Season: 2016-2017

  • JOYCE DiDONATO, mezzo-soprano with IL POMO d’ORO CHAMBER ORCHESTRA

    JOYCE DiDONATO, mezzo-soprano with IL POMO d’ORO CHAMBER ORCHESTRA

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    In War and Peace: Harmony Through Music Vancouver debut performance – one night only! Winner of the 2012 Grammy Award for Best Classical Vocal Solo, Kansas-born Joyce DiDonato entrances audiences across the globe, and has been proclaimed “perhaps the most potent female singer of her generation” by The New Yorker. This concert explores the dichotomy…

  • BENJAMIN BEILMAN, violin & YEKWON SUNWOO, piano

    BENJAMIN BEILMAN, violin & YEKWON SUNWOO, piano

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    Recipient of a 2014 Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship, a 2012 Avery Fisher Career Grant, and a 2012 London Music Masters Award, Benjamin Beilman is one of his generation’s fastest rising stars. “Mr. Beilman’s handsome technique, burnished sound and quiet confidence showed why he has come so far so fast” – The New York Times   Schubert:…

  • HARRIET KRIJGH, cello & MAGDA AMARA, piano

    HARRIET KRIJGH, cello & MAGDA AMARA, piano

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    Twenty-four year old Dutch cellist Harriet Krijgh is one of today’s most exciting and promising young cellists. Harriet was chosen for the “Rising Stars” series of the European Concert Hall Organisation (ECHO) in the 2015-16 Season, having been nominated by the Musikverein Vienna and the Konzerthaus Vienna. “Recording three solo CDs before you are 23…

  • DOVER STRING QUARTET with AVI AVITAL, mandolin

    DOVER STRING QUARTET with AVI AVITAL, mandolin

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    The opportunity to present a combination of the “young American quartet of the moment” with the brilliant young Israeli mandolinist Avi Avital was one we couldn’t resist. Neither should you! “Few young American ensembles are as exciting and accomplished as the Dover Quartet” – The New Yorker “Avi Avital is a musician who recognizes no boundaries…

  • ANNA FEDOROVA, piano

    ANNA FEDOROVA, piano

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    Anna Fedorova is one of the world’s premier young pianists. From an early age she demonstrated an innate musical maturity and astounding technical abilities. Her international concert career took off while she was a child, and she has appeared in some of the most prestigious concert halls of Europe, North and South America and Asia.…

  • ISTVÁN VÁRDAI, cello & ZOLTÁN FEJÉRVÁRI, piano

    ISTVÁN VÁRDAI, cello & ZOLTÁN FEJÉRVÁRI, piano

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    Award-winning Hungarian cellist István Várdai is a rising star, performing to great acclaim at major international venues. In 2014, he won the ARD Cello Competition in Munich and a year later captured Hungary’s highest classical music honour, the Liszt Prize. “His playing was commendable for its fluidity and virtuosity, distinguished by both a fleet-fingered lightness…

  • KSENIJA SIDOROVA, accordion

    KSENIJA SIDOROVA, accordion

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    Praised as “superbly subtle and virtuosic” and “an amazingly accomplished artist”, Ksenija Sidorova is the world’s leading ambassador of the accordion. She started playing the instrument at the age of 8 in her hometown of Riga, Latvia, and as she grew older her quest for more exposure to both classical and contemporary repertoire led her…