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Cello superstar Sheku returns with a wide-ranging solo program, October 29 at the Chan Centre

Crossing centuries of music for the Vancouver Recital Society performance, the artist is planning a grand finale with young cellists

MUSIC, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithOctober 22, 2023Vancouver Recital Society, VANCOUVER RECITAL SOCIETY, Sheku

Jazz pianist Henrique Eisenmann effortlessly folds in influences, from world music to chants, October 27

The Sao Paulo-born, New York City-based musician and academic works across art forms and genres

WHAT'S STIRRING, MUSICJanet SmithOctober 21, 2023BlueShore at CapU, jazz

Tony Wilson’s music-filled, multimedia The Homeless Project shines a light on the city’s dispossessed

As part of Ironfest and Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival, an all-star team of improvisors join the musician-composer who knows what it’s like to live on the streets

Vancouver Cantata Singers open 2023-24 season OASIS: Solace in Song with REFUGE, November 4

Program honouring Remembrance Day features Reena Esmail’s When the Violin and William Byrd’s Infelix ego

MUSICStir VancouverOctober 20, 2023Partner Content, Vancouver Cantata Singers

Blackout Art Society's third annual STAND Festival centres on immigrant and refugee artists, November 2 to 12

Several impactful theatre, dance, and music performances are on the lineup, along with workshop, art exhibition, and live podcast offerings

FESTS, THEATRE, DANCE, MUSICStir VancouverOctober 19, 2023Partner Content, Blackout Art Society

Chor Leoni offers annual Remembrance Day concert Boundless on November 10 and 11

Soaring voices of 70-member choir create space for community contemplation and reflection

MUSICStir VancouverOctober 18, 2023Partner Content, CHOR LEONI

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