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May 2022 – January 2023 May 2022 – Jan 2023
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May
7
Sat
2022
Masterclass with Alexander Weimann @ West Vancouver United Church
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May 7 @ 11:00 am – 1:30 pm

RCCO Vancouver Centre has arranged a masterclass with Pacific Baroque Orchestra’s Alexander Weimann, who is an accomplished organist and harpsichordist living and working in Vancouver. He has a highly regarded career as both a soloist and conductor across North America. Here in Vancouver, he is well-known as being the conductor and artistic director of the Pacific Baroque Orchestra. You can read more about him on his website:https://alexanderweimann.com/.
Auditors $10 (free for members of RCCO Vancouver Centre)

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May
28
Sat
2022
RCCO Members’ Recital @ St. Mary's Kerrisdale Anglican Church
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May 28 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

RCCO Vancouver Centre pleased to present our first in-person recital since 2019!

Vancouver organists Rachel Alflatt, Frank Ezinga, Isaac Howie, Cindy Ma, Susan Ohannesian, and Angelique Po will be performing an assortment of works on St. Mary’s beautiful 3-manual Casavant organ (Opus 2296), including the concert première of Denis Bédard’s Deux Pièces.

Programme:

Contrapunctus 12 by Johann Sebastian Bach, arranged by Xiaosheng Zhao

Deux Pièces (Petite Valse and Postlude en si mineur) by Denis Bédard

Nun Komm der Heiden Heiland by Nicolaus Bruhns

Sonata No. 3 in A Major, Opus 65 by Felix Mendelssohn

Variations on Ach, was soll ich Sünder machen? by Johann Pachelbel

Suite for Organ, Opus 5 by Carol Williams

Admission is by donation, and there will be an informal reception following the recital.

 

2022 members recital poster copy

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Jun
4
Sat
2022
VSO Day of Music, featuring the RCCO Orgelkit and the Orpheum Wurlitzer @ Orpheum, VSO School of Music
Tickets
Jun 4 all-day
1:45-2:45pm, VSO School of Music classroom 411:
OrgelKidsCAN organ build workshop, presented by RCCO Vancouver Centre
4:15-4:45pm, Orpheum Theatre:
Charlie Chaplin’s silent film ‘The Cure’ (1917), accompanied on the mighty Wurlitzer by RCCO Vancouver Centre vice-president and education officer, organist Michael Dirk
395px-Cure_1917_PosterComing Up at the VSO — Mahler's 5th and Day of Music

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Jun
18
Sat
2022
RCCO Vancouver Centre Archives Display and Music Sale @ St. John’s Shaughnessy Anglican Church
Tickets
Jun 18 @ 9:30 am – 10:30 am
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RCCO Vancouver Centre Annual General Meeting @ St. John’s Shaughnessy Anglican Church
Tickets
Jun 18 @ 10:30 am – 12:00 pm

Also via Zoom.  RCCO members will receive more details by email at a later date.

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Oct
28
Fri
2022
RCCO Vancouver Centre’s 17th Annual Halloween Concert @ St. John’s Shaughnessy Anglican Church
Tickets
Oct 28 @ 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm

In person at last!  Our 17th annual Halloween concert.  

Come in costume!  Treats for kids (and the young at heart) after the concert.

Programme:

PJ Janson:
J.S. Bach – Toccata and Fugue in D minor (BWV 565)
Michael Dirk:
Jean Langlais – VIII. Épilogue, from Hommage à Fresobaldi
Max Cifelli:
Melody Bober – I Spy
Aurelio Cifelli:
Gabriel Fauré – Sicilienne
John Mitchell:
John Mitchell – Toccata (world première)
Angelique Po:
J.S. Bach – Fugue on a Theme of Giovanni Legrenzi (BWV 574)
Denis Bédard:
Denis Bédard – Two excerpts “from Suite Macabre” (world première):
– Promenade au cimetière (A Walk in the Cemetery)
– Prélude Glauque (Creepy Prelude)
Michael Park:
Edvard Grieg – Evening in the Mountains, Op. 68 no. 4
– March of the Trolls, Op. 54 no. 3
Gilles Parenteau:
Carl Orff – O Fortuna, from Carmina Burana (arr. Parenteau)

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The Phantom of the Opera, Live at St. Philip’s @ St. Philip's Anglican Church
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Oct 28 @ 7:30 pm

Event repeated on Saturday, October 29, also at 7:30 pm.

St. Philip’s Director of Music Michael Murray accompanies the classic 1925 silent film The Phantom of the Opera on St. Philip’s booming Casavant organ, in this reprise of his sold-out 2019 show. Michael has composed a tremendous score that incorporates threads of well-known tunes and motifs, interwoven with new passages created just for this show. Thrills! Chills! And Fun! Create an evening out with family and friends. Wear costumes, if you like!

Bring cash for popcorn. This is a fundraiser for our beloved Casavant organ so please buy tickets to help the cause, and come to St Philip’s to enjoy the fun!

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Oct
31
Mon
2022
Halloween Monday at the UBC Casavant Organ @ Roy Barnett Hall, UBC School of Music
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Oct 31 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

Performances by Michael Dirk, Isaac Howie and Isabelle Boersig:
Bach – Toccata & Fugue in D Minor BWV565
Bédard – Introduction et Toccata from Trois Esquisses (for organ pedals alone)
Pachelbel – Chaconne in F Minor
Franck-enstein – Choral No. 2 in B Minor
Bélier – Toccata pour Grand Orgue in D Minor

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Trick-or-Treat at St. Andrew’s-Wesley @ St. Andrew's-Wesley United Church
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Oct 31 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Free candy!! Make St. Andrew’s-Wesley a stop on your Trick-or-Treat route this year. From 5-7pm on Halloween night, stop by the front steps for a treat, Instagram pic with our building lit in Halloween colours, and enjoy spooky pipe organ music wafting through the rafters (played by organists Tim Woodford and Angelique Po.)

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Jan
22
Sun
2023
Organ Concert at the Danish Lutheran Church @ Danish Lutheran Church
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Jan 22 @ 2:00 pm – 3:15 pm

Spend a winter afternoon listening to music played on our Frobenius organ by the organists and musicians of the Danish Lutheran Church, with special guest Angelique Po performing Bruhns’ Praeludium in G major, and Buxtehude’s Chorale Variations on Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern. Steen Larsen will talk about the organ. Admission by donation, with refreshments to follow.

Read more about the history of the Danish Lutheran Church’s organ here: http://www.danishchurch.vancouver.bc.ca/history/organ.html

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May 2022 – January 2023 May 2022 – Jan 2023
  • 17th Annual Halloween Concert
  • RCCO Vancouver Centre’s 2022 Members’ Recital
  • RCCO Vancouver Centre Masterclass
  • International Organ Day – RCCO Vancouver – An Organ Crawl
  • RCCO Vancouver Centre Organ Study Bursary

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