Music festivals return to B.C. despite surging operation costs

Business in Vancouver – May 17, 2023

Music review: Schubertiade with The Leonids and Chor Leoni

Vancouver Presents – May 9, 2023

La Rêveuse’s The Birds Concert was a delight from beginning to end

Vancouver Presents – April 24,2023

Nightingales to Warblers, La Reveuse: The Birds Concert draws inspiration from avian song

Stir Vancouver – April 15, 2023

Early Music Vancouver Presents Emerging Artist Competition in May

Broadway World – April 12, 2023

Early Music Vancouver competition offers prize money and exposure as it looks for young stars of tomorrow

The Georgia Straight – April 11, 2023

Early Music Vancouver launches new emerging artist competition May 1-15

Stir Vancouver – April 11, 2023

On the Breath of Angels was a Heavenly Combination

Vancouver Presents – March 8, 2023

Vancouver is Getting a Summer Festival Dedicated to Women in Music

Curiocity – March 8, 2023

Early Music Vancouver Announces Annual Summer Festival

Broadway World – March 8, 2023

Women take spotlight as Early Music Vancouver unveils newly renamed summer festival

Stir Vancouver – March 8,2023

Raise, Raise the Voice Raises the Roof

Vancouver Presents – February 7, 2023

Acclaimed countertenor Reginald Mobley finds his freedom in the higher registers of Baroque music

Stir Vancouver – January 31, 2023

Early Music Vancouver wants to help banish the winter blues

Vancouver Presents – January 16, 2023

Early Music Vancouver presents Grammy-nominated countertenor Reginald Mobley on February 3

Stir Vancouver – January 10, 2023

2022 Media Coverage

2022 in review: A few of the year’s most memorable moments in Vancouver performing and visual arts

December 28, 2022 (Stir Vancouver)

Early Music Vancouver gets in a festive mood with Festive Cantatas on-demand

December 22, 2022 (On the List)

Early Music Vancouver’s Festive Cantatas celebrates Bach at his most complex, virtuosic, and joyful

December 14, 2022 (The Georgia Straight)

Soprano Arwen Myers relishes the joy in Early Music Vancouver’s Festive Cantatas: J.S. Bach Magnificat

December 12, 2022 (Stir Vancouver)

Cantatas Christmas concerts highlighted by Bach to Bach affairs

December 7, 2022 (The Vancouver Sun & The Province)

Festive Cantatas celebrates Christmas with Bach performance

December 1, 2022 (Nexus Newspaper)

Thomas Dunsford’s lute is his passport to good times, in bars, parks, and on the concert stage

Nov.19,2022 (Stir Vancouver)

Christmas is Bach

Oct.24,2022 (Vancouver Christmas Guide)

Early Music Vancouver Presents ‘Festive Cantatas: J.S. Bach Magnificat & Cantata BWV 110’

Oct.24, 2022 (Broadway World)

Early Music Vancouver celebrates classical-era musician Luigi Boccherini in Boccheriniana

Sept.26, 2022 (Stir Vancouver)

Austria’s Ensemble Castor joins Juno-winning soprano Hélène Brunet in The Other Seasons, September 30

Sept.26, 2022 (Stir Vancouver)

Music review: Treasures from Byzantine Manuscripts provides mesmerizing musical escape to centuries-old Greece

Sept.25, 2022 (Stir Vancouver)

Classical Music: Early Music Vancouer’s fall offerings an ambitious tour of several centuries

Sept.21,2022 (The Vancouver Sun)

Kyriakos Kalaitzides sheds light on hidden musical treasures of the Byzantine world

September 20,2022 (Stir Vancouver)

From 12th century Aquitaine to 18th century Venice, Early Music Vancouver’s fall season spans centuries and styles

September 15,2022 (Stir Vancouver)

Music review: David Greenberg and David McGuinness deliver uplift at Vancouver Bach Festival

July 28, 2022 (Stir Vancouver)

Vancouver Bach Festival: Keyboardist David McGuinness documents how European composers borrowed from Scots

July 27,2022 (The Georgia Straight)

Interview with Suzie LeBlanc

July 20, 2022 (CBC Radio One, q)

Early Music Vancouver Announces 2022-23 Season

July 19, 2022 (Stir Vancouver)

Early Music Vancouver Announces 2022-23 Season

July 19, 2022 (The Georgia Straight)

At Vancouver Bach Festival, violinist David Greenberg fuses the Baroque with Cape Breton fiddling knowhow, Stir Vancouver

July 18, 2022 (Stir Vancouver)

Vancouver Bach Festival: Singer Ellen Torrie raises questions about gender expectations imposed on sopranos

July 16, 2022 (The Georgia Straight)

Vancouver Bach Festival: Harpsichordist Alexander Weimann likes orchestral company

July 14, 2022 (The Georgia Straight)

Signature Vancouver Bach Festival has notes of medieval, fiddle and lots of baroque

July 14,2022 (The Vancouver Sun, The Province)

Ancient-Modern Music, an interview with David Greenberg

June 23, 2022 (Jewish Independent)

Vancouver Bach Festival will explore how Scottish traditional music influenced the masters of Baroque

June 12, 2022 (The Georgia Straight)

EMV Bach Festival – Scottish Baroque and Other Traditions, returns

June 10, 2022 (On the List)

Early Music Vancouver presents 2022 Bach Festival

June 1, 2022 (Inside Vancouver)

Kayhan Kalhor and Kiya Tabassian bring setars into beautiful conversation at Early Music Vancouver

May 30, 2022 (Stir Vancouver)

2022 Vancouver Bach Festival – the Scottish Baroque & Other Traditions

May 18, 2022 (Early Music America)

Early Music Vancouver Announces 2022 Bach Festival

May 18,2022 (Broadway World)

Early Music Vancouver presents the 2022 Vancouver Bach Festival from July 26 to August 6

May 17, 2022 (The Georgia Straight)

Persian classical music masters collaborate in rare performance

May 4, 2022 (The Vancouver Sun)

France’s Ensemble Correspondances takes baroque court music to the people

April 29, 2022 (Stir Magazine)

Palatial pleasures fit for a (French) king comes to Vancouver

April 27, 2022 (The Vancouver Sun)

Early Music Vancouver revives le Grand Siècle with Plaisirs du Louvre

April 20, 2022 (Stir Vancouver)

Hodson Manor Massive Music Sale

April 2022 (Georgia Straight)

Suzie LeBlanc on Fairchild TV

April 2022 (Fairchild TV)

Marc Fournier interviews Suzie LeBlanc about Les Plaisirs du Louvre

April 18, 2022 (Retours de L’Ouest, Radio-Canada Ici Musique)

Imaginario: An Imaginary Songbook of Renaissance Spanish Music features rare vihuela de mano, April 27

April 12, 2022 (Stir Vancouver)

EMV: Les Plaisirs Du Louvre

April 2022 (La Scena Musicale)

Early Music Vancouver presents France’s Ensemble Correspondances at the Chan Centre on May 6

April 8, 2022 (the Georgia Straight)

Les Plaisirs du Louvre par la Musique

April 2022 (Marc Fournier – Radio Canada)

Early Music Vancouver’s keyboard collection inspires Olga Pashchenko program

April 4, 2022 (Stir Vancouver)

Classical music: Russian-Ukrainian keyboardist Olga Pashchenko brings Beethoven, Liszt to life

Mar 2022 (Vancouver Sun)

Early Music Vancouver Presents Three Concerts in April

March 2022 (The Georgia Straight)

Catch Early Music Vancouver’s Women of Note, online, plus more.

Mar 2022 (on the list)

International Women’s Day 2022: Members of Vancouver’s arts and culture community mark a movement

Mar 2022 (Stir)

Early Music Vancouver celebrates Women of Note, March 4

Mar 2022 (Stir)

Stir’s Weekend 5

Mar 2022 (Stir)

40 things to do in Vancouver this weekend, March 4 to 6

Mar 2022 (Georgia Straight)

30 classical and choral concerts in Vancouver in March

Feb 2022 (Georgia Straight)

Spring Arts Preview: with restrictions lifted, music thrives in Vancouver

Feb 2022 (Georgia Straight)

Inside Early Music Vancouver’s invite-only event

Feb 2022 (Vancouver Sun)

Early Music Vancouver to Present Live Concert In Celebration Of International Women’s Day

Feb 2022 (Broadway World)

Suzie LeBlanc’s Interview with Radio Canada 

Jan 2022 (Radio Cananda)

Violin star Chloe Kim and the Pacific Baroque Orchestra travel to Corelli’s Italy and beyond, online January 19

Jan 2022 (Create A Stir)

Here we go again: Vancouver performing arts forced to pivot and postpone in face of Omicron restrictions

Jan 2022 (Create A Stir)

Events in Metro Vancouver: Live and virtual things to do Jan. 6-12

Jan 2022 (Vancouver Sun)

Classical music to kick off 2022 with sweet sounds

Dec 2021 (Vancouver Sun)

Euroradio Christmas Music Day

Dec 2021 (EBU)

Early Music Vancouver Announces 2022 Winter And Spring Season

Dec 2021 (Broadway World)

Early Music Vancouver Announces 2022 Winter & Spring Season 

Dec 2021 (Opera Wire)

Early Music Vancouver Announces 2022 Winter & Spring Season 

Dec 2021 (Georgia Straight)

Fostering Diversity on the West Coast

Sept 2021 (EMA Magazine)

Proof of full vaccination needed to catch fall season at the ACT in Maple Ridge

September 21, 2021 (Maple Ridge Pitt Meadows News)

Fall Arts Preview: classical music is back in Vancouver, with the VSO leading the way

September 8, 2021 (Georgia Straight)

5 Things to Do in Vancouver This Week (August 3-8)

August 3, 2021 (Vancouver Magazine)

15 things to do in Vancouver this week: August 2 to 8, 2021

August 2, 2021 (Daily Hive)

Review: Live music for live audiences at Vancouver Bach Festival

July 30, 2021 (Vancouver Sun)

37 fun and fantastic things to do in Vancouver this August

July 30, 2021 (Daily Hive)

Live music guide: Concerts to catch at Metro Vancouver parks, stages, and public spaces this summer

July 29, 2021 (Create a Stir)

For This Cree-Métis Artist, Singing Bach Is ‘an Act of Resistance’

July 27, 2021 (The Tyee)

Cree-Métis singer behind free admission for Indigenous people to Early Music Vancouver events

July 27, 2021 (CBC News)

Treasuring the past, welcoming the future

July 23, 2021 (Tafelmusik)

Film review: Baroque beauty and exquisite instruments onscreen at Vancouver Bach Festival

July 25, 2021 (Create a Stir)

Local Vancouver music group makes events free for Indigenous peoples

July 25, 2021 (City News 11:30)

Classical music: Bach rock(s) with summer series of concerts

July 21, 2021 (Vancouver Sun)

Early Music Vancouver offers free concert tickets to all Indigenous Peoples

July 16, 2021 (The Georgia Straight)

Early Music Vancouver announces all its concert tickets will now be free for Indigenous peoples

July 13, 2021 (Stir Vancouver)

Cree-Métis baritone Jonathon Adams on performing baroque music and exploring their Indigenous roots

June 17, 2021 (CBC Radio)

Baritone Jonathon Adams brings Indigenous and two-spirit identity to the classical world Early Music Vancouver’s new artist in residence hosts a June 14 panel

June 10, 2021 (Stir Vancouver)

When can we see a show again? Performing-arts groups grapple with BC’s new reopening roadmap

May 26, 2021 (Stir Vancouver)

A mighty wind: Recorder virtuoso, orchestra team up in Early Music Vancouver streaming season wrap

May 26, 2021 (Vancouver Sun)

Jonathon Adams named EMV summer artist-in-residence

May 19, 2021 (Opera Canada)

Cree-Métis baritone Jonathon Adams named Early Music Vancouver Artist-in-Residence

May 19, 2021 (Ludwig Van Toronto)

Cree-Métis baritone becomes 1st artist-in-residence at Early Music Vancouver

May 16, 2021 (CBC News)

North by North West Record Keeping Series

May 15, 2021 (CBC Radio)

Cree-Métis Two-Spirit baritone Jonathon Adams to take up summer residency at Early Music Vancouver

May 12, 2021 (Stir Vancouver)

Critic’s Picks: The Small Rain, Nature Sketch, and Ira Hoffecker’s Transitions

April 29, 2021 (Times Colonist)

Move Over Dead Songwriters, There’s a New Tune in Town

March 23, 2021 (The Tyee)

2021 JUNO Nominations: Classical Album of the Year: Choral or Vocal

March 9, 2021 (junoawards.ca)

Early Music Vancouver welcomes Suzie LeBlanc

March 9, 2021 (Early Music America)

Vancouver’s classical music fans blessed by a pair of mid-winter treats

February 15, 2021 (Vancouver Sun)

Streaming recital reunites Duncan/Switzer duo with Victorian-era piano

February 3, 2021 (Vancouver Sun)

CBC Music: This Is My Music with Suzie LeBlanc

January 23, 2021 (CBC Music)

Early Music Vancouver head Suzie LeBlanc brings new outlook to centuries-old art form

January 11, 2021 (Stir Vancouver)

Early Music Vancouver head Suzie LeBlanc brings new outlook to centuries-old art form

January 6, 2021 (Vancouver Sun)

Vancouver’s VIPs excited about their 2021 plans

December 31, 2020 (Vancouver Sun)

Sing Noel with Early Music Vancouver

December 16, 2020 (Vancouver Sun)

Early Music Vancouver Announces New Artistic & Executive Director

December 8, 2020 (Opera Wire)

Early Music Vancouver appoints soprano Suzie LeBlanc as artistic and executive director

December 7, 2020 (Georgia Straight)

Early Music Vancouver names soprano Suzie LeBlanc as its executive and artistic director

December 7, 2020 (Stir Vancouver)

Vancouver arts companies set up to provide holiday music

November 27, 2020 (Georgia Straight)

5 Things to Do in Vancouver This Week (November 23-29)

November 23, 2020 (Vancouver Magazine)

Fall streams from Early Music Vancouver to explore heady mix of repertoires

November 10, 2020 (Vancouver Sun)

Classical music scene raising ‘curtain on the next act.’ It’s about time.

November 4, 2020 (Vancouver Sun)

Early Music Vancouver Launches Digital Concert Hall

September 22, 2020 (Georgia Straight)

If Pandemic Calls Tune, Ensembles Spin It Their Way

September 20, 2020 (Classical Voice America)

Fall arts preview: classical concerts in the age of COVID

September 4, 2020 (Vancouver Sun)

Live, classical music makes a fleeting return to UBC’s Chan Centre

August 11, 2020 (Vancouver Sun)

EMV’s Matthew White heads to Victoria

July 22, 2020 (Vancouver Sun)

Victoria violinist Chloe Kim launches concert series

July 3, 2020 (Times Colonist)

Violinist Chloe Kim’s weekly online baroque concert series kicks off Friday, July 3

July 1, 2020 (CBC)

New technology serves old music well during COVID-19

May 27, 2020 (Vancouver Sun)

Nuit Blanches, Karina Gauvin

April 3, 2020 (Le Devoir)

You Can’t Stop Culture. Get Some Here.

March 18, 2020 (The Tyee)

Artists will need our help after this coronavirus nightmare

March 13, 2020 (Globe & Mail)

Keep calm and carry on supporting Vancouver’s arts—in one way or another—in these financially ruinous COVID-19 times

March 13, 2020 (Georgia Straight)

At Sonic Boom, brand-new meets baroque, as Pacific Baroque Orchestra puts period instruments to cutting-edge compositions

March 11, 2020 (Georgia Straight)

March blooms as piano month in Vancouver

March 7, 2020 (Vancouver Sun)

“Voices Appeared” to Silent Maid – Orlando Consort sets Dreyer’s Saint Joan masterpiece to 15th century scores

January 31, 2020 (Vancouver Observer)

Eddas, Elegies & Epics, à la mode. Benjamin Bagby and Sequentia bring medieval spells, songs and stories to EMV

January 9, 2020 (Vancouver Observer)

Sequentia Ensemble founder Benjamin Bagby discovers medieval magic in the epic music of Beowulf

January 8, 2020 (Georgia Straight)

Best Musical Events of 2019

January 1, 2020 (Vancouver Classical Music)

Classical music: Bringing medieval-era music to a new decade

January 1, 2020 (Vancouver Sun)

Classical music: Voices shine in festive concerts

December 11, 2019 (Vancouver Sun)

Ivars Taurins clothes Handel in period dress for Early Music Vancouver’s Messiah

November 27, 2019 (Georgia Straight)

Classical music: Conductor Ivars Taurins brings Handel’s Messiah to life

November 25, 2019 (Vancouver Sun)

Ton Koopman concerts a highlight of early music in November

October 30, 2019 (Vancouver Sun)

Countertenor Iestyn Davies relays music’s timeless charge at Modulus Festival

October 23, 2019 (The Georgia Straight)

Arts Tip Sheet: Early Music Vancouver’s Le Concert Spirituel

September 26, 2019 (The Georgia Straight)

Bach to Bach… just not playing Bach

August 29, 2019 (The Orca)

Handel, Strozzi & Purcell’s Italian muses: Hitting more high notes at EMV’s Bach Fest

August 18, 2019 (Vancouver Observer)

Vancouver Bach Festival is a garden of vocal delights

August 4, 2019 (Opera Canada)

EMV’s “original instrument” vocals: Bach Fest raises Christ Church rafters with 18th and 19th century sacred chorales

August 3, 2019 (Vancouver Observer)

Classical music: Vancouver favourite Amanda Forsythe sings early Handel cantatas

July 31, 2019 (Vancouver Sun)

Binge on baroque and beyond: Early Music Vancouver’s Bach Fest blows into town on wings of Les Boreades

July 29, 2019 (Vancouver Observer)

Why the world needs more Bach

July 26, 2019 (CBC)

Les Boréades de Montréal surveys a baroque master’s timeless art at the Vancouver Bach Festival

July 24, 2019 (Georgia Straight)

Vancouver Bach Festival remains the highlight of the summer

July 24, 2019 (Vancouver Sun)

New ACT season set to inspire Maple Ridge

July 8, 2019 (Maple Ridge News)

Vancouver’s summer arts festivals sizzle all season long

June 12, 2019 (Georgia Straight)

Feasting on Festivals

May 2019 (Early Music America)

David Duke: Influencing half a century of early music with ears, eyes on future

May 15, 2019 (Vancouver Sun)

Byzantium: the other liturgy |Capella Romana wraps EMV season with sacred chorales, East and West

May 10, 2019 (Vancouver Observer)

For Early Music Vancouver, Cappella Romana travels to Venice in the East

May 8, 2019 (Georgia Straight)

Crowning glories at Chan Centre cap EMV season

April 17, 2019 (Vancouver Observer)

Early Music Vancouver unveils its 50th anniversary season and Vancouver Bach Festival lineup

April 16, 2019 (Georgia Straight)

Pacific Baroque Orchestra to play final concert of the season on Sunday

April 13, 2019 (News1130)

April is the month for choral blossoming

April 11, 2019 (Vancouver Sun)

Regal concert crowns Early Music Vancouver season

April 11, 2019 (Peace Arch News)

Early Music Vancouver finds the majesty in Handel’s Coronation Anthems

April 10, 2019 (Georgia Straight)

Going steady, 1340’s-style: Blue Heron medievalists regale EMV with Machaut’s courtly love notes

March 24, 2019 (Vancouver Observer)

Classical music: A tasting menu from Vienna

March 6, 2019 (Vancouver Sun)

Spring arts preview 2019 music critics’ picks: Local visionaries lead vivid music roster

February 27, 2019 (Georgia Straight)

Classical music: Pair of concerts put Vancouver in the Pole position

February 13, 2019 (Vancouver Sun)

Classical Music: Violinist goes for broad program in baroque festival

February 7, 2019 (Times Colonist)

For King’s Singers, musical heritage can help heal new social wounds

February 6, 2019 (Georgia Straight)

EMV brings Missa Darwin to Christ Church

January 13, 2019 (Vancouver Observer)

Classical Music: Concerts a boon for early-music fans 

January 10, 2019 (Times Colonist)

Arts hot ticket: Monteverdi vespers

December 19, 2018 (Georgia Straight)

Bach Collegium Japan brings fresh ears to baroque music

December 5, 2018 (Georgia Straight)

Bach Collegium Japan to present a program of Vivaldi, Handel and J.S. Bach

November 21, 2018 (Vancouver Sun)

Classical Music: New Take on Schubert Classic

October 26, 2018 (Vancouver Sun)

Classical music: A full fall of early music

September 27, 2018 (Vancouver Sun)

Striking a chord: West Van craftsman sells select instruments globally

August 13, 2018 (Vancouver Sun)

Classical music: Gli Angeli Genève highlight of Vancouver Bach Festival

July 31, 2018 (Vancouver Sun)

Keyboard stars lead Bach Fest

July 30, 2018 (Vancouver Observer)

Benjamin Alard’s elegant Goldberg Variations are a Vancouver Bach Festival highlight

July 25, 2018 (Georgia Straight)

Classical music: Early Music Vancouver celebrates Bach with diverse festival

July 25, 2018 (Vancouver Sun)

Five Vancouver concerts to see in July and August

July 10, 2018 (Vancouver Sun)

Opera festival’s Russian repertoire a new experience for Quebec diva

May 2, 2018 (Vancouver Sun)

Celebrating Bach’s Goldberg Variations: Angela Hewitt and Schaghajegh Nosrati

March 26, 2018 (Vanclassicalmusic)

Matthew White: Early Music Vancouver’s Champion

March 9, 2018 (Early Music America)

Classical music: EMV, VRS seasons offer tantalizing music, some provocation

March 9, 2018 (Vancouver Sun)

Early Music Vancouver unveils 2018-19 season and an expanded Vancouver Bach Festival

March 8, 2018 (Georgia Straight)

Prodigious Hewitt; seeing is believing

March 8, 2018 (Vancouver Observer)

Juno-nominated BC conductor invokes Baroques most prolific composer

March 4, 2018 (CBC)

Hewitt vs. Hamelin? Classical piano lovers spoiled for choice

February 28, 2018 (Vancouver Sun)

EMV lays on a brace of string quartets at Christ Church

January 17, 2018 (Vancouver Observer)

Early Music Vancouver forges all-female Festive Cantatas

December 20, 2017 (Georgia Straight)

Baroque violin expert Monica Huggett leads Festive Cantatas

December 19, 2017 (Vancouver Sun)

Open hearts and open ears: Early Music Vancouver’s first Messiah

November 29, 2017 (Vancouver Sun)

Greek tragedy + music = Orfeo, the first popular opera

October 25, 2017 (Vancouver Courier)

Tenor Colin Balzer tackles truly epic Orfeo role at Early Music Vancouver

October 24, 2017 (Georgia Straight)

The Boston Early Music Festival Sends Off the Season with the Riches of Steffani

October 6th, 2017 (Vancouver Classical Music)

Early Music Vancouver’s Modern Advantage: Matthew White

September 27, 2017 (Arts Alliance)

Vivid, Theatrical St. John Passion Keys Bach Festival

August 16, 2017 (Classical Voice America)

Performers bring light to dark Passion at Vancouver Bach Festival

August 16, 2017 (The Georgia Straight)

Johann Sebastian in Bardo

August 10, 2017 (Vancouver Observer)

Exceptional Swiss ‘Angels’ sing Schein as part of Bach Festival

August 1, 2017 (Vancouver Sun)

Fans spoiled for choice with Vancouver Bach Festival

July 25, 2017 (The Province)

Here’s why Early Music Vancouver’s popularity keeps growing

April 3, 2017 (Vancouver Courier)

Epic works amid Early Music Vancouver’s Bach Festival and diverse 2017-18 season roster

March 30, 2017 (Georgia Straight)

Early Music Vancouver’s back to Bach headlines classical music blitz

March 29, 2017 (Vancouver Sun)

Preview: The Choir of King’s College is the world’s gold standard

Choir of King’s College gives voice to deep musical history of Cambridge

March 22, 2017 (Georgia Straight)