Toronto Concert Orchestra is Southern Ontario’s premier professional entertainment orchestra, offering engaging quality performances. Founded by the late Kerry Stratton in 2008, TCO is currently led by Artistic Director Sharon Lee and Co-Artistic Director, Marcus Scholtes. 

Each summer, TCO presents Symphony in the City, a highly curated orchestral concert series that marries classical, opera, popular, and jazz genres in an immersive, beautiful and intimate setting on the waterfront, the iconic Palais Royale. This series has become popular with seasoned classical concert goers and new audiences alike for its imaginative and high energy presentation and performance. Annually, TCO performs upwards of 45 concerts per year, with an emphasis on touring smaller communities in Southern Ontario to share large scale quality music.

Prior to this, TCO successfully brought the concept of a summer orchestral series in the city to life, and with the help of Casa Loma, presented Symphony in the Gardens. TCO was the resident orchestra at the castle for six seasons. TCO pivoted quickly at the onset of the pandemic, offering extensive online musical experiences aptly called Symphony in Your Garden, now available on our YouTube channel. 

TCO has a history of innovation - performing extensively in both traditional and unexpected spaces, in performance and in partnerships at venues such as Palais Royale, Sugar Beach, Phoenix, Air Canada Centre, Rogers Centre, Betty Oliphant Theatre, Koerner Hall, Meridian Hall, Meridian Centre, the Great Hall, Casa Loma, Roy Thomson Hall, and most recently Place des Arts in Montreal. TCO takes pride in its inclusion and commissioning of new works, as well as the diversity of our orchestra.