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Choral Evensong @ St. Mary's Kerrisdale Anglican Church

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)

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

May 3 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Sunday 3 May 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 at four o’clock in the afternoon. Prayers will be included for those interred in the memorial garden and a time of remembrance will be had following the service.

This month’s music list:

Introit: Edward C Bairstow, Jesu, the very thought of thee
Responses: William Byrd
Psalm 84: C Hubert H Parry
Canticles: Herbert Murrill, Evening Service in E
Anthem: H Balfour Gardiner, Evening Hymn
Voluntary: Edward Elgar, ‘Nimrod’ from Enigma Variations, Op.36

Gardiner‘s Evening Hymn and Murrill‘s Evening Service in E are perhaps their best-known works—all the more surprising as both were much more prolific in the secular orchestral sphere. Perhaps that influence is what makes these staples of the choral repertoire, displaying moments of symphonic grandeur mixed with driving intensity. The service opens with Bairstow’s intimate setting of a tender 12th-century text, helping the listener to find rest in God’s presence, and joy in his love.

Celebrate the joy of Eastertide with transcendent choral music amidst prayers for our loved ones; light refreshments to follow.

St John’s, Shaughnessy

1490 Nanton Ave (@ Granville St)

Vancouver, BC

Choral Evensong @ Christ Church Cathedral

May 10 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Sat

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

May 16 @ 10:00 am – 10:00 pm

“Saturday Morning Cartoons”
with organists Abraham Ross and Michael Dirk on the Wurlitzer

2pm – 2:30pm, Orpheum Stage
(601 Smithe St, Vancouver)

Pink Panther: “Pink Pictures” (1978)
Mutt & Jeff: “Slick Sleuths” (1926)
Mickey Mouse: “Mickey’s Polo Team” (1936)

“Organ Building Workshop”
RCCO OrgelKidsCAN
with RCCO Vancouver Centre Education Officer Michael Dirk
3pm – 4pm, Workshop Room 412
VSO School of Music
(843 Seymour St. Vancouver)

Choral Evensong and Benediction @ St. James Anglican Church

May 17 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Tue

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

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.

Mon

VCT Orpheum Silent Movie Mondays: The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog @ Orpheum Theatre

May 25 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm

Alfred Hitchcock’s 1927 film The Lodger was his first critical and commercial success. This haunting silent thriller tells the tale of a mysterious young man who takes up residence at a London boardinghouse just as a killer known as the Avenger descends upon the city. Accompanied live by organist Koos van Nieuwkoop on the historic Wurlitzer organ.

Jun

Corpus Christi Choral Evensong @ St. John's Shaughnessy Anglican Church

Jun 7 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Sunday 7 June 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 at four o’clock in the afternoon.

This month’s music list:

Voluntary: Herbert Howells, Psalm Prelude, Op.32, No.2
Introit: Thomas Tallis, Verily, verily I say unto you
Responses: Richard Ayleward
Psalm 110: James Turle
Canticles: Herbert Howells, Collegium Regale
Anthem: John Ireland, Greater love hath no man
Voluntary: Dieterich Buxtehude, Praeludium in D, BuxWV 139

Come listen to the lofty lines of Herbert Howells‘ setting of the Magnificat, inspired by the vaulted ceiling of King’s College Chapel; encounter the sacrificial love of God in John Ireland‘s ubiquitous anthem; enter into the mystery of the eucharist through the father of English church music, Thomas Tallis. A 500-year-old tradition, Choral Evensong provides peace and prayer amidst our work and worry, inviting us to hear God’s beauty and hold to hope.
St John’s, Shaughnessy

1490 Nanton Ave (@ Granville St)

Vancouver, BC

Jun

Choral Evensong @ Christ Church Cathedral