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Maestro Otto Tausk: Music will always find a way

The music director of Vancouver Symphony Orchestra says the pandemic has proven the power of and need for the arts

MUSICGail JohnsonJanuary 27, 2022Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Otto Tausk, Homepage feature

I swallowed a moon made of iron pays tribute to haunting poetry borne out of Chinese factory despair

Njo Kong Kie’s solo ode to the late Xu Lizhi mixes music, movement, and projections

MUSIC, FESTSJanet SmithJanuary 26, 2022PuSh Festival

Plains Cree multidisciplinary artist Eden Fine Day named 2022 Vancouver Public Library Indigenous Storyteller in Residence

The singer-songwriter, guitar player, writer, and painter uses self-expression as a form of self-healing

CULTURE, MUSICGail JohnsonJanuary 25, 2022Eden Fine Day, Vancouver Public Library, Indigenous

Scores of new musical works burst forth at Turning Point Ensemble's Solo Flare, January 28 and 29

Born out of pandemic restrictions, the concert shines a light on individual artists

MUSICGail JohnsonJanuary 25, 2022Turning Point Ensemble, music

Juilliard-trained Vancouver-born pianist Ian Parker plays finger-twisters with Vetta

Growing up, the musician was literally surrounded by pianos

MUSICGail JohnsonJanuary 24, 2022Vetta Chamber Music, Ian Parker, piano

Review: Voices wash over mesmerized listeners in the dark, at Vox.Infold

At the intimate PuSh Festival installation, throat-singing, soul, and other styles melt into a soundscape that comes at you from all directions

MUSIC, FESTSJanet SmithJanuary 22, 2022PuSh Festival, Lobe Studio, Vox.Infold

For Vancouver flute player Christie Reside, dark and stormy music fits the times

The artist’s upcoming VSO performance does away with the instrument’s stereotypes

MUSICGail JohnsonJanuary 19, 2022Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Christie Reside, UBC School of Music, flute

Ian Parker and Friends find the beautiful connections between Haydn, Schumann, and Mendelssohn

The Vetta Chamber Music concert features the return of the magnetic pianist in a trio of serene pieces

MUSICJanet SmithJanuary 18, 2022Vetta Chamber Music

Violin star Chloe Kim and the Pacific Baroque Orchestra travel to Corelli's Italy and beyond, online January 19

At Early Music Vancouver, the dazzling “La Follia” varations and more

MUSIC, LIVESTREAMJanet SmithJanuary 17, 2022Early Music Vancouver, EMV, Chloe Kim

Turning Point Ensemble launches more collaborative 1+1+1... a film series starting January 31

The cross-sector project brings together composers, filmmakers, dancers, visual artists and more in striking five-minute works

MUSICJanet SmithJanuary 17, 2022Turning Point Ensemble

Debussy, Satie and Tan Dun shimmer in upcoming Vancouver Symphony Orchestra performance

The Musically Speaking concert is full of colour and playfulness

MUSICJanet SmithJanuary 14, 2022Partner Content, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra

Ruby Singh celebrates rich cultural polyphony with Vox.Infold, at the PuSh Festival

Racialized artists come together to find harmony in disparate vocal styles

MUSICJanet SmithJanuary 14, 2022PuSh Festival

In Solo Flare, members of Turning Point Ensemble show, share their creative spark

Soloists selected a composer to work with and collaborated with various other artists for a cross-disciplinary concert featuring 11 world premieres

MUSICStir VancouverJanuary 13, 2022Turning Point Ensemble, Partner Content

Vancouver composer Leslie Uyeda's When The Sun Comes Out sees its U.S. premiere at Portland Opera, January 28

Originally commissioned by the Queer Arts Festival, pioneering opera explores love in a nation where homosexuality is banned.

MUSIC, NEWS, OPERAJanet SmithJanuary 13, 2022opera, Leslie Uyeda

Vancouver Symphony Orchestra performs Chopin, Fauré & Bologne

The concert features award-winning Canadian Chopin specialist Charles Richard-Hamelin

MUSICJanet SmithJanuary 11, 2022Partner Content, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra

VSO changes its tunes in response to latest COVID wave

Steven Page concert rescheduled to spring; new programming in January to increase physical distancing on-stage

MUSIC, NEWSGail JohnsonJanuary 10, 2022Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, VSO, Steven Page, COVID-19, COVID

Stir Q&A: C.R. Avery’s debut feature film is a bohemian love letter to East Van

The multidisciplinary artist releases Victory on East Hastings, accompanies premiere screening live with C.R. Avery Orchestra

MUSIC, SCREENGail JohnsonJanuary 10, 2022CR Avery, The Rio Theatre, East Vancouver

Sook-Yin Lee hosts online conversation Women in Punk, January 15

The Polygon Gallery’s OG Punk exhibition inspired the free chat

WHAT'S STIRRING, MUSICGail JohnsonJanuary 9, 2022the Polygon, punk, Sook-Yin Lee, Dina Goldstein

The Process Is the Project: Ruby Singh on the Making of Vox.Infold, at the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival

Watch the video for the song “Nakshatra” to get a taste of sounds that can happen outside of the traditional music industry

MUSIC, FESTSStir VancouverJanuary 4, 2022Partner Content, PuSh Festival

From classical music to jazz, trumpeter Jens Lindemann smashes the brass instrument's stereotypes

Playing 24-karat gold-plated horns, the internationally renowned L.A.-based musician performs with Vancouver Symphony Orchestra

MUSICGail JohnsonDecember 30, 2021Vancouver Symphony Orchestra

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