Michael Bridge will open the 125th Women’s Musical Club Season at the Walter Hall, University of Toronto in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on October 6, 2022 at 1.30 PM.

For half of the concert, he will be joined by the Ladom Ensemble, and his mentor, Joseph Macerollo.

Their program as follows:
Suite No. 1 in G for cello, BWV 10 07 Prelude (Bach)
French Suite No. 5 in G major, BWV 816 Gigue (Bach)
Et Exspecto (Sofia Gubaidulina)
Tebi Majko Misli Lete (Traditional Bosnian)
The Walls are Made of Song (Pouya Hamidi)
Trazo (Edson Zampronha)
Tsaghkats Baleni (Kachatur Avetisyan)
Oblivion (Piazzolla)
Weird Fishes (Radiohead)
East Coast Medley (Traditional)
Libertango (Piazzola)

Michael Bridge is a virtuoso performer on both the acoustic accordion and the digital accordion. Michael’s concerts capture the energy and panache of stadium rock with the elegance and discipline of chamber music. He was named one of CBC’s 30 under 30 classical musicians. Michael Bridge is a musical maverick.

Michael recently received a doctorate in performance from the University of Toronto and became a Rebanks Fellow at the Glenn Gould School. He gives over 100 concerts a year as a soloist and as a member of both the “Bridge & Wolak” duo and “Ladom Ensemble”. He is in demand for masterclasses around the world.

Bridge embraces a musical aesthetic that is alternatively irreverent, deadly serious, meticulously prepared and completely in-the-moment. He’s at home with jazz, folk and classical music and has premiered 53 new works. Ultimately, he aims to make your world more bearable, beautiful and human – even if only for the length of a concert.