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Vancouver Symphony Orchestra

Vancouver Symphony’s New Music Festival kicks off 2015 with a breath of fresh ideas

If you rank yourself among the musically curious, consider the second annual VSO New Music Festival as a great warm up to a year of imaginative music making around the city.

Local composer Jocelyn Morlock named VSO's next composer-in-residence

Imagine checking your Twitter account to discover you’ve been hired for your dream job. No joke. That’s what happened to Kitsilano native, Jocelyn Morlock.

New Music Festival takes centre stage

As her music started, the ceiling and walls of the Orpheum flew away, revealing the star-filled heavens.

Midori lives up to “sensational” VSO billing

I have a few favoured restaurants in Vancouver where, on a cold winter’s night, I can find reliable comfort food. On Friday, I was rewarded after a ten-kilometre cycle in the cold with an excellent...

Violinist Corey Cerovsek and conductor Rossen Milanov deliver strong performance with VSO

Vancouver-born international violinist Corey Cerovsek and conductor Rossen Milanov delivered an unforgettable evening of music by Debussy, Korngold and Berlioz at the Orpheum on...

Corey Cerovsek plays Korngold

Violinist, mathematician and pianist Corey Cerovsek returns to the VSO in what promises to be an elegant performance of fellow wunderkind Erich Korngold’s Violin Concerto.

Alberta Ballet's Nutcracker opens tomorrow at Queen Elizabeth Theatre

Alberta Ballet's gorgeous $1.5 million production of The Nutcracker was a jewel of a performance last year. It opens tomorrow a the Queen Elizabeth Theatre.

Alberta Ballet delivers a jewel of a Nutcracker

Russia 1892, when Tchaikosvsky's ballet first premiered, is recreated in the Alberta Ballet's latest version.

Haitian-American Olympic musical performer Daniel Bernard Roumain is the quintessential modern violinist

Daniel Bernard Roumain: An Olympic performer with flair. Think his hair is cool? Wait until you hear DBR play the violin...

Stairway to Heaven

Fredericton-born soprano takes on Mahler masterpiece with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra.