Glimmer : A Personal and Shared Exploration of Queerness

June 11 // 8PM // $20 – $35 + fees

In the Chamber

Glimmer is a new trans-disciplinary, concert-length work by award-winning composer Thierry Tidrow that explores the many layers and interpretations of queerness through classical music and narrative text. Commissioned by New Music Concerts, and presented at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, this intimate, autobiographical piece brings together text, music, and staging created by an all-queer team of performers and musicians.

Schedule:

7PM Doors
7:15PM Pre-Concert Talk with Thierry Tidrow
7:45PM Young Artist Overture featuring Kailan Fournier
8PM Main Show

Program: Thierry Tidrow (CA) Glimmer (2025 World Premiere) for three voices, flute, clarinet and violin.

Featuring:

Thierry Tidrow — Composer (@thierrytidrow)

Anika Venkatesh — Voice (@anikavenkatesh)

Brad Cherwin — Clarinets (@bradcherwin)

Danika Lorèn — Voice (@danikaloren)

Hee-Soo Yoon — Violin & Viola (@ur3isgra33)

Ryan McDonald — Voice (@ryanpatmcd)

Terry Lim — Flutes (@terryterrbearlim)

About Thierry Tidrow
Thierry Tidrow is an award-winning Canadian composer of instrumental and vocal music, with a predilection for opera. His music has been described as “embracing many musical worlds, in which explorations of noise, expressionist lyricism, pastiche and parody form a discursive and richly detailed whole.” (ECM+ Generations Jury 2018) This audacious synthesis of styles gives rise to a chiaroscuro of meaning, often playful, but where the humourous can quickly turn to horrific or tragic and back. His studied approach to text and sound reveals hidden meanings and erects new ones, and his dramatic instinct leads to an intrinsically narrative mode of expression packed with surprise and intrigue.

Queer Pride 2025

June 4 – 29, 2025

Buddies’ Queer Pride 2025 is a festival of theatre, comedy, drag, music, art, and parties that welcome your queerness in all its evolutions, revolutions, and possibilities. 

There’s a place for you (and your lover/chosen family/polycule/new crush) on the biggest dance floor in the Village. 

Let’s fill this sweaty sanctuary with our tenderest selves, and dream of what queer abundance, exaltation, and deviance can look like all year round. 

Thank you to our Government Partner, Canadian Heritage, and our Gold Sponsor, Freddie, for making the 2025 Queer Pride Festival possible!

 

Like its ambisextrous namesake, Buddies’ in-house bar and performance space Tallulah’s Cabaret does it all. It’s throbbing club nights and community tap dance lessons. High-concept drag and low-stakes open mics. Go for pre-drinks but stay late for the post-show discourse—maybe even spark that next collaboration. With local brews and sober options that aren’t an after-thought, Tallulah’s is the come-as-you-are bar for old friends, new lovers, partiers, poets, and curious passerby. See you under the chandeliers.

Tallulah’s Cabaret is open Wednesday to Sunday from 6:00pm to midnight (or later).

Check out our events calendar for more info, or follow Tallulah’s Instagram.