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Gabriel Kahane performs two captivating albums at Music on Main, May 10 and 11

Magnificent Bird, released in 2022, makes its Canadian premiere at the Annex

MUSICStir VancouverApril 18, 2023Partner Content, Music on Main

Guitar virtuosos Paul Pigat and Kevin Breit guaranteed to deliver surprises in concert

The revered musicians share an obsession with eccentric instruments

MUSICGail JohnsonApril 17, 2023BlueShore at CapU, Paul Pigat, concerts

Early Music Vancouver hosts Schubertiade with The Leonids and Chor Leoni on May 5

Male choral ensembles and pianist Alexander Weimann combine for Franz Schubert-filled evening

MUSICStir VancouverApril 17, 2023Partner Content, EARLY MUSIC VANCOUVEr, CHOR LEONI, The Leonids

Vancouver Juno-winning band Said the Whale rocks with the VSO, April 19

SaidHeads rejoice: the indie-rock group emerged from the pandemic stronger than ever

Croatian pianist Maksim Mrvica performs the Queen Elizabeth Theatre, May 17

Concert is part of internationally renowned artist’s The Collection World Tour

MUSICStir VancouverApril 15, 2023Partner Content, Xing Huang Entertainment

Nightingales to warblers, La Rêveuse: The Birds Concert draws inspiration from avian song

French ensemble goes beyond sonic beauty with compelling ecological message in Early Music Vancouver program

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

Chor Leoni’s VanMan Summit Concert highlights over 200 voices on May 13

Men’s choir unites tenors, basses, and baritones for celebratory conclusion to week-long festival

MUSICStir VancouverApril 13, 2023Partner Content, CHOR LEONI, VanMan Choral Summit

Vancouver Folk Music Festival announces 2023 early-bird tickets now on sale; provides sneak peek at lineup

Among the confirmed artists are Celeigh Cardinal, Susan O’Neill, Blick Bassy, and Las Cafeteras

FESTS, MUSICGail JohnsonApril 13, 2023Vancouver Folk Music Festival

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

Ensemble will perform songs off of acclaimed album Desert Bloom

WHAT'S STIRRING, MUSICGail JohnsonApril 13, 2023BlueShore at CapU, jazz, Spring 2023

See Vetta Chamber Music’s Wartime Masterpieces in concert, April 28 to May 1

Program will feature music from composers whose lives were impacted by war

MUSICStir VancouverApril 12, 2023Partner Content, Vetta Chamber Music

George Hinchcliffe’s Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain puts "outsider instrument" to everything from Bach to punk to bebop

The plucky project, coming to Vancouver Recital Society, has confounded expectations and toured the world for almost 40 years now

Grammy nominee Anoushka Shankar to return to the Chan Centre, where rising star Hania Rani will make Vancouver debut

Shankar is a revered sitar player; Rani is a Polish pianist-vocalist-composer

MUSICGail JohnsonApril 11, 2023Chan Centre, Jarrett Martineau

Union representing stagehands, theatre techs employed by Vancouver Symphony Orchestra files historic 72-hour strike notice

IATSE Local 118 files notice for first time in its history, says VSO stage employees have been without a contract since June 2022

MUSIC, NEWSGail JohnsonApril 11, 2023Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, IATSE, VSO

The Birds Concert flutters to life at Early Music Vancouver on April 21

Program from France’s La Rêveuse features compositions reminiscent of birdsong

MUSICStir VancouverApril 11, 2023Partner Content, EARLY MUSIC VANCOUVER

Pianist Tomasz Ritter brings his passion for period instruments to Vancouver Chopin Society

Polish star will play Beethoven, Schubert, and, of course, Chopin on a faithful copy of an 1819 Conrad Graf piano

Early Music Vancouver launches new emerging artist competition May 1 to 15

Those 30 years of age or younger can apply from around the world

NEWS, MUSICJanet SmithApril 11, 2023EARLY MUSIC VANCOUVER, Early Music Vancouver

Dory Hayley sings George Aperghis’s Récitations at Vancouver New Music, April 22

Collection of 14 works is a challenging masterpiece of contemporary solo vocal writing

MUSICStir VancouverApril 11, 2023Partner Content, VANCOUVER NEW MUSIC

Stir Bedside Table: Jill Barber

The East Vancouver singer-songwriter-musician talks Bad Cree: A Novel, Catcher in the Rye, and more

MUSIC, READGail JohnsonApril 10, 2023BC books, Stir Bedside Table, Jill Barber, The Cultch, music, books

Danish String Quartet's daring Doppelgänger pairs old and new music

Coming to Vancouver, the Grammy-nominated ensemble combines world premieres by contemporary composers with late major chamber works by Schubert

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