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Jeremy Ledbetter brings cosmopolitan pianistic palette to the Shadbolt

The trio leader has fully integrated Latin and Caribbean sounds into his approach

MUSICJanet SmithOctober 21, 2024Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, Jeremy Ledbetter Trio, jazz, piano, homepage feature

Nineteen-year-old Canadian pianist Kevin Chen balances works by his favourite composers

Chopin and Liszt are on the program at the Kay Meek Arts Centre, as the internationally acclaimed musician makes his Vancouver debut

MUSICJanet SmithSeptember 23, 2024Kay Meek Arts Centre, Kevin Chen, Piano, piano, Homepage feature

Self-accompanying soprano Rachel Fenlon marks her Vancouver Recital Society debut with Schubert’s Winterreise

UBC Opera alum has been gaining international acclaim for her immersive interpretations and double talent

MUSICStir VancouverSeptember 3, 2024rachel fenlon, Schubert, Winterreise, Liede, Soprano, piano, VANCOUVER RECITAL SOCIETY

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

Young pianists and Chilliwack Symphony Orchestra perform classics and new compositions, May 17 and 24

More than a dozen top piano students, plus Chilliwack virtuoso Clinton Giovanni Denoni, are set to perform as soloists

Internationally renowned pianist Angela Cheng joins Vetta Chamber Music players for a musical conversation with old friends

Program of Schubert and Mozart masterpieces will see her join hands with her husband, pianist Alvin Chow, and reunite with an old Edmonton Youth Orchestra colleague

MUSICJanet SmithApril 23, 2024Vetta Chamber Music, Angela Cheng, piano, chamber music

Pianist-composer Aaron Diehl blurs boundaries between jazz and classical

Spotlighting ragtime and Harlem stride at the Chan Centre, New York City musician pushes beyond limitations of easily marketable categories

MUSICJanet SmithApril 15, 2024Chan Centre for the Performing Arts, Spring 2023, jazz, piano

The Fauré Quartett debuts in Vancouver on March 26 with some of its piano-led "greatest hits"

Though often adventurous, the German piano quartet arrives here with a more traditional program including Brahms’s Piano Quartet No.1 in G minor

MUSICJanet SmithMarch 19, 2024Friends of Chamber Music, piano, Vancouver Civic Theatres

Polish pianist Rafal Blechacz plays a program full of beauty, with Vancouver Chopin Society March 13

Alongside pieces from the group’s namesake, celebrated artist performs Mozart, Debussy, and Szymanowski

MUSIC, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithMarch 10, 2024Vancouver Chopin Society, piano

Vetta Chamber Music gets unabashedly romantic in Music of the Heart

The organization’s upcoming piano-focused concert is all about emotion

MUSICGail JohnsonJanuary 18, 2024Vetta Chamber Music, piano

Polish pianist-composer Hania Rani performs at Chan Centre EXP, December 2

The fast-rising star has an ethereal sound all her own

MUSICGail JohnsonNovember 30, 2023Chan Centre EXP, piano

Stir Cheat Sheet: 6 things to know about legendary South African pianist Abdullah Ibrahim

The prolific octogenarian artist coming to the Chan Centre played at Nelson Mandela’s 1994 inauguration

MUSICStir VancouverNovember 8, 2023Chan Centre, Chan Centre for the Performing Arts, jazz, piano, Homepage feature

For Lilya Zilberstein, Rachmaninoff runs in the blood—and can be played in defiance

The star pianist, who left Russia 33 years ago, also plays Schubert and Liszt at Vancouver Chopin Society solo concert

MUSICJanet SmithSeptember 18, 2023Vancouver Chopin Society, piano, Vancouver Civic Theatres

Pianist-composer Jean-Michel Blais takes audiences on a musical trip

Montreal’s conservatory-trained star journeys fluidly through pop, minimalism, and classical styles

MUSICJanet SmithMay 30, 2023MRG Concerts, Jean-Michel Blais, piano

Piano sensation Tom Borrow performs in Vancouver, April 23

International Piano Magazine calls the 22-year-old Israeli artist “the very definition of ‘one to watch’”

Star Dutch pianist-brothers Arthur and Lucas Jussen revisit Vancouver with verve

Joining VSO in concert, critially acclaimed siblings will perform Mendelssohn’s energetic Concerto for 2 Pianos in E Major

MUSICGail JohnsonMarch 28, 2023Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, piano, The Jussen Brothers, Otto Tausk

Rocking classical pianists Gregory Anderson and Elizabeth Joy Roe mark Chan Centre's 25th anniversary

Known for stylized videos, Anderson & Roe Piano Duo is determined to make classical music accessible

MUSICGail JohnsonFebruary 27, 2023Chan Centre, piano, Anderson & Roe, Spirio, David Fung, UBC

Fast-rising B.C. pianist Jaeden Izik-Dzurko joins Spain’s Casals Quartet in Vancouver for a winning performance

Trained at Juilliard, the Salmon Arm native reunites with the esteemed ensemble from Barcelona for a Friends of Chamber Music concert

MUSICGail JohnsonFebruary 21, 2023piano, Friends of Chamber Music, Jaeden Izik-Dzurko, Vancouver Civic Theatres

Pianist-singer-songwriter Michael Kaeshammer brings upbeat style to the stage

The genre-busting performer will share tracks off of his forthcoming album, Turn It Up

MUSICGail JohnsonNovember 29, 2022Kay Meek Arts Centre, Massey Theatre, Michael Kaeshammer, piano

Piano virtuoso Jon Kimura Parker injects energy into Bernstein’s “Age of Anxiety”

Upcoming performance with Vancouver Symphony Orchestra features the legendary composer’s Symphony No. 2, which is entirely unlike most other piano concertos

MUSICGail JohnsonNovember 8, 2022Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Jon Kimura Paker, Homepage feature, piano

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