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SFU Woodward's and Music on Main join forces to present live version of Graveyards and Gardens

In latest podcast, ArtScape’s Michael Boucher speaks to dance artist Vanessa Goodman about her celebrated creation with Caroline Shaw

Said The Whale joins forces with VSO in concert on April 19

Juno Award-winning band from Vancouver will meld their indie rock with symphony music

MUSICStir VancouverApril 4, 2023Partner Content, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra

BlueShore at CapU presents Paul Pigat and Kevin Breit’s The Shut-Ins, April 23

Country-blues-rock group will perform tracks from their 2021 record and more

MUSICStir VancouverApril 3, 2023Partner Content, BlueShore at CapU

Yo-Yo Ma to launch Vancouver Symphony Orchestra’s 105th season

Also part of VSO’s 2023-24 programming: guest solosists Steven Isserlis and Sarah Chang; B.C. premiere of John Adams’s Harmonielehre; new commissions; and more

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

Music community reeling from news that celebrated Vancouver composer Jocelyn Morlock has died

“National treasure” and former VSO composer-in-residence remembered for kindness, love of nature, and expressivity in music

NEWS, MUSICJanet SmithMarch 28, 2023Jocelyn Morlock

Juno-winning Florian Hoefner Trio brings jazz to BlueShore at CapU, April 18

Evening explores works off the group’s critically acclaimed 2023 release

MUSICStir VancouverMarch 28, 2023Partner Content, BlueShore at CapU

Vancouver Chopin Society celebrates 25 years, April 16 with Thomasz Ritter

Anticipated show at Vancouver Playhouse to be followed by festive reception

MUSICStir VancouverMarch 27, 2023Partner Content, Vancouver Chopin Society

Piano virtuoso Jane Coop joins Vancouver Chamber Choir for SPRINGTIME, April 2

Three world premieres are on the program that celebrates the season

Podorythmie, Forró do Cana, and Métis Jiggers get Festival Du Bois dancing, March 24 to 26

Fiddles, hard-shoe step-dancing, and more to get you moving at the 34th annual event

MUSIC, FESTS, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithMarch 24, 2023Festival du Bois, Spring 2023

Catalan duo Tarta Relena performs as part of Chan Centre EXP series, April 9

The multilingual artists blend genres and transcend time with song

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

Pianist Ian Parker, trumpeter Jens Lindeman lead bold new take on Rhapsody in Blue, March 24

Rhapsody and the Blues concert features a fresh arrangement of George Gershwin’s iconic work for piccolo trumpet, solo piano, and jazz big band

MUSICGail JohnsonMarch 22, 2023Ian Parker, Jens Lindeman, Kay Meek Arts Centre, jazz

Vancouver International Jazz Festival launches new ROAMER Pass for Granville Island ticketed shows

South Africa’s Nduduzo Makhathini and Chicago- and Brooklyn-based saxophonist Isaiah Collier among names unveiled for Performance Works series June 24 to July 2