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Vancouver Chinese Music Ensemble Evening Concerts

Spring to Summer - Chinese Canadian Folk Music

Spring to Summer - Chinese Canadian Folk Music

Enjoy an afternoon of joyful Chinese Canadian folk music to mark the changing of the seasons

Jasmine Jazz and Seum

Jasmine Jazz and Seum

Two unforgettable evenings of Asian Jazz fusion featuring Jasmine Jazz and Seum

Spring Breeze

Spring Breeze

In celebration of Asian Heritage Month, the Vancouver Chinese Music Ensemble presents "Spring Breeze" , a concert featuring a flow through new compositions at the Vancouver Chinese Garden.

Going Back: Remembered and Remixed Family Folk Songs

Going Back: Remembered and Remixed Family Folk Songs

Enjoy an afternoon of joyful Canadian-Asian folk tales, sharing our unique experiences in songs performed by Ginalina and Vancouver Chinese Music Ensemble. We are very excited to present, a modern collection of Asian fusion-folk songs. It will be a musical journey that’s both familiar and foreign much like many of our stories.

Jasmine Jazz No 5

Jasmine Jazz No 5

Jasmine Jazz 5. The fifth in a series of unique live concerts featuring 3 of Vancouver Chinese Music Ensembles musicians with ​some of Vancouver finest jazz artists​ led by Juno-nominated bassist and composer, Jodi Proznick.

Jasmine Jazz  No 4

Jasmine Jazz No 4

An unusual and exquisite interplay between traditional Chinese and jazz instruments that took place at Performance Works as part of the 2021 TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival

Tradition in the Future

Tradition in the Future

A first-ever online symposium called Tradition in the Future. Endeavouring to make connections and transference of traditional Chinese music, featuring presentations by international speakers and musical performances by the ensemble’s professional musicians.

A Tale of Pipa

A Tale of Pipa

The project will mark the first ever collaboration between the Vancouver Chinese Music Ensemble and the Vashaan Ensemble which specializes in Persian music, and will feature renowned pipa performer Ling Yang and legendary singer Lili Lau

The Reunion

The Reunion

A Contemporary chamber opera of a five-hundred-year-old love story that spanned across cultures, space and time - Featuring Lili Lau and William Liu

Jasmine Meets Sakura

Jasmine Meets Sakura

This cross-cultural collaboration featured beautiful melodies from Japan and China, as two great choirs joined with the Vancouver Chinese Music Ensemble for Jasmine Meets Sakura.

Jasmine Jazz No 3

Jasmine Jazz No 3

Jasmine Jazz, an unusual interplay between traditional Chinese and jazz instruments

Monkey King & Other Folktales

Monkey King & Other Folktales

Through mime, magic, jokes, stories and music, the audience will be introduced to the Monkey King and other folktales as well as Chinese music and instruments

Future Past

Future Past

A rare showcase of Chinese music through millennia, from 7th century Tang dynasty to 1930’s Shanghai, to the present

Sounds of Asia

Sounds of Asia

A concert with the Vancouver Chinese Music Ensemble featuring the Vancouver Oriental Philharmonic Choir

East Meets East

East Meets East

From China to Ukraine, melodies of earth, sky, melancholy, identity, wars, horses, love and joy
Vancouver Chinese Music Ensemble & Barvinok Choir with Beverly Dobrinsky

Jasmine Jazz No.2

Jasmine Jazz No.2

A subtly sweet and highly fragrant musical blend of Jazz and Chinese instrumental Music

S.E.E.

S.E.E.

Sino-Electric Explorations

Moonkey King

Moonkey King

Vancouver Chinese Music Ensemble feat. Gerardo Avila - ~ Magic, mime, music, stories and tons of laughs for kids and kids-at-heart

Autumn Flight

Autumn Flight

A multimedia presentation featuring live music, videos and shadow puppetry

Jasmine Jazz

Jasmine Jazz

This concert brings together Vancouver’s two music scenes. The unusual interplay between traditional Chinese and jazz instruments (led by jazz banjo) makes Jasmine Jazz a special musical experience

Bang Danjos

Bang Danjos

Strumming drumming and tapping! A Cross-Cultural Musical Celebration at the Playhouse Theatre

Speaking Strings Utter Things

Speaking Strings Utter Things

Speaking Strings Utter Things - Hear from the ancient instruments themselves as they are showcased in humor – speaking, weaping, singing and squealing in delight.

A Chinatown Celebration

A Chinatown Celebration

A Chinatown Celebration with the Victoria Symphony and the Victoria Chinese Culture Club Dancers

Transformations

Transformations

Transformations - Celebrating 33 years of Chinese Music in Vancouver

Enchanted Evenings

Enchanted Evenings

Presenting our fourth collaborative concert for the Around the World series called Pipers Air Supply by the Vancouver Chinese Music Ensemble.

Taps and Twang

Taps and Twang

Taps and Twang - Strumming Drumming and Tap Dance

Pipers Air Supply

Pipers Air Supply

Presenting our fourth collaborative concert for the Around the World series called Pipers Air Supply by the Vancouver Chinese Music Ensemble.

Plucking Strings – Strings from Around the World

Plucking Strings – Strings from Around the World

Plucking Strings – A collaborative concert exploring Erhu, Sitar, Guitar, Dan Bau and Chinese Instruments

Fiddles Around the World

Fiddles Around the World

Fiddles Around the World - A Multicultural concert exploring a collaboration with Chinese, Indian and Western Fiddles

The Jade Peony Podcast

The Jade Peony Podcast

The Jade Peony Podcast - a reading from a Speak Easy Interview by the Vancouver Chinese Music Ensemble

A Perfect Gift for Flora

A Perfect Gift for Flora

A beautiful story directed by Olesia Shewchuk, this film will be screening at the New Asia Film Festival

Stringing Zithers

Stringing Zithers

Stringing Zithers

Bamboo Silk Strings and Wood

Bamboo Silk Strings and Wood

Bamboo Silk String and Wood - A collaborative visual soundscape with local film artist Ken Smith
and a guest appearance by the Vancouver Grand Choir.

Our activities take place on the unceded and traditional territories of the Coast Salish peoples – sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh), and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nations.

We gratefully acknowledge the support of Canada Council for the Arts, the BC Arts Council, the Province of BC through the Community Gaming Grant and the City of Vancouver. 

Vancouver, BC V6B 1H4

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