
About the VICO
The Vancouver Inter-Cultural Orchestra was inaugurated on November 13, 2000 at the city's Sacred Music Festival, with the world premiere of founding program director Moshe Denburg's piece Rapprochements (Reconciliations) for Inter-Cultural Orchestra - a brand new work commissioned by the Westcoast Sacred Arts Society with funding from the Vancouver Foundation and other generous donors. The piece embodied the concept on which the VICO was founded, bringing together a mixed choir and a large ensemble of 28 instrumentalists from a variety of different musical backgrounds. The premiere was well-received in the local and national media, and was hailed as one of Vancouver's ten best musical events of 2000.
Over the six years of its existence the VICO has received awards and commissions from the Vancouver Foundation, the Canada Council, the Westcoast Sacred Arts Society, and several other private donors and foundations in the Vancouver area. The VICO was incorporated as a non-profit society on September 25, 2001 and became a registered charity in May 2003 (Registration #: 87580 8511 RR0001).
Contact the VICO
Mailing Address
Suite 12 - 719 East 31st Ave.
Vancouver, BC V5V 2W9
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Telephone
604 879-8415 |
Email
info@vi-co.org |
Board of Directors (2007)
K. Louise Arney, President
Lan Tung, Vice-President
Nancy L. Mortifee, Secretary-Treasurer
Administration (2007)
Moshe Denburg, Program Director
Melanie Thompson, Administrative Director
Mary Kastle, Fundraising Coordinator
Richard Marcuse, Consultant and Strategic Planner
Ellie O’Day, Consultant
VICO Photos by
Alistair Eagle
David Walters
Paul Michaud
Instrument Photos Courtesy of
Randy Raine-Reusch
www.asza.com
Bandoneon, Bombo, Charango, Quena, Shakuhachi, Ehru images from www.wikipedia.org
Copy Editing by
Melanie Thompson
Moshe Denburg
Logo and Website by
Mel Roth Design
www.melrothdesign.com
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Video
A 10 minute documentary - with music and interviews - of the November 2000 performance of Rapprochements (Reconciliations) by Moshe Denburg, the premiere performance of the ensemble that would become the Vancouver Inter-Cultural Orchestra.
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