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MISCELLANEOUS Productions hosts free MUSIC 101 workshop series, October 5, 19, 26, and November 2

Marginalized youth are invited to learn from panelists Chin Injeti, Renae Morriseau, Dawn Pemberton, and Jaya Story at the Sarah McLachlan School of Music

ANOHNI and the Johnsons take an intimate look at what’s really happening

The New York City–based artist takes an unflinching look at grief, loss, and ecological collapse

MUSICJanet SmithSeptember 25, 2024ANOHNI, Chan Centre for the Performing Arts, CHAN CENTRE, Homepage feature

Vancouver Chamber Choir sets the stage for nearly 200 voices in A Choral Feast 3, October 19

Concert features UBC University Singers, Vancouver Bach Choir, Nabi Vocal Ensemble, and Intertidal Choral Ensemble, with beloved conductor emeritus Jon Washburn

MUSICStir VancouverSeptember 24, 2024Partner Content, Vancouver Chamber Choir

Inuk singer Elisapie gets deeply emotional on Inuktitut

Recording her new album of cover songs was intensely heart-breaking

MUSICJanet SmithSeptember 24, 2024Elisapie, Homepage feature

A.R. Rahman, who's scored more than 100 films, shares stories and music at the Orpheum, October 5

Slumdog Millionaire composer joins the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra at Vancouver International Film Festival keynote event

Brian Bamanya offers a uniquely Ugandan take on electronic music as Afrorack

Performing on instruments he built himself using salvaged chips and capacitors, the experimental Kampala-based artist debuts in North America

MUSICJanet SmithSeptember 23, 2024Afrorack, Red Gate Arts Society, VANCOUVER NEW MUSIC, Vancouver New Music

Fauré & Bernstein opens the Vancouver Bach Family of Choirs' 2024-25 season, October 18

Fauré’s hauntingly beautiful Requiem and Bernstein’s enchanting Chichester Psalms are on the intimate program conducted by Leslie Dala

MUSICStir VancouverSeptember 23, 2024Partner Content, Vancouver Bach Family of Choirs, Vancouver Bach Choir

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