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EMV: 2026-2027 SEASON TICKET INFORMATION


Box Office Info & Ticketing Policies

Box Office Hours: Monday – Friday, 10:00 a.m. – 04:30 p.m.

Tel: (604) 732 – 1610

Email: boxoffice@earlymusic.bc.ca

Cancellations & Refunds

All single ticket sales are final sale, and there are no refunds. Subscribers can exchange their tickets to another concert by contacting the Box Office. If a concert is cancelled, the Box Office will contact you with further instructions. 

Weather

In the case of severe weather, e-mail or phone the Box Office for more information regarding a possible cancellation. If a concert is not cancelled due to weather, no refunds or exchanges will be issued.

Change in Performer(s)

All artists are subject to change. If an artist is replaced with another artist, no refunds will be issued.

Bringing Children to EMV Concerts

EMV’s concerts are not suitable for children under the age of 7.

Subscriber Perks

Become an EMV Subscriber by purchasing tickets to multiple concerts in the same order at a discounted price. Buy 3 concerts and save 15%, buy 5 and save 20%, buy 7 and save 25%.

Special performances may be excluded from this offer. Additional subscriber perks include:

  • Additional concerts on top of your existing subscription receive a 15% discount. 
  • Priority booking – receive early access to purchase concert tickets.
  • Enjoy free and unlimited exchanges in the same concert season.
  • ArtsPerks discounts: Vancouver arts organizations have united to bring our closest supporters a new discount program. As a special thank you for being an EMV subscriber, you can enjoy exclusive ticket discounts and offers from our partners throughout the 2026/27 season. 

Below are the 2026/27 discount offers, subject to availability and revision, only for EMV subscribers. Contact our box office by calling 604-732-1610 or emailing boxoffice@earlymusic.bc.ca to get your EMV access code for these great discounts through our partners!

Bard on the Beach

15% off regular adult single tickets (A and B zones) for performances of the 2026 BMO Mainstage production The Merry Wives of Windsor. Redeemable for evening (7:30pm) performances from Sunday–Thursday. Excludes Opening nights and special events. Cannot be combined with other discounts. Valid for up to 6 tickets from June 9 to September 19 performances. Tickets and more at bardonthebeach.org

Arts Club Theatre Company

15% off A+/A/B+ zone single tickets to the first two weeks of regular 2026–2027 season productions. Excludes B and C zones, opening night, special performances, and events. Buy early to ensure the lowest prices. Cannot be combined with other offers. Tickets and more at artsclub.com.

Ballet BC

15% off single tickets to UNITY (May 2026), as well as all 2026–2027 season programs at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre: Bodies & Voices (Nov 2026), Everything you ever…(Mar 2027), and One & Only (May 2027). Excludes Zone A, Zone E, Simons Arts for All seating, Take Form, and Nutcracker. Cannot be combined with other offers. Tickets and more at balletbc.com.

The Cultch

TBA. Tickets and more at thecultch.com.

Vancouver Art Gallery

TBA. Tickets and more at vanartgallery.bc.ca

Vancouver Opera

15% off regular single tickets to any performance in the 2026–2027 Season. Offer excludes A+ seating. Some restrictions may apply. Cannot be combined with other discounts. Single tickets go on sale June 29, 2026. Tickets and more at vancouveropera.ca.

Vancouver Symphony Orchestra

15% off adult single tickets to 2026/27 season regular series concerts. Offer excludes dress circle seating and special concerts. Some restrictions may apply. Cannot be combined with other offers. Single tickets go on sale in July 2026. Tickets and more at vancouversymphony.ca

VIFF Centre & the Vancouver International Film Festival 

15% off up to two VIFF+ Premium Memberships. VIFF+ Premium Members enjoy exclusive benefits, including 20% off Festival Ticket Packs and $5 off regular adult single tickets at the Vancouver Film Festival and year-round at the VIFF Centre. Tickets and more at viff.org.

The Chan Centre For the Performing Arts

Get 15% off Basic Membership or Membership Plus at the Chan Centre! Get yours before September 1 for the biggest savings—our Memberships will go up in price once summer’s over so take advantage of the introductory price and ArtsPerks deal now while you can! Members get up to 20% off up to 2 tickets for every Chan Centre-produced event, which includes artists like bassist/vocalist esperanza spalding and violinist Ray Chen, as well as speakers like chef and author Yotam Ottolenghi. For details on membership, please visit chancentre.com/support/memberships/

Gateaway Theatre

15% off regular adult single tickets (Zone 1 & 2) to any of the 2026/27 MainStage productions. Excludes Opening nights, Pay-What-You-Will, 2-for-1 nights and special events. Cannot be combined with other discounts. Single tickets go on sale Jun 1, 2026. Tickets and more at gatewaytheatre.com

Museum of Anthropology at UBC

Receive a two-month bonus on an annual MOA Membership. MOA Members enjoy unlimited free admission, 50% discount on admission for guests, 10% discount at the MOA Shop, and many more benefits. Become a member online at moa.ubc.ca/membership (don’t forget to enter your ArtsPerks promo code at checkout to receive the two-month bonus)

Théâtre la Seizième

15% off early-bird or regular single adult tickets to any of the 2026/2027 mainstage season shows. Buy early to ensure the lowest prices. Single tickets go on sale September 4, 2026. English surtitles available at most performances. Tickets and information at seizeme.ca

Firehall Arts Centre

TBA. Tickets and more at firehallartscentre.ca 

Vancouver Recital Society
TBA. Tickets now on sale at vanrecital.com.

Accessibility

Our concerts take place at different venues in the Lower Mainland. Visit the Venues page for more information about a specific venue. If you have any questions, please contact our Box Office.

Discounted & Free Ticket Programs
  • 35&Under discounted tickets and subscriptions: Patrons aged 35 & under enjoy a 35% discount of full price single tickets. This offer stacks with the subscription discount. Some concerts may be excluded from this offer.

  • Pay-What-You-Can: If financial barriers make it difficult to attend concert performances, please phone or email the Box Office to book your tickets at a reduced price. Some concerts may be excluded from this offer.

  • $15 Student Tickets: Students with a valid post-secondary student ID enjoy $15 tickets to most EMV concerts.
  • Group Discounts: Groups of 10 patrons or more may be eligible for a group discount. Contact the Box Office to book your group tickets. Some concerts may be excluded from this offer.
  • Free Tickets for Indigenous peoples: EMV acknowledges that it operates on the traditional, ancestral and̓ unceded territory of the Coast Salish peoples – the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), Stó:lō and Səlílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) and xwməθkwəy̓ əm (Musqueam) Nations. In the spirit of reconciliation and to honour the natural stewards of these lands, EMV offers free tickets to all Indigenous peoples. Please phone or email the Box Office to book your tickets.
  • Free Youth tickets for those aged 7-17: EMV offers tickets at no charge to those under 17 if they are accompanied by a paying adult. Some concerts may be excluded from this offer. Please phone or email the Box Office to book youth tickets.

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Een Romantische Johannes Passion

Historical Performance has been steadily looking toward the nineteenth-century as a source of inspiration, and Orchestra Lagrandt wants to lead the charge into Romantic orchestral performance practice. As an orchestra of ambitious musicians in their twenties from 25 different nations, we aspire to represent the voice of the new generation in Historical Performance.

Een Romantische Johannes Passion is an ongoing project to reimagine the Johannes Passion of J. S. Bach in a late nineteenth century style. The first Passion revivals in the Netherlands took place in Rotterdam in 1870, featuring large symphonic orchestrations, and a radically different musical language than that of the HP and modern classical worlds. In our initial performance with the Tangram Chamber Choir, we pushed the boundaries of what Romantic Bach might have sounded like: exploring changes in orchestration, stoic tempi, rubato, phrasing, nineteenth- century bowing practices, and even portamento. We plan to establish this project as an annual tradition every Easter season, reworking the arrangement each time in the spirit of Romantic spontaneity.


One of the wonderful things about the Historical Performance movement is that we are able to use forgotten practices, this time hailing from the nineteenth century, to present such a beloved and well known-work in a new light.

The world is familiar with stories of clever forgers whose life’s mission is to cunningly reproduce the light and shadows of historical masterworks, from Vermeer’s brushstrokes to Da Vinci’s proportional precision… but what if these crimes of craftsmanship were to extend beyond the visual arts? What if the pieces we know to be by Palestrina, Monteverdi or even Johann Sebastian Bach were in fact stylistic copies, artfully composed by a secret circle of music forgers and passed off as the work of the greats? What if those music forgers are at work as we speak? 

This premise inspires our original program The Music Forgery Workshop. Our early music comedy imagines the lives of such a circle of musical criminals, offering a fresh and lively presentation of historical compositions, not as museum artifacts but as living works in progress. The workshop itself is set up on the stage and its members carry forth the plot in music and words. A narrator in the role of a suspicious inspector lends the performance a theatrical flow. The listener is invited into a satire on high society’s art commerce, while the performers make fun of themselves for having devoted their lives to the niche subject of historical music performance. 

Violinist Elizabeth Sommers combines her skills and experience in traditional music with expertise in the performance and improvisation of medieval and Renaissance repertoires. Multi-instrumentalist Eliot X. Dios (keyboards, bagpipes and flutes) works wholeheartedly to employ storytelling techniques developed through the history of literature and cinema in his early music concerts. Composer Gunnar Haraldsson (violin, guitar) seeks to translate the forms and intentions of early composition for a modern audience. Halldór B. Arnarson (keyboards, voice) has devoted his career to bringing musical craftsmanship from the era of counterpoint to the attention of the public and comedy to the early music scene. Singer and storyteller Ásta S. Arnardóttir brings the storyline to the public with personal immediacy, and through her character work defines the different veins of the show, sometimes hilarious and sometimes serious. 

The story is narrated by the character of the Inspector, acted out by the members of the MFW, and told in rhyming Icelandic verse in one musical pillar of the show, a madrigal composed by our very own 

Halldór in the style of Monteverdi. The show has an entertaining educational dimension. The audience is exposed to a broad sweep of historical and musical information in a condensed form, necessary to understand the musical humour, while dramatic rhythm and scenographic effects prevent overwhelm. We also place particular emphasis on theatrical illusion and synchronisation. One example appears in the opening scene, in which the inspector is seen watching television. On stage, this becomes a complex exercise in coordination: each time the inspector presses a button on the remote control, the musicians instantly switch pieces, creating the impression of rapidly changing television channels. 

This opening scene establishes the tone of the entire show, comical and satirical in its storytelling and diverse in its musical language. It not only introduces the wide range of musical styles that appear throughout the performance, but also functions as the plot’s inciting incident, as the inspector hears a news report about the discovery of a previously unknown concerto by Vivaldi. 

Another important scene takes place when one forger is alone on stage in low light, perusing books on medieval music, while the musicians perform and sing offstage, sounding his audiation as he reads. This intimate moment evokes the sleepless nights spent studying facsimiles and learning historical compositional techniques, by which the forger acquires the inspiration and the expertise necessary to his art, and reveals a hidden side of musical performance: the immense amount of study and preparation that precedes the moment on stage. This setting also creates space for visual and musical comedy, as seen in the trailer video, where a 14th-century melody is played backwards because Halldór is unknowingly reading the facsimile upside-down, only realising the mistake when the music begins to sound absurd. 

Fun and friendship are at the heart of the whole project, though the link between music and crime is an important historical consideration. Classical music was often used as the demonstration of a monarch’s power, music teaching as a cover up for secret affairs, and pieces were published under another’s name for profit. Such examples of “inappropriate practices” carry an exciting and attractive element for the audience which the MFW seeks to exploit. Under this light-hearted surface lies a more serious layer of questions concerning our present-day existence, such as excessive materialism in high society and the threat posed on human craftsmanship and skill by the rise of artificial intelligence. 

Please Note:

The main applicant and creative/intellectual driver of the project must be 30 or under (on May 15th).

The average age of all musicians must not be older than 32, and the maximum age of supporting musicians must be no more than 35 (on May 15th.)