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UBC Opera's Cendrillon conjures a fairy-tale world with some serious singing

As Cinderella and her Prince Charmant, soprano Alexandra Baird and mezzo Katie Fraser relish the chance to stage Massenet’s magic-dusted masterpiece at the Chan Centre

MUSICJanet SmithJanuary 25, 2024UBC Opera, CHan Centre for the Performing Arts, CHAN CENTRE

Chor Leoni sets sail with Montreal folk ensemble La Nef in The Return Voyage, February 16 and 17

Following sold-out 2020 concert, acclaimed ensembles reunite to dive deeper into rich repertoire of sea shanties

MUSICStir VancouverJanuary 25, 2024Partner Content, CHOR LEONI, La Nef

Stir Cheat Sheet: 5 things to know about Germany's Goldmund Quartet ahead of its Vancouver debut

In a Friends of Chamber Music concert, the four musicians will play works by Haydn, Borodin, and Beethoven

MUSICStir VancouverJanuary 24, 2024Friends of Chamber Music, chamber music

Shabaka Hutchings and Kahil El’Zabar’s Ethnic Heritage Ensemble play the Chan Centre, February 21

Saxophonist-flutist Shabaka is leading the British jazz renaissance, while El’Zabar and ensemble are commemorating a 50-year milestone

MUSICStir VancouverJanuary 24, 2024Partner Content, Chan Centre for the Performing Arts

In Bizarre Love Triangle, Vancouver Academy of Music chamber players explore relationship between three 1800s composers, January 28

Program of vigour and yearning features compositions by Robert Schumann, Clara Schumann, and Johannes Brahms

MUSIC, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithJanuary 22, 2024Vancouver Academy of Music

Christ Church Cathedral Choir performs Evensong for Candlemas to celebrate 135th birthday, January 28

Concert marks a major feast day with choral works by Holst, Lang, and more

WHAT'S STIRRING, MUSICGail JohnsonJanuary 22, 2024Christ Church Cathedral

Youths take the spotlight in Vancouver Chamber Choir’s Horizons, January 27

Up-and-coming talents are featured in mixed concert program

WHAT'S STIRRING, MUSICGail JohnsonJanuary 22, 2024Vancouver Chamber Choir, youth

Tibetan singer-songwriter Yungchen Lhamo makes musical mantras as an offering of peace

U.S.-based artist draws on everything from thousand-year-old chants to brass bell vibrations and stirring North African beats

MUSICJanet SmithJanuary 21, 2024BlueShore at CapU, Tibet

Shadbolt Centre for the Arts presents Paul Pigat and the Smoking Jackets, February 4

Genre-bending Vancouver guitarist joined by six-piece band in cabaret-style show

MUSICStir VancouverJanuary 19, 2024Partner Content, Shadbolt Centre for the Arts

With Inheritances, Adam Tendler mines fraught father-son relationship through piano

Music on Main and PuSh Festival present moving solo concert that began with a surprise envelope of cash and a desire to process loss

MUSICJanet SmithJanuary 18, 2024Homepage feature, Music on Main, MUSIC ON MAIN, PuSh Festival

Vetta Chamber Music gets unabashedly romantic in Music of the Heart

The organization’s upcoming piano-focused concert is all about emotion

MUSICGail JohnsonJanuary 18, 2024Vetta Chamber Music, piano

BlueShore at CapU hosts Kate McGarry and Keith Ganz in concert, February 2

Grammy-nominated jazz singer McGarry and guitarist Ganz team up for a jazz-pop repertoire from the ’60s and ’70s

MUSICStir VancouverJanuary 17, 2024Partner Content, BlueShore at CapU

Armed with a big, 1950s Gibson, Australia's Minnie Marks brings new energy to International Guitar Night

On her first North American tour, Australia’s rousing singer and propulsive electric guitarist draws on Down Under blues and follows her heart

MUSICJanet SmithJanuary 17, 2024International Guitar Night, blues, Massey Theatre, The Massey, Homepage feature

The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra hosts Black Panther in Concert, February 9 and 10

Audiences can see Ludwig Göransson’s Oscar-winning Marvel Studios film score performed live to picture

MUSIC, SCREENStir VancouverJanuary 16, 2024Partner Content, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, VSO

Han Finckel Setzer Trio returns to Vancouver in Friends of Chamber Music concert, February 6

Cellist David Finckel, pianist Wu Han, and violinist Philip Setzer perform Schubert’s first and second Piano Trios

MUSICStir VancouverJanuary 16, 2024Partner Content, Friends of Chamber Music

TomoeArts closes the curtain with program commemorating legacy of late artistic director Colleen Lanki, January 20

Fifteen Years of Dream features performances by company’s closest collaborators over its 15-year run, in honour of Japanese classical dance master Lanki

DANCE, MUSIC, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithJanuary 16, 2024TomoeArts