About
Charting a course from without to within and back again, The Happenstancers present a dual-portrait concert in palindromic form. In BEING: PASCALKAIJA, chamber works by Pascal Dusapin and Kaija Saariaho are used to imagine an entry-path to the deepest crevices of the composer’s mind. By experiencing these most personal (and searing) musical gestures, The Happenstancers propose we can inhabit the depths of the artist’s psyche.
The Happenstancers will be premiering a new arrangement by Danika Loren commissioned by Harbourfront Centre for the Summer Music in the Garden 2026 season.
About The Happenstancers
Recognized by The Whole Note as “the future of chamber music,” and as “Toronto’s chamber supergroup,” by Ludwig Van Toronto, The Happenstancers is a hybrid ensemble for the twenty-first century — part laboratory for experimentation with innovative curatorial techniques and concert forms, and part mixed vocal/instrumental contemporary chamber music ensemble. Formed in 2019 and based in Toronto, The Happenstancers specialize in performances that utilize diverse and demanding contemporary repertoire to communicate powerful and surprising theatrical narratives.
Set List
- Brief Transitional Improvisation – solo percussion
- Dusapin, Imago ii. – 4’, solo cello
- Dusapin, Ohé – 9’, clar/cello
- Dusapin, So Full of Shapes is Fancy – 5’, voice/clar
- Dusapin, Two Walking (excerpts) – 3-5’, 2 voices
- DANIKA LORÈN – New Harbourfront Commission – 3’, 2 voices
- Saariaho – From the Grammar of Dreams (excerpts) – 7-9’, 2 voices
- Saariaho – Du Gick, Flög – 4’, voice/cello
- Saariaho – Oi Kuu – 6’, clar/cello
- Saariaho – LONG LIVE LOVE – 1’, solo cello
- Brief Transitional Improvisation – 1’, solo perc
Dates & Times
Tickets
No tickets required
Venue
479 Queens Quay West,
Toronto, ON