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Coastal Jazz & Blues Society's fourth annual IronFest takes place from October 26 to 28

Miniseries in partnership with Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival features improvisational and experimental jazz

MUSICStir VancouverOctober 13, 2023Partner Content, Coastal Jazz & Blues Society

Piano improviser Henrique Eisenmann leads BlueShore at CapU jazz ensembles, October 27

Brazilian-American talent combines unusual contemporary jazz, folk-Latin melodies, and classical music

MUSICStir VancouverOctober 12, 2023Partner Content, BlueShore at CapU

At Vancouver New Music Festival, Blake Hargreaves takes the pipe organ into secular new worlds of sound

As part of Vox Organi, the Budapest-based musician explores the contemporary and the improvisational, unravelling the mysteries of the instrument

MUSIC, FESTSJanet SmithOctober 12, 2023VANCOUVER NEW MUSIC, Vancouver New Music, Vancouver New Music Festival

Life's a Beach launches Vetta Chamber Music's 2023-24 season, October 13 to 15

Performance spotlights quintet by composer-pianist Amy Beach, a female trailblazer in American music

WHAT'S STIRRING, MUSICJanet SmithOctober 11, 2023Vetta Chamber Music

Jacques Lacombe becomes Vancouver Opera's new music director

Canadian maestro conducted last season’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and has conducted at symphonies and opera houses around the globe

MUSIC, OPERAJanet SmithOctober 10, 2023VANCOUVER OPERA, Vancouver Opera

Remembering the Future marks 50 years of arts and activism—for Chile, and for VLACC's Carmen Rodríguez

Performers celebrate Latin American music, poetry, and art, as the onetime dissident remembers their integral role in resistance

B.C. septet Naadaleela fuses music from ancient cultures at BlueShore at CapU, October 21

Group’s music time-travels along the Silk Road with Persian, Indian, Chinese, and Taiwanese influences

MUSICStir VancouverOctober 6, 2023Partner Content, BlueShore at CapU

Pianist Alexander Gavrylyuk plays a Vancouver Chopin Society concert, October 21

Ukrainian talent to perform Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, plus works by Haydn and Chopin

MUSICStir VancouverOctober 6, 2023Partner Content, Vancouver Chopin Society

Vancouver Chamber Choir composer-in-residence Andrew Balfour conducts Waawaa-Steewak, October 20

Balfour’s Cree heritage-inspired piece is accompanied by Manuel de Sumaya’s De lamentatione Jeremiae, and Gerónimo Gonzales’s Lamentación de Jeremías

MUSICStir VancouverOctober 5, 2023Partner Content, Vancouver Chamber Choir, Andrew Balfour

Friends of Chamber Music hosts the Mandelring Quartet from Germany, October 29

Acclaimed ensemble performs Beethoven, Shostakovich, and Ligeti in 40th-anniversary concert

MUSICStir VancouverOctober 4, 2023Partner Content, Friends of Chamber Music

Wynton Marsalis reflects on the way time flies, as Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra plays a program full of his work

Fifteen musicians at the peak of their profession help arrange their decidedly nostalgia-free bandleader’s four decades of music

MUSICJanet SmithOctober 3, 2023Coastal Jazz, Coastal Jazz & Blues Society

Vancouver New Music presents Vox Organi festival, October 19 to 21

Three-day lineup features unusual and unexpected music for pipe organ

MUSICStir VancouverOctober 3, 2023Partner Content, VANCOUVER NEW MUSIC

Marc Ribot’s trio Ceramic Dog unleashes dissonant punk-rock jazz at Blueshore at CapU, October 16

Audiences can expect music that transcends boundaries from the group’s new album Connections

MUSICStir VancouverOctober 2, 2023Partner Content, BlueShore at CapU

Vancouver Bach Choir kicks off season with two masterworks by Mozart & Haydn, at the Orpheum on October 7

Coronation Mass and Nelson Mass were written barely two decades apart

WHAT'S STIRRING, MUSICJanet SmithOctober 1, 2023Vancouver Bach Choir

Hiromi's four-piece virtuoso band Sonicwonder delivers electronic-infused jazz at the Chan Centre

Japan-born jazz pianist upends tradition with synthesizer textures and effects pedals on debut album

MUSICJanet SmithSeptember 29, 2023Chan Centre for the Performing Arts

Ten musicians re-imagine Bob Dylan’s Highway 61 Revisited album at Kay Meek Arts Centre, October 13 and 14

Co-presented with BlueShore at CapU, the concert features songs such as “Like a Rolling Stone” and “Desolation Row”

MUSICStir VancouverSeptember 29, 2023Partner Content, BlueShore at CapU, Kay Meek Arts Centre

Shake the Earth: Tap & Taiko features at the Chan Centre's Inspired at the Chan series, October 22

Uzume Taiko drummers and Vancouver Tap Dance Society percussive dancers celebrate rhythm on stage

MUSIC, DANCEStir VancouverSeptember 28, 2023Partner Content, Chan Centre for the Performing Arts

Zemlinsky Quartet opens Friends of Chamber Music's 76th season, October 17

Czech ensemble to play three string quartets from Germaine Tailleferre, Alexander von Zemlinsky, and Ludwig van Beethoven

MUSICStir VancouverSeptember 27, 2023Partner Content, Friends of Chamber Music

Stir Q&A: PIANOFORTE captures all the agony and ecstasy backstage at the renowned Chopin Piano Competition

Filmmaker Jakub Piątek’s compelling new documentary follows a handful of charismatic young keyboard stars through the world’s most prestigious classical-music contest

MUSIC, SCREENJanet SmithSeptember 27, 2023VIFF, Vancouver International Film Festival