Season: 2011-2012

“Melnikov’s playing has wonderful colour and imagination.” – Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Vancouver (VRS) debut     Schubert: Wanderer Fantasy Brahms: 7 Fantasies, Op. 116 Shostakovich: Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87 (1-12)

Alexander Pavlovsky, Sergei Bresler, violins; Ori Kam, viola; Kyrill Zlotnikov, cello VRS audiences love the ‘Jerusalems’. That’s why we’re bringing them back. “It is a joy to see and hear the Jerusalem Quartet… they clearly glow with the delight of making music together.” —Independent Weekly     Mozart: Quartet in D minor, K.421 Shostakovich: Quartet…

A trumpet recital? You bet… with a 23-year old player like this! “The scales flow like double cream and in the slow movements Tine’s trumpet has sublime delicacy” —Classic FM magazine Vancouver (VRS) debut     Bohuslav Martinů: Sonatina for Trumpet and Piano George Enescu: Légende Rolf Wallin: New work for solo trumpet (US premiere)…

“Boesch is capable of great vocal power and operatic intensity.” –The Herald “With Roger Vignoles at the piano, extraordinary things can happen.” –The Times Vancouver (VRS) debut   Works by Schumann & Schubert

10 SONATAS 2 MUSICIANS 3 CONCERTS 2 LECTURES Beethoven’s complete sonatas for violin and piano performed in three concerts. Faust and Melnikov’s stunning recent recording of the complete Beethoven Sonatas for Violin and Piano won Gramophone Magazine’s Recording of the Year Award in 2010. David Gordon Duke, composer, educator, writer and music critic, has a long association…

Pre-performance lecture by David Gordon Duke at 10.15am   10 SONATAS 2 MUSICIANS 3 CONCERTS 2 LECTURES Beethoven’s complete sonatas for violin and piano performed in three concerts. Faust and Melnikov’s stunning recent recording of the complete Beethoven Sonatas for Violin and Piano won Gramophone Magazine’s Recording of the Year Award in 2010. David Gordon Duke,…

Pre-performance lecture by David Gordon Duke at 7.15pm   10 SONATAS 2 MUSICIANS 3 CONCERTS 2 LECTURES Beethoven’s complete sonatas for violin and piano performed in three concerts. Faust and Melnikov’s stunning recent recording of the complete Beethoven Sonatas for Violin and Piano won Gramophone Magazine’s Recording of the Year Award in 2010. David Gordon…

Christian Gerhaher is regularly heard on the stages of major international recital centres such as the Wigmore Hall, the Concertgebouw, the Berlin Philharmonie and the Konzerthaus and Musikverein in Vienna. He appears with the world’s leading orchestras and conductors, and in major opera houses in London and in Europe. He also has a Medical Degree…

Kirill made his stunning Canadian debut at the Playhouse on the VRS 2004-2005 Season. In 2010 he received the prestigious Gilmore Artist Award, only the sixth musician to have been so honoured. “On the fast track to a major career, and he deserves to be.” – Boston Globe     Bach: English Suite No. 6 in…