Special Offer, Four More Days

Our special Christmas offer is valid until December 24. For the Denes Varjon concert on February 12, you can buy single tickets with a discount of 50% ($20 - adults snd $15 - senior/student). Please call us at 604.871.4450 or send us an email with your phone number, and we will return your call as soon as possible.

Mark Your Calendar, November 13, 2016

I had the opportunity to attend the Competition this year, and my reflection on my experience complimented by final thoughts of two distinguished jury members, Garrick Ohlsson and Nelson Goerner, and silver medalist Charles Richard-Hamelin, were just posted on Vancouver Classical Music site.
Charles Richard-Hamelin will play for our Society on November 13, 2016. His Chopin CD made the number one position in CBC Music's Top 10 of the best Canadian classical albums of 2015!

Dina Yoffe concert, April 8, 2016

During the Chopin Competition I had a chance to meet several jurors of this competition. One of them was Dina Yoffe and we spoke about her programme to be performed on April 8, 2016 concert in Vancouver. This is what she said:
"Not long ago, an incredibly interesting and paradoxical idea came to me. I’d like to bring to your attention the unification of 2 cycles: The 24 preludes of Chopin & Scriabin. Based on their immense contrast, I have unified them and would like to show how great was the influence of Chopin’s work on Scriabin. You will be able to hear incredible similarities and at the same time the great differences in contrasts of tonalities. Both cycles are based on the circle of fifths. I will be starting with Scriabin’s prelude followed by Chopin’s prelude in the same key. In the first half of the concert you will hear preludes 1 - 12 of both composers (Scriabin and then Chopin), and in the second half preludes 13 - 24."
This is surely going to be a great event that you should not miss. Dina was one of the Gornostayeva's best students and we still remember her fantastic performances in the Chopin Competition in 1975 where she got  second prize behind Krystian Zimerman. She will give a Master Class on April 9 at the UBC School of Music (11-1 pm).

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