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Notes from the Executive & Artistic Director Almost all music lovers can describe a “Road to Damascus” moment when a performance they heard irrevocably changed the way that they looked upon the world – a sudden moment of conversion or transformation to a new way of thinking. In this 500th anniversary year of Luther’s Protestant Reformation, it seems fitting to reflect upon the idea that more than cold reason, music has always been a powerful tool of persuasion. It provides us with an expressive outlet for processing how we feel about the world as well as the ability to influence others. Truly great music often appeals to our intellect and our emotion in equal measures and can both motivate and reflect change within us. I will never forget the first time I heard the first chorus of the St. John Passion – its effect on me was beyond words and altered the course of my life. It was a moment of profound consolation that helped me understand that expressions of such complex beauty are, at the very least, evidence of our capacity to create incredible and noble things when we are so inclined. When we combine our capacity for reason with our great well of passion we can accomplish almost anything. In a political and cultural landscape that increasingly seems to sway people by appealing solely to pure emotions like fear, however, it seemed fitting to focus on the character of Orpheus for the calendar. Though this story is largely about the power of music to persuade and transform, it is also a tale of caution that warns us to keep our passion and reason in balance. Without this self-control and awareness of how easily our emotions can be swayed, we risk losing the things we value the most and often take for granted. If you are not yet a convert to the belief that well-constructed and inspired music can bring about positive change in many forms, then I invite you to explore EMV’s 2017 Vancouver Bach Festival and 2017-18 Main Season. I promise there is music here that will appeal to both your hearts and your minds.

Matthew WhiteExecutive and Artistic Director

Calendar cover image: Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796–1875):

“Orpheus leading Eurydice from the Underworld” (1861) - detail

Matthew White during a pre-concert talk with Stephen Stubbs (Jan Gates photo)

Performance photos in this Calendar are by EMV events photographer Jan Gates.

Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665): “Landscape with Orpheus and Euridice” (1648) - detail

EMV, Green College at UBC, and the Early Modern Conversions Project present : a special series of free concerts, pre-concert talks, public lectures and podcasts

TRANSFORMING SOUNDS / CONVERTED SELVESHow Music Changes in Time, Changes Us, and Changes Our Worlds

Free Events at Green College

Thursday, September 28 at 5 pmThomas Forrest KellyMorton B. Knafel Professor of Music at Harvard University

Wednesday, October 11 at 5 pmPaula Pryce PhD in Anthropology from Boston University

Tuesday, October 31 at 5 pmIan FenlonProfessor of Historical Musicology,King’s College Cambridge

Thursday, January 11 at 5 pmDiderot Quartet

Tuesday, February 27 at 5 pmSuzie LeBlanc soprano, andAlexander Weimann harpsichordperform Songs of Shakespeare

Tuesday, March 6 at 5 pmBill ThompsonDepartment of PsychologyMacquarie University Australia

Tuesday, April 10 at 5 pmTanya Tomkins cello, andEric Zivian fortepiano

For a full listing of events go to www.earlymusic.bc.ca/education

All cultures have stories of the miraculous transformations – of individuals, groups, and even physical landscapes – that can be wrought by instrumental music and song. In recent decades, the early music movement has been at the center of a revolution in the practice of western classical music that values the rediscovery of little known repertoires as well as the exploration of period instruments and historical performance techniques. Artists and listeners alike have been forced to question deeply rooted assumptions about how music from the past was constructed and the types of interpretive choices that make music from any period speak most eloquently.

Meanwhile, multidisciplinary work in cognitive studies has shown how human consciousness is routinely shaped and extended by external symbol-systems, media and instruments of all kinds, including those used in making music. This series of concerts, pre-concert talks, public lectures and podcasts will explore the modalities of such mind/body-converting and world-changing musical experience in the persons of players and listeners across time, and in the wider history of societies and cultures, using live performances of classical music from the Middle Ages, Renaissance / Reformation and Baroque periods as a laboratory. The project is a joint production of Early Music Vancouver, Green College at the University of British Columbia, and the Early Modern Conversions Project based at McGill University (and funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada).

vancouver bach festival 2017CONVERSIONSCONVERSIONS

“The riches of music are so excellent and so precious that words fail me whenever I attempt to discuss and describe them… the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world. It controls our thoughts, minds, hearts, and spirits… “

– Martin Luther

Jacopo del Sellaio (c.1441–1493): “Orpheus”

Matt Haimovitz

Tyler Duncan and Erika Switzer

Cinquecento

Stephan MacLeod

Overtures to Bach Tuesday August 1 at 6:00 pm and 9:00 pm | Christ Church Cathedral Supported by Dorothy Jantzen

Matt Haimovitz cello

Schumann’s Dichterliebe & Brahms’ Four Serious SongsWednesday August 2 at 1:00 pm | Christ Church Cathedral Supported by David McMurtry

Tyler Duncan baritone, Erika Switzer 19th-century piano

Songs of Religious Upheaval Byrd, Tallis, Tye - Music from Reformation EnglandWednesday August 2 at 7:30 pm | Christ Church Cathedral Supported by Adèle LaFleur

Cinquecento (Austria): Terry Wey countertenor, Achim Schulz tenor, Tore Tom Denys tenor, Tim Scott Whiteley baritone, Ulfried Staber bass

A Lutheran Vespers – Music for Troubled Times Thursday August 3 at 1:00 pm | Christ Church Cathedral

An EMV Emerging Artists Event

Bach’s Italian Concerto Thursday August 3 at 7:30 pm | Christ Church Cathedral

Alexander Weimann harpsichord Stephan MacLeod bass

Mendelssohn, Moscheles and Bach - ConversionsFriday August 4 at 1:00 pm | Christ Church Cathedral

Byron Schenkman fortepiano and Michael Unterman cello

Christ Church Cathedral: 690 Burrard Street at Georgia | Chan Centre at UBC: 6265 Crescent Road, UBC campus

Handel in Italy – Virtuosic Cantatas Friday August 4 at 7:30 pm | Christ Church Cathedral Supported by Chris Guzy and Mari Csemi

Jenny Högström soprano, Terry Wey countertenor,Alexander Weimann harpsichord, Beiliang Zhu cello, Lucas Harris lute

Playing with B-A-C-H Sonatas for solo violin by Telemann, Pisendel & J.S.BachTuesday August 8 at 1:00 pm | Christ Church Cathedral

Tekla Cunningham violin

Before Bach “The Fountains of Israel” by Johann Schein (1623)Tuesday August 8 at 7:30 pm | Christ Church Cathedral

Gli Angeli Genève - Stephan MacleodAleksandra Lewandowska & Jenny Högström sopranos, Robert Getchell & Thomas Hobbs tenors, Stephan MacLeod bass and musical direction, with Christina Hutten organ, Beiliang Zhu cello, and John Lenti lute

Bach for Two FlutesWednesday August 9 at 1:00 pm | Christ Church Cathedral Supported by Agnes Hohn

Janet See & Soile Stratkauskas flutes, Christopher Bagan harpsichord

Sacred Arias for Countertenor – Heavenly Love Wednesday August 9 at 7:30 pm | Christ Church Cathedral Supported by

Alex Potter countertenor Birgit Westergaard & Norman Gladstone

Natalie Mackie continuo gamba, Beiliang Zhu solo gamba, Christina Hutten organ, John Lenti lute

Bach Transcriptions – Victoria Baroque PlayersThursday August 10 at 1:00 pm | Christ Church Cathedral

Soile Stratkauskas flute, Christi Meyers violin, Katrina Russell bassoon, Michael Jarvis harpsichord

Music of Missions and Mysteries Latin American BaroqueThursday August 10 at 7:30 pm | Christ Church Cathedral Supported by the EMV Board of Directors

Pacific MusicWorksStephen Stubbs music director

J.S. Bach – St. John Passion Friday August 11 at 7:30 pm | Chan Centre for the Performing Arts Supported by

Alexander Weimann music director the Drance Family

Thomas Hobbs evangelistPacific Baroque OrchestraVancouver Cantata Singers prepared byVCS Artistic Director Paula KremerIn collaboration with Gli Angeli Genève:

Jenny Högström & Aleksandra Lewandowska, sopranos, Alex Potter countertenor, Robert Getchell tenor, Sumner Thompson baritone, Stephan Macleod bass

Terry Wey

Tekla Cunningham

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Alex Potter

Stephen Stubbs

Christina Hutten

Thomas Hobbs

With the support of

masterworks series J.S. Bach – St. John Passion Friday August 11 at 7:30 pm | Chan Centre for the Performing Arts

Alexander Weimann music directorThomas Hobbs evangelistPacific Baroque OrchestraVancouver Cantata Singers prepared by VCS Artistic Director Paula KremerIn collaboration with Gli Angeli Genève:Jenny Högström & Aleksandra Lewandowska sopranos, Alex Potter countertenor, Robert Getchell tenor, Sumner Thompson baritone, and Stephan MacLeod bass

Peter Paul Rubens : “Orpheus and Eurydice”

Vancouver Cantata Singers

Pacific Baroque Orchestra

Supported by the Drance Family

Monteverdi’s Orfeo Sunday October 29 at 3:00 pm | Chan Centre for the Performing Arts

Stephen Stubbs music directorPacific MusicWorksThe Dark Horse ConsortColin Balzer tenor as Orfeo

Handel’s MessiahThursday November 30 at 7:30 pm | White Rock Baptist ChurchFriday December 1 at 7:30 pm | Vancouver PlayhouseSaturday December 2 at 7:30 pm | Vancouver Playhouse

Alexander Weimann music directorPacific Baroque OrchestraVancouver Cantata Singers prepared by VCS Artistic Director Paula KremerYulia Van Doren soprano, Krisztina Szabó mezzo-soprano,Charles Daniels tenor, Tyler Duncan baritone

Festive CantatasVivaldi: Gloria and MagnificatSaturday December 23 at 7:30 pm | Chan Centre for the Performing Arts

Monica Huggett music director

Angela HewittGoldberg VariationsWednesday March 7 at 7:30 pm | Chan Centre for the Performing Arts

The Tallis ScholarsWar and Peace Saturday April 21 at 7:30 pm | Chan Centre for the Performing Arts

Peter Phillips music director

Russian White Nights:

Opera Arias from 18th-century St. PetersburgSunday May 6 at 3:00 pm | Chan Centre for the Performing Arts

Karina Gauvin sopranoPacific Baroque OrchestraAlexander Weimann music director

Pacific MusicWorks

Colin Balzer

The Dark Horse Consort

Concertmaster Chloe Meyers & PBO musicians

Angela Hewitt

The Tallis Scholars

Karina Gauvin

Chan Centre at UBC: 6265 Crescent Road, UBC campus | For Ticket Orders: earlymusic.bc.ca or 604.822.2697

a northwest baroque masterworks project

Supported by the Drance Family in honour of Stephen & Betty Drance

and José Verstappen

Supported by Gail & Bryan Atkins, and by Anona Thorne & Takao Tanabe

Supported by Ingrid Söchting & Douglas Todd, and by Dr. Katherine E. Paton

Supported by Helen & Frank Elfert

Supported by David McMurtry and by Bruce Wright

cathedral seriesBaroque Duets of Love and Passion: Music by Agostino Stefani and G.F. Handel Friday September 29 at 7:30 pm | Christ Church Cathedral Supported by Tony & Margie Knox

Boston Early Music Festival Ensemble (Paul O’Dette & Stephen Stubbs musical co-directors)

Amanda Forsythe soprano, Emöke Baráth sopranoColin Balzer tenor, Christian Immler bassStephen Stubbs musical direction, theorbo & baroque guitarMaxine Eilander baroque harp Michael Sponseller harpsichordErin Headley viola da gamba

Diabolus in Musica: Cantores - 14th century Music from the Pope’s Chapel in Avignon Friday October 13 at 7:30 pm | Christ Church Cathedral Supported by the

Diabolus in Musica (France) Brennan/Spano Family Foundation

Raphaël Boulay tenor, Branislav Rakic tenorJérémie Arcache & Romain Bockler baritoneEmmanuel Vistorcky bass, Philippe Roche bass

Stylus Fantasticus: Virtuoso Flights of Fancy from the 17th Century Friday November 3 at 7:30 pm | Christ Church Cathedral

Paul Luchkow violin, Michael Jarvis harpsichord, Sam Stadlen viola da gamba

Marc Chagall (1887-1985): “Orpheus” - detail

Emöke Baráth

Erin Headley

Diabolus in Musica

Amanda Forsythe

Bach to the Future: The Legacy of the Fugue – The Diderot String Quartet Friday January 12 at 7:30 pm | Christ Church Cathedral

Private to Public Journey of the String Quartet – The Eybler QuartetSaturday January 13 at 7:30 pm | Christ Church Cathedral

New Music for Old InstrumentsFriday January 19 at 7:30 pm | Christ Church Cathedral

Alexander Weimann music directorPacific Baroque Orchestra

Janusz Olejniczak Plays Chopin Friday February 2 at 7:30 pm | Christ Church CathedralSaturday February 3 at 7:30 pm | Christ Church Cathedral

Metamorfosi Ensemble Constantinople with Suzie LeBlancFriday February 23 at 7:30 pm | Christ Church Cathedral

A Telemann Celebration Ensemble La RêveuseFriday March 23 at 7:30 pm | Christ Church Cathedral

Monica Huggett The Little Orchestra: The Genius of the Classical Piano TrioSaturday April 7 at 7:30 pm | Christ Church Cathedral

Monica Huggett violin Tanya Tomkins celloEric Zivian fortepiano

Ovid: Myth and Music Tenor Charles Daniels in Recital Saturday April 28 at 7:30 pm | Christ Church Cathedral

Charles Daniels tenorAlexander Weimann music directorPacific Baroque Orchestra Chamber Players

Christ Church Cathedral: 690 Burrard Street at Georgia | For Ticket Orders: earlymusic.bc.ca or 604.822.2697

The Eybler Quartet

The Diderot String Quartet

Janusz Olejniczak

Suzie LeBlanc

Benjamin Perrot & Florence Bolton (La Rêveuse)

Monica Huggett

Charles Daniels

A collaboration with the


A collaboration with the Vancouver Symphony’s New Music Festival

Supported by Sharon E. Kahn

Supported by Chris Guzy and Mari Csemi


Supported by Birgit Westergaard and Norman Gladstone

Supported by Mary Christopher

Supported by Vincent & Zelie Tan

J.S. Bach - St. John Passion Friday August 11 at 7:30 pm | Chan Centre for the Performing Arts

Alexander Weimann music directorThomas Hobbs evangelistPacific Baroque OrchestraVancouver Cantata Singers prepared by VCS Artistic Director Paula KremerIn cooperation with Gli Angeli Genève:Jenny Högström & Aleksandra Lewandowska, sopranos, Alex Potter countertenor, Robert Getchell tenor, Sumner Thompson, baritone, and Stephan Macleod bass






Alexander Weimann music directorPacific Baroque Orchestra Chamber Ensemble

Russian White Nights

Opera Arias from 18th-century St. PetersburgSunday May 6 at 3:00 pm | Chan Centre for the Performing Arts


Jacob Savery II (1592-1651): “Orpheus among the Animals”

pacific baroque orchestra seriesalexander weimann, music director

Alexander Weimann

Yulia Van Doren

Krisztina Szabó

Sumner Thompson

Karina Gauvin


Supported by the Drance Family



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CONVERSIONSCONVERSIONS

Overtures to Bach Tuesday August 1 at 6:00 pm and 9:00 pm | Christ Church Cathedral

Matt Haimovitz cello

Schumann’s Dichterliebe & Brahms’ Four Serious SongsWednesday August 2 at 1:00 pm | Christ Church Cathedral

Tyler Duncan baritone, Erika Switzer 19th-century piano

Songs of Religious UpheavalByrd, Tallis, Tye - Music from Reformation EnglandWednesday August 2 at 7:30 pm | Christ Church Cathedral

Cinquecento (Austria): Terry Wey countertenor, Achim Schulz tenor, Tore Tom Denys tenor, Tim Scott Whiteley baritone, Ulfried Staber bass

A Lutheran Vespers – Music for Troubled Times Thursday August 3 at 1:00 pm | Christ Church Cathedral

An EMV Emerging Artists Event

Bach’s Italian Concerto Thursday August 3 at 7:30 pm | Christ Church Cathedral

Alexander Weimann harpsichord, Stephan MacLeod bass

Mendelssohn, Moscheles and Bach - ConversionsFriday August 4 at 1:00 pm | Christ Church Cathedral

Byron Schenkman fortepiano, and Michael Unterman cello

Handel in Italy – Virtuosic Cantatas Friday August 4 at 7:30 pm | Christ Church Cathedral

Jenny Högström soprano, Terry Wey countertenor,Alexander Weimann harpsichord, Beiliang Zhu cello,Lucas Harris lute

Playing with B-A-C-HSonatas for solo violin by Telemann, Pisendel & J.S.BachTuesday August 8 at 1:00 pm | Christ Church Cathedral

Tekla Cunningham violin

Before Bach “The Fountains of Israel” by Johann Schein (1623)Tuesday August 8 at 7:30 pm | Christ Church Cathedral

Gli Angeli Genève - Stephan MacleodAleksandra Lewandowska & Jenny Högström sopranos,Robert Getchell & Thomas Hobbs tenors, Stephan MacLeod bass and musical direction, with Christina Hutten organ, Beiliang Zhu cello, and John Lenti lute

Bach for Two FlutesWednesday August 9 at 1:00 pm | Christ Church Cathedral

Janet See & Soile Stratkauskas flutes,Christopher Bagan harpsichord

Heavenly Love - Sacred Arias for Countertenor Wednesday August 9 at 7:30 pm | Christ Church Cathedral

Alex Potter countertenorNatalie Mackie continuo gamba, Beiliang Zhu solo gamba,Christina Hutten organ, John Lenti lute

Bach Transcriptions – Victoria Baroque PlayersThursday August 10 at 1:00 pm | Christ Church Cathedral

Soile Stratkauskas flute, Christi Meyers violin, Katrina Russell bassoon, Michael Jarvis harpsichord

Music of Missions and Mysteries Latin American BaroqueThursday August 10 at 7:30 pm | Christ Church Cathedral

Pacific MusicWorksStephen Stubbs music director

J.S. Bach – St. John Passion Friday August 11 at 7:30 pm Chan Centre for the Performing Arts

Alexander Weimann music directorThomas Hobbs evangelistPacific Baroque OrchestraVancouver Cantata Singers prepared by VCS Artistic Director Paula KremerIn collaboration with Gli Angeli Genève:Jenny Högström & Aleksandra Lewandowska, sopranos,Alex Potter countertenor, Robert Getchell tenor,Sumner Thompson baritone, Stephan Macleod bass

vancouver bach festival 2017

“The riches of music are so excellent and so precious that words fail me whenever I attempt to discuss and describe them… the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world. It controls our thoughts, minds, hearts, and spirits… “

– Martin Luther Martin Luther (etching after Lucas Cranach the Younger)

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Culture Days - The Path to PerformanceFriday September 29 from 4:00-5:00 pmChrist Church Cathedral (690 Burrard Street at Georgia)

As part of Culture Days, and in anticipation of EMV’s October performance of Monteverdi’s opera Orfeo at the Chan Centre, EMV will host an open rehearsal followed by a discussion with music director Stephen Stubbs on his experience with performing this pivotal work over the last 30 years.

Baroque Duets of Love and PassionFriday September 29 at 7:30 pm (pre-concert talk at 6:45, by Thomas Forrest Kelly and Stephen Stubbs)Christ Church Cathedral (690 Burrard Street at Georgia)

The Boston Early Music Festival Chamber EnsemblePaul O’Dette & Stephen Stubbs artistic co-directorswith vocal soloistsAmanda Forsythe & Emőke Baráth sopranosColin Balzer tenor, Christian Immler bass

Under the direction of the Boston Early Music Festival (BEMF) musical co-directors Paul O’Dette and Stephen Stubbs, four stunning vocalists – sopranos Amanda Forsythe and Emőke Baráth, tenor Colin Balzer, and baritone Christian Immler – and a continuo team of six brilliant instrumentalists will present a selection of Steffani’s gorgeous chamber duets, as well as instrumental gems from the Baroque. This concert coincides with the North American release of the first volume of BEMF’s Steffani Chamber Duets CD series on the CPO label, which features the same BEMF vocalists and instrumentalists. Five of the nine duets performed on this programme have never been commercially recorded, so even connoisseurs in the audience will likely be hearing most of them for the first time.

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Diabolus in Musica: Cantores - 14th century Music from the Pope’s Chapel in Avignon Friday October 13 at 7:30 pm (pre-concert talk at 6:45) Supported by the Brennan/Spano Family Foundation

Christ Church Cathedral (690 Burrard Street at Georgia)

Diabolus in Musica (France)Raphaël Boulay & Branislav Rakic tenors, Jérémie Arcache & Romain Bockler baritonesEmmanuel Vistorcky bass, Philippe Roche bass

For a little less than a century, the Christian world had its eyes set on Avignon. The wealth, splendour and power of the French popes attracted kings, princes and the greatest artists of the century. Diabolus in Musica’s programme is a journey among the great manuscripts born in the Avignon sphere and includes many works that have not been sung since the 14th Century.

Monteverdi’s Orfeo Sunday October 29 at 3:00 pm (pre-concert talk at 2:15, by Ian Fenlon and Stephen Stubbs)Chan Centre for the Performing Arts at UBC

Stephen Stubbs, music directorPacific MusicWorks & Dark Horse Consort Colin Balzer tenor as Orfeo

Monteverdi’s Orfeo is the first unqualified masterpiece in operatic history. Full of dramatic word painting, narrative urgency, rich orchestration of exotic instruments as well as exquisite writing for vocal ensemble, it feels as fresh and full of relevance as it must have in the early 17th Century. Monteverdi specialist and grammytm winner Stephen Stubbs leads his own ensemble, Pacific MusicWorks, in a concert version featuring Vancouver’s Colin Balzer in the title role.

Supported by the Drance Family in honour of Stephen & Betty Drance and José Verstappen

Colin Balzer

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Alessandro Varotari called Il Padovanino (1588-1649): “Orpheus enchanting the animals”

Stylus Fantasticus: Virtuoso Flights of Fancy from the 17th Century Friday November 3 at 7:30 pm (pre-concert talk at 6:45)Christ Church Cathedral (690 Burrard Street at Georgia)

Paul Luchkow violin, Michael Jarvis harpsichord, Sam Stadlen viola da gamba

The fantastic style is… the most free and unrestrained method of composing… bound to nothing, neither to words nor melodic subject. It was to display genius and to teach the hidden design of harmony…” (Athanasius Kircher, 1650).

Paul Luchkow and Michael Jarvis join internationally-acclaimed bass viol player Sam Stadlen of Fretwork (London, UK) in a programme exploring this astonishingly inventive repertoire: the place where musical experimentation and unfettered imagination intersect. Music by Buxtehude, Biber, Louis Couperin, Marais, Telemann, and Rameau.



EMV’s very first presentation of Handel’s greatest and best-known work. Charles Daniels


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Handel’s MessiahFriday December 1 at 7:30 pm | Vancouver PlayhouseSaturday December 2 at 7:30 pm | Vancouver Playhouse


EMV’s very first presentation of Handel’s greatest and best-known work, in the intimate atmosphere of the Vancouver Playhouse. Hear how the use of period instruments in a mid-sized hall can transform this iconic work from merely powerful to transcendent.

Festive Cantatas

Vivaldi: Gloria and MagnificatSaturday December 23 at 7:30 pm Chan Centre for the Performing Arts

Monica Huggett music director

The Ospedale della Pietà was the orphanage for girls in Venice where Vivaldi was hired in 1703 as a violin teacher and then later as maestro de’ concerti. Beloved violinist Monica Huggett leads readings of these festive, joyful works written by Vivaldi as they were originally heard – performed entirely by women.

a northwest baroque masterworks project


Supported by Gail & Bryan Atkins, and by Anona Thorne & Takao Tanabe

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Bach to the Future: The Legacy of the Fugue – The Diderot String Quartet Friday January 12 at 7:30 pm | Christ Church Cathedral

The Diderot String Quartet: Adriane Post & Johanna Novom violins, Kyle Miller viola, Paul Dwyer cello

In this programme, the Diderot String Quartet performs excerpts from The Art of the Fugue with Mendelssohn’s rarely heard Fugue for String Quartet, op. 81/4, a beautiful nod to Bach, and his beloved String Quartet No. 2, op. 13.

Private to Public Journey of the String Quartet – The Eybler QuartetSaturday January 13 at 7:30 pm | Christ Church Cathedral

The Eybler Quartet: Aisslinn Nosky & Julia Wedman violins, Patrick Jordan viola, Margaret Gay cello

Toronto’s Eybler Quartet brings to life the relatively obscure music of Vanhal and Asplmayr, early apostles of this genre, and traces a line to the treasured works of Haydn and Beethoven that became the backbone of the string quartet repertoire for generations to come.



EMV partners again with the PBO and the VSO’s New Music Festival for a concert of contemporary music written for western period instruments.

Marc Chagall (1887-1985): “Orphée”, mosaic (1969) - detail

Composers Linda Catlin Smith and Rodney Sharman at the January 2017 Vancouver New Music Festival



A collaboration with the Vancouver Symphony’s New Music Festival

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Friedrich Heinrich Füger (1751-1818): “Orpheus guides Eurydike out of the Underworld” - detail

Janusz Olejniczak Plays Chopin Friday February 2 at 7:30 pm | Christ Church CathedralSaturday February 3 at 7:30 pm | Christ Church Cathedral

Janusz Olejniczak 19th-century piano & modern Steinway

The keyboard music of the early Romantics such as Chopin and Schumann – and even of still later composers – was written for pianos substantially different from the ubiquitous modern Steinway. This two-concert collaboration with the Vancouver Chopin Society is an exploration of how the use of period instruments can have a dramatic effect on an artist’s interpretive choices. Award-winning Polish pianist Janusz Olejniczak will play two recitals with different programmes. In each concert, he will play the first half on a 19th-century fortepiano and the second half on a modern Steinway.

Metamorfosi Ensemble Constantinople with Suzie LeBlancFriday February 23 at 7:30 pm | Christ Church Cathedral

Suzie LeBlanc sopranoKiya Tabassian setar & shourangiz, leaderMichel Angers baroque guitar & theorbo, Pierre-Yves Martel viola da gambaDavid Greenberg baroque violin, Patrick Graham percussion

For this programme, Ensemble Constantinople has invited Canadian treasure, soprano Suzie LeBlanc, to revisit and explore new avenues and Italian composers often unknown to the general public, yet among the finest in the second half of the 16th and early 17th century: Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643), Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger (1580-1651), and Marco Uccellini (1603-1680). The programme also includes works by renaissance madrigal composer Barbara Strozzi, a worthy heiress of Monteverdi, who created a secular vocal repertoire that intoxicates the senses.

Two recitals in collaboration with

Supported by Birgit Westergaard and Norman Gladstone

Janusz Olejniczak

plays Chopin - I

Janusz Olejniczak plays Chopin - II

Metamorfosi:

Ensemble Consantinople & soprano Suzie LeBlanc

Supported by Chris Guzy and Mari Csemi

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Maurice Denis (1870-1943): “Orpheus and Eurydice” - detail

Angela HewittGoldberg VariationsWednesday March 7 at 7:30 pm Chan Centre for the Performing ArtsOne of the world’s leading pianists, Angela Hewitt, regularly appears in recital and with major orchestras throughout Europe, the Americas and Asia. Her performances and recordings of Bach have drawn particular praise, marking her out as one of the composer’s foremost interpreters of our time. Join EMV for a continuation of our Goldberg Experience and for another perspective on Bach’s iconic work played by a national treasure.

Supported by Ingrid Söchting & Douglas Todd, and by Dr. Katherine E. Paton

A Telemann Celebration – Ensemble La RêveuseFriday March 23 at 7:30 pm | Christ Church Cathedral

Serge Saitta traverso, Stéphan Dudermel violin, Florence Bolton viola da gamba, Benjamin Perrot theorbo, Carsten Lohff harpsichord

A major figure of 18th century musical Europe, Telemann enjoyed in his time more fame and renown than even the great J.S. Bach. This great master of instrumental music, open to French and Italian influences as well as the new gallant style that flourished in Germany, succeeded, especially in his chamber music, in creating a charming synthesis of European styles at the crossroads between Baroque and Classicism.

Angela Hewitt

Goldberg Variations

A Telemann Celebration

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Roelant Savery: “Orpheus in the Underworld” (1610-1615) - detail

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Monica Huggett The Little Orchestra: The Genius of the Classical Piano TrioSaturday April 7 at 7:30 pm | Christ Church Cathedral

Monica Huggett violin, Tanya Tomkins cello, Eric Zivian fortepiano

The “Little Orchestra” is a snapshot of an early moment in the history of the evolution of the fortepiano on its way to becoming the modern grand piano. Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven.

The Tallis ScholarsWar and Peace Saturday April 21 at 7:30 pm | Chan Centre for the Performing Arts

Peter Phillips music director


Charles Daniels tenorAlexander Weimann music director with the Pacific Baroque Orchestra Chamber Players

Designed by Peter Phillips to commemorate the centenary of the end of the First World War in 1918, a complete Mass provides the framework, put together from war-like sources. These come either from the tradition of the Armed Man (L’homme armé), or are based on a chanson actually describing a battle (La batalla).

The great English tenor Charles Daniels joins forces with members of the Pacific Baroque Orchestra and conductor Alexander Weimann for a programme of music inspired by myths from Ovid’s Metamorphosis.

Monica Huggett:

The Little Orchestra

The Tallis Scholars:

War and Peace

Ovid: Myth and Music

Charles Daniels in recital

Supported by Mary Christopher


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Charles Joseph Natoire (1700-1777): “Orpheus charming the animals and the nymphs”

Russian White Nights:

Opera Arias from 18th-century St. PetersburgSunday May 6 at 3:00 pm | Centre for the Performing Arts


In collaboration with

Karina Gauvin:

Russian White Nights


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Anon (Dutch, 1623): “The poet Orpheus, at the celebration by the animals, crowned by two monkeys”

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emv’s educational mandate: “To sponsor musical performances and educational opportunities informed by an in-depth knowledge

of original performing conditions, period-specific instruments, and broad historical context.”

Baroque Orchestra Mentorship Programme (BOMP)Developing the next generation of period performers, students rehearse weekly over each academic term at UBC with a core group of five professional mentors led by the PBO’s Music Director Alexander Weimann. A select group of students are recruited to participate in the programme, and instruments have been made available for loan to all participants through the UBC School of Music and EMV’s Instrument Collections.

This programme is generously supported by Vic and Joan Baker.

Baroque Vocal Performance course - The Compleat SingerInternationally acclaimed soprano Ellen Hargis leads an annual two-week course on singing music of the Renaissance and Baroque. As part of this course we also offer a Historical Dance Workshop led by Marie-Nathalie Lacoursière and a Harpsichord Maintenance and Regulation Workshop led by Vancouver builder Craig Tomlinson.

Green College PerformancesEMV presents three free and open-to-the-public performances at UBC’s Green College, which are connected to the rehearsals and preparation of concerts in our regular concert series.

Douglas College Performance/LecturesInviting music-lovers to enhance their understanding of the art, EMV presents a series of three free, open-to-the-public performance/lectures as part of the Arts at One Series at Douglas College in New Westminster.

EMV Instrument CollectionOver the years, EMV has assembled a valuable collection of unique historical instruments. This collection is available to the community and benefits many musicians and established cultural institutions that produce concerts and educational programmes of repertoire requiring specialized instruments.

Other Education & Outreach ActivitiesIn addition to our formal education & outreach programmes, EMV also hosts open dress rehearsals, pre-concert discussions before all concerts, documentary screenings, and public talks relating to our repertoire. These presentations are all free and open to the public.

For a full schedule of events go to Education and Community at earlymusic.bc.ca

EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY 2017-18

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Nicolaes de Bruyn (1594): “Orpheus enchanting the animals”

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Marc Chagall (1887-1985): “Orpheus”

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