Calendar – RCCO Vancouver Centre

Choral Evensong and Benediction @ St. James Anglican Church

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Mar 15 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Psalms: 114. 115 (faburden)
Canticles: Mode III
Motet: Thomas Aquinas,O salutaris hostia (cantatus super librum)

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2026

RCCO Vancouver Centre Members’ Recital: Celebrating J. S. Bach’s Birthday @ St. James Anglican Church

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Mar 21 @ 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm

Performers and repertoire:

Rachel Alflatt: Prelude and Fugue in E minor, BWV 533

Richard Egolf: Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland. BWV 659

Isaac Howie: J. S. Bach transcr. M. Reger – Prelude and Fugue in Bb Minor, BWV 867

PJ Janson: Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565

Huiyuan (Cindy) Ma: Allein Gott in der Höh´ sei Ehr´, BWV 662

Angelique Po: Prelude and Fugue in E major, BWV 566

David Poon: O Mensch, bewein dein Sünde groß, BWV 622

Neil Robertson: Prelude and Fugue in G minor, BWV 558

Abraham Ross: O Lamm Gottes, unschuldig, BWV 656

A wine-and-cheese reception is planned following the concert, which is a great opportunity to meet the performers. For planning purposes, please register to indicate your intention to attend here.

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2026

Choral Evensong @ St. Mary's Kerrisdale Anglican Church

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Mar 22 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm

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2026

Easter Pipe Organ Concert with Audience Singing @ Maranatha Canadian Reformed Church

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Mar 28 @ 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm

Apr

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2026

Festal Choral Evensong @ St. John's Shaughnessy Anglican Church

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Apr 5 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Sunday 5 April is the first Sunday of the month, which means the Choir of St. John’s Shaughnessy will offer the traditional Anglican service of Choral Evensong. They will be joined by singers from Christ Church Cathedral, St James Anglican Church, and MOTET to celebrate the greatest feast day of the Christian liturgical year.

This month’s music list:

Introit: Samuel Scheidt, Surrexit Christus hodie
Responses: Bernard Rose
Psalm 113: Stanley Vann
Canticles: Charles V Stanford, Evening Service in G, Op.81
Anthem: Charles V Stanford, Ye choirs of new Jerusalem
Voluntary: Louis Vierne, ‘Final’ from Symphony No.1

Though many churches are busy with Holy Week services, the celebration of the Resurrection at Easter merits the greatest outpouring of praise and thanksgiving. Come hear combined choirs singing Stanford’s powerful Ye choirs of new Jerusalem and the organ sounding the brilliant and celebratory Final of Vierne’s Organ Symphony at the apex of your Easter experience. Find hope and joy even amidst the terrors of this world, and find strength in words spoken across millennia still giving us purpose today.

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Plainchant Choral Evensong and Benediction @ Christ Church Cathedral

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Apr 19 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Programme:

HYMNS: SNC 2, 216, 240

RESPONSES: KENNETH LEIGHTON (1929-88)

PSALM: 114, 115

CANTICLES: CHARLES WOOD (1866-1926) EVENING SERVICE IN D

ANTHEM: C.H.H. PARRY (1848-1918) HEAR MY WORDS, YE PEOPLE

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2026

International Organ Day @ Westminster Abbey, Good Shepherd, Maranatha

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Apr 25 @ 10:00 am – 5:30 pm

Join us for an organ crawl
featuring three magnificent pipe organs
in the Fraser Valley!

Join us for a musical journey through the Fraser Valley! We will be visiting three stunning pipe organs, with opportunities to both hear and play each instrument.

Schedule:

10:00 am – 11:30 am: Westminster Abbey (34224 Dewdney Trunk Road, Mission)

1:00 pm – 2:30 pm: Good Shepherd Church (2250 150 Street, Surrey)

4:00 pm – 5:30 pm: Maranatha Canadian Reformed Church (12300 92 Avenue, Surrey)

RSVP: Please rsvp to mailchimp@rcco.bc.ca by April 18, 2026 if you are interested in joining so that we have an idea of how many people to expect. If you are interested in carpooling, please indicate whether you can provide a ride or need one, and let us know which area you’ll be coming from. We look forward to seeing you there!

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Choral Evensong @ St. Mary's Kerrisdale Anglican Church

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Apr 26 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Programme:

O GRACIOUS LIGHT (BRADLEY ELLINGBOE)

PSALM 100 (ELEANOR DALEY)

CANTICLES: MAGNIFICAT AND NUNC DIMITTIS (HERBERT MURRILL)

ANTHEM: THEY SHALL SOAR LIKE EAGLES (LAURA MANZO)

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VSO Day of Music, with the Wurlitzer organ and the Orgelkit @ Orpheum Theatre

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May 16 @ 10:00 am – 10:00 pm

2pm: Silent movie short accompanied on the mighty Wurlitzer by Abraham Ross.

3pm: Orgelkit workshop.

May

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2026

Pianist Corey Hamm and organist Angelique Po in concert @ St. Andrew's-Wesley United Church

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May 19 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

Pianist Corey Hamm presents two masterworks from the 20th century: the 3rd Piano Concerto by Sergei Prokofiev, and Samuel Barber’s Piano Concerto. The large Casavant Frères organ at St. Andrew’s-Wesley plays the role of the orchestra, as performed by organist Angelique Po, while the church’s “Heirloom” Steinway concert grand piano takes centre stage.

Dr. Corey Hamm has premiered over four hundred solo, chamber, and concerto works by composers from all over the world such as Psathas, Finnissy, Rzewski, Ping, Chang, Hamel, among many others. He is the 2026 Honorary Fellow of the Royal Conservatory of Music along with such others as Oscar Peterson, Lang Lang, Yannick Nézet-Séguin. His recording of Rzewski’s The People United Will Never Be Defeated! was critically acclaimed and included in the top four of International Piano Magazine’s July 2025 survey of all the existing recordings. The recording sparked Rzewski to write “Excellent! This may be the best recording!” Hamm had the privilege of working on all of the piano and chamber works of Dutilleux with the composer himself. Recent and upcoming concerto performances include Ligeti’s Piano Concerto, Prokofiev’s Piano Concertos 2 and 3, Barber’s Piano Concerto, Chang’s Gateways (double concerto for erhu and piano soloists), and Bartok’s Piano Concerto 2. His PEP (Piano and Erhu Project) produced three CDs and commissioned over eighty composers for this cross-cultural duo. Dr. Hamm is Professor of Piano at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, where he won both the Killam Teaching Award, and the Dorothy Somerset Award for Artistic Excellence. His students have won First Prizes in numerous international and national piano competitions including most recently First Prizes at each of the 2024 Leeds International Piano Competition, 2025 Eckhardt-Gramatté Contemporary Piano Music Competition (First and Second Prizes, and Prize for Best Performance of the Required Work), 2023 Montreal International Piano Competition, 2022 Maria Canals, 2022 Hilton Head, and 2022 Paloma O’Shea Santander. His beloved teachers include Thelma Johannes-O’Neill, Dr. Ernesto Lejano, Dr. Stéphane Lemelin, Marek Jablonski, and Lydia Artymiw.

Angelique Po is an organist, pianist and continuo player living and working in Vancouver, BC. Her versatility and interest in a broad range of music styles have led her to collaborate with a variety of ensembles and soloists, as well as perform world premieres of many new works. This includes the world premieres of organ works by Joël Tibbits in 2024 and 2025, the world premiere of Fernande Decruck’s 2nd Sonata for Organ (written in 1948), Scottish premieres of Claude Vivier’s Les Communiantes and Jocelyn Morlock’s Premonition in 2022 at the University of Glasgow, and the world premiere of David Millard’s Requiem with Vivaldi Chamber Choir, also in 2022, for mezzo-soprano soloist, large choir, organ and string quartet. As the featured artist with trombonist Jeremy Berkman for Vancouver Pro Musica’s Sonic Boom 2021, she premiered ten new works written for trombone and organ by BC composers in an online concert in March 2021. She was featured again in Vancouver Pro Musica’s A Little Further Series in October 2021, playing eight world-premiere solo organ pieces. Angelique is the Director of Music and organist at St. Andrew’s-Wesley United Church.

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