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Upcoming:
Angel’s Bone; Loose Tea - re:naissance Theater - Sound The Alarm - Array Music March 22, 23, 24 2024.
“Conductor Joshua Slater struck a stern pose on the podium, skillfully marshalling the combined forces of a double-sized small orchestra courtesy Vancouver’s Turning Point Ensemble and Array Music, Toronto — another instance of a robust TransCanada collaboration at work. The quality of playing was extraordinary.” -operagoto.com
St. Paul’s Bloor Street, Toronto, Ongoing: watch
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Recent:
The True North Brass and Choir of St. Paul’s Bloor Street, with special guests Jordan John and Susan Tsagkaris host the Toronto Star Santa Claus Fund Annual Concert. Nov. 25 2023, 3pm: video online soon!
Bach Vespers at Church of the Redeemer: BWV 4, Christ lag in Todesbanden May 28, 7PM; 162 Bloor Street W, Toronto
The True North Brass and Choir of St. Paul’s Bloor Street: Music for Holy Week and Easter. Sunday April 2 10:50am; Thursday April 6 7:00pm; Friday April 7 11:00am; Sunday April 9 10:45am, all at St. Paul’s Bloor Street. Music of Wood, Bairstow, Händel, Willan, Bach, Corigliano, Casals, Bruckner, with new brass arrangements by Joshua Anand Slater.
Bluebeard’s Castle, March 29, 31, April 1 2023. Against the Grain Theatre, Toronto. Assisting.
2022
Highlands Opera: Canadian Stories - Inertia and The Museum of The Lost and Found - August 18 & 20, 2022, Haliburton, ON - Conductor
BIPOC Creator’s Lab August 2022 - Loose Tea Music Theatre - Music Director
Orchestral Workshop - Music Director: Inertia by Ashley Au & Christene Brown | Highlands Opera Studio - Loose Tea Music Theatre July 2022
April 17 2022: Easter Sunday with Katelyn Emerson and the Bloor Street Brass
April 10 2022: Palm Sunday, with the Bloor Street Brass and Peter Krasinski
2021
Music Director, Loose Tea Music Theatre CLDP, Toronto, August 3-14, 2021
April-May-June 2021 with The Shrewsbury Chorale: Examining works written in previous epidemics, pandemics and plagues, from the 1563 London Plague to the AIDS epidemic. Works of Corigliano, Weelkes, Clarke, Wesley, Adamo, Menotti.
May 2021: Spring Forward (Get Vaccinated)! Presented virtually, works of Thompson, Morley
June 2021: Plague Spring (Get Outside!) Presented outdoors
2020
14 October 2020: Interchurch Center, 61 Claremont Ave, Manhattan; excerpts from black & brown 1; a fujit production. Watch online!
18 October 2020: Riverside Church, Manhattan: black & brown 1 redux. Watch online!
Short concert offered virtually: 6 December 2020: Red Bank, New Jersey 3pm: Carolling for Christmas, a concert with The Shrewsbury Chorale and special guests! (live concert alas cancelled)
Cancelled: 19 April 2020: St George by the River, Rumson, NJ 3pm: Spring Dreams, a concert with The Shrewsbury Chorale.
2019
8 December 2019: St George by the River, Rumson, NJ 3pm: Christmas Past, a concert of works for organ and choir including the Honegger Christmas Cantata, Vaughan Williams Fantasia on Christmas Carols, and more. With The Shrewsbury Chorale.
26 July 2019: black and brown - a salon hang. Recital with James Dargan, baritone, works of F&F Mendelssohn, A&G Mahler, R&C Schumann, Johannes Brahms. 8PM, 1 E 29th St.
April 28, 2019, 3p: Guest Conductor, The Shrewsbury Chorale. Mercy, Mercy, Mercy; Vivaldi Magnificat, Britten Cantata Misericordium, Händel Foundling Hospital Anthem.
Organist, Marble Collegiate Church, Friday, 19 April, 1130a. Mozart Requiem.
Guest Conductor and Organist, Christ Church Cathedral, Montréal, Sunday, 27 January. Broadcast Choral Evensong: works of Howells, Willan, Purcell, Bach.
2018
Conductor-in-Residence, St. Thomas Cathedral, Cathedral and John Connon School, Mumbai, India:
Friday, Sept. 28, 7p: organ recital and demonstration, St. Thomas Cathedral; works of Muffat, Bach, Brahms, Widor
Saturday, Sept. 29, 11:30a: The Cathedral and John Connon School Choir concert, Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya
Tuesday, Oct. 2, 6p: The Cathedral Festival Chorus: 300 Years of Sacred Music, St. Thomas Cathedral
Wednesday, Oct. 3, 11a: Workshop, CNI Mumbai Diocese: Planning Music for the Liturgy
Thursday, Oct. 4, 11a: The Cathedral and John Connon School Choir concert, St. Thomas Cathedral
Saturday, Oct. 6, 5:00p: Tercentenary Thanksgiving Service, St. Thomas Cathedral
Artist-in-Residence, St. Wilfrid Harrogate, UK, July 16-30.