Past Events

Audiopollination presents improvised music to film.   1. Short Film: TBA accompanied by Faster (Brian Abbott -guitar, and Kayla Milmine - sax + voice)   2. Feature Film: The Blood of a Poet (French: Le Sang d'un Poète) (1930) by Jean Cocteau Accompanied by: Birth of Troubling Forms ( Branko Džinović - accordion, Alan Bloor - violin + metal, Ambrose Pottie - percussion + honey tones, and Michael Lynn - bass + clarinet)   Blood of a poet: “Poets .…

On March 24th, Branko Džinović will join Caution Tape Sound Collective for world premieres of works by young Canadian composers: Patrick Arteaga, Sophie Dupuis, August Murphy-King, Bekah Simms, and Tyler Versluis. "Tetrad" features a unique quartet of piano, cello, accordion, and percussion (with works for subset and electronics). Performers: Amahl Arulanandam, cello Evan Bowen, percussion Branko Džinović, accordion Wesley Shen, piano

21C Music Festival returns for a third year to The Royal Conservatory of Music from May 25 to May 29, 2016. The festival will once again run over five days and consist of seven concerts, featuring music composed mostly during the 21st century, which crosses boundaries and genres: classical, Inuit throat singing, jazz, contemporary Japanese sounds, progressive rock, atmospheric orchestral, and electro-acoustic music. On Saturday, May 28th, Branko Džinović will join the 21C Music Festival Ensemble for performances of Serbian Tango by Ana Sokolović and…

From June 19th to June 24th, Branko Džinović will join a group of Canadian and international performers and composers, and work on the creation of a new chamber music work. For more information about this event, please visit the Toronto Creative Music Lab website.

On Thursday, June 23rd, the Toronto Creative Music Lab will present "The Art of Moving," a project that combines music and dance. For this project, Branko Džinović will be performing together with Nigel Edwards of The Moon Runners.

This year marks the 200th anniversary of Argentina's independence and Payadora Tango Ensemble will give an open-air concert at the Barry Zukerman Amphitheatre in Earl Bales Park. This event is organized by the Consulate General of Argentina in Toronto.

In July 2016, Branko Džinović will join the National Ballet of Canada ensemble for five performances of Christopher Wheeldon’s "The Winter’s Tale" at Lincoln Center Festival.

On Saturday, December 3, Payadora Tango Ensemble will be performing as part of the Koerner Hall's Postlude Series. Following the exceptional Soledad Barrio & Noche Flamenca on the main stage, Payadora will perform some of the finest traditional and contemporary tango works in the lobby of Koerner Hall.

On February 5, 2017, Branko Džinović will perform Salvatore Sciarrino's Vagabonde blu (1998) for solo accordion, as part of New Music Concerts' event dedicated to the music of one of the greatest living Italian composers. "A Portrait of Salvatore Sciarrino" is presented by NMC and the University of Toronto New Music Festival, where Mr. Sciarrino is the 2017 Roger D. Moore Distinguished Visitor in Composition. Programme: Salvatore Sciarrino (Italy 1947) Introduzione all’oscuro for 12 instruments (1981) Vagabonde Blu for accordion (1998) Trovare un equilibrio, è…