UBC Concerto Competition

Roy Barnett Recital Hall (Music Building) 6361 Memorial Road, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Open to all UBC School of Music students, the annual Concerto Competition is an opportunity for young musicians to earn a coveted spot as a soloist with the UBC Symphony Orchestra. Competitors select virtuosic works that highlight their exceptional technical and expressive abilities as musicians.

Free

Wednesday Noon Hours: Duo Concertante

Roy Barnett Recital Hall (Music Building) 6361 Memorial Road, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Outstanding musicians, champions of new Canadian music, visionary artistic directors, and inspiring mentors, Duo Concertante have forged a musical legacy and strive to provoke thought and engagement through music in innovative ways. Violinist Nancy Dahn and pianist Timothy Steeves have built an international career with Duo Concertante. The duo’s name comes from the inscription over Beethoven’s “Kreutzer” sonata, “in stilo […]

Free – $12

Wednesday Noon Hours: Echoes and Embers

Roy Barnett Recital Hall (Music Building) 6361 Memorial Road, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Clarinetist Jose Franch-Ballester and pianist David Fung present a program tittled “Echoes and Embers” exploring the intimate relationship between clarinet and piano. A concert conceived to be performed in its entirety without interruptions or applause between the works, thus creating a common thread between them that allows us to delve into the relationship of these works with each other. The concert […]

Free – $12

UBC Opera: The Florentine Straw Hat

Chan Centre for the Performing Arts 6265 Crescent Road, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

FARSA MUSICALE IN FOUR ACTS SUNG IN ITALIAN WITH ENGLISH SURTITLES Nino Rota composer Nino Rota, Ernesta Rota Rinaldi librettists UBC Opera Ensemble UBC Symphony Orchestra Jonathan Girard conductor Nancy Hermiston director The Florentine Straw Hat (Il cappello di paglia di Firenze) is an exhilarating comedy based on the famous nineteenth-century French farce which inspired René Clair’s classic silent film An Italian […]

$20 – $45

UBC Opera: The Florentine Straw Hat

Chan Centre for the Performing Arts 6265 Crescent Road, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

FARSA MUSICALE IN FOUR ACTS SUNG IN ITALIAN WITH ENGLISH SURTITLES Nino Rota composer Nino Rota, Ernesta Rota Rinaldi librettists UBC Opera Ensemble UBC Symphony Orchestra Jonathan Girard conductor Nancy Hermiston director The Florentine Straw Hat (Il cappello di paglia di Firenze) is an exhilarating comedy based on the famous nineteenth-century French farce which inspired René Clair’s classic silent film An Italian […]

$20 – $45

UBC Opera: The Florentine Straw Hat

Chan Centre for the Performing Arts 6265 Crescent Road, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

FARSA MUSICALE IN FOUR ACTS SUNG IN ITALIAN WITH ENGLISH SURTITLES Nino Rota composer Nino Rota, Ernesta Rota Rinaldi librettists UBC Opera Ensemble UBC Symphony Orchestra Jonathan Girard conductor Nancy Hermiston director The Florentine Straw Hat (Il cappello di paglia di Firenze) is an exhilarating comedy based on the famous nineteenth-century French farce which inspired René Clair’s classic silent film An Italian […]

$20 – $45

UBC Choirs: Love Letters

Chan Centre for the Performing Arts 6265 Crescent Road, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

University Singers, Choral Union Graeme Langager conductor Hyejung Jun conductor, Choral Union The award-winning UBC Choirs presents a powerful program of romantic poetry in song featuring the beautiful voices of the University Singers and Choral Union. MORE ABOUT UBC CHOIRS

Free – $20