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South African cellist Abel Selaocoe helms the Manchester Collective in Vancouver Recital Society concert, April 11

Energetic program Sirocco spans classics by Stravinsky and Haydn, original African music, and Danish folk songs

MUSICStir VancouverMarch 6, 2024Partner Content, VANCOUVER RECITAL SOCIETY, Spring 2024

For Elektra Women's Choir's At the Spring Dawn, female composers write songs of peace and calm

In concert marking International Women’s Day, Vancouver-based Gerda Blok-Wilson’s meditative harmonies join a contemplative roster

MUSICJanet SmithMarch 5, 2024Elektra Women's Choir, ELEKTRA, Spring 2024, SPRING 2024

Friends of Chamber Music hosts Germany's Fauré Quartett in Vancouver debut, March 26

Vancouver Playhouse concert features Gabriel Fauré’s Piano Quartet No. 1 in C Minor, plus works by Brahms and Mahler

MUSICStir VancouverMarch 5, 2024Partner Content, Friends of Chamber Music, Spring 2024

Elektra Women’s Choir announces Bruce Hoffman's return as marketing director

Long-time member of both Chor Leoni and Christ Church Cathedral Choir previously held role from 2004 to 2012

MUSICStir VancouverMarch 4, 2024Partner Content, Elektra Women’s Choir

Ariel Barnes revisits "transformative journey" of Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time, with Vetta Chamber Music

Unique program travels from pain and tumult of tango through to transcendence

MUSICJanet SmithMarch 4, 2024Vetta Chamber Music, Spring 2024

In Sacred & Profane, Vancouver Chamber Choir concert spans iron's destructive potential to guiding lights, March 8 and 15

Lineup juxtaposes three classic choral works with three pieces written by modern-day composers

Maestro Leonard Slatkin makes Vancouver Symphony Orchestra debut, as principal cellist Henry Shapard’s life comes full circle

Renowned American conductor leads Spanish Adventures program, while string player performs Don Quixote solo with one of his musical heroes on the podium

MUSICJanet SmithMarch 1, 2024VSO, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Spring 2024

For Dior Quartet, different backgrounds come together in perfect harmony

Appearing with Music on Main, string group jumps from Romanticism through Impressionism and on to the ultra-modern

MUSICJanet SmithMarch 1, 2024MUSIC ON MAIN, Music on Main

Vancouver New Music presents Parallel 06: Ioana Vreme Moser, March 16

Berlin-based Romanian sound artist hosts Screaming Minerals concert exploring the decay of information technologies

MUSICStir VancouverFebruary 28, 2024Partner Content, VANCOUVER NEW MUSIC, Spring 2024

With Festival du Bois' Podorythmie, folk songs meet stepdancing, limberjacks, and—yes—crankies

If you’re not quite sure what all those are, read on in our interview with the cross-border quintet of fiddlers, guitarists, and accordion players

MUSIC, FESTSJanet SmithFebruary 27, 2024Festival du Bois, Acadian, Spring 2023, Spring 2024

Shadbolt Centre for the Arts hosts Royal Wood and Jeffery Straker in The Piano Men Tour, March 13

Award-winning Canadian musicians deliver unique sounds and emotional storytelling

MUSICStir VancouverFebruary 26, 2024Partner Content, Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, Spring 2024

Mezzo Marion Newman stars as explorer Isabelle Eberhardt, in Song From the Uproar, February 29 to March 3 at the York Theatre

City Opera stages Canadian premiere of composer Missy Mazzoli’s contemporary work

MUSIC, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithFebruary 26, 2024City Opera, Marion Newman, opera

VAM Symphony Orchestra expresses all the moods of Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 4, February 25 and March 3

Maestro Ian Parker conducts concert of work that follows composer’s journey from melancholy to euphoria

Justin Adams and Mauro Durante's music migrates fluidly from Middle East to Puglia, and beyond

The electric guitarist and violinist-percussionist, set to hit the BlueShore at CapU, bring their diverse influences together in blues that transcend borders

MUSICJanet SmithFebruary 22, 2024BlueShore at CapU