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Upcoming Concerts

Nov 2026

Tue
Nov 3
7:30 PM

BlackGate

Music on Main opens its 21st season with BlackGate, a programme built around low strings and harp. Cellists Caimin Gilmore and Kate Ellis ar...

The Roundhouse
Music on Main
Fri
Nov 6
7:30 PM

Prokofiev's Cinderella

Kevin Zhu performs Shostakovich's Violin Concerto No. 1; conductor Antony Hermus leads Prokofiev's Cinderella.

Orpheum Theatre
Vancouver Symphony Orchestra
Sat
Nov 7
7:30 PM

Prokofiev's Cinderella

Kevin Zhu performs Shostakovich's Violin Concerto No. 1; conductor Antony Hermus leads Prokofiev's Cinderella.

Orpheum Theatre
Vancouver Symphony Orchestra
Sat
Nov 7
7:00 PM

Piano & Voice in Concert

Pianist Nikolay Khozyainov, a prizewinner at major international competitions, plays Beethoven and gives the Canadian premiere of one of his...

Vancouver Academy of Music
Wonderland Arts Performing Society
Sat
Nov 7
1:00 PM

Music at the Smith: La Modestine

The baroque trio La Modestine brings period violin, viola da gamba and harpsichord to the Gordon Smith Gallery for an afternoon of 17th- and...

Gordon Smith Gallery of Canadian Art
Gordon Smith Gallery of Canadian Art
Sat
Nov 7
7:30 PM

NOVUM 2026

musica intima marks Canada's Music Creator Day with an evening of new Canadian choral works.

Redeemer Lutheran Church
musica intima
Sun
Nov 8
2:00 PM

VAM Symphony Orchestra: Legends of the Console

The VAM Symphony Orchestra devotes an Orpheum matinee to video game scores, from The Legend of Zelda and Super Mario to Skyrim, The Last of ...

Orpheum Theatre
Vancouver Academy of Music
Sun
Nov 8
3:00 PM

Ema Nikolovska, mezzo-soprano & Sean Shibe, guitar

Mezzo-soprano Ema Nikolovska and guitarist Sean Shibe present 'Orlando', a genre-defying programme tracing the legendary troubadour across c...

Telus Studio Theatre (Chan Centre)
Vancouver Recital Society
Wed
Nov 11
5:00 PM

The Soul Flies Away

Chor Leoni's 35th annual Remembrance Day concert moves from lament to consolation, framed by Erick Lichte's invocation We Will Remember Them...

St. Andrew's-Wesley United Church
Chor Leoni
Wed
Nov 11
2:00 PM

The Soul Flies Away

Chor Leoni's 35th annual Remembrance Day concert moves from lament to consolation, framed by Erick Lichte's invocation We Will Remember Them...

St. Andrew's-Wesley United Church
Chor Leoni

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