The divine harmonic writing of Benjamin Britten’s Ceremony of Carols has long been a beloved staple of the holiday repertoire. Featuring harp accompaniment and the voices of the Orpheus Choir of Toronto, this candle-lit concert will see a rare performance of Reena Esmail’s Winter Breviary - a piece dedicated to the beauty of darkness and light and composed using three separate Hindustani Raags.

Anika is a Sidgwick Scholar with the Orpheus Choir of Toronto.

Experience stunning music, moving poetry and stories about the magic of human connection during the holidays! Featuring soprano Jane Fingler,  alto Anika Venkatesh, bass Graham Robinson, with string quartet, organist John Paul Farahat, and pianist Anne Marie Leonard.

Anika is performing as a soloist in this concert, featuring in Bach’s Brich dem Hungrigen dein Brot (BWV 39).

Enter the Hungarian folk-inspired world of Béla Bartók in this live-recorded performance. The ballet score to The Miraculous Mandarin, with its alluring melodies and seductive rhythms, tells a dark tale of intrigue.

Anika is singing as part of the Toronto Mendelssohn Singers for the TSO’s performance of The Miraculous Mandarin.

Enter the Hungarian folk-inspired world of Béla Bartók in this live-recorded performance. The ballet score to The Miraculous Mandarin, with its alluring melodies and seductive rhythms, tells a dark tale of intrigue.

Anika is singing as part of the Toronto Mendelssohn Singers for the TSO’s performance of The Miraculous Mandarin.

Enter the Hungarian folk-inspired world of Béla Bartók in this live-recorded performance. The ballet score to The Miraculous Mandarin, with its alluring melodies and seductive rhythms, tells a dark tale of intrigue.

Anika is singing as part of the Toronto Mendelssohn Singers for the TSO’s performance of The Miraculous Mandarin.

Through a powerful selection of contemporary repertoire, Empathy shares stories and perspectives on life, culture, family, home, identity, grief, social media, and mental health. Program includes the concert premiere of Rebecca Gray’s SO sorry for your loss.

Anika is proud to sing with Concreamus for another season, and will be singing the “Protagonist” solo in SO sorry for your loss.

In the Canadian Chamber Orchestra’s second season, come join their living room at Eglinton St George to celebrate 21st century composers made famous through Cinema and TV.

Anika will be a featured soloist at this concert.

The Orpheus Choir of Toronto kicks off its highly anticipated 60th season, celebrating youth, vitality, and transformation.

Anika is a Sidgwick Scholar with the Orpheus Choir of Toronto.

Letters to God is a spiritual exploration of the musical threads connecting Canadian and Japanese culture. It features Japan’s legendary Fujii Percussion (mother Mutsuko Fujii, and daughters Haruka and Rika), Soundstreams Choir 21, The Canadian Children’s Opera Company, Gregory Oh (piano), and Ryan Scott (percussion). 

Anika will be performing as part of Soundstreams Choir 21.

Delivered by an outstanding cast directed by Frederic Wake-Walker, Rolf Hind’s opera employs excerpts from Rumi’s poetry in translation together with words by the award-winning poet Dante Micheaux to create a powerful multi-disciplinary piece chronicling love, loss, and spirituality. Sky In a Small Cage will open the Barbican’s 2024-25 season, presented by Mahogany Opera.

Anika is part of the six-member all-star ensemble.

Delivered by an outstanding cast directed by Frederic Wake-Walker, Rolf Hind’s opera employs excerpts from Rumi’s poetry in translation together with words by the award-winning poet Dante Micheaux to create a powerful multi-disciplinary piece chronicling love, loss, and spirituality. Sky In a Small Cage is premiering at the Copenhagen Opera Festival, presented by Mahogany Opera.

TBD is in Anika’s hometown of Vancouver to perform alongside fellow Toronto artist Majo, Vancouver rapper Sam Darkoh, and the Couch Jams House Band. A night of original music, original arrangements, and an incredible intimate musical experience.

Toronto-based artist Jennarie plays TD Jazz Fest Village Stage, performing a set of nearly all original music, both released and unreleased. Her unique blend of R&B and jazz lends to her versatile vocals, and she is making waves in the Canadian music scene.

Anika is performing background vocals in Jennarie’s band.

Arkora Music, a 13-piece polyphonic fusion consort, has their Toronto debut featuring creations from past Arkora projects, as well as new premieres from the opera Eurydice Fragments, a neo-Baroque cyberpunk trans reënvisioning of the Orphean myth (and inspiration for the concert’s Stygian title) in development with re:Naissance Opera.

Join folk duo Seasonal Birds alongside TBD for a night of great singing and great songwriting, including the release of the visualizer for Seasonal Birds’ recent EP, “Patience.”

The combined force of soprano and alto voices and a treble choir, and the soaring solo vocals of contralto Gerhild Romberger, bring the Toronto Symphony Orchestra Masterworks series to a magnificent close in Mahler’s Symphony No. 3.

Anika is singing as part of the Toronto Mendelssohn Singers for this performance.

The combined force of soprano and alto voices and a treble choir, and the soaring solo vocals of contralto Gerhild Romberger, bring the Toronto Symphony Orchestra Masterworks series to a magnificent close in Mahler’s Symphony No. 3.

Anika is singing as part of the Toronto Mendelssohn Singers for this performance.

The combined force of soprano and alto voices and a treble choir, and the soaring solo vocals of contralto Gerhild Romberger, bring the Toronto Symphony Orchestra Masterworks series to a magnificent close in Mahler’s Symphony No. 3.

Anika is singing as part of the Toronto Mendelssohn Singers for this performance.

Choirs and singing groups from across Canada and beyond responded to the PODIUM 2024 National Committee’s call for proposals to perform at the Festival in Montreal. The three groups featured in this concert are Babεl Chorus from Toronto (ON), Coroncoro Ensamble Vocal from Bogotá, Colombia, and Concreamus from Toronto (ON).

Anika is singing with both Babεl and Concreamus during this festival.

A program exploring the dimensions of motherhood in relation to Mary, mother of Jesus. This concert is presented by Together In Worship Canada and is curated and conducted by Mark Wood-Salomon, with David Simon on organ and piano.

Alongside singing with this fantastic choir, Anika is performing selections from Robert Fleming’s “The Confession Stone (Songs of Mary)”, text by Owen Dodson.

The Toronto premiere of the Pulitzer-prize winning opera, “Angel’s Bone” by Du Yun and Royce Vavrek. The contemporary opera is a disturbing and poignant glimpse into the violence of human trafficking, both reminding us of and shattering our preconceptions of what human trafficking is.

Anika is in the ensemble and also steps in to cover the voice of Girl Angel.

The Toronto premiere of the Pulitzer-prize winning opera, “Angel’s Bone” by Du Yun and Royce Vavrek. The contemporary opera is a disturbing and poignant glimpse into the violence of human trafficking, both reminding us of and shattering our preconceptions of what human trafficking is.

Anika is in the ensemble and also steps in to cover the voice of Girl Angel.

The Toronto premiere of the Pulitzer-prize winning opera, “Angel’s Bone” by Du Yun and Royce Vavrek. The contemporary opera is a disturbing and poignant glimpse into the violence of human trafficking, both reminding us of and shattering our preconceptions of what human trafficking is.

Anika is in the ensemble and also steps in to cover the voice of Girl Angel.

Witness the sheer power and force of the unaccompanied human voice in the newest work from Quote Unquote Collective. Part concert, part theatre play (and self-consciously neither of those things), the ensemble screams about the lack of affordable child care and growing inequalities while comparing different approaches to child care around the globe.

Anika is one part of the 8-person cast of this ensemble-centric show.

Witness the sheer power and force of the unaccompanied human voice in the newest work from Quote Unquote Collective. Part concert, part theatre play (and self-consciously neither of those things), the ensemble screams about the lack of affordable child care and growing inequalities while comparing different approaches to child care around the globe.

Anika is one part of the 8-person cast of this ensemble-centric show.

Witness the sheer power and force of the unaccompanied human voice in the newest work from Quote Unquote Collective. Part concert, part theatre play (and self-consciously neither of those things), the ensemble screams about the lack of affordable child care and growing inequalities while comparing different approaches to child care around the globe.

Anika is one part of the 8-person cast of this ensemble-centric show.

Witness the sheer power and force of the unaccompanied human voice in the newest work from Quote Unquote Collective. Part concert, part theatre play (and self-consciously neither of those things), the ensemble screams about the lack of affordable child care and growing inequalities while comparing different approaches to child care around the globe.

Anika is one part of the 8-person cast of this ensemble-centric show.

Witness the sheer power and force of the unaccompanied human voice in the newest work from Quote Unquote Collective. Part concert, part theatre play (and self-consciously neither of those things), the ensemble screams about the lack of affordable child care and growing inequalities while comparing different approaches to child care around the globe.

Anika is one part of the 8-person cast of this ensemble-centric show.

Witness the sheer power and force of the unaccompanied human voice in the newest work from Quote Unquote Collective. Part concert, part theatre play (and self-consciously neither of those things), the ensemble screams about the lack of affordable child care and growing inequalities while comparing different approaches to child care around the globe.

Anika is one part of the 8-person cast of this ensemble-centric show.

Witness the sheer power and force of the unaccompanied human voice in the newest work from Quote Unquote Collective. Part concert, part theatre play (and self-consciously neither of those things), the ensemble screams about the lack of affordable child care and growing inequalities while comparing different approaches to child care around the globe.

Anika is one part of the 8-person cast of this ensemble-centric show.