Concerts
Welcome back for our 2022-2023 Season!
We are so happy to be able to offer a full season of fantastic music to our audiences for the season 2022-2023! It’s been a long haul to come back to this point but we trust that you are as happy as we are to be able to meet again regularly in the concert hall and to share the experience of live music performance with us.
Last season we introduced the opportunity to reserve your seats to our concerts through Eventbrite, as a way of streamlining entrance to our concerts, keeping contact tracing easy and lineups short. This was a successful and smooth transition for us and for our audience members, so this will again be our main way of granting admission to our concerts, although we will also be accepting ticket purchases at the door as available.
We simply can’t wait to see you again!!!
Book your tickets for our next concert here!
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october 2022
15oct8:00 pmOde to Joy with Vancouver Bach Choir!At Christ Church Cathedral,Vancouver - 8:00 PM
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Beethoven, Symphony
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Beethoven, Symphony No.9
Bujar Llapaj, Conductor
Sydney Trotter, Soprano
Leah Giselle Field, Alto
Martin Renner Wallace, Tenor
Alan Corbishley, Baritone
Admission to our concerts is by donation.
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(Saturday) 8:00 pm PST
november 2022
19nov8:00 pmPiano Gala!At Christ Church Cathedral,Vancouver - 8:00 PM
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Catherine Rollin - Concerto in
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Catherine Rollin – Concerto in C Major 3rd mvt: Yvonne Yi. piano soloist
Alec Rowley – Miniature Concerto 3rd mvt: Jill Gao, piano soloist
Catherine Rollin – Concerto in C Major, 1st mvt: Olivia Peng, piano soloist
Franz Joseph Haydn – Piano Concerto No.11 in D Major, Hob. XVIII, 3rd mvt: Jocelyn Sun, piano soloist
Alec Rowley – Miniature Concerto in G Major, 1st mvt: Emma Wang, piano soloist
Alec Rowley – Miniature Concerto in G Major, 3rd mvt: Helena Chen, piano soloist
Franz Joseph Haydn – Piano Concerto No.11 in D Major, Hob. XVIII, 3rd mvt: Kelly Huang, piano soloist
Chengzong/Wanghua/Xinghai, Yellow River Piano Concerto, 2nd mvt: Yisen Meng, piano soloist
Maurice Ravel – Piano Concerto in G Major, 1st mvt: Vincent Zhang, piano soloist
Robert Schumann – Piano Concerto in a minor Op.54, 1st mvt: Sunny Li, piano soloist
Sergei Rachmaninoff – Piano Concerto No.2 in c minor, Op.18, 1st mvt: Leo Gao, piano soloist
Bujar Llapaj, Conductor
HYMUSIC Academy, piano soloists
Admission to our concerts is by donation.
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(Saturday) 8:00 pm PST
december 2022
10dec8:00 pmOrchestra Solos ChristmasAt Christ Church Cathedral,Vancouver - 8:00 PM
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Strauss Jr: Overture "The
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Strauss Jr: Overture “The Gypsy Baron”
Holst: A Fugal Concerto for Flute, Oboe and Strings Op. 40 No.2*
Vaughan-Williams: 6 Studies in English Folksong for Bassoon and Strings**
Corelli: Concerto Grosso “Christmas”
Gershwin: Piano Concerto No. 1 in F Major, 1st mov***
Bujar Llapaj, Conductor
Kostas Tiliakos, Oboe*
Carol Dymond, Flute*
Cameron Engel, Bassoon**
Owen Wang, Piano***
Admission to our concerts is by donation.
Tickets to this event can be purchased HERE
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(Saturday) 8:00 pm PST
february 2023
24feb8:00 pmFrench Fantastique!At Christ Church Cathedral,Vancouver - 8:00 PM
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Claude Debussy (arr. Maurice Ravel): Danse Maurice Ravel: Tzigane* Hector Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique Bujar Llapaj, Conductor Ken Lin, Violin* Admission to our concerts is by donation.
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Claude Debussy (arr. Maurice Ravel): Danse
Maurice Ravel: Tzigane*
Hector Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique
Bujar Llapaj, Conductor
Ken Lin, Violin*
Admission to our concerts is by donation.
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(Friday) 8:00 pm PST
april 2023
8apr8:00 pmMissa Solemnis with Bach Choirat Orpheum Theatre, 8:00pm
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Beethoven, Missa Solemnis Les Dala, Conductor Vancouver Bach Choir Admission to our concerts is by donation.
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Beethoven, Missa Solemnis
Les Dala, Conductor
Admission to our concerts is by donation.
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(Saturday) 8:00 pm PST
may 2023
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Mozart: Cosi fan tutte K.588: Overture Grieg: Piano concerto in A minor, op. 16* Dvorak: Symphony No. 8 Yariv Aloni, Guest Conductor Michelle Mares, Piano* Admission to our concerts is by donation.
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Mozart: Cosi fan tutte K.588: Overture
Grieg: Piano concerto in A minor, op. 16*
Dvorak: Symphony No. 8
Yariv Aloni, Guest Conductor
Michelle Mares, Piano*
Admission to our concerts is by donation.
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(Friday) 8:00 pm PST
june 2023
16jun8:00 pmHeroes and LegendsAt Christ Church Cathedral,Vancouver - 8:00 PM
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Hans Zimmer: Gladiator Suite Carrabre: Symphony No. 2 Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 Bujar Llapaj, Conductor Admission to our concerts is by donation.
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Hans Zimmer: Gladiator Suite
Carrabre: Symphony No. 2
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5
Bujar Llapaj, Conductor
Admission to our concerts is by donation.
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(Friday) 8:00 pm PST
WCSO 2022 – 2023 Season Summary
Welcome to our 2022-2023 season with the West Coast Symphony Orchestra!
We are SO thrilled to be presenting a full season of music for the first time since our 2018-2019 season. You’ll be hearing some pieces that we have literally been waiting to present to you for over two years now.
In October we collaborate with the Vancouver Bach Choir (the first of two collaborations between our ensembles this year) in Beethoven’s joyous and epic Symphony No. 9. With four fabulous soloists, a sixty voice choir and our full orchestra under the baton of Maestro Llapaj, we will be opening the season with a bang!
Join us in November for another collaborative effort, this time with young piano soloists from the HYMUSIC Academy. A new generation of musicians present movements of piano concertos from composers such as Chopin, Ravel, Rachmaninov, Schumann, Alec Rowley and Catherine Rollin. The evening is sure to be bursting with enthusiasm, lyricism and energy.
We present another soloist-packed evening of music in December. Corelli’s “Christmas” Concerto Grosso will be complemented by Mendelssohn, Holst and Gershwin, featuring performances by woodwind players of the WCSO and Owen Wang on piano. It will be a concert of celebrative and intimate music, perfect for a season of snowflakes and warmth.
As 2023 begins, we are excited to give you a February concert of expressive, lyrical French works. Packed with dance rhythms and melody, we look forward to playing Debussy’s Danse, Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique and Ravel’s virtuosic Tzigane for Violin and Orchestra featuring the talent of Ken Lin.
For the Easter 2023 season in April, we are delighted to be presenting a long planned second collaboration with the Vancouver Bach Choir, again featuring Ludwig van Beethoven at centre stage. We will be performing the incredible work, Missa Solemnis, at the Orpheum Theatre under the direction of Les Dala.
In May 2023 we welcome back regular guest conductor Yariv Aloni from Victoria to lead us in a program of Mozart, Dvorak and the stunning Piano Concerto in A Minor by Edward Grieg played by Michelle Mares. How can one go wrong with a sparkling overture, the longingly beautiful music of Dvorak and sheer Romantic expressiveness of Grieg?
Perhaps the theme of this season has been “epic”, and our season finale in June will be no exception. With the title “Heroes and Legends”, we bring you the Gladiator Suite by Hans Zimmer and two heroic symphonies by Dmitri Shostakovich and Canadian composer Pat Carrabre.
Thank you for your support over the past two years as we, like many other performing groups, navigated the pandemic. We are committed to a safe and enjoyable music-making and music-appreciating environment. We play music for the joy of it. We can’t wait to see you all in the concert hall!