Read below to learn about many of the composers coming up at Light of Humanity, the first concert in our 2022-23 season. Tickets are on sale, click here to purchase now! Dr. Tracy Wong hails from Malaysia and is a choral conductor, music educator, composer, vocalist, and pianist. Dr. Wong is passionate about helping choral […]
Tobin Stokes composes musical theatre, opera, film scores, concert music and more. He writes scripts and lyrics for musical theatre, opera libretti (text) and plays. His passion for theatre collaboration also includes sound design, incidental music, and musical direction. His opera, Pauline, with libretto by author Margaret Atwood, premiered in Vancouver in 2014. Fallujah, his […]
The Bergmann Piano Duo’s dynamic and energetic performances of uniquely eclectic programmes have inspired audiences internationally. Their recitals and concerts with orchestra have taken them to many parts of the world, including the United States, Italy, Germany, The Netherlands, Spain, Portugal, France, Macedonia, Greece, China and Canada. The duo has appeared at international festivals including: […]
Vancouver Cantata Singers is delighted to present three compositions by Alan Matheson at our May 25th performance of Scandinavian Treasures: Songs of the North. Alan is a Vancouver-based pianist, trumpeter, composer and arranger. He teaches at the music departments of the University of British Columbia, Vancouver Community College and Capilano University where he is an instructor in […]
Jean Coulthard was only 25 years old when she lost her mother to a sudden, severe appendix attack in 1933, in the days before antibiotics. Her choral work, Threnody (a wailing ode, song, hymn or poem of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person), is dedicated to her mother, Jean Robinson Coulthard. Coulthard took […]
Vancouver Cantata Singers debuts a brand new choral commission from Jocelyn Morlock at our May 12th performance of Kantatefeier! A Cantata Celebration. We interviewed her about her recent composition and thoughts about her composing life. You have been composer-in-residence at the Vancouver Symphony for several years now, composing many orchestral works in recent years. Vancouver […]
Jean Mouton (c.1459-1522) was a French composer of the Renaissance, an influential composer and teacher. In northern France he worked in churches with choirboys and eventually as the principal composer for the French court where he often wrote music for state occasions—weddings, coronations, papal elections, births and deaths. Of Mouton’s music, 9 Magnificat settings, 15 masses, 20 chansons, and over 100 motets survive. The survival […]
What is Songs of Ariel and what inspired you to compose this set of music? I had been wanting for years to set Shakespeare. Given my affinity for using mythology in my work, the ethereal character of Ariel was a natural fit. You’ve listed the set on your website as ‘difficult’ – what challenges do […]
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