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Set of antique and newly composed music by Hyeronimus Kapsberger and Claudio Ambrosini evokes the sounds of Venice
Read MoreFrench choreographer Hubert Hazebroucq performs 15th- and 16th-century dances to the sound of a live wind band
Read MoreRussian virtuoso’s passion for pianoforte revives original voice of such legendary 19th-century composers as Beethoven and Mendelssohn
Read MoreAhead of the Early Music Vancouver presentation, Alexander Weimann leads a chat with accomplished violinist Robert Mealy, the group’s codirector
Read MoreEarly Music Vancouver program with Pacific Baroque Orchestra includes a “Fictive Wedding Cantata” that she’s painstakingly compiled from the composer’s lesser-known works
Read MoreLUMEN Festival concert features the world premiere of Fictive Wedding Cantata by acclaimed German soprano Dorothee Mields
Read MoreRenowned countertenor and Renaissance viol consort play a German Baroque programme based on the latter group’s Signum Classics album
Read MoreThe pandemic sent Italian lute virtuoso Michele Pasotti looking back at the poets of the Black Plague—and the way Ars Nova music provided relief
Read MoreAlexander Weimann’s fresh take on Bach’s “apex” of Baroque keyboard music is set to open Early Music Vancouver season
Read MorePacific Baroque Orchestra performs a new arrangement of the variations which incorporates Johann Gottlieb Goldberg’s Trio Sonata No. 4 in C Major
Read MoreBritish a cappella artists VOCES8 are here in February as LUMEN Festival makes return in the new year
Read MoreEMV’s Suzie LeBlanc hosted a charming exchange of ideas between English tenor Charles Daniels and Vancouver-based Hindustani vocalist Shruti Ramani
Read MoreEarly Music Vancouver artist-in-residence set to appear in everything from a solo Bach concert to a Vocal Landscapes of India and Italy program
Read MoreSeattle-born, Montreal-based string star takes a fresh approach to the masterworks
Read MoreRandom memorable scenes from the year in arts span 50 dancers swirling in BOLERO X, a powerful Julius Caesar speech, and a cello star’s finale with local string students
Read MoreMusician is joined by setar player Kiya Tabassian, percussionist Hamin Honari, and bamboo flutist Shashank Subramanyam in Early Music Vancouver copresentation
Read MoreAcclaimed Switzerland-based ensemble celebrates one of the Renaissance’s most radical innovators in Jewish liturgical music
Read MoreEarly Music Vancouver Summer Festival and re:Naissance premiere boldly mixes ancient Dido myth and Baroque music with contemporary dance, video, and sounds
Read MoreThe Chilean-born Servir Antico instrumentalist appears in Our City of Ladies and a solo recital, and oversees music of The Queen of Carthage
Read MoreMarisa Gold reinterprets a mythical figure in The Queen of Carthage, while Stéphanie Brochard removes layers of Baroque dress in Atempor/elle
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