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Violist David Harding joins Vetta Chamber Music for its season-opening concert

The artist felt at home the first time he played the viola at age 16

MUSICGail JohnsonSeptember 23, 2024Vetta Chamber Music, David Harding, Joan Blackman, Jeffrey Ryan

West Vancouver Memorial Library names Sam Lynch as inaugural Sound Artist in Residence

Award-winning local singer-songwriter to host several free programs and workshops at the library’s state-of-the-art Recording Studio during her term

MUSICStir VancouverSeptember 23, 2024Partner Content, West Vancouver Memorial Library, Sam Lynch

Nineteen-year-old Canadian pianist Kevin Chen balances works by his favourite composers

Chopin and Liszt are on the program at the Kay Meek Arts Centre, as the internationally acclaimed musician makes his Vancouver debut

MUSICJanet SmithSeptember 23, 2024Kay Meek Arts Centre, Kevin Chen, Piano, piano, Homepage feature

Vancouver New Music's PROPULSION festival spotlights visionary emerging artists, October 17 to 19

Curators Kendra Place, Anju Singh, and Reylinn present a futuristic lineup of sonic performers in copresentation with VIVO Media Arts Centre

Soul-gospel singer Khari Wendell McClelland performs at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, October 18

Detroit-born, Vancouver-based artist integrates early African American rhythms and folklore with contemporary sounds and stories

Jenny Scheinman’s All Species Parade pays homage to the Pacific Northwest, October 21 at BlueShore at CapU

California-based violinist and composer performs her new double album which evokes “a charged relationship to the natural world”

MUSICStir VancouverSeptember 20, 2024Partner Content, Blueshore at CapU, BlueShore at CapU, Jenny Scheinman

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