We are deeply saddened at the passing of our founder, great friend and inspiration, Eli Kassner. Eli passed away Thursday evening at the age of 94. We will miss his energy, his inspiration and his creativity but we are forever grateful to him for the gift of his knowledge and passion for the guitar. Details about his funeral will be […]
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Welcome to the 2018-19 season of the Guitar Society of Toronto! This season we are privileged to welcome many exciting international artists to our concert stage. Several – such as the Texas Guitar Quartet, our season opener – are making their first-ever appearance in Toronto. Others are making welcome return appearances – including Paraguayan virtuoso Berta Rojas, whose performance here […]
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It is with great sadness that we announce that Ann Kassner passed away on the afternoon of Saturday, August 12, 2017. For more than forty years Ann was Eli Kassner’s constant companion, his beloved partner both in guitar and in life. Through their years together Ann partnered with Eli in everything — from teaching and travelling the world, to creating […]
Categories : Past Seasons
President’s Message for the 2017-18 Season
Posted by maestraweb
· Wednesday,
July
12th,
2017
at 04:25 PM
Welcome to the 2017-18 season of the Guitar Society of Toronto! The season opens September 16 with a concert by the extraordinarily versatile American guitarist David Leisner. As you can see on our Concerts page, we continue throughout the year with many exciting international artists coming to perform for us. The regular season will conclude in March with the return […]
Categories : Past Seasons
Society Founder Eli Kassner Awarded Order of Canada
Posted by maestraweb
· Friday,
July
1st,
2016
at 06:34 PM
We are delighted to tell you that on June 30, the Government of Canada announced that our founder Eli Kassner has been named to the Order of Canada, our country’s highest civilian honour. The Order of Canada “recognizes outstanding achievement, dedication to the community and service to the nation. The Order recognizes people in all sectors of Canadian society. Their […]
Categories : Past Seasons
Welcome to the 2015-16 season of the Guitar Society of Toronto! I am honoured to greet you as the newly elected president of this venerable organization, and am well aware of the responsibility of heading up one of the oldest and most respected guitar societies in the world. The Society was founded by Eli Kassner in 1956: this season we […]
Categories : Past Seasons
This year we will celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Guitar Society of Toronto. This makes us one of the oldest continuously operating guitar societies in the world. In the mid-50s, Eli Kassner and a group of students, friends, and aficionados, met regularly to sing, play guitar, and of course eat and drink. This led to the creation of the […]
Categories : Past Seasons
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