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Early Music Vancouver

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Founded in 1970, Early Music Vancouver is one of Canada's leading early music organizations and home to the Pacific Baroque Orchestra. EMV presents concerts year-round at venues including the Chan Centre, Orpheum, and Christ Church Cathedral, featuring local and internationally acclaimed period-instrument artists. Its annual summer festival is a highlight of the West Coast early music calendar, and its education and outreach programs support the next generation of early music performers.

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Upcoming Concerts

Fri
Jul 31
7:30 PM

EMV Summer Festival: Monteverdi's L'Orfeo

EMV launches its 2026 Summer Festival with a fully staged production of Monteverdi's landmark opera. With a dozen singers, period instrument...

Chan Centre for the Performing Arts
Early Music Vancouver
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Sat
Aug 1
7:30 PM

EMV Summer Festival: The Compass Rose – Bach Solo Organ Recital

PBO Director and acclaimed organist Alexander Weimann performs a recital of Bach's beautiful solo organ works, including the Toccata and Fug...

West Vancouver United Church
Early Music Vancouver
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Sun
Aug 2
7:30 PM

EMV Summer Festival: Bach Dances

A world premiere contemporary dance production reimagining Bach's first three cello suites as a powerful theatrical experience of live music...

The Dance Centre
Early Music Vancouver
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Mon
Aug 3
7:30 PM

EMV Summer Festival: Marc & Angélique Mauillon – Songs of Florence and Paris

Artist-in-Residence Marc Mauillon and harpist Angélique Mauillon perform an intimate duo recital of French and Italian songs, exploring the ...

Christ Church Cathedral
Early Music Vancouver
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Tue
Aug 4
7:30 PM

EMV Summer Festival: Dowland's Lachrimæ

This concert probes the enduring paradox of love and suffering, pairing John Dowland's seven iconic pavans with songs from the 17th and 20th...

Christ Church Cathedral
Early Music Vancouver
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Wed
Aug 5
7:30 PM

EMV Summer Festival: Die schöne Müllerin

Baritone Tyler Duncan and pianist Erika Switzer perform Schubert's masterful song cycle Die schöne Müllerin — a tragic tale containing some ...

Christ Church Cathedral
Early Music Vancouver
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Wed
Aug 5
7:30 PM

EMV Summer Festival: Florilegium – Ensemble COMTESSA

Rising medieval ensemble COMTESSA presents a poetic meditation on the life cycle of flowers through a selection of English medieval songs fr...

Christ Church Cathedral
Early Music Vancouver
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Thu
Aug 6
TBA

EMV Summer Festival: Songline – Musical Hike

A unique and intimate experience: Artist-in-Residence Marc Mauillon leads the audience on a 90-minute nature walk, singing selections from h...

Malcolm Knapp Research Forest
Early Music Vancouver
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Thu
Aug 6
7:30 PM

EMV Summer Festival: Beethoven & Schubert Piano Trios

Violinist Alan Choo, cellist Jaap ter Linden, and pianist David Breitman present Beethoven and Schubert's most beautiful trio compositions o...

Christ Church Cathedral
Early Music Vancouver
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Fri
Aug 7
7:30 PM

EMV Summer Festival: Vivaldi's The Four Seasons – Rachel Podger & PBO

Star violinist Rachel Podger leads the Pacific Baroque Orchestra through Vivaldi's best-known concertos in the festival finale. An iconic ce...

Chan Centre for the Performing Arts
Early Music Vancouver
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Fri
Sep 18
7:30 PM

Music of the Little Ice Age

Featuring the world premiere of Peter Hannan's Snow Skills, blending period instruments with electronics, paired with works by Monteverdi ex...

Christ Church Cathedral
Early Music Vancouver
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Fri
Oct 2
7:30 PM

Blind Man's Bluff – Concerto di Margherita

Ensemble Concerto di Margherita presents a programme in the form of a fable: an archetypal Lover caught in a cruel game of Blind Man's Bluff...

Christ Church Cathedral
Early Music Vancouver
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Sat
Oct 17
7:30 PM

A Little Night Music with Mozart

Mozart's beloved Eine Kleine Nachtmusik performed on period instruments alongside his Serenata Notturna, a Boccherini quintet about Madrid n...

Christ Church Cathedral
Early Music Vancouver
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Tue
Nov 17
7:30 PM

The Magic of Monteverdi – Les Arts Florissants

Baroque masters William Christie and Paul Agnew lead Les Arts Florissants in a revelatory programme of Monteverdi's finest madrigals, includ...

Chan Centre for the Performing Arts
Early Music Vancouver
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Fri
Dec 4
7:30 PM

A French Baroque Christmas – Ensemble Correspondances

Ensemble Correspondances performs Charpentier's beloved Midnight Mass for Christmas, based on traditional French Noëls, offering festive joy...

Chan Centre for the Performing Arts
Early Music Vancouver
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Sun
Dec 20
3:00 PM

Festive Cantatas: Gloria with Vivaldi & Bach

A festive holiday celebration featuring Vivaldi's Gloria performed with the Vancouver Youth Choir and the Pacific Baroque Orchestra, paired ...

Chan Centre for the Performing Arts
Early Music Vancouver
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Fri
Jan 22
7:30 PM

Tormento Seicento – Amanda Forsythe & Opera Prima

Soprano Amanda Forsythe and ensemble Opera Prima explore the expressive world of early Baroque music, where singers and continuo musicians w...

Christ Church Cathedral
Early Music Vancouver
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Sat
Feb 20
7:30 PM

Moonlit Mozart – Les Délices

Oboist Debra Nagy leads Les Délices in an all-Mozart programme for period-instrument wind band (Harmoniemusik), featuring 18th-century arran...

Christ Church Cathedral
Early Music Vancouver
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Fri
Mar 12
7:30 PM

The Ascent of European Music – La Fonte Musica

Michele Pasotti and La Fonte Musica trace the rise of European music through the works of Johannes Ciconia and successors like Dufay and Dun...

Christ Church Cathedral
Early Music Vancouver
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Thu
Mar 25
7:30 PM

Handel's La Resurrezione

A dazzling presentation of Handel's La Resurrezione, the young composer's dramatization of Christ's Passion and Resurrection, featuring five...

Chan Centre for the Performing Arts
Early Music Vancouver
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Fri
Apr 30
7:30 PM

Songs from the Mayflower – Ménestrel

Canadian early music duo Ménestrel presents folksongs collected by Helen Creighton from across the Maritimes, blending historical practice w...

Christ Church Cathedral
Early Music Vancouver
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