Hotel Accommodation
You can now stay at the Sheraton Vancouver Wall Centre Hotel over the dates of the festival for the reduced rate of $199/night. Please click here to book your accommodation online, or call or email us at +1-604-681-2153 or whc2011-registration@icsevents.com if you have any questions or would like to book over the phone.
Festival Program
Concert tickets are now available for purchase through this website. All ticket prices include all fees and taxes. All tickets are sold through either the Vogue Theatre Box Office or the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra Box Office. Festival program is subject to change.
Congress Registrants: Full Congress registration includes tickets to all festival concerts and single day registration includes concert tickets for that day. If you want to buy extra tickets for a friend, this is the place to do it.
Student and Senior ticket prices available. Please click on the "Buy Tickets Now" links below for further details on each concert.
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| Sunday, July 24 7:00pm – 10:15pm Opening Recital, St. Andrew’s-Wesley Church $40 - Buy Tickets Now Click the link above or call the VSO box office at +1-604-876-3434 |
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 Judy Loman with Nora Shulman, flautist, and Rennie
Regehr, violist, performing Schafer’s Crown of Ariadne and more great Canadian piecesJAZZ: Rossitza Milevska and drummer/keyboard player Kristian Alexandrov, followed by Christa Grix with drummer Kristian Alexandrov and bassist Jodi Prosnick |
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| Monday, July 25 7:30pm – 10:30pm St. Andrew’s-Wesley Church $25 - Buy Tickets Now Click the link above or call the VSO box office at +1-604-876-3434 |
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| International Prize-Winners’ Concert featuring Agnès
Clément and Rino Kageyama (JAZZ/POP) HARPA BOSSA: Cristina Braga, Ricardo Medeiros on bass, drummer Sal Ferreras LABIRINTO: Chiara Pedrazzetti with Sean Lanigan on electric guitar |
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| Tuesday, July 26 4:30pm – 5:30pm Vogue Theatre Sold Out |
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| “Transformations” Suzuki Harp Ensemble - Creativity Unleashed! ShruDeLi Ownbey and Mary Kay Waddington - directors |
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| Tuesday, July 26 7:30pm – 10:40pm Orpheum Theatre $25-$52 - Buy Tickets Now Click the link above or call the VSO box office at +1-604-876-3434 |
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 The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, led by acclaimed Canadian conductor Evan Mitchell,will accompany four pieces for harps and orchestra, featuring world-famous harpists. The program is as follows: Reinl: Impression et Jou Jou for 2 harps and orchestra, with  Merve
Kocabeyler
and Christoph Bielefeld, prize-winners of the International Reinl CompetitionLutoslawski: Concerto for Harp, Oboe and Orchestra, Czech harpist Katerina Englichova (winner of Pro Musicis International Award), oboist Vilem Veverka (winner of 9th International Sony Oboe competition in Japan) Boieldieu: Harp Concerto, harp soloist Baltazar Juarez (Principal Harp, National Symphony of Mexico) Kaska: Knights of the Red Branch for 3 harps and orchestra, harp soloists Ann Hobson Pilot (former Principal Harp, Boston Symphony), Paula Page (Houston Symphony), and Susan Pejovich (Dallas Symphony) Followed by: Jazz/Pop – Lizotte: Techno Concerto, Caroline Lizotte and Etienne Ratthe; Blues: electric pitch-bending harp, Brenda Dor-Groot with Bryan Binnema, Mike Michalkow and Laurence Mollerup |
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| Wednesday, July 27 7:30pm – 9:30pm Vogue Theatre $25 - Buy Tickets Now Click the link above or call the Vogue Theatre box office at +1-604-569-1144 |
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| Canada’s acclaimed Winter Harp, followed by O’Carolan’s Farewell to Music - a solo musical theater piece performed by legendary Celtic harpist & storyteller Patrick Ball. Followed by Stacey Berkley, jazz harpist. |
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| Thursday, July 28 7:30pm – 9:30pm Vogue Theatre $25 - Buy Tickets Now Click the link above or call the Vogue Theatre box office at +1-604-569-1144 |
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| JAZZ: Harp Summit: Park Stickney, Rüdiger Opperman with bassist Ricardo Medeiros and drummer Craig Scott; LATIN AMERICAN CONCERT: Eastman Chamber Ensemble playing Alfredo Rolando Ortiz: Venezolana for 5 pedal harps; “DUELLING HARPS” featuring Eduardo Betancourt, Celso padre and Celso hijo Duarte |
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| Friday, July 29 7:30pm – 10:15pm Orpheum Theatre $25-$52 - Buy Tickets Now Click the link above or call the VSO box office at +1-604-876-3434 |
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| Gala Concerto Evening The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, led by acclaimed Canadian conductor Evan Mitchell, will accompany four harp concerti with world-famous harp soloists. Kyo-Jin Lee from Korea will be playing the second movement from the Concierto de Aranjuez by Rodrigo, arranged for harp and orchestra by Zabaleta. Elizabeth Hainen, the Philadelphia Orchestra’s Principal Harpist, will play the Parish-Alvars Harp Concerto in G minor. Australia’s Alice Giles, former first prize winner of the Israel Harp Contest and host of the 12th WHC, will perform the Jolivet Concerto. Kristan Toczko will play the Harp Concerto by Canada’s own Michael Conway Baker. Followed by: JAZZ / POP – Maria Palatine with Vern Griffiths on percussion |
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| Saturday, July 30 3:00pm – 5:30pm Vogue Theatre $25 - Buy Tickets Now Click the link above or call the Vogue Theatre box office at +1-604-569-1144 |
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 3:00pm - 4:00pmRecital: White Nights: Scottish Harp and Fiddle Virtuosity Catriona Mckay with fiddler Chris Stout 4:30pm – 5:30pm Recital: Irish Harp through the Centuries Maire ni Chathasaigh |
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| Saturday, July 30 4:30pm – 5:30pm St. Andrew’s-Wesley Church $25 - Buy Tickets Now Click the link above or call the VSO box office at +1-604-876-3434 |
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Marie Pierre Langlamet (Germany), Naoko Yoshino (Japan), Lara St. John, violin (Canada) Mozart Sonata in F maj K332 |
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| Saturday, July 30 7:30-9:30pm St. Andrew’s-Wesley Church $25 - Buy Tickets Now Click the link above or call the VSO box office at +1-604-876-3434 |
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 CHAMBER CONCERTOS: harp soloists with a small
orchestra under the direction of acclaimed Canadian
conductor Ken HsiehKaori Otake playing Damase: Concertino, Mieko Inoue playing J. Haydn: Piano Concerto in D+, arr. for harp, Willy Postma playing Rautavaara: Ballad, Belgrade Harp Quartet playing Obradinovic: Dream, Light, Movement for 4 Harps and Orchestra |
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| VSO Box Office 601 Smithe Street Vancouver, BC (the ticket office is downstairs beneath the Orpheum box office on Smithe st, in the same building) +1-604-876-3434 http://www.vancouversymphony.ca/ |
Hours: Monday-Thursday Friday |
9am to 5pm 9am to 3pm |
Vogue Box Office 918 Granville Street Vancouver, BC +1-604-569-1144 http://www.voguetheatre.com/ |
Hours: Monday-Saturday Sunday |
10am to 6pm 12pm to 4pm |
Sponsorship
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Website last updated: July 20, 2011