Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, and Reconciliation policy and statement for Orchestra Toronto
Orchestra Toronto is a vibrant community of musicians from across the Greater Toronto Area brought together by a shared passion for music and a shared belief that music has the power to unite, uplift, and enrich.
Orchestra Toronto is committed to inclusion, diversity, equity, accessibility, and reconciliation. Because we care about the vitality of our art form, we seek to better understand, reflect, engage, and celebrate our diverse community.
We respect all people, and we strive to include all people in our musical community. We recognize that marginalized people are not always well represented in our community, or in the broader classical music community, and we are committed to dismantling the barriers that make representation, participation, and appreciation more challenging.
We work to create an inclusive musical community for our musicians, employees, volunteers, guest artists, audience members and program participants.
Land Acknowledgement
Orchestra Toronto acknowledges that we make and share our beautiful symphonic music on the traditional territory of Haudenosaunee speaking nations, including the Huron-Wendat, Seneca, and Mohawk. Haudenosaunee speaking nations have been here since time immemorial and were more recently joined by the Mississaugas of the New Credit.
We all, at Orchestra Toronto, are privileged to rehearse and perform here and to even attempt to honour, renew and consistently uphold the values and relationships as outlined in the ancient agreements.
