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Fast-rising cellist Julia Hagen joins Vancouver Symphony Orchestra for Haydn concerto, February 3 to 5

Program also features Elgar’s shimmering Enigma Variations

MUSICStir VancouverJanuary 17, 2023Partner Content, VSO

Vancouver Folk Music Festival won’t return for 2023, as board moves to shut down 45-year-old event

Board cites increasing costs, greater competition for funding as it asks members to vote on dissolution of VFMF Society

NEWS, MUSIC, FESTSGail JohnsonJanuary 17, 2023Vancouver Folk Music Festival, VFMF, Folk Festival

Vancouver Chamber Choir soars into the cosmos in Under the North Star, January 20

Ēriks Ešenvalds’s ode to the Northern Lights, Jordan Nobles’s multilingual names of stars join a stellar program at the H.R. MacMillan Space Centre

MUSICJanet SmithJanuary 16, 2023Vancouver Chamber Choir

New Westminster’s Anvil Centre Theatre launches Outside/In, with free indoor performances and an outdoor street fest over six dates

The celebration of arts and culture features local and national artists

MUSIC, FESTSGail JohnsonJanuary 16, 2023Anvil Centre, New Westminster, Outside/In

Music review: String star Hilary Hahn brings lyricism and clarity to Sibelius’s beloved Violin Concerto in D Minor with the VSO

Moving encore of Bach’s aching “Sarabande” was dedicated to the late Maestro Bramwell Tovey

MUSICJanet SmithJanuary 15, 2023VSO, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Hilary Hahn

The Weather Station’s Tamara Lindeman sings through the darkness

Coming to Vancouver for the Chan Centre EXP series, the Juno-nominated artist finds things to celebrate amid so much societal nihilism

MUSICJanet SmithJanuary 13, 2023Chan Centre, Chan Centre EXP, The Weather Station

Vetta Chamber Music announces Romanticism Unleashed, with a dynamic duo from Barcelona

Violinist Kai Gleusteen and pianist Catherine Ordronneau join Vetta for the classic program of romantic chamber music

MUSICStir VancouverJanuary 11, 2023Partner Content, Vetta Chamber Music

Vancouver violin virtuoso Cameron Wilson's BBC Trio plays jazz in concert, January 15

Standards and original compositions make up the program for the Kay Meek Arts Centre’s third show in its Jazz Violin Concert series

MUSICJanet SmithJanuary 11, 2023Kay Meek Arts Centre, Cameron Wilson, jazz, violin

Early Music Vancouver presents Grammy-nominated countertenor Reginald Mobley on February 3

The artist known for his social activism will perform Purcell’s “Raise, raise the voice”

MUSICStir VancouverJanuary 10, 2023Partner Content, EARLY MUSIC VANCOUVER, Early Music Vancouver

Chan Centre EXP presents Juno-nominated The Weather Station featuring UBC Contemporary Players

Tamara Lindeman’s fast-rising experimental folk band performs in concert copresented by UBC Centre for Climate Justice

MUSICStir VancouverJanuary 9, 2023Partner Content, Chan Centre

Vancouver Chamber Choir offers fully immersive audio-visual experience in UNDER THE NORTH STAR

The one-of-a-kind concert takes place at H.R. MacMillan Space Centre and features 360-degree projections of the Earth, sky, galaxies, and stars

MUSICStir VancouverJanuary 6, 2023Partner Content, Vancouver Chamber Choir

PuSh Festival, Music on Main present Joby Burgess' “A Percussionist’s Songbook”

The genre-defying artist offers an electrifying performance of his new album

MUSIC, FESTSStir VancouverJanuary 5, 2023Partner Content

FADO – The Saddest Music in the World brings its tale of love and ghosts back to the Firehall Arts Centre, January 14 to February 5

Sara Marreiros returns in the lead role to sing Portugal’s heartrending national music

THEATRE, MUSICStir VancouverJanuary 4, 2023Partner Content, FIREHALL, Firehall Arts Centre

Violin virtuoso Henning Kraggerud performs Grieg and Mozart with VSO, January 6 to 8

The internationally acclaimed Norwegian musician is artistic director of the Arctic Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra

WHAT'S STIRRING, MUSICGail JohnsonJanuary 3, 2023Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, VSO, violin

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

Vancouver Chamber Choir offers wide-ranging concert at CHRISTMAS BY CANDELIGHT, December 16

The diverse program includes a moving piece by VCC composer-in-residence Matthew Whittall

MUSIC, HOLIDAY22Janet SmithDecember 13, 2022Vancouver Chamber Choir, Matthew Whittall, Holiday 2022, Christmas

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

Soprano Arwen Myers relishes the joy in Early Music Vancouver's Festive Cantatas: J.S. Bach Magnificat

The in-demand Portland-based vocalist is among several guest artists performing Bach’s exuberant Magnificat and Cantata BWV 110 (Let Our Mouth be Full of Laughter)

Vancouver Symphony Orchestra announces special concert commemorating late maestro Bramwell Tovey, January 15

Coloratura soprano Tracy Dahl and violinist James Ehnes join the VSO musicians as special guests

CULINARY, MUSIC, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithDecember 9, 2022Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Bramwell Tovey

Sound artist Kaitie Sly takes listeners on a sonic journey through the mind, December 9

The bassist-singer-songwriter’s Traversing the Mind is an immersive experience

MUSICJanet SmithDecember 8, 2022Kaitie Sly, Lobe Studio, 4DSOUND

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