Music

From Caroline Shaw’s pop-tinged Ringdown project to Ryan Davis’s heady looping viola, April means aural adventure at the intimate Fox Cabaret

Triennial gathering features Chicago’s La Caccina, Halifax’s Aeolian Singers, and the Bay Area’s Peninsula Women’s Chorus

The standout soprano returns to B.C. at the Kay Meek Arts Centre with a blend of her beloved Schubert and Benjamin Britten’s arrangements of traditional British and French songs

Running June 19 to July 5, event also unveils Performance Works Series that includes Haleluya Hailu Plays Ethiopia and Stranger Friends Orchestra with Fredrik Ljungkvist

Powerhouse vocalists preview songs from stage show Meet Me at Vie’s alongside a screening of local documentary Union Street

Ahead of their Chan Centre show alongside renowned singer-songwriter Susan Aglukark, sisters Inuksuk Mackay and Tiffany Ayalik discuss Legends and the power of traditional Inuit storytelling

Local duo Beautiful Violence performs original music for silent film about the titular 15th-century teenage warrior

Special guests include baritone Tyler Duncan, soprano Mireille Asselin, and the Bergmann Piano Duo

Voices soar as Canadian chanteuse and Nigerian-born singer connect over classic songs in Just the 2 of Us at Anvil Theatre

Founded in 1985, the group of virtuosic musicians sing and strum across genres, from bluegrass tunes to Broadway hits

Saina Khaledi and Shruti Ramani are among the talented musicians joining the program of Baroque music, contemporary Indigenous songs, and beyond

Performances span an ambitious ode to the animals of the Chinese zodiac to a spotlight on three new Vancouver ensembles

The two bands bring the spirit and soul of traditional South American sounds into the 21st century

All-star team of vocalists and instrumentalists successfully brings to life Steve Reich’s Music for 18 Musicians, a technical feat acting as a pulsing reaffirmation of humanity

Conductor Leslie Dala and director Tayte Mitchell lead a rotating cast of singers and members of the Vancouver Opera Orchestra

The Vetta Chamber Music artistic director has a long, celebrated career in chamber, orchestral, and solo work

Celebration of sound and dance sets music from the Golden Age of tango alongside modern gems

Series features concerts by Caroline Shaw and Danni Lee Parpan of Ringdown, composer-vocalist Laura Bowler, and more

Composer-conductor Steve Hackman successfully melds the dystopian tension of OK Computer with Brahms’s 19th-century anxiety

Talented musician returns more than a decade after his last performance with the organization

The singer-songwriter rearranges folk music with her finger-picking guitar and burnished alto voice as part of Unwritten Weekend

Program features works by 2SLGBTQIA+ composers, from Stuart Beatch to Benjamin Britten

Pianist Philip Chiu stretches his skills as one of the acclaimed quartet’s newest members, appearing at the Chan Centre

Traditions of Scotland and Ireland also pervade the quartet’s high-energy music

Ahead of her Basant Ke Rang concert at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, the artist talks about the celebration of spring, her three-octave voice, and her role as a woman in a male-dominated art form

Piece drawing on the poetry of wildfire survivor Meghan Fandrich makes its world premiere on Elektra’s choral-driven program If the Earth Could Sing

Evening also includes performances by M’Girl and Kiki Connelly & the Understory

Veteran Canadian singer and emerging Nigerian-born talent perform tunes by Aretha Franklin, Elton John, Whitney Houston, and more

Romanian jazz virtuoso blends Roma tradition with klezmer, Middle Eastern, and European sounds

Renowned percussionist Vern Griffiths and a group of musical luminaries take on the groundbreaking 1976 piece in celebration of Music on Main’s 20th anniversary