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Shadbolt Centre for the Arts hosts mesmerizing jazz trumpeter Jeremy Pelt, October 11

In a copresentation by Cellar Music Group, Pelt and his four-piece band play experimental songs off his latest record, Tomorrow’s Another Day

Singer-guitarist Nano Stern, leader of new-wave Chilean folk, plays the BlueShore at CapU on October 10

Maestro mesmerizes audiences with soulful lyrics and virtuosity on Spanish and electric guitars, piano, violin, and Andean and Nordic flutes

MUSICStir VancouverSeptember 12, 2024Partner Content, Blueshore at CapU, BlueShore at CapU, Nano Stern

Pacific Baroque Orchestra tackles music director’s new arrangement of Goldberg Variations

Alexander Weimann’s fresh take on Bach’s “apex” of Baroque keyboard music is set to open Early Music Vancouver season

MUSICJanet SmithSeptember 12, 2024EARLY MUSIC VANCOUVER, Early Music Vancouver, Bach

Vancouver Symphony Orchestra opens season with cinematic interpretation of Stravinsky’s The Firebird

Director Lucas van Woerkum will edit and adapt his film to the orchestra’s performance in real-time, in program that includes Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3 and Morlock’s Night, Herself

MUSICJanet SmithSeptember 12, 2024Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, VSO, Classical music, Otto, Lucas van Woerkum

Vancouver New Music announces 2024-25 season spanning "sci-fi turntablism" and a Casavant Frères pipe organ

Organization’s 51st year of programming opens on September 27 with Ugandan electronic musician Afrorack and closes with Toronto-based artist SlowPitchSound

MUSICJanet SmithSeptember 10, 2024VANCOUVER NEW MUSIC, Vancouver New Music

Inuk artist Elisapie performs Uvattini at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts, September 28

Multimedia show immerses audiences in the intimacies of the Juno-winning musician’s Salluit community, located in the very north of Nunavik

Alexander Weimann brings J.S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations to Early Music Vancouver, September 20

Pacific Baroque Orchestra performs a new arrangement of the variations which incorporates Johann Gottlieb Goldberg’s Trio Sonata No. 4 in C Major

Pianist Stewart Goodyear leads Firebird & Rachmaninoff at the VSO, September 20 to 22

Program includes an enchanting Stravinsky ballet score, romantic Rachmaninoff, and late composer Jocelyn Morlock’s mysterious Night, Herself

MUSICStir VancouverSeptember 6, 2024Partner Content, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, VSO, Stewart Goodyear

Epic masterpieces to brand-new music, Vancouver Chamber Choir announces 2024-25 season

Highlights include Figure humaine by Francis Poulenc as well as world premieres

MUSICGail JohnsonSeptember 6, 2024Vancouver Chamber Choir, Kari Turunen

Mexican tenor Javier Camarena makes Canadian debut with Opera West Society, October 3

Singer Behind the Song series presentation in collaboration with UBC Opera will also feature an exclusive interview and masterclass

MUSICStir VancouverSeptember 5, 2024Partner Content, Opera West Society

Indigenous singer-songwriter Celeigh Cardinal traces grief and redemption in new album

Ahead of her Come Toward the Fire festival performance, the JUNO award-winner shares how writing her latest album, Boundless Possibilities, helped her heal from loss and trauma

Vancouver Chamber Choir launches 54th season with Figure humaine, September 27

Lineup features works by Johannes Brahms, UBC music student Joanne S. Na, and the choir’s new composer-in-residence Laura Hawley

MUSICStir VancouverSeptember 4, 2024Partner Content, Vancouver Chamber Choir

Vetta Chamber Music opens its 2024-25 season with Liminal Spaces, September 27 to 30

On the program that explores interconnected forces are works by Mozart, Beethoven, and Vancouver-based composer Jeffrey Ryan

MUSICStir VancouverSeptember 3, 2024Partner Content, Vetta Chamber Music, Jeffrey Ryan

Sound the Alarm tours Andrew Lloyd Webber's hits to Metro Vancouver in Music of the Night, October 12 to 20

B.C. tour visits 18 cities (six local) with favourites from the musical-theatre icon’s greatest shows, spanning Phantom of the Opera, Jesus Christ Superstar, and beyond

MUSIC, THEATREStir VancouverSeptember 3, 2024Partner Content, Sound the Alarm: Music/Theatre, Andrew Lloyd Webber, CATS

Self-accompanying soprano Rachel Fenlon marks her Vancouver Recital Society debut with Schubert’s Winterreise

UBC Opera alum has been gaining international acclaim for her immersive interpretations and double talent

MUSICStir VancouverSeptember 3, 2024rachel fenlon, Schubert, Winterreise, Liede, Soprano, piano, VANCOUVER RECITAL SOCIETY

Afrorack plays his DIY modular synthesizer in a Vancouver New Music concert, September 27

Show presented in partnership with Red Gate Arts Society features guest performances by Adam 2, Goo, and Jacob Audrey Taves

PNE and Canoe Cultures unveil lineup of Indigenous artists at Tatus Festival, August 30 and 31

Juno-winning singer-guitarist George Leach, soulful singer-songwriter Hayley Wallis, and Cree hip-hop artist K.A.S.P. are among the talented performers scheduled