The Vancouver Island Symphony is bringing live music back! This summer, under artistic director Pierre Simard, the symphony is offering a series of four Summer Pop Up Concerts in and around Nanaimo, BC. Featuring four different ensembles from the Vancouver Island Symphony over July and August. These ensembles include: Trio of Flute, Violin and Bass String Quartet…
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Vancouver Inter-Cultural Orchestra releases “In The Key Of The World”
“Music speaks what cannot be expressed, soothes the mind and gives it rest; heals the heart and makes it whole, flows from heaven to the soul.” – Author Unknown Cross-cultural connections, communication and collaboration feels like it’s needed more than ever, these days, and music can serve as a soothing and uplifting example. The Vancouver Inter-Cultural…
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…
Vancouver Academy Of Music Fills The Orpheum
Celebrating its 50th anniversary, Vancouver Academy of Music used the special occasion to honour the 250th anniversary of Ludwig van Beethoven with an afternoon concert, Resounding Joy: Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, at the Orpheum Theatre. Conductor Emeritus Leslie Dala lead students from the VAM Symphony Orchestra (VAMSO), plus the Vancouver Bach Choir, and members of VAM’s choral program, as well…
Vancouver Academy of Music celebrates with Beethoven’s Ninth
Vancouver Academy of Music is celebrating its 50th anniversary season, March 1st, with a special presentation in honour of the genius of Ludwig van Beethoven. Resounding Joy: Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, on Sunday, March 1, 2020 at 2pm at the Orpheum Theatre. Faculty from past & present, guest artists, and the Vancouver Bach Choir take the stage to honour Beethoven’s 250th Anniversary with a…
Make an Appointment with Vancouver Opera’s The Barber of Seville
For the Valentine’s season Vancouver Opera has delivered another beautifully-staged love story to the Queen Elizabeth Theatre. Gioachino Rossini’s comic opera The Barber of Seville is known as one of the foremost works of opera buffa – Italian comic opera, even 200+ years after its debut. The Barber of Seville brings all the stereotypes of…
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…