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Soprano Audrey Luna reigns over high notes as Queen of the Night in The Magic Flute

Record-breaking singer loves the “female energy” of Vancouver Opera’s stylized production of the Mozart classic

MUSIC, OPERAJanet SmithOctober 17, 2023VANCOUVER OPERA, Vancouver Opera, Mozart, Homepage feature

Amsterdam-based Busch Trio performs a Friends of Chamber Music concert, November 7

Ensemble features pianist Omri Epstein, cellist Ori Epstein, and violinist Mathieu van Bellen

MUSICStir VancouverOctober 17, 2023Partner Content, Friends of Chamber Music

Eight-piece klezmer group Oktopus offers an upbeat-yet-melancholic twist on tradition, in concert October 21

Octet seamlessly blends Jewish folk music with classical, Quebecois, and jazz influences at the Massey Theatre

WHAT'S STIRRING, MUSICJanet SmithOctober 17, 2023Massey Theatre

Cree composer Andrew Balfour brings Indigenous storytelling to Vancouver Chamber Choir as this season's composer-in-residence

Winnipeg-raised artist conducts his piece Waawaa-Steewak—Cree for “Northern Lights”—in upcoming concert

MUSIC, CULTUREJanet SmithOctober 16, 2023Vancouver Chamber Choir, Andrew Balfour

Prague’s Zemlinsky Quartet takes cues from its namesake

Playing together for almost three decades, group pays tribute to composer who bridged the classical past and modernism

MUSICJanet SmithOctober 16, 2023Friends of Chamber Music

Tanika Charles serves cabaret soul at the Kay Meek Arts Centre, October 28 and 29

Toronto-based artist’s latest album Papillon de Nuit: The Night Butterfly mixes ’70s soul with jazz-funk

MUSICStir VancouverOctober 15, 2023Partner Content, Kay Meek Arts Centre

Cory Weeds Quintet performs soulful jazz at Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, October 29

Show features special guest trumpet player Jerry Weldon, who starred on Harry Connick Jr.’s television program HARRY

MUSICStir VancouverOctober 14, 2023Partner Content, Shadbolt Centre for the Arts

Ukrainian pianist Alexander Gavrylyuk transports audiences to an immersive musical universe with Haydn, Chopin, and Mussorgsky

Ahead of Vancouver Chopin Society concert, Wigmore Hall artist-in-residence talks about Chopin’s “beautiful expressions of love” and “mountains of virtuosity”

MUSICJanet SmithOctober 13, 2023Vancouver Chopin Society, Homepage feature

Coastal Jazz & Blues Society's fourth annual IronFest takes place from October 26 to 28

Miniseries in partnership with Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival features improvisational and experimental jazz

MUSICStir VancouverOctober 13, 2023Partner Content, Coastal Jazz & Blues Society

Piano improviser Henrique Eisenmann leads BlueShore at CapU jazz ensembles, October 27

Brazilian-American talent combines unusual contemporary jazz, folk-Latin melodies, and classical music

MUSICStir VancouverOctober 12, 2023Partner Content, BlueShore at CapU

At Vancouver New Music Festival, Blake Hargreaves takes the pipe organ into secular new worlds of sound

As part of Vox Organi, the Budapest-based musician explores the contemporary and the improvisational, unravelling the mysteries of the instrument

MUSIC, FESTSJanet SmithOctober 12, 2023VANCOUVER NEW MUSIC, Vancouver New Music, Vancouver New Music Festival

Life's a Beach launches Vetta Chamber Music's 2023-24 season, October 13 to 15

Performance spotlights quintet by composer-pianist Amy Beach, a female trailblazer in American music

WHAT'S STIRRING, MUSICJanet SmithOctober 11, 2023Vetta Chamber Music

Jacques Lacombe becomes Vancouver Opera's new music director

Canadian maestro conducted last season’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and has conducted at symphonies and opera houses around the globe

MUSIC, OPERAJanet SmithOctober 10, 2023VANCOUVER OPERA, Vancouver Opera

Remembering the Future marks 50 years of arts and activism—for Chile, and for VLACC's Carmen Rodríguez

Performers celebrate Latin American music, poetry, and art, as the onetime dissident remembers their integral role in resistance

B.C. septet Naadaleela fuses music from ancient cultures at BlueShore at CapU, October 21

Group’s music time-travels along the Silk Road with Persian, Indian, Chinese, and Taiwanese influences

MUSICStir VancouverOctober 6, 2023Partner Content, BlueShore at CapU

Pianist Alexander Gavrylyuk plays a Vancouver Chopin Society concert, October 21

Ukrainian talent to perform Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, plus works by Haydn and Chopin

MUSICStir VancouverOctober 6, 2023Partner Content, Vancouver Chopin Society

Vancouver Chamber Choir composer-in-residence Andrew Balfour conducts Waawaa-Steewak, October 20

Balfour’s Cree heritage-inspired piece is accompanied by Manuel de Sumaya’s De lamentatione Jeremiae, and Gerónimo Gonzales’s Lamentación de Jeremías

MUSICStir VancouverOctober 5, 2023Partner Content, Vancouver Chamber Choir, Andrew Balfour