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February 2019
Music Sea to Sea: The Farewell Tour
The Vancouver Chamber Choir will be honouring Jon Washburn's contribution to the Canadian choral landscape on this coast-to-coast tour in February/March 2019. We will visit the Prairies, Central Canada and Atlantic Canada. Scroll down for more information on performances in a city near you! Proudly supported by: Travel assistance generously provided by: EDMONTON, AB: Friday, February 22, 2019 7:30pm, Robertson-Wesley United Church (10209 123 St. NW) Presented by the Richard Eaton Singers CALGARY, AB: Sunday, February…
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Music Sea to Sea: The Farewell Tour (Vancouver performance)
The Farewell Tour, which will be toured across Canada, will feature our all-time Top Ten List (by number of performances over the last 48 years) including Bach's Lobet den Herrn, Debussy's Trois chansons, Britten's Hymn to St Cecilia and more music by Zoltán Kodály, Imant Raminsh, R. Murray Schafer, Stephen Foster and Loreena McKennitt. This concert will mark the 92 domestic and foreign tours with the Vancouver Chamber Choir which Jon Washburn has led during the last half century. J.S.…
Find out more »April 2019
Music for a Very Good Friday: Bach/O’Regan/Vaughan Williams
Jon Washburn draws all his soloists, choirs, alumni and orchestra together for a wonderful evening of music to celebrate the passage of his 48 years as leader of the Vancouver Chamber Choir. The music is resplendent — J.S. Bach's marvellous Missa brevis in g minor, Tarik O'Regan's mystic and evocative Solitude Trilogy, a premiere performance of Jon Washburn's Two Canadian Folksongs and a celebratory massed performance of Ralph Vaughan Williams' glorious Five Mystical Songs. Featuring the Vancouver Chamber Choir and…
Find out more »May 2019
Youth & Music 2019: Music’s Future
This biennial event — co-sponsored by the Canadian Music Centre BC Region — highlights the finalists and winners of our 14th Young Composers' Competition, while Jon Washburn's Vancouver Chamber Choir and Carrie Tennant's Vancouver Youth Choir celebrate the wonderful combination of Youth & Music with music by Tavener, Rutter, Sandström and Washburn. There will be four newly-commissioned pieces from young professionals we've discovered. If you love music and you believe in young people, this concert will warm your heart. Jan…
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