Editorial notes, monthly guides, and features from the rich and growing classical scene in Vancouver.
Two violin concertos land at the Orpheum within a week, the Vancouver Recital Society's Paul Lewis begins a Mozart+ project, and Vancouver Opera opens a new Tosca co-produced with Pacific Opera Victoria.
Read more →James Ehnes at the Chan Centre, the VSO's opening weekend at the Orpheum, and two nights at the Playhouse that bookend the month — Vancouver's 2026/27 season starts almost all at once.
Read more →Early Music Vancouver's Power of Music festival, the Vancouver Symphony outdoors for free, and Vancouver Opera under the stars at Deer Lake — a guide to July and August in Greater Vancouver.
Read more →The VSO plays Mussorgsky, Chor Leoni fills the Chan Centre with 350 voices, and Hayato Sumino brings his YouTube-honed virtuosity to the Playhouse.
Read more →Yo-Yo Ma plays Elgar with the VSO, Vancouver Opera stages a new La Bohème, and the Vancouver Chamber Choir premieres Andrew Staniland's Songs from the Lytton Fire.
Read more →A month with a wide range: the VSO's Rachmaninoff Second, a French jazz pianist reworking medieval song at Christ Church Cathedral, and four cellos filling the Anvil Theatre.
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Violinist Blake Pouliot performs Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto with Maestra Gemma New (Musically Speaking).
📍 Orpheum Theatre
🎭 Vancouver Symphony Orchestra
The Beethoven Cycle continues with the Pastoral Sixth Symphony, an early programmatic landscape, balanced by the witty, rhythmically playful Eighth, l…
📍 Orpheum Theatre
🎭 Vancouver Symphony Orchestra
Vetta's 41st season finale pairs music and painting: Raphael Cheng's works inspired by famous paintings, and Tchaikovsky's Souvenir de Florence sextet…
📍 West Vancouver United Church
🎭 Vetta Chamber Music
Brahms's fiery, Hungarian-flavoured First Piano Quartet is paired with a discovery: the piano quartet of Polish composer Zygmunt Noskowski.
📍 Vancouver Academy of Music
🎭 Sakka Music
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