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Stir Q&A: New Vancouver Chamber Choir composer-in-residence Laura Hawley on choral music, community, and collaboration

The ensemble will perform Hawley’s The Arrow and the Song at its epic season-opening concert

MUSICGail JohnsonSeptember 20, 2024Vancouver Chamber Choir, Laura Hawley

ANOHNI and the Johnsons open 27th season of Chan Centre Presents programming, October 5

Singer-songwriter’s first Vancouver concert in 15 years features tracks off her latest studio album, My Back Was A Bridge For You To Cross

Vancouver Opera opens 65th-anniversary season with Die Fledermaus, October 26 to November 3

Director Ashlie Corcoran and conductor Jacques Lacombe helm spectacular production of Johann Strauss II’s 1960s-set comic operetta

MUSICStir VancouverSeptember 19, 2024Partner Content, Vancouver Opera, Ashlie Corcoran, Jacques Lacombe

Germany's Gropius Quartet plays its debut Friends of Chamber Music concert, October 15

Program for the evening at the Vancouver Playhouse spans Haydn, Shostakovich, and Mendelssohn

MUSICStir VancouverSeptember 18, 2024Partner Content, Friends of Chamber Music, Gropius Quartet

88 Strings combines Chinese, Persian, and Western plucked instruments at Pyatt Hall on September 20

Debut concert by the powerful new ensemble features world premieres and melodious classics

MUSICGail JohnsonSeptember 17, 2024VICO, Vancouver Inter-Cultural Orchestra, 88 Strings

Renowned Indigenous artists Jeremy Dutcher and Alanis Obomsawin perform at the Chan Centre, October 4

Wolastoqiyik tenor-composer and Abenaki filmmaker-musician deliver an intimate two-part concert presented in partnership with VIFF and the Vancouver Art Gallery

Elektra Women's Choir rebrands as Elektra

The new name reflects the ensemble’s commitment to inclusion and embraces gender neutrality

MUSICGail JohnsonSeptember 16, 2024Elektra Women's Choir, Elektra, Morna Edmundson

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