CCC Toronto International Music Festival

Since its inception in 2010, the CCC Music Festival has established a solid name as one of the most reputable and popular music festivals in Canada. It has been an annual signature event hosted by the Chinese Cultural Centre of Greater Toronto – a non-profit organization with more than three decades of proud history serving the multicultural community and promoting diversity.

The festival is held in recognition of the artistic achievements of young musicians, providing them with the opportunity to learn, grow and showcase their potential in performance and pursuit of excellence. It seeks to provide performance opportunities for young musicians; to help bring the scope of their talents to new heights and break through to new dimensions. 

With the reopening of our Centre and concert venue in 2021, we had resumed the in-person music festival and we are also keeping the online version to allow participants from all countries around the world to take part in the festival without the need to travel. We have expanded our festival syllabus to include a wide range of repertoire, so participants have more options to get involved. 

New in this festival edition includes the addition of the Amateur, Duet and Popular Music classes onto the piano syllabus; the addition of the Master Class category onto the piano and strings syllabus to allow advanced participants to have public lessons with the world renown concert pianists and violinists. One eye-catching addition is that the festival grand trophy winner(s) and the concerto class winners will have an opportunity to be invited to perform as an soloist with the Cathedral Bluffs Symphony Orchestra (CBSO) in their future regular concert series (https://cathedralbluffs.com/).

The in-person and online festival will be held in October 2024, with the winners’ Gala Concert and Awards Ceremony on December 8, 2024 at our 626-seat state-of-the-art P.C. Ho Theatre in Toronto, Canada. Select winners of the festival will be invited to the Gala Concert and Awards Ceremony with an opportunity to perform at P.C. Ho Theatre.

We want to express our heartfelt thanks for the steadfast support of our sponsors and donors who share the same passion for nurturing young people and bringing up future leaders. A big Thank You also goes to our organizing committee for their tireless efforts to make every year’s festival a successful and inspiring one.

Let music connect us and bridge the world!  We look forward to seeing you at the festival.