Event Category Archives: Music

UBC Symphony Orchestra: Concerto Competition Winner

The UBC Symphony Orchestra, featuring the winner of the 2024 UBC Concerto Competition, saxophonist Harry Xie (DPMS ’24), will perform Henri Tomasi’s Concerto for Alto Saxophone. Don’t miss this exciting program led by conductor Jaelem Bhate (MMus ’19) that includes symphonic music by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and Edvard Grieg’s dramatic “In the Hall of the Mountain […]

Wednesday Noon Hours: Visions of Light and Dark

The program begins with Reena Esmail’s ethereal and tender Saans (Breath), with its Indian-inspired improvisatory writing. This is followed by Points of Light by UBC’s Dorothy Chang, commissioned by the Trio for its 20th anniversary, inspired by the image of a triangle. The program ends with Dmitri Shostakovich’s haunting and devastating Trio in E minor, […]

Handel: Hallelujah & Trumpets!

Experience the splendour of Handel’s music! “Expertly framed by Maute’s intuitive conducting… Ensemble Caprice delivered fully on its reputation as a premier baroque orchestra and a compelling voice on the Canadian contemporary music scene.” (La Scena) Eternal Source of Light Divine was George Frideric Handel’s first and only court ode and one of his earliest […]

UBC Opera: Così fan tutte

Mozart’s tale of love’s vices is a timeless classic beloved by audiences the world over. Ferrando and Guglielmo enter into a wager with the old cynic Alfonso to test the faithfulness of their two fiancées, Fiordiligi and Dorabella. What ensues is a series of cunning plot twists bringing into doubt everyone’s devotion to their would-be […]