Thirteen year-old Jan Lisiecki has won more competitions and played with more orchestras than most musicians three times his age. This Chopin recital demonstrates why.
Cape Breton fiddler Natalie MacMaster returns to her East Coast roots for a foot-stomping, two-night 25th anniversary celebration with Symphony Nova Scotia.
Andrew Wan - featured in SAIC's Next! series - performs the Khachaturian violin concerto with the NSO.
In mid August 2006 - Doug Cox, Salil Bhatt and Ramkumar Mishra gathered in a rural location near Edmonton to record an album which would immediately draw much attention and praise from around the world. Guitar Player Magazine didn't hesitate to call the recording a "stunning, groundbreaking marriage of the blues and Indian classical music". This fusion is a true musical mosaic, reflecting the cultural connection between East and West. Hear this live concert recording of the very first tour of Slide To Freedom.
Gordie Tentrees of Whitehorse has performed some 200 shows a year, either solo or with his band. He writes his own songs, plays a guitar, uses a slide, and blows a harmonica. In this concert, Gordie performs roots-blues with a 2nd guitarist and an upright bassist.
Namgar is a folk music group led by Namgar Lhasaranova, who hails from South Siberia. Namgar also includes musicians from Mongolia. Their repertoire consists of the songs and melodies shared by Buryats and Mongolians, from the songs of shamanist gatherings of Siberia to celebration songs you might hear at a midsummer festival in Mongolia, to exquisite melodies from Inner Mongolia.
The New Forms Festival takes place in Vancouver in early September. This year they brought together two local bands who love to chart new musical territory, Fond of Tigers and Secret Mommy.