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Marina Hasselberg's cello music takes on new dimensions at Mother Cloud Spatial Sound Festival

Ruby Singh’s Vox Infold choir will also play in concerts that conjure 4-D, omnidirectional sound environments

MUSICJanet SmithFebruary 15, 2024Marina Hasselberg, cello, Lobe Studio, Mother Cloud Spatial Sound Festival

Singer-songwriter Dominique Fils-Aimé centres herself through dreamlike song

Coastal Jazz presents the Montreal star whose new Our Roots Run Deep dives ever further into her mesmerizing search for self

MUSICJanet SmithFebruary 15, 2024Coastal Jazz & Blues Society

Leonard Slatkin conducts Spanish Adventures: Don Quixote at the VSO, March 8 to 10

Renowned conductor leads Vancouver Symphony Orchestra principal cellist Henry Shapard and principal violist Hung-Wei Huang

MUSICStir VancouverFebruary 15, 2024Partner Content, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, VSO, Spring 2024

Vancouver Academy of Music Symphony Orchestra performs Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4, March 3

Kay Meek Competition-winning pianist Merett Khamis takes the lead in concert conducted by Ian Parker

MUSICStir VancouverFebruary 14, 2024Partner Content, Vancouver Academy of Music

All things azure, as Vancouver Cantata Singers perform BLUE, February 18 at the Annex

Webern, Górecki, and a premiere by Marcel Bergmann, plus more meditations on the serene hue

MUSIC, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithFebruary 13, 2024Vancouver Cantata Singers, Vancouver Civic Theatres

Vancouver Symphony Orchestra hosts Meow Meow: Pandemonium on March 2

Led by conductor Nicholas Buc, international siren and comedienne extraordinaire Meow Meow performs Piazzolla tangos, Brel, and Radiohead

MUSICStir VancouverFebruary 13, 2024Partner Content, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, VSO

Elektra Women's Choir celebrates International Women’s Day with At the Spring Dawn, March 10

Program features works by Cree-Dene composer Sherryl Sewepagaham, Ukrainian composer Iryna Aleksiychuk, and more

MUSICStir VancouverFebruary 13, 2024Partner Content, Elektra Women's Choir

Justin Adams and Mauro Durante perform unique worldbeat music at BlueShore at CapU, February 28

Guitarist for Robert Plant and peerless Italian multi-instrumentalist mesmerize audiences with synergistic playing

MUSICStir VancouverFebruary 12, 2024Partner Content, BlueShore at CapU

Review: Vancouver Opera's Don Pasquale takes an entertaining trip to stylized retro Rome

Flowing bel canto music meets a production full of comedic stage business, side characters, and cat figurines

MUSICJanet SmithFebruary 12, 2024Vancouver Opera, VANCOUVER OPERA, Homepage feature

Vancouver Chamber Choir focuses on hope in War & Peace concert

Program features aspiring artists from VCC’s Conductors’ Symposium

MUSICJanet SmithFebruary 9, 2024Vancouver Chamber Choir

Vancouver Opera announces 2024-25 65th-anniversary season with groovy '60s look

Die Fledermaus, Flight, and Madama Butterfly are on the roster

MUSICJanet SmithFebruary 9, 2024VANCOUVER OPERA, Vancouver Opera

Local improvisers journey through South African styles at Jazz at the Bolt

Clarinet master François Houle and friends explore the radical sounds of 1960s Cape Town and Johannesburg, at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts event

MUSICJanet SmithFebruary 9, 2024Jazz at the Bolt, Shadbolt Centre, Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, Francois Houle, jazz

Pianist Timo Andres blends Ellington with an array of American classical pieces, at Music on Main

Aaron Copland, Philip Glass, and other works sit easily with “Duke”’s, as Month of Tuesdays launches

MUSICJanet SmithFebruary 8, 2024Music on Main, MUSIC ON MAIN

Sea shanties set sail as La Nef's Seán Dagher joins Chor Leoni

The vocalist and cittern player applies early-music scholarship to ancient songs of the sailor’s life

MUSICJanet SmithFebruary 8, 2024Chor Leoni, CHOR LEONI, Homepage feature

Vetta Chamber Music hosts spring program Music for Eternity from March 8 to 11

Fourth concert of the season explores concepts of time with compositions by Brahms, Messiaen, and Mackey

MUSICStir VancouverFebruary 7, 2024Partner Content, Vetta Chamber Music

Vancouver Opera issues public advisory against unauthorized third-party ticket resellers

Company directs patrons to its own site after scalpers offer tickets at “inflated” prices

NEWS, MUSIC, OPERAJanet SmithFebruary 7, 2024Vancouver Opera, VANCOUVER OPERA

Ebony Roots Concert, Part 2 travels through more than a century of powerful Black music, February 9

Spanning work songs, Blues, opera, and more, Sound the Alarm: Music/Theatre’s project comes to full fruition at the Roundhouse

MUSICJanet SmithFebruary 7, 2024Ebony Roots, Black History Month

Arts Umbrella hosts performance of Debra Sparrow-inspired composition Strings of the Universe, February 25

Violinist Jack Campbell’s new piece draws upon renowned Musqueam artist’s weaving

MUSICStir VancouverFebruary 7, 2024Partner Content, Arts Umbrella

Early Music Vancouver presents soprano Myriam Leblanc's Ensemble Mirabilia, February 16

Group co-founded by flutist Grégoire Jeay plays works that draw upon fiery character of Baroque chaconne

MUSICStir VancouverFebruary 6, 2024Partner Content, EARLY MUSIC VANCOUVEr

Vancouver Cantata Singers presents BLUE, an ultramarine imagery-inspired concert, on February 18

Lineup features works by Anton Webern and Dolly Parton, plus a new commission by Marcel Bergmann

MUSICStir VancouverFebruary 6, 2024Partner Content, Vancouver Cantata Singers

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