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The Toronto Summer Music Festival (TSMF) is an international classical music festival and academy currently in its 8th season.

TSMF features an array of renowned Canadian and international artists in concerts held at Koerner Hall at the Royal Conservatory and at the University of Toronto Faculty of Music.

The TSMF Academy offers instruction to young musicians on the threshold of professional careers through the Chamber Music Institute and the Art of Song programs. TSMF Fellows perform on stage along with Resident Artists of the festival in a series of concerts – TSMF Fellows and Mentors.

Previously operating as the Silver Creek Music Foundation, TSMF ran two pilot programmes in the summers of 2004 and 2005 including one and two-week Chamber music workshops in piano, strings and percussion, and a mini series of public concerts featuring the Gryphon Trio, Scott St. John, Shauna Rolston, Lydia Wong and NEXUS.

In the summer of 2006 and under the leadership of founding Artistic Director Agnes Grossmann, TSMF expanded activities significantly, from the one or two single-week programmes offered in 2004 and 2005 to a full four-week programme that included:

a Festival with chamber music concerts and solo recitals complemented by pre-concert lectures; and an Academy with Master classes and workshops in Chamber music and Art Song, providing advanced study and performance opportunities for gifted graduate students and pre-professional performers. This expansion

The TSMF Academy and Festival is governed by a Board of Directors, supported by a cadre of volunteers and managed by a professional staff.

In September 2010, there was a change in leadership at TSMF, with Agnes Grossmann passing the baton to the new Artistic Director, Douglas McNabney.

Douglas McNabney expanded the Festival and Academy programme in 2011 at the University of Toronto and The Royal Conservatory. The sixth anniversary year programme was similar to the programs presented over the past five years. This was a four-week Festival featuring concerts, lectures, workshops and master classes, bringing together local and international artists to mentor aspiring professional musicians and singers to perform for music-loving audiences.