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Over the Alps: Music of 17th Century Italy & Austria

Over the Alps: Music of 17th Century Italy & Austria

Wednesday February 24, 2021 | 7:30PM

The audience for ‘classical music’ is well familiar with instrumental music from Corelli to Stravinsky, but largely ignores some wonderful repertoire composed before and since. This program highlights instrumental music composed in Austria and Italy in the 17th century, a time when composers innovated and experimented with musical forms, and explored the technical possibilities and distinct sonorities of individual instruments, including the sackbut (early trombone) and dulcian (early bassoon) as well as string and keyboard instruments.

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Corelli, Janitsch and J.B. Bach feat. EMV’s Baroque Mentorship Orchestra

Corelli, Janitsch and J.B. Bach feat. EMV’s Baroque Mentorship Orchestra

Wednesday March 10, 2021 | 7:30PM

A collaboration between Early Music Vancouver, the UBC School of Music, and the Pacific Baroque Orchestra, the Baroque Orchestra Mentorship Programme gives student and community players the chance to play side by side with experts in historically informed performance. This unique mentorship initiative is designed to foster the next generation of early music performers. Members of the Baroque Mentorship Orchestra reconvened at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts in July, 2020, to record this varied programme of German and Italian instrumental music. Smaller chamber ensembles and the full baroque string orchestra play the music of Arcangelo Corelli, J.G. Janitsch, and J.B. Bach, one of J.S. Bach’s talented cousins.

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New Music for Old Instruments

New Music for Old Instruments

Wednesday March 24, 2021 | 7:30PM

A remounting of last year’s cancelled event which also celebrated the Pacific Baroque Orchestra’s 30th anniversary, New Music for Old Instruments returns in collaboration with Van Pro Musica as part of their Sonic Boom Festival. This special concert features new compositions written for the period instruments of the PBO. All composers are BC-based, highlighting the emerging talent of BC’s burgeoning composers.

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Dynamic Duos: Memorable Musical Partnerships in 18th-Century England

Dynamic Duos: Memorable Musical Partnerships in 18th-Century England

Wednesday April 7, 2021 | 7:30PM

Rogers & Hart, Gilbert & Sullivan, Abbot & Costello, Batman & Robin… History is full of great partnerships and 18th century England was no exception. Join Paul Luchkow and Michael Jarvis as they explore the music of Handel and his favourite pupil and personal secretary, John Christopher Smith, as well as music by the famous Bach-Abel partnership, which resulted in the fashionable London subscription concert series.

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Itinerant Gardens feat. Ablaye Cissoko, kora, and Ensemble Constantinople

Itinerant Gardens feat. Ablaye Cissoko, kora, and Ensemble Constantinople

Wednesday, April 21 2021 | 7:30 PM

From the twelfth century until today, griots, known as “the Bards of West Africa”, have transmitted their music and knowledge from generation to generation through a sophisticated and unbroken oral tradition. Griot and master of the kora, Ablaye Cissoko and Kiya Tabassian, master setar player, perform the intersecting music of the Mandinka Kingdom, Persian Empire, and European Baroque, taking the audience on a journey across regions and eras.

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Angela Hewitt in Recital: Bach & Couperin

Angela Hewitt in Recital: Bach & Couperin

Wednesday May 5, 2021 | 7:30PM

“Of all living pianists, [Angela] Hewitt makes the strongest case for hearing Bach on the piano as opposed to harpsichord. Here, she applies the same staggering technique and intellectual grasp to three suites by François Couperin.” (The Independent) Considered one of the foremost interpreters of Baroque music, Canadian pianist Angela Hewitt returns to EMV for a program of J.S. Bach and François Couperin. Lauded for her lifelong dedication to the works of Bach, in 2019 she became the first woman to receive the City of Leipzig Bach Medal Award since the award’s inception in 2003.

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Metamorfosi feat. Suzie LeBlanc and Ensemble Constantinople

Metamorfosi feat. Suzie LeBlanc and Ensemble Constantinople

Wednesday May 19, 2021 | 7:30PM

For this concert, Ensemble Constantinople and Suzie LeBlanc have reinvented the pages left by Renaissance Venetian madrigalist Barbara Strozzi, marvellous composer and singer. A worthy heiress of Monteverdi, Strozzi created a secular vocal repertoire that intoxicates the senses. In response to her songs, Constantinople will interpret some of the masterpieces from the same period played in Ottoman and Persian courts creating a dialogue that recreates the spirit of the cultural exchanges between Venice and Eastern capital cities, such Constantinople. Suzie LeBlanc’s illustrious and unique vocals will be enhanced by the brio, nimbleness and bold improvisations of Constantinople’s five virtuosos. 

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