Season: 2023-2024

PRE-CONCERT TALK AT 2:15PM Compelling repertoire. Captivating musicians. Sizzling performances. These remarkable artists — all successful soloists — have joined forces to perform as a trio in just two cities in the 2023-24 Season: Vancouver and San Francisco. Each musician is very special in his own right, and all are seasoned chamber music players. Juho…

CANADIAN DEBUT! POST-PERFORMANCE TALKBACK Israeli pianist Ariel Lanyi has been on our radar for a while and it has been a thrill to witness his career skyrocketing. In 2021, Ariel won 3rd Prize at the Leeds International Piano Competition and was a prize winner in both the Young Classical Artists Trust YCAT (London) and Concert…

“The Great Danes” return for the fourth and final installment of their innovative Doppelgänger project, in which they pair one of Schubert’s timeless string compositions with a newly-commissioned work.   For this fourth concert, the quartet will be joined by Finnish cellist Johannes Rostamo to perform Schubert’s epic String Quintet, which was written during the final weeks…

POST-PERFORMANCE TALKBACK Swiss-born Jean-Sélim Abdelmoula enjoys a busy and varied musical life as a pianist and composer. His teachers have included Ronan O’Hora, Sir András Schiff, Ferenc Rados and Jorg Widmann, and his awards include the Edvard Grieg International Composer Competition, the Guildhall Wigmore Prize, and the Lili Boulanger Memorial Fund Award. He has performed…

PRE-CONCERT TALK AT 2:15PM Sheku returns to the VRS for the fourth time, but on this occasion he’s performing solo. Hear him in a varied and exhilarating program of music written for solo cello in the fine acoustic setting of the Chan Shun Concert Hall at the Chan Centre. He will be joined by a…

POST-PERFORMANCE TALKBACK We are delighted to open our 44th Season with this remarkable young pianist who hails from Salmon Arm, BC. A graduate of The Juilliard School and the UBC School of Music, Jaeden recently won both the Santander and Maria Canals International Piano Competitions in Europe, and the Hilton Head International Piano Competition in…

PRE-CONCERT TALK AT 2:15PM Javier Perianes made his Canadian debut on the VRS stage in 2008, with return appearances in 2009 and 2017. Over the years his career has flourished, taking him to the world’s most prestigious venues and making him a national treasure in his native Spain, where he was awarded the National Music…

PRE-CONCERT TALK AT 2:15PM ALEXANDER SITKOVETSKY, violin ISANG ENDERS, cello WU QIAN, piano  The Sitkovetsky Trio was founded 16 years ago when Alexander Sitkovetsky and Wu Qian were students at the Yehudi Menuhin School in London. Over the years, the trio has established a reputation as an exceptional and dynamic chamber ensemble. Their thoughtful and committed…

PRE-CONCERT TALK AT 2:15PM When Federico Colli came to prominence after winning the Salzburg Mozart Competition in 2011, it was the start of a dynamic streak for the Italian pianist. A year later he swept the board at the 2012 Leeds Piano Competition. Over a decade later, he’s one of the most compelling pianists on…

POST-PERFORMANCE TALKBACK This remarkable brother and sister duo were raised in Ottawa and have been performing together since their Carnegie Hall debut in 2011. Following recent prize-winning successes at the Queen Elisabeth Competition and the Concours de Genève, Bryan, who is now based in Berlin, has a burgeoning career in Europe and Canada. Silvie, who…