Canada Mozart: Szymanowski Quartet [Agata Szymczewska and Robert Kowalski (violins), Volodia Mykytka (viola), Monika Leskovar (cello)] with Richard O’Neill (second viola), Vancouver Playhouse, Vancouver, 18 and 20.2.2018. (GN)

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Canada Mozart: Szymanowski Quartet [Agata Szymczewska and Robert Kowalski (violins), Volodia Mykytka (viola), Monika Leskovar (cello)] with Richard O’Neill (second viola), Vancouver Playhouse, Vancouver, 18 and 20.2.2018. (GN)

Canada Ravel, Rachmaninoff, Chopin: Jan Lisiecki (piano), Koerner Hall, Vancouver Academy of Music, Vancouver, 14.2.2018. (GN)

Canada Morlock, Lalo, Schumann: Alexandra Soumm (violin), Vancouver Symphony Orchestra / Perry So (conductor), Orpheum Theatre, Vancouver, 5.2.2018. (GN)

Canada Beethoven, Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Brahms: Nikolaj Znaider (violin), Robert Kulek (piano), Vancouver Playhouse, Vancouver, 4.2.2018. (GN)

Canada Chopin: Janusz Olejniczak (piano), Christ Church Cathedral, Vancouver, 2.2.2018. (GN)

The 2018 Vancouver Symphony New Music Festival (GN)

Canada Liszt, Richard Strauss, Mahler, Quilter, Rossini: Tara Erraught (mezzo-soprano), James Baillieu (piano), Vancouver Playhouse, Vancouver, 14.1.2017. (GN)

Barry Douglas discusses – amongst other things – his career, composers, interpretation, recordings, masterclasses, chamber music, competitions, and his annual Clandeboye Festival

Winner of the Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition in 1986, Barry Douglas has toured the world for the last three decades, bringing distinction and splendour to the wide range of concertos he plays, and taking on innumerable institutional responsibilities as well. That is to be expected from any major competition-winner, but perhaps closest to the artist’s heart is the founding of his orchestra, the Camerata Ireland, and overseeing his annual Clandeboye Festival, both of which serve as a meeting place for Irish artists in general and young Irish musicians in particular.