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Vancouver Inter-Cultural Orchestra presents Summer Concert Series June 27-July 8

2023/06/15 (Thursday)

The Vancouver Inter-Cultural Orchestra presents

SUMMER CONCERT SERIES 2023

June 27, July 1, 7 & 8 – various venues

The Vancouver Inter-Cultural Orchestra (VICO) is proud to present a summer concert series featuring exciting NEW chamber music for intercultural ensembles: works-in-progress, new arrangements, and world premieres by emerging and established composers from Canada, the Netherlands, the United States, and Iran.

Highlights include prize-winning pieces by Rita Ueda and Joël Bons. Join us for four evenings of adventurous music performed on instruments from all over the world! Details below (longer version with artist bios is also attached).

“…the United Nations of music” (CBC Radio)

“Music that sounds like Vancouver looks (The Georgia Straight)

For complete details check out vi-co.org

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CONCERT DETAILS

June 27 at 4:30 PM

Workshop Performance: BORDERLAND Ensemble

Pyatt Hall (823 Seymour St., Vancouver, BC)

Admission: Pay what you can at the door

The Borderland ensemble project brings together five virtuoso performers on Indian and Persian traditional instruments: Sharanjeet Singh Mangh (sitar), Sunny Matharu (tabla), Sina Ettehad (kamanche), Saina Khaledi (santoor), and Ali Razmi (tar, setar). While they come from very different musical cultures, all five are highly skilled improvisors who are used to learning and sharing music aurally (as opposed to rehearsing from sheet music as in the Western/European tradition). They have worked together over the course of several weeks to learn from each other, share musical ideas, and develop as a new intercultural ensemble. Join us on June 27th in beautiful Pyatt Hall to witness what they’ve created!

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July 1 at 7:30 PM

Sounds Global in Concert

St. Andrew’s United Church (1044 St. Georges Ave., North Vancouver, BC)

Admission: Pay what you can at the door

Celebrate Canada Day with an evening of music that builds bridges! This concert features the world premieres of new works developed through the VICO’s annual Sounds Global Composers’ Workshop. Participants have created and workshopped pieces for an intercultural wind quintet (flute, oboe, clarinet, Persian ney, and Chinese sheng). Guaranteed to expand your sonic horizons, and offer a window into the VICO’s ground-breaking methods of cross-cultural collaboration.

Featuring:

Paolo Bortolussi, flutes | Geronimo Mendoza, oboe | Liam Hockley, clarinet | Tim Chan, sheng | Amir Eslami, ney

July 7 at 8:00 PM

Summer Academy Concert

Music for intercultural quartet & tentet

Orpheum Annex (829 Seymour St., Vancouver, BC)

Tickets ($20 / $15) available online [hBps://www.vExonline.com/vico-summer-3-

academy/3603/] or at the door

Having successfully relaunched our bi-annual Summer Academy in 2023 (ader several years of

pandemic-related hiatus), we can’t wait to show you what comes out of this one-of-a-kind

creaDve intensive! ParDcipaDng composers and performers spend two weeks working with a disDnguished faculty of VICO composer mentors, roster musicians, and internaDonal guests such as composer/conductor Joël Bons from the Netherlands. They create new composiDons for intercultural chamber ensembles (a quartet and a tentet), which will be premiered in this concert under the baton of conductor Janna Sailor.

Also on the bill: As the first spring blossoms awaken through the snow by Rita Ueda (winner of the 2022 Jules Leger Prize for New Canadian Chamber Music), as well as composiDons by Lan Tung and Amir Eslami.

Featuring

Janna Sailor, conductor

Saina Khaledi, santoor | Ali Razmi, tar & setar | Douglas Hensley, tar & oud | Liam Hockley,

Haney, contrabass | Brian Nesselroad, percussion | Mark Ferris, violin | Zhimin Yu, pipa |

Charlie Lui, dizi | Dai-Lin Hsieh, zheng | Finn Manniche, cello

July 7 at 8:00 PM

Summer Academy Concert

Music for intercultural quartet & tentet

Orpheum Annex (829 Seymour St., Vancouver, BC)

Tickets ($20 / $15) available online or at the door

Having successfully relaunched our bi-annual Summer Academy in 2023 (after several years of pandemic-related hiatus), we can’t wait to show you what comes out of this one-of-a-kind creative intensive! Participating composers and performers spend two weeks working with a distinguished faculty of VICO composer mentors, roster musicians, and international guests such as composer/conductor Joël Bons from the Netherlands. They create new compositions for intercultural chamber ensembles (a quartet and a tentet), which will be premiered in this concert under the baton of conductor Janna Sailor.

Also on the bill: As the first spring blossoms awaken through the snow by Rita Ueda (winner of the 2022 Jules Leger Prize for New Canadian Chamber Music), as well as compositions by Lan Tung and Amir Eslami.

Featuring

Janna Sailor, conductor

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