina Zacharias - Violin

Patrick G. Jordan - Viola

Brandon Chui - Guest Viola 2017/18

Christina Mahler - Violoncello

Allen Whear - Violoncello

Alison Mackay - Double Bass

John Abberger - Oboe

Marco Cera - Oboe

Dominic Teresi - Bassoon

Charlotte Nediger - Harpsichord, Organ

Tafelmusik performs 50 concerts each year in Toronto at Trinity-St. Paul’s Centre, a historic church in the Annex neighbourhood of Toronto, performs community outreach concerts, tours extensively in Canada and throughout the world, and has a discography of 76 CDs that have garnered many national and international awards.

At the heart of Tafelmusik is a group of remarkably talented, enthusiastic and dynamic musicians, each of whom is a specialist in historical performance practice.