This time of year is usually building with anticipation of the coming season’s outdoor music festivals. However with the cloud of COVID-19 and physical distancing restrictions hanging heavy over us, most of the annual festivals will not be returning this summer. While a few have not announced cancellations or changes, you can be sure that…
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Vancouver Symphony Orchestra Announces 2020/21 Season
While the current season is temporarily interrupted due to COVID-19 precautions, the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra (VSO) looks to the future and its 2020/21 season. The recently announced season will be Otto Tausk’s third as Music Director. From Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5 and The Sorcerer’s Apprentice to Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring, Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, and MahlerFest, the…
VSO New Music Festival Starts the New Year
As the 2020s begin Vancouver Symphony Orchestra brings the VSO New Music Festival to stages from January 11-16. With a theme of (Re-)Creation, the festival is a chance to revisit and discover new, brilliant and extraordinary works of the 21st Century with the artists who originally created them. Opening the festival January 11th at The Chan…
Vancouver Bach Festival Wraps In Tribute to Saint Cecilia
After 11 days of beautiful music, the Vancouver Bach Festival came to a close last week with a celebration of the patron saint of musicians. Early Music Vancouver (EMV) presented Purcell Hail! Bright Cecilia at Chan Centre for Performing Arts at UBC. Composed by English Composer Henry Purcell in 1692 to a text by Nicholas…
Vancouver Bach Festival Brings Back Bach
The Vancouver Bach Festival, presented by Early Music Vancouver (EMV) returns to Christ Church Cathedral and the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts, July 30 – August 9, 2019. J.S. Bach (1685 – 1750) is regarded as one of the greatest composers in Western musical history. His legacy includes some of the most beautiful and well-crafted music ever written. Almost…
Vancouver Folk Music Festival Debuts 2018 Line Up
From July 13 to 15, 2018, the Vancouver Folk Music Festival will once again take over Jericho Beach Park. The 42nd Annual Festival brings folk fans, friends and families, another line-up of the best of traditional and contemporary folk and roots music from around the world. Legends, up and comers, deliver global rhythms, from the likes of…
Join a Free Conversation with Abdullah Ibrahim Tonight
Sunday night, The Chan Centre for Performing Arts welcomed The Jazz Epistles : Abdullah Ibrahim with Terrance Blanchard, an evening with the jazz greats plus the band Ekaya. The Chan Centre was filled with fans ready to get lost the smooth sounds of the eight performers gracing the stage; Ibrahim on piano and Blanchard on…