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Vancouver Chamber Choir presents Christmas by Candlelight, December 12 and 13

Seasonal favourite sets timeless classics by Robert Pearsall and Morten Lauridsen, plus new works by B.C. composers, to the gentle glow of candles

MUSICStir VancouverNovember 19, 2024Partner Content, Vancouver Chamber Choir, Holiday 2024

Vancouver Chamber Choir explores Nordic music in Sounds of Finland, November 29

Artistic director Kari Turunen programs a concert that honours his home country’s choral traditions, from simple folk to edgy modernism

MUSICStir VancouverNovember 5, 2024Partner Content, Vancouver Chamber Choir, Kari Turunen

Path of Miracles unites Vancouver Chamber Choir with dancers from Belle Spirale Dance Projects

The a cappella work by Joby Talbot is meant to be seen and heard

Vancouver Chamber Choir melds dance and choral artistry in Path of Miracles, November 8

Alexis Fletcher and Justin Rapaport of Belle Spirale Dance Projects interpret Joby Talbot’s emotional composition Path of Miracles

Vancouver Chamber Choir welcomes new voices in A Choral Feast 3, October 19

With the participation of several local vocal ensembles, 200 singers will come together as one

MUSIC, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithOctober 6, 2024Vancouver Chamber Choir, Vancouver Bach Choir

Vancouver Chamber Choir sets the stage for nearly 200 voices in A Choral Feast 3, October 19

Concert features UBC University Singers, Vancouver Bach Choir, Nabi Vocal Ensemble, and Intertidal Choral Ensemble, with beloved conductor emeritus Jon Washburn

MUSICStir VancouverSeptember 24, 2024Partner Content, Vancouver Chamber Choir

Stir Q&A: New Vancouver Chamber Choir composer-in-residence Laura Hawley on choral music, community, and collaboration

The ensemble will perform Hawley’s The Arrow and the Song at its epic season-opening concert

MUSICGail JohnsonSeptember 20, 2024Vancouver Chamber Choir, Laura Hawley

Epic masterpieces to brand-new music, Vancouver Chamber Choir announces 2024-25 season

Highlights include Figure humaine by Francis Poulenc as well as world premieres

MUSICGail JohnsonSeptember 6, 2024Vancouver Chamber Choir, Kari Turunen

Vancouver Chamber Choir launches 54th season with Figure humaine, September 27

Lineup features works by Johannes Brahms, UBC music student Joanne S. Na, and the choir’s new composer-in-residence Laura Hawley

MUSICStir VancouverSeptember 4, 2024Partner Content, Vancouver Chamber Choir

Vancouver Chamber Choir set to premiere T. Patrick Carrabré's Histoires des Métis in Longhouse concert

Through seven movements, the composition tells stories in a way that feels familiar to the Métis composer, conductor, and UBC music prof

Vancouver Chamber Choir's Stories of the Land spotlights Indigenous composers, June 8

World premieres by Andrew Balfour and T. Patrick Carrabré will be performed at UBC’s First Nations Longhouse

Vancouver Chamber Choir performs rare 15th-century music in The Godfather, May 24

Concert’s focal point is Josquin des Prez’s late-1490s chanson “Nymphes des bois”, an elegy to composer Johannes Ockeghem

MUSICStir VancouverMay 8, 2024Partner Content, Vancouver Chamber Choir

Vancouver Chamber Choir hosts over 200 singers in A Choral Feast 2 on April 19

Group is joined by Elektra Women’s Choir, EnChor, and the BC Girl’s Choir from Vancouver, plus Akademiska Sångföreningen from Finland

MUSICStir VancouverApril 3, 2024Partner Content, Vancouver Chamber Choir

In Sacred & Profane, Vancouver Chamber Choir concert spans iron's destructive potential to guiding lights, March 8 and 15

Lineup juxtaposes three classic choral works with three pieces written by modern-day composers

Vancouver Chamber Choir's Sacred & Profane pairs choral classics with modern works, March 8 and 15

Choir to perform program featuring Benjamin Britten’s Sacred and Profane in Vancouver and Abbotsford

MUSICStir VancouverFebruary 21, 2024Partner Content, Vancouver Chamber Choir, Spring 2024

Vancouver Chamber Choir focuses on hope in War & Peace concert

Program features aspiring artists from VCC’s Conductors’ Symposium

MUSICJanet SmithFebruary 9, 2024Vancouver Chamber Choir

Vancouver Chamber Choir artistic director Kari Turunen leads six young conductors in War & Peace, February 16

Concert concludes company’s 44th annual five-day Conductors’ Symposium

MUSICStir VancouverFebruary 2, 2024Partner Content, Vancouver Chamber Choir

Youths take the spotlight in Vancouver Chamber Choir’s Horizons, January 27

Up-and-coming talents are featured in mixed concert program

WHAT'S STIRRING, MUSICGail JohnsonJanuary 22, 2024Vancouver Chamber Choir, youth

Vancouver Chamber Choir hosts annual youth event Horizons on January 27

Performance features company’s post-secondary choir Focus, a guest youth choir, and winning works from 2023 Young Composers’ Competition

MUSICStir VancouverJanuary 10, 2024Partner Content, Vancouver Chamber Choir

Vancouver Chamber Choir gets its glow on with peaceful Christmas by Candlelight, December 22

The calming concert offers a break from so much holiday busy-ness

MUSIC, WHAT'S STIRRINGGail JohnsonDecember 14, 2023Holiday 2023, Vancouver Chamber Choir

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