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Opera West Society and UBC Opera stage Jules Massenet’s Manon, March 28 and 30

French Romantic masterpiece stars soprano Emily Pogorelc as Manon and tenor Frédéric Antoun as Chevalier des Grieux

MUSICStir VancouverMarch 3, 2025Partner Content, Opera West Society, UBC Opera, Spring 2025

Chan Centre for the Performing Arts hosts Silkroad Ensemble: Uplifted Voices, March 30

Concert shines a light on previously under-recognized Japanese, Armenian, Irish, Scottish, and Indigenous music

Saxophonist Julia Nolan joins The Four Jays—Live! for a celebration of International Women’s Day

Vetta Chamber Music concert features a quartet that also includes violinist Joan Blackman, bassist Jodi Proznick, and pianist Jane Hayes

MUSICJanet SmithFebruary 28, 2025Vetta Chamber Music, Julia Nolan, Spring 2025

The VSO presents Dvořák’s New World Symphony, March 21 to 23

Program also features mezzo-soprano Marion Newman in the world premiere of Marcus Goddard’s Mountain Visions

MUSICStir VancouverFebruary 27, 2025Partner Content, VSO, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Spring 2025

Berlin's Notos Quartett makes its West Coast debut at the Vancouver Playhouse

Friends of Chamber Music concert includes William Walton’s Piano Quartet in D minor, a varied piece with an interesting backstory

MUSICJanet SmithFebruary 26, 2025Notos Quartet, Friends of Chamber Music, Homepage feature, Spring 2025

Vancouver pianist Ken Cormier dives into some of his favourite songs at Chor Leoni’s PopCappella 3D

Joining Cormier and the 60-voice choir are Laurence Mollerup on bass, Liam MacDonald on percussion, and Keith Sinclair on guitar

MUSICJanet SmithFebruary 25, 2025Chor Leoni, Ken Cormier, Spring 2025

Vancouver Symphony Orchestra Chamber Players perform Mozart, Brahms & Bartók, March 6 and 9

Musicians of the VSO curate intimate concerts at Pyatt Hall

MUSIC, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithFebruary 24, 2025Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, VSO, Spring 2025

Early Music Vancouver hosts Quicksilver: The Early Moderns, March 21

Quicksilver Baroque Ensemble plays a program of sonatas by Italian and German composers

MUSICStir VancouverFebruary 24, 2025Partner Content, Early Music Vancouver, EARLY MUSIC VANCOUVEr, EMV, Spring 2025

Rowdy folkies La Patente finally point their van at the West Coast's Festival du Bois

The francophone four-piece have fans in Europe and the States. Now it’s our turn

MUSIC, FESTSJanet SmithFebruary 24, 2025Festival du Bois, Homepage feature, Spring 2025

Translinear Light: The Music of Alice Coltrane comes to the Chan Centre, February 28

Saxophonist Ravi Coltrane leads an ensemble through his late mother’s final album

MUSIC, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithFebruary 20, 2025Chan Centre, CHAN CENTRE, Chan Centre for the Performing Arts

Swiss keyboardist Nik Bärtsch looks to architecture and design for inspiration

The bandleader of the quartet Ronin brings “controlled intensity” to BlueShore at CapU

Red Sky Performance’s Sandra Laronde, actor Graham Greene among Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards

Jeremy Dutcher also receives the National Arts Centre Award as part of the announcement

MUSIC, NEWSJanet SmithFebruary 20, 2025Jeremy Dutcher, Governor General's Literary Awards

Tap dancer Danny Nielsen brings the rhythm to Vancouver Cantata Singers ROAM concert

Diverse program features songs that evoke feelings of wanderlust, including new arrangements of “Roam” by the B-52s and Billy Joel’s “River of Dreams”

MUSICJanet SmithFebruary 20, 2025Vancouver Cantata Singers, Danny Nielsen, tap dance, Homepage feature

Music on Main highlights Canadian composers at Classical Road to the Junos, February 25

Program hosted by Paolo Pietropaolo features zheng player Dailin Hsieh, flutist Paolo Bortolussi, cellist Jonathan Lo, and pianist Rachel Kiyo Iwaasa

MUSIC, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithFebruary 20, 2025Music on Main, MUSIC ON MAIN, CBC, Junos, Juno Awards, Jocelyn Morlock, Rachel Kiyo Iwaasa

Czech Republic's Pavel Haas Quartet returns to Friends of Chamber Music in concert, March 16

Renowned musicians to play compositions by Martinů, Korngold, and Dvořák

MUSICStir VancouverFebruary 18, 2025Partner Content, Friends of Chamber Music, Spring 2025

The Slocan Ramblers hit Kay Meek Arts Centre, February 22 and 23

The Toronto-based band is a leader in today’s bluegrass music scene

MUSIC, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithFebruary 18, 2025Kay Meek Arts Centre

Emerging artists take centre stage in Burnaby Lyric Opera's Le Nozze di Figaro

Music director Richard Epp dives into details on Mozart’s score in the comedic opera coming to the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts

Inner Mongolia's Anda Union brings Indigenous throat singing to Vancouver, March 14

Caravan World Rhythms presents the nine-member ensemble, which evokes the beauty of Mongolian grasslands through haunting harmonies and vibrant strings

MUSICStir VancouverFebruary 14, 2025Partner Content, Caravan World Rhythms, Spring 2025