Our Recommendations
Indulge your appetite for arts and culture.
With so many exciting arts and culture events happening you can feel overwhelmed. The Music on Main Team is here to help! We’ve carefully chosen a list of wonderful digital and live events to discover and experience. Whether you’re looking for a theatrical diversion or a blockbuster art show, some new dance or a classical concerto, our recommendations is a list of must-see events whenever you’re looking for a hit of culture. Make sure to check back often, as we are always scouting fun events that we think you’ll love!
Our Recommendations are must-see events, some from our Vancouver home base and a few from across the globe that we think you’ll enjoy. We’re your trusted source that you’ll want to come back to every time you’re looking for something new and exciting to discover. If you’re looking for only Music on Main events check here.
YUNCHAN LIM PIANO
The Rach 3 heard round the world” was how it was described when 18-year-old South Korean pianist Yunchan Lim astonished listeners with his rendition of Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 3 at the 2022 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. His breathtaking performances at the Cliburn secured his place as the youngest person ever to take home the gold medal, and a star was born. He was dubbed an “immediate sensation” by The New York Times, and the official video of that Rach 3 performance has since garnered over 14 million views on YouTube. Moments after his victory, Lim revealed that the next piece he intended to learn for performance was J. S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations. He has made good on that promise, and we’re thrilled to present him in his Vancouver debut playing Bach’s crowning keyboard achievement.
J. S. BACH: Goldberg Variations, BWV 988
“That rare artist who brings profound musicality and prodigious technique organically together.” — Marin Alsop
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We All Fall Down
Street and contemporary dance collide as three dancers weave in and out of sync, supported by a live, hypnotic musical soundtrack that blends the sounds and rhythms of jazz, hip-hop and drum’n’bass. Inspired by chaos theory and complex mathematical equations, Papillon reflects on order and disorder, singularity and similarity, loneliness and togetherness, and the importance of human connection. We All Fall Down formalizes a 20-year collaboration between Helen and composer Roger White. The company examines the relationship between movement and sound, creating shows where performers are in a constant state of metamorphosis.Presented with Music on Main.
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Sonic Boom – The Vancouver Pro Musica Festival of New Music
With our largest submission rate in ages, we’ve expanded the mosaic of instrumental combinations and styles that is our signature Sonic Boom mixed ensemble festival. On March 14 and 15 Vancouver Pro Musica proudly debuts 18 new works that span the generations.
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VOX ELECTRONICA
VPM’s long-awaited return to electronics, our VOX Electronica concert on March 16 features phenomenal multi-disciplinary vocalist SJ Kirsch in collaboration with six varied, resplendent musician-composers, including Mary Ancheta, Immix Robyn Jacob, and doyenne Jennifer Butler.
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CHILDREN OF GOD
A gorgeous, powerful musical about an Oji-Cree family whose children were taken away to a residential school in Northern Ontario.
The story of Rita, a mother who was never let past the school’s gate, and her kids, Tom and Julia, who never knew she came, pushes toward redemption. Children of God offers a blend of ancient traditions and contemporary realities, celebrating resilience and the power of the Indigenous cultural spirit. Inspired by First Nations music, Corey Payette’s moving score also includes echoes of provocative Broadway masterpieces such as Fun Home and Next to Normal.
Children of God takes place in two time periods during the 1950s and 1970s, and is set during a time when it is mandatory by law for all Indigenous children to attend residential schools.
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