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Monday, June 14 2021 | 11:00AM
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June is Indigenous Heritage Month and as part of Jonathon Adams’ summer residency, EMV will be hosting a panel discussion with four Indigenous leaders in the arts: mezzo-soprano Marion Newman, writer and academic Dylan Robinson, multi-disciplinary artist and theatre founder Reneltta Arluk, and baritone Jonathon Adams.
Wednesday, June 2 2021 | 7:30 PM
Gaining a reputation as one of the world’s most virtuosic soloists of his generation, Vincent Lauzer is a national treasure whose career is only just beginning. This programme features ravishing music by Handel and his Italian contemporaries that are the perfect vehicle for Vincent’s prodigious talents.
Wednesday May 19, 2021 | 7:30PM
For this concert, Ensemble Constantinople has taken the liberty of reinventing the music left by Italian early baroque composers such Kapsberger, Monteverdi and Rossi. In response to these beautiful works, Constantinople will interpret a few masterpieces from the Polish composer at the Ottoman court, Ali Ufuki, as well as new compositions by Constantinople music director, Kiya Tabassian. The ensemble aims to create a dialogue that recreates the spirit of the cultural exchanges between Venice and Eastern capital cities, such as Constantinople. The spontaneous changes, sharp contrasts and unusual rhythmic groupings in this program provide fertile ground for the musicians of Constantinople, who always welcome the chance to free themselves from the cultural codes of old Europe.
Wednesday May 5, 2021 | 7:30PM
Join Isaiah Bell, one of Canada’s most promising young tenors, on a musical exploration of the self. This program transcends eras with music that includes traditional folk songs, works by Handel and Schubert, as well as Isaiah’s own philosophically minded poetry. This thoughtfully crafted concert examines our relationship with nature, our own personhood, and the existential questions in between. Alexander Weimann accompanies on EMV’s 1875 Broadwood piano and Elder harpsichord.
Wednesday, April 21 2021 | 7:30 PM
Ensemble Constantinople performs the music of Dimitrie Cantemir (1673-1723), a Moldavian prince, scholar, composer, and diplomat. A fascinating historical figure, Cantemir’s compositions are considered part of the Ottoman music repertoire. More influential though are the over 350 instrumental works that he preserved in his book, Edvar-i Musiki, using his own innovative notation system, which remains as one of the most important collections of 16th and 17th century Ottoman and Middle Eastern music.
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.
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.
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.
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.
