Register now! The Makana Youth Choirs directed by Caroni Young is an introduction to and enrichment of choral music and singing technique for youth in grades 2-5 (Kids) and grades 6-9 (Youth.) Over 12 Friday afternoons starting September 15, students learn vocal and ensemble skills, harmonies, musical literacy, within a wide variety of repertoire […]
Michael Kaeshammer isn’t so much a piano player as a piano whisperer, a master musician, and songwriter able to coax dazzling, kaleidoscopic sounds from his instrument in a way few can rival. Joined by his ensemble of four musicians, that gift powers Turn It Up, Kaeshammer’s superb 15th album, broadly described as “eclectic yet accessible […]
FLORENCIA EN EL AMAZONA | Daniel Catán Dec 9 | 10am-1pm Sung in Spanish and inspired by the magical realism of Gabriel García Márquez, Mexican composer Daniel Catán’s 1996 opera focuses on opera diva, Florencia Grimaldi, who returns to her native Brazil to perform and search for her lost lover who has vanished into the […]
MET OPERA Now On Sale NABUCCO | Giuseppe Verdi Sat Jan 6 | 9:55am-1pm Ancient Babylon comes to life in a classic Met staging of biblical proportions. Baritone George Gagnidze makes his Met role debut as the imperious king Nabucco, alongside Ukrainian soprano Liudmyla Monastyrska reprising her thrilling turn as his vengeful daughter Abigaille. Mezzo-soprano […]
MET Opera Now on Sale. CARMEN | Georges Bizet Sat Jan 27 | 9:55am-1pm Acclaimed English director Carrie Cracknell makes her Met debut, reinvigorating the classic story of deadly passion with a staging that moves the action to the present day, amid a band of human traffickers. Mezzo-soprano Aigul Akhmetshina leads a powerhouse quartet of […]
Feb 3 | Victoria Symphony presents a Saturday matinee entitled “Transfigured Night,” an early, overtly romantic program with musical echoes of Brahms, Wagner, Mahler, and Richard Strauss. Taking the helm is dynamic music director and charismatic conductor Christian Kluxen, now in his seventh season with the Victoria Symphony, and largely regarded as one of the most […]
Feb 20-24 |These Are the Songs that I Sing When I’m Sad is an intimate, interactive, and joyous performance from singer and pianist Jane Miller with her limited series of small concerts over five days at The Stonehouse. The performances explore the songs people turn to when they’re sad; the songs they play to soothe their […]
Feb 29 | The members of the quartet are violinists Adrian Steele and Phoenix Avalon, violist Devin Moore, and cellist Joshua McClendon. The four began as an ensemble at the Juilliard School, and following a break during the global pandemic reconvened at the Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival in the summer of 2021 under the […]
Mar 5 | Diyet & The Love Soldiers is an alternative country, folk, roots and traditional ensemble with catchy melodies and stories deeply rooted in Diyet’s Indigenous world view and northern life. She spent her childhood on the ancestral lands of the Kluane First Nation people in Canada’s Yukon Territory. Coming from a family rooted […]
Mar 8 | An estimated five percent of jazz instrumentalists are women. In February 2022, Canadian bassist Jodi Proznick (JUNO nomination 2007, 2018) and pianist Amanda Tosoff (JUNO nomination 2022) decided to challenge the almost-exclusive male narrative by bringing together outstanding Canadian female jazz musicians, each one a composer and bandleader in her own right. […]
MET OPERA Now On Sale. LA FORZA DEL DESTINO | Giuseppe Verdi Mar 9 | 8:55am Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Verdi’s La Forza del Destino, with stellar soprano Lise Davidsen, following a string of recent Met triumphs, in her role debut as the noble Leonora. Director Mariusz Treliński delivers the company’s first new Forza in nearly […]
Mar 13 | Incorporating beautifully handcrafted puppets and an original pop/rock musical score, Cementland comes to life as two enigmatic garbage collectors tell the story of a very special boy whose singular wish is to find a TREASURE! One day, the boy discovers a rusty tin box packed with colorful envelopes and an old wrinkled […]
Mar 22 | Join us for music that excites the heart and feeds the soul! Payadora is an award-winning ensemble who performs its own arrangements of a core repertoire drawing from Argentinian/ Uruguayan traditions (tangos, milongas, waltzes, and folk music such as the Zamba and chacarera,) as well as original songs inspired by that tradition. […]
Sat Apr 13 | Experience an unforgettable evening performance of Indigenous dance presenting three original choreographies by dancers Beany John (“The Awakening,”) Yvonne Chartrand (“Eagle Spirit,”) and “Carriers & Keepers of the Ancestral Portals” by Beany John and Sophie Dow. In a recent update to the programming, Friday night will now feature Matriarchs Uprising's Indigi-Dance […]
Sat Jun 1 | Come see the Makana Youth Choir in action with their end of term concert. These young singers from grades 2-9 will show you their enthusiasm and joy at the end of their second term. With a focus on teaching musical concepts such as harmony, tone and note reading, find out what […]
