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Music on Main hosts beloved annual concert Music for the Winter Solstice, December 11 and 12

Winter tradition at the Heritage Hall promises enchanting music by pianist Rachel Kiyo Iwaasa and vocalist Amanda Sum

Flat Earth Society plays an innovative HearSee show at Music on Main, November 3

Belgium-based big band mixes traditional brass music with innovative, energetic jazz, alongside a variety of film projections

MUSICStir VancouverOctober 9, 2024Partner Content, Music on Main, MUSIC ON MAIN, Music On Main

Pianist Vicky Chow finds freedom in “therapeutic” Philip Glass Études

Acclaimed Brooklyn-based musician returns to perform Book 2 of the composer’s works for solo piano in Music on Main concert on May 28

MUSICJanet SmithMay 21, 2024Music on Main, MUSIC ON MAIN, Vicky Chow, piano

For Dior Quartet, different backgrounds come together in perfect harmony

Appearing with Music on Main, string group jumps from Romanticism through Impressionism and on to the ultra-modern

MUSICJanet SmithMarch 1, 2024MUSIC ON MAIN, Music on Main

Pianist Timo Andres blends Ellington with an array of American classical pieces, at Music on Main

Aaron Copland, Philip Glass, and other works sit easily with “Duke”’s, as Month of Tuesdays launches

MUSICJanet SmithFebruary 8, 2024Music on Main, MUSIC ON MAIN

With Inheritances, Adam Tendler mines fraught father-son relationship through piano

Music on Main and PuSh Festival present moving solo concert that began with a surprise envelope of cash and a desire to process loss

MUSICJanet SmithJanuary 18, 2024Homepage feature, Music on Main, MUSIC ON MAIN, PuSh Festival

Cascading sand and warbling strings: A few standout moments from 2023's stage and gallery scene

Random 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

Microcosmos Quartet honours female composers, late and living, at the Kessler Academy

Jocelyn Morlock’s Solace and Kaija Saariaho’s Terra Memoria share beautiful opening program of Music on Main’s annual summer intensive

MUSICJanet SmithAugust 14, 2023Jocelyn Morlock, Microcosmos Quartet, MUSIC ON MAIN, Summer 2023

Stir Cheat Sheet: Santour to string quartets, a few picks from Music on Main's Pop-Up Summer Concerts in Mount Pleasant Park

Saaz O Raaz, Orchid Ensemble, and more, with food trucks to fuel the outdoor experience

MUSICJanet SmithAugust 9, 2023Music on Main, MUSIC ON MAIN, Summer 2023

Gabriel Kahane brings journeying Book of Travelers and inward-looking Magnificent Bird to Music on Main

One of the songwriter’s works grew out of a 9,000-mile train trip through Middle America, the other through COVID introspection

MUSICJanet SmithMay 4, 2023MUSIC ON MAIN, Music on Main, Spring 2023

Review: Graveyards and Gardens grows new rhythms in its live rendition, via vocoders, violas, and clicking lamps

Caroline Shaw and Vanessa Goodman play with the tension between the human and the mechanical

Vanessa Goodman and Caroline Shaw’s Graveyards and Gardens loops and echoes its way back to the live stage

The immersive sound-and-dance piece has hit symphony and skateboard spaces before circling back to Vancouver—lamps, amps, and all

Pianist Vicky Chow finds the room for expressiveness in Philip Glass's mesmerizing Études

At Music on Main, the New York virtuoso brings unique insight to the composer’s music and methodology

MUSICJanet SmithMarch 22, 2023MUSIC ON MAIN, Music on Main, Vicky Chow, Spring 2023

Each piece in Joby Burgess’s A Percussionist’s Songbook tells its own, rich story

From the warmth of West African drumming to the marimba-laced electronics of Stravinsky’s grandson, Music on Main and PuSh Fest concert is expansive and collaborative

MUSIC, FESTSStir VancouverJanuary 18, 2023PuSh Festival, Music on Main, MUSIC ON MAIN, Homepage feature

Music review: Music for a Winter Solstice explores time, change, and loss in moving ways

Rodney Sharman’s new piano piece finds metaphorical new ways to end notes, plus divine lieder, beautiful Bach, and more

MUSIC, HOLIDAY22Janet SmithDecember 16, 2022Music on Main, MUSIC ON MAIN, Rachel Kiyo Iwaasa, Holiday 2022

Pianist Rachel Kiyo Iwaasa embraces the light and the dark for Music for the Winter Solstice

At contemplative Music on Main concert, the musician premieres new Rodney Sharman work dedicated to her late mother

HOLIDAY22, MUSICJanet SmithDecember 12, 2022Holiday 2022, Music on Main, MUSIC ON MAIN

Ayelet Rose Gottlieb evokes the awe of the moon with 13 Lunar Meditations

Show’s large, eclectic cast of musicians—including jazz legend Jay Clayton—will spread from Music on Main’s Modulus Festival over to Coastal Jazz’s improvised IronFest III series