Toronto Music Garden

Client

The City of Toronto

Location

Toronto Harbourfront, Ontario, Canada

Collaborators

Yo-Yo Ma, Cellist
Susan Richardson, Bob Duguid, Leslie Coates, City of Toronto Parks and Recreation
Peter Welanetz, The Halvorson Company
Horst Dickert, Moonstone Landscape Consultants
Tom Tollefson, Tollefson Studios, Ltd.
Anne Roberts, Feir Mills Enterprises
Evans Golf and Landscape, Landscape Contractors

Inspiration

The First Suite for Unaccompanied Cello by Johann Sebastian Bach

Honors

Leonardo Da Vinci award for innovation and creativity, 2005

Site

3 Acre Public Park

Multimedia

Yo-Yo and Julie Video Clip
Interactive Google Map
PBS Video Clip

     

The Toronto Music Garden, created in collaboration with eminent cellist Yo-Yo Ma, is a three-acre public park on Toronto's Harbourfront whose design is inspired by the First Suite for Unaccompanied Cello by Johann Sebastian Bach. Curving paths move visitors through six garden "movements" that flow from the different moods, feelings, and forms evoked by the music.