Are you a Canadian music festival looking to boost your event? Book with us to be a part of our Festival Preview E-Newsletter! Our annual guide highlights festivals and sonic events across the country.

Congratulations to composer and guitarist Amy Brandon on receiving the 2026 Juno Award for Classical Composition of the Year for "Cloud Path"! 🎉 🥇

Are you a Canadian music festival looking to boost your event? Book with us to be a part of our Festival Preview E-Newsletter! Our annual guide highlights festivals and sonic events across the country.

Each Musicworks issue isn't only a magazine—it's also a CD full of new and unreleased tracks from all featured artists! 💿

In our March e-newsletter, we've got notes on Quinton Barnes and DeForrest Brown, Jr. in MW 153, challenges faced by arts organizations in Nova Scotia, and more! Plus, a message from the @torontosymphony.bsky.social and a throwback story on a Juno-nominated composer. app.scsend.net?q=email/view...

We were honoured to be a part of @wavelengthmusic.bsky.social's first-ever music conference at the Lula Lounge in Toronto yesterday!

Have you ordered Musicworks 153 yet? 👀 Click here to subscribe and snag your copy of the magazine + CD with 12 new or unreleased tracks from featured artists 💿 👇 musicworksmag.myshopify.com

Winter waves are melting into spring. Please remove your earmuffs—Musicworks 153 is here! 🎉 🌸

Check out the lineup of artists at @mutek.bsky.social!

Get caught up on our first e-newsletter of 2026! 🎉 Check out stories on our international musical escapades, a new music festival + conference we're supporting by @wavelengthmusic.bsky.social, and messages from our friends at @torontosymphony.bsky.social ⬇️ app.scsend.net?q=email/view...

Have you preordered our upcoming issue yet? 👀 Click here to see who's featured in Musicworks 153: musicworksmag.myshopify.com/products/win...

For Juno-nominated Tara Kannangara, performing is the most pure form of musical expression. “There’s an unknown energy that you get to play with, and you can feel it in the room—that can’t be replicated,” she told writer Abiola Regan, coming soon in Musicworks 153. (📸: Howard Billerman)

Congratulations to the Canadian composers up for Classical Composition of the Year at this year’s #junoawards, happening March 29! Some of these artists have been featured in Musicworks! Amy Brandon, “Cloud Path” (MW 134, 📸: Jeff Cooke) Andrew Staniland, “The Laws of Nature” (MW 122, 📸: Bo Huang)

Meet these Canadian artists in Musicworks 153, dropping soon! 1 Corie Rose Soumah uses aesthetic and elements in hypersonic collages. 2 Tempête Solaire creates saturated instrumental avant music. 3 Michael Scott Dawson makes field recordings and songs. Pre-order or subscribe to support our work.

The #OrchestratedRCM series continues on January 22 when #KishiBashi brings his genre-blending music to #KoernerHall, backed by the @royalconservatory.bsky.social Orchestra. Make a night of it with speciality cocktails and a DJ-led afterparty! 🎻🎶🥃 Tickets on sale now at rcmusic.com/performance.

We are happy to announce that our annual operating grant from the Ontario Arts Council - Conseil des arts de l'Ontario has been renewed for 2026. We appreciate the OAC’s abiding confidence in our small but far-reaching Toronto-based organization. Thank you, @ontarioarts.bsky.social !

The #KoernerHall experience, reimagined. Cory Wong headlines the first concert of a bold new series titled Orchestrated tonight at Koerner Hall. Come early, stay late. 🎶🍸 #TorontoEvents #OrchestratedRCM www.rcmusic.com/events-and-performances/cory-wong

Lisa Conway works with analog synths, reel-to-reel, and alphorns! Mali Obomsawin taps into jazz, folk, and Abenaki roots. Susie Ibarra opens ears to nature’s rhythms. Kalun Leung slides into uncharted territory. Marek Tyler’s ASKO echoes nêhiyaw ways of living. www.musicworks.ca/whats-inside...

Rémy Bélanger de Beauport (soundmaker communities), Lola de la Mata (instruments explore tinnitus), Michiyo Yagi, Sarah Pagé, Hiroko Nagai (koto liberation), Yoo Doo Right (formidable post-rock), Kathryn Patricia Cobbler (loop-pedal viola), Edzi'u (dream stories). www.musicworks.ca/whats-inside...

"a treasure trove of diversity, encompassing multilingual vocals, epic instrumental rock-outs, freak-folk meanderings, electronics-heavy abstractions, and abundant warm grooves." " New album from cellist Peggy Lee, guitarist Cole Schmidt, and pals. Full review here! www.musicworks.ca/reviews/pegg...

Hot on the heels of winning the 2025 Juno for Contemporary Roots Album for STRANGE MEDICINE, composer, banjoist & singer @kaiakater.bsky.social hits Toronto tonight, Apr. 4. Warm up with Chaka V. Grier's profile of Kaïa, now posted for your online reading enjoyment! www.musicworks.ca/kaia-kater-c...