July 14, 2011

Join the Harbourfront Centre in their 12th year of presenting free concerts in the Toronto Music Garden! Bring along your lawn chair (bench space is limited) and listen to the beautiful sounds of the Cecilia String Quartet (CSQ) as they perform”Labours of Love: Visionary works for string quartet, from Mozart to Piazzolla,” including Mozart’s Quartet in G Major, K. 387, Beethoven’s Quartet No. 16 in F Major, Op. 135, and Four for Tango by Astor Piazzolla. The accomplished young women of the CSQ are the first prize-winners of the 2010 Banff International String Quartet Competition, and are currently the Graduate Resident String Quartet at The Royal Conservatory’s Glenn Gould School. The quartet takes their name from the patron saint of music, St. Cecilia.

The Toronto Music Garden is the brain-child of renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma, garden designer Julie Moir Messervy, filmmaker Niv Fichman and philanthropist James Fleck. For a free tour of the garden, come early to the concert (which begins at 7pm) for a 5:30pm tour which starts at the Prelude section at he west end of the garden.

For more information on tonight’s concert, or for a full schedule of future concerts in the Toronto Music Garden, go to the Harbourfront Centre’s website.