FINAL ROUND GALA PERFORMANCE UBC Chamber Orchestra JONATHAN GIRARD conductor This past March, five UBC Music piano students performed a selection of concertos at the semi-finals, with three finalists emerging to proceed to the Final Round Gala Performance. The finalists below will perform their full piano concertos with the UBC Chamber Orchestra. PROGRAM Lucy Moon piano […]
JUNO-winner Elisapie returns to the Chan Centre for a multi-media show that immerses audiences in the story of her home. Uvattini, which means “home” in Inuktitut, combines music, narration, video and performance to reveal the intimacies of her Salluit community, located in the very north of Nunavik. Mixing poetry with projections of landscapes and slices of […]
UBC Symphony Orchestra Jonathan Girard, Conductor Conductor Jonathan Girard returns to open the UBC Symphony Orchestra season with a stunning program of classics and contemporary pieces to celebrate the fall season. The UBC Symphony Orchestra is a full symphony orchestra that performs symphonic works from the 18th century to the present day. It presents six […]
For the first time in eight years, ANOHNI, who NPR called “one of our generation’s greatest protest singers/songwriters” has announced an extensive North American tour. Born in the UK and raised in Amsterdam and California, ANOHNI relocated to NYC in her late teens, forming her group The Johnsons in 1998 and establishing a unique path as an artist […]
UBC Bands: Symphonic Wind Ensemble & Concert Winds UBC Bands opens their season with two new conductors and music by Eric Whitacre, Jodie Blackshaw, Leonard Bernstein, and more! Concert Winds Meijun Chen conductor AYO by Katahj Copley October by Eric Whitacre Terpsichorean Dances by Jodie Blackshaw Grainger Children’s March “Over the Hills and Far Away” by Percy Aldridge Grainger Second Suite […]
Pianist and conductor Stephen Drury performs Charles Ives’ complete sonatas for piano. These essential pieces from Ives’s canon stand out for their instrumental virtuosity. Drury has performed throughout the world with a repertoire that stretches from Bach to Liszt to the music of today. He has appeared at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, the Barbican Centre […]
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