Home The Vancouver Inter-Cultural Orchestra (VICO) is unique in the world, and uniquely Canadian. The VICO brings together musicians trained in a wide variety of cultural disciplines, to perform new inter-cultural works on a grand scale. http://www.vi-co.org/en/component/content/frontpage Fri, 18 May 2012 08:05:37 +0000 Joomla! 1.5 - Open Source Content Management en-gb TulipTV Interviews Joël Bons http://www.vi-co.org/en/news/69-tuliptv-interviews-joel-bons http://www.vi-co.org/en/news/69-tuliptv-interviews-joel-bons The VICO was pleased to welcome Dutch composer Joël Bons back to Vancouver recently, to workshop the new piece he is writing for the orchestra, in preparation for the world premiere at our upcoming Imagined Worlds: Intertwined concert on March 31st at the Norman Rothstein Theatre. During Mr. Bons' visit he was interviewed by a local Dutch-language television show, TulipTV. The interview itself was in English, and has been posted on YouTube. Check out the embedded video beneath the cut...and catch a few glimpses of the orchestra rehearsing as well! 

]]> melaniethompson@shaw.ca (Melanie Thompson) frontpage Tue, 13 Mar 2012 17:53:16 +0000 VICO and Laudate Singers Perform World Premieres by Bons, Chatman & Cooke http://www.vi-co.org/en/news/67-vico-and-laudate-singers-perform-world-premieres-by-bons-a-chatman http://www.vi-co.org/en/news/67-vico-and-laudate-singers-perform-world-premieres-by-bons-a-chatman The Vancouver Inter-Cultural Orchestra presents
 

Imagined Worlds: Intertwined

With special guests Laudate Singers

Saturday March 31, 2012 at 8:00 pm
Norman Rothstein Theatre (950 West 41st Ave., Vancouver)
Tickets ($28/$18) available here
 
The Vancouver Inter-Cultural Orchestra brings its 10th anniversary season to a triumphant close with a concert featuring the 25-member ensemble and chamber choir Laudate Singers, premiering major new works commissioned by the VICO from Dutch composer Joël Bons and renowned Canadian composer Dr. Stephen Chatman.  The programme will also include a new Canada Council commission by Coat Cooke for intercultural orchestra, Moshe Denburg’s El Ginat Egozfor choir, erhu, zheng and marimba, and works featuring two world famous virtuosi - Guilian Liu will perform a solo work for pipa (Chinese lute), and Hossein Behroozinia, on barbat (Iranian lute), will lead an Iranian sextet..
 
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