Welcome to Continuum’s 42nd season!

Continuum’s 2026–27 Season is centred on collaboration. Working with artistic partners from across the country, we bring performers, composers, and audiences together for adventurous performances, new commissions, and mentorship that supports the next generation of contemporary music in Canada. From performances in Kingston and Montreal to immersive gallery experiences, explorations of migration and belonging, and world premieres by eight Canadian composers, this season celebrates what becomes possible when we create together.

Mainstage Concerts and Co-Presentations

Missing: In Concert

Tuesday, September 28 at 7pm
Isabel Bader Centre, Kingston
Missing, a chamber opera by Métis playwright Marie Clements and composer Brian Current, gives voice to the stories of missing and murdered Indigenous women in both English and Gitksan. The Continuum ensemble joins this semi-staged performance, led by Timothy Long, conductor, and the Artists of the Opera Missing, an Indigenous-led artist collective bringing this work to the stage. The opera’s recording featuring Continuum earned a JUNO nomination for 2026 Classical Album of the Year (Small Ensemble).

PIVOT x HATCH: Solos

Sunday, January 10 at 7:30pm
The Canadian Music Centre
Join the participating musicians of the 26-27 PIVOT x HATCH program for a concert of solo works by Canadian composers. Meet these exciting early-career performers and hear their work to date under the mentorship of members of the Continuum ensemble.

Pieces of Here

Saturday, January 16 at 8pm
St. George’s Grange Park
Where do we belong? Who gets to decide? Co-curated by tenor Asitha Tennekoon and saxophonist Jeffrey Leung, this concert features works that explore the complexities of migration and belonging. The program features world premieres by Canadian composers Liberté-Anne Lymberiou and Farangis Nurulla-Khoja alongside works by Melody McKiver, Dorothy Change, and Nico Muhly’s Stranger, a song cycle that gives voice to stories of immigration.

Gallery Series

Continuum presents immersive, installation-style pop-up performances at local galleries. This relaxed concert format features long-form chamber pieces, allowing time to unfold. Move through the space at your own pace, take in the current exhibition, and linger where the sound draws you. Dates and galleries TBA!

Missing: In Concert

February 14 at 7:30pm
Salle Pierre-Mercure – Centre Pierre-Péladeau, Montreal, QC
Presented by SMCQ

Continuum & Quatuor Bozzini 

Wednesday, March 4, 2027
Co-presented by Quatuor Bozzini and Le Vivier

Continuum and Quatuor Bozzini, together in concert, perform extraordinary works by Linda Catlin Smith, Martin Smolka, and Cassandra Miller. 

Linda Catlin Smith Celebration

April 23-25, 2027
Array Space, 155 Walnut Ave, Toronto, ON M6J 3W3

In collaboration with Array Music, Quatuor Bozzini, Thin Edge New Music Collective, and Freesound Collective. The Toronto contemporary music community honours Linda Catlin Smith’s work and contribution to the Canadian music landscape.

PIVOT x HATCH

Saturday, May 8, 2027
St. George’s Grange Park
Co-presented with the Canadian League of Composers and Canadian Music Centre 

In collaboration with the Canadian League of Composers and the Canadian Music Centre, Continuum presents premieres by five early-career composers from across Canada selected through a juried process. This project engages six early-career musicians and five composers for a unique opportunity to work as peers in the development of new work with mentorship from the Continuum core ensemble and composer mentors. The program incubates experimental and collaborative practice, offering workshops, mentorship, panels, rehearsals, and performance opportunities over the course of the 26-27 Season. The program culminates in May 2027 with five world premieres, highlighting the next generation of Canadian musical talent. We also present the 11th annual Teen Composer Award in a pre-concert presentation.

MENTORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES

We kick off the third iteration of our Mentorship in Artistic Production (MAP). Over two seasons, the selected Artistic Producer will learn about Continuum’s processes and engage in ongoing conversations informed by their interests, questions, and perspectives on the evolving practice of contemporary chamber music today. Through this exchange of ideas, the producer will work toward the goal of developing a program curated with Continuum staff in the 27-28 Season. This season, we will announce our selected Artistic Producer and work closely to share knowledge and share

We’ll also launch the 11th year of our Teen Composer Award. We launch a call for applications for one high-school aged composer. The selected composer will receive lessons with composer mentor Alison Yun-Fei Jiang and write a work for the HATCH ensemble to be performed in May 2027.

ONLINE ENGAGEMENT

Our online series Press Play continues this season, featuring works from concerts Woven Shores, Pine Trees & Blue Sky, and Outside Hollow, along with works performed in the 26-27 Season.

Join us for another exciting season of new chamber music performed and carried forward in mentorship. If you love what we do, please consider joining the Continuum community by making a donation today.