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  • NOTICE OF THE VANCOUVER RECITAL SOCIETY’S AGM

    NOTICE OF THE VANCOUVER RECITAL SOCIETY’S AGM

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    NOTICE OF THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF MEMBERS OF THE VANCOUVER RECITAL SOCIETY (the “Society”). The Board of Directors of the Society hereby gives notice that the Annual General Meeting of the Society will be held online, via ZOOM (details below) on the 18th day of February, 2021 at 5:30pm for the following purposes: To receive…

  • Virtually VRS: Tristan Teo plays Schumann, Kapustin & Mussorgsky

    Virtually VRS: Tristan Teo plays Schumann, Kapustin & Mussorgsky

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    This is one of our videos from our Virtually VRS series. See more of our Virtually VRS recitals here.

  • PROGRAM NOTES: TRISTAN TEO

    PROGRAM NOTES: TRISTAN TEO

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    PROGRAM NOTES: TRISTAN TEO Robert Schumann   Widmung (arr. Franz Liszt) The year 1840 was Robert Schumann’s Liederjahr, his ‘year of song’. After 10 years of writing almost exclusively for the piano, Schumann in 1840 burst into song, composing well over a hundred Lieder. One song collection, Myrthen Op. 25, had a special meaning for…

  • Virtually VRS: Jaeden Izik-Dzurko plays Scriabin, Schumann and Rachmaninoff

    Virtually VRS: Jaeden Izik-Dzurko plays Scriabin, Schumann and Rachmaninoff

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    This is one of our videos from our Virtually VRS series. See more of our Virtually VRS recitals here.

  • PROGRAM NOTES: JAEDEN IZIK-DZURKO

    PROGRAM NOTES: JAEDEN IZIK-DZURKO

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    Alexander Scriabin Valse  Op. 38 It is easy to see why Alexander Scriabin was known as “the Russian Chopin.”  Like his Polish musical forebear he wrote almost exclusively for the piano and began his career by composing mazurkas, waltzes, nocturnes, preludes and études. In this Valse we catch the composer near the end of his…

  • CANCELLING THE REMAINDER OF OUR 2020-21 SEASON

    CANCELLING THE REMAINDER OF OUR 2020-21 SEASON

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    This is the announcement we were hoping we wouldn’t have to make: we’re cancelling the balance of our 2020-21 Season. No doubt this news won’t come as a surprise, but it’s terribly disappointing nonetheless. When we announced the cancellation of our fall concerts back in July, we held on to the hope that we’d be…

  • VRS CONCERTS FROM SEPTEMBER THROUGH DECEMBER 2020 ARE CANCELLED

    VRS CONCERTS FROM SEPTEMBER THROUGH DECEMBER 2020 ARE CANCELLED

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    We’ve made the difficult decision to cancel all concerts scheduled to occur in the first half of the 2020-21 Season. The eleven cancelled concerts include, in chronological order: soprano Anna Caterina Antonacci, The Jerusalem Quartet playing all the Beethoven Quartets (five concerts), cellist Abel Selaocoe, trombonist Peter Moore, pianist Tamara Stefanovich, cellist Zlatomir Fung, and…

  • Beyond the Concert Hall: Steven Osborne

    Beyond the Concert Hall: Steven Osborne

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    This is one of the videos in our Beyond the Concert Hall series. Our Beyond the Concert Hall series brings our audiences into the world of musicians and other creative industry professionals through intimate interviews. Beyond the Concert Hall featured interviews are updated here each season. You can watch all our archival interviews here.

  • VRS CONCERTS IN THE MONTHS OF MARCH, APRIL AND MAY ARE CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19

    VRS CONCERTS IN THE MONTHS OF MARCH, APRIL AND MAY ARE CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19

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    UDATE March 18, 2020 Given the precautionary measures being taken to prevent the spread of COVID-19, and the projection that social distancing may continue for the next few months, we have decided to cancel the remaining concerts in our 2019-20 Season. The additional cancelled concerts include: Pablo and Sara Ferrández, Beatrice and Ludovica Rana, and…

  • PROGRAM NOTES: BENJAMIN GROSVENOR

    PROGRAM NOTES: BENJAMIN GROSVENOR

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    Jean-Philippe Rameau Gavotte and Variations in A minor The modern pianist seeking to play the Baroque harpsichord repertoire faces many obstacles, starting with the friendly fire of his own trusty Steinway itself, so different in sound from the perky little plucked-string sound box for which this music was originally written. A note on the harpsichord…