A note for our patrons,
VCGS is also changing how we handle membership. Please click here for more info. Members receive a discount on select VCGS event tickets and access to other benefits.
Don’t forget to join us for a pre-concert at 6:15 showcasing students from the UBC School of Music guitar studio.
If you are a VCGS Member, purchase your tickets through this link for an additional 15% off. This applies to Livestream and in-person tickets.
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“Duo Rendezvous plays music that invites you to close your eyes and open your mind, let images just happen and follow, and should you ever get a chance to see them, I suggest you do just that.”
Duo Rendezvous unites two leading Canadian performers, violinist Jasper Wood and guitarist Daniel Bolshoy. This duo was formed as a response to great demand for a refreshing and passionate chamber ensemble with a strong dedication to outreach and education.
Duo Rendezvous is already in great demand by presenters across the country, thanks to the thriving solo careers of the two performers and to their reputation as charismatic virtuosi who enjoy engaging their audiences with humour and passionate musicianship. Their unique programming enriches the existing guitar and violin repertoire with transcriptions of masterpieces from around the world and newly commissioned pieces by leading Canadian composers.
Art Exhibit by Local Musician and Artist Alain Reiher
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Alain Reiher was born May 19, 1955 in Port-au-Prince Haiti, immigrating to Montreal, Canada with his family in 1965. After obtaining a degree in Art history from the G.E.G.E.P du Vieux Montral, he began at age 21 his musical studies with Stephen Fentok at the “Conservatoire du Québec à Montréal” from 1976 to 1981 and obtained a First prize diploma in classical guitar interpretation.
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He subsequently created the guitar accompaniment for two documentaries by Jacques Godbout of the National Film Board of Canada. He also worked with the Haitian poet Antony Phelps creating the segue music for his album of poems “Mon pays que voici”. Alain’s first composition “Préambule and Rhapsodie” was chosen among the ten top compositions to be published by Mel Bay in its Winner’s Circle 1994: The GFA Set Piece Competition.
In January 2001, Alain was invited to Haiti as a guest artist to share a solo concert with 3 fellow Haitian guitarists for an evening of classical music as part of the festivities during the week of Diaspora. Upon his return, Alain recorded his first CD in which is included his first set of compositions entitled “20 miniatures” with the help of a grant from the Canada Council for the Arts. Two of them can be found in volume 4 and six of the Bridges Royal conservatory of Music and the entire set has been publish by Les Publications d’OZ.