About Concerts in Care
Concerts in Care Ontario presents programming that brings joy, relief, and beauty to a range of seniors’ care communities across Ontario. Our concerts provide a focal point for building bridges between elders, caregivers and loved ones, while engaging powerful emotions which can activate memory and improve mood for seniors in care who may be isolated and withdrawn.
We curate concert series and special event concerts in seniors’ facilities, performed by top–calibre professional musicians. Managers know that our turnkey service is as excellent as our musicians’ performances.
The Covid–19 pandemic has provided us the opportunity to expand our musical services from live, in–person concerts to live Zoom concerts and virtual recorded concerts, as well as outside concerts that continue to combine passion and compassion to our high standards.
Our concerts are 45–60 minutes in length, including narrative and storytelling about the music, the musicians, and the instruments. We offer concerts in traditional format with visiting at the end, or in ABA format with a Q & A in the middle. You choose!
Since 2011, CiC Ontario has presented more than 2,100 concerts, touching 84,500 seniors’ audience members, and providing more than 3,600 performer engagements. That represents a lot of smiles!
Concerts in Care Ontario Leadership
EXECUTIVE
Chair
Alison Smith (Toronto, ON)
Former Broadcaster, CBC
Secretary
Ron Hay (Toronto, ON)
Partner, Stohn Hay Cafazzo Dembroski Richmond LLP
Treasurer
Paul Harding (Toronto, ON)
Retired CFO, Regent Park School of Music Foundation
DIRECTORS
Catherine Chalmers (Toronto, ON)
Senior Director, Fund Development, Canada Learning Code
Nivy Kani (Waterloo, ON)
Software Engineer, Google
Jessica Liu, FSA, FCIA (Toronto, ON)
Actuary, Manulife (on leave)
Julie Ranti , (Toronto, ON)
Former Associate Principal Flute, Toronto Symphony
HONORARY PATRON
The Honourable Edith Dumont
Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Debra Chandler
ARTISTIC ADVISOR
Andrew Burashko
AMBASSADORS
Laurie Few, TVO
Mary Graham, retired, donor
Vivien Hicks, resident Christie Gardens
Mavis Himes, psychologist, cellist, author
David Kennedy, retired Institute of Chartered Accountants
Karen Lynch, retired PR Director, CNE
Bob Weese, retired VP, Government Relations, GE Canada
Charitable Registration # 852953462 RR0001