Calendar – RCCO Vancouver Centre

International Organ Day @ Westminster Abbey, Good Shepherd, Maranatha

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!

Apr

Sun

2026

Choral Evensong @ St. Mary's Kerrisdale Anglican Church

Tickets

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)

May

Sat

2026

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

Tickets

May 16 @ 10:00 am – 10:00 pm

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

3pm: Orgelkit workshop.

May

Tue

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.

May

Mon

2026

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

Tickets

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.

Aug

Sat

2026

Bach with Alex Weimann: The Compass Rose @ West Vancouver United Church

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Aug 1 @ 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm

While we know and love Bach for his cantatas, oratorios, concertos, and chamber music, he never seems more himself than on the organ. His writings for the ‘king of all instruments’ (W.A. Mozart) open the gates to an entire universe of harmony and polyphony, achieving a degree of freedom impossible for any other instrument, and allowing for a unique window into Bach’s mind.

The pieces chosen for this recital on the renowned Pasi organ at the West Vancouver United Church touch on the four pillars of Bach’s organ work: Toccata and Fugue, Concerto, Sonata and Chorale Prelude.

Generously sponsored by The Graham & Gayle Cooke Foundation.

PROGRAMME

J.S. Bach (1685 – 1750)

5th Trio Sonata BWV 529

‘An Wasserflüssen’ BWV 653

Passacaglia & Fugue BWV 582

Concerto BWV 593

Toccata & Fugue BWV 538

‘Vor deinen Thron’ BWV 668

The internationally renowned keyboard artist Alexander Weimann has spent his life enveloped by the therapeutic power and beauty of making music. Alex grew up in Munich. At age three he became fascinated by the intense magic of the church organ. He started piano at six, formal organ lessons at 12 and harpsichord at university (along with theatre theory, medieval Latin and jazz piano.) He is in huge demand as a director, soloist and chamber player, traveling the world with leading North American and European ensembles. He is Artistic Director of the Pacific Baroque Orchestra in Vancouver and teaches at the University of British Columbia where he directs the Baroque Orchestra Mentorship Programme.

Alex has appeared on more than 100 recordings, including the Juno-award-winning album “Prima Donna” with Karina Gauvin and Arion Baroque orchestra. His latest album series “The Art of Improvisation” (Volume 1: A Prayer for Peace; Volume 2: Ad libitum; and Volume 3: Canavian Variations, released on Redshift, 2024) unites his passions for both baroque music and improvisation on organ, harpsichord, and piano.

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