Concerts and Events

Path to Eternity – A Smashing Success! Video coming soon. A Special Production with two pianos, voice, live-media and dance Performers – Jane Hayes, piano, Anna Levy, piano , … Continue reading →

Join award-winning clarinetist Francois Houle and Yarilo pianist Jane Hayes for an afternoon of Latin-inspired works for clarinet and piano. Dance, cry, sing, and experience the infectious rhythms and … Continue reading →

On Sunday, March 3, at 2:00 p.m., come join Yarilo Music Ensemble pianist Anna Levy, with special guests Karina Slupski, violin, and Ben Goheen, cello, for a complete performance … Continue reading →

A tribute to our Juno award- winning composer Michael Conway Baker.

On Saturday, December 15 at 2:00 p.m. the Yarilo Contemporary Music Society will present a roundtable discussion on the life and times of composer Nikolai Korndorf (+2001), at the … Continue reading →

Please join the Yarilo Music Society on Sunday, November 25 at 2:00 p.m. for this celebration honouring one of Canada’s most outstanding composers and Vancouver resident Michael Conway Baker … Continue reading →

The Yarilo Music Society is honoured to present one of Canada’s outstanding musicians: internationally celebrated pianist, pedagogue and recording artist Robert Silverman. With a career that has spanned over five decades, … Continue reading →

Celebrating the 140th Anniversary of Scriabin’s Birth   Dramatizing the Text for the Mysterium and Performing Prometheus in the two piano edition   A Co-Production of the Yarilo Music Ensemble and … Continue reading →

Yarilo Music Promotes Advanced Music Studies through Scholarship Program. Continue reading →

New and exiting Canadian music for saxophone quartet, including jazz-influenced compositions by Fred Stride and Leonard Aruliah, and a world premiere by Colin MacDonald. Continue reading →

Please join the Yarilo Music Ensemble pianists Jane Hayes and Anna Levy and invited guests, cellist Ian Hampton and soprano Yuliana Tichelova for this festive musical celebration of spring … Continue reading →

Maestro Quintana is acknowledged as the most versatile and consummate pianist currently performing in concert halls in Mexico. Whether in jazz stylings, works for piano and orchestra or Latin-American … Continue reading →

On Sunday, December 4 at 7:00 p.m., Yarilo Music Ensemble presents the Microcosmos String Quartet – violinists Marc Destrubé and Andrea Siradze, violist Tawnya Popov and cellist Peggy Lee … Continue reading →

On the program the “Variations on a Theme of Haydn” by Johannes Brahms, the “Paganini Variations” by Witold Lutoslawski, and Sergei Rachmaninoff’s monumental “Symphonic Dances” in the version for two pianos. Continue reading →

The Yarilo Ensemble will present a concert of the Estonian composer Lepo Sumera along with his contemporaries Arvo Pärt. Continue reading →

The Colin MacDonald Pocket Orchestra presents jazzy and dancing post-minimalist music by British and Canadian composers in a program called Modus Operandi. Continue reading →

Our first concert paying tribute to composer and friend on the tenth anniversary of his untimely passing. Continue reading →

On Saturday, May 8, 2010, at Place des Arts, in a program entitled, Path to Simplicity –A Concert in Honour of Lepo Sumera, 1950-2000, the Yarilo Music Ensemble marked a special anniversary: 60 years since the birth and 10 years since the death of the remarkable Estonian composer, Lepo Sumera. Continue reading →

On a lighter note the Yarilo Music Ensemble with guest, Colin MacDonald on alto saxophone presented a French program with the title Two Pianos in the Form of a Pear, … Continue reading →

On Saturday, June 20, 2009, the Yarilo Music Ensemble with guests presented the concert Prometheus – Master of Fire and Cosmos. This concert was about fire as inspiration, with compositions by … Continue reading →

The Yarilo Music Ensemble’s concert on May 31, 2008, with guests Marc Destrubé, violin, Heather Pawsey, soprano, and Kathryn Cernauskas, flute, crossed a new threshold in the fulfillment of its … Continue reading →

Outside of Canada, ensemble founders Jane Hayes and Anna Levy successfully paid tribute to Canada on June 30, 2007, as part of Canada Day celebrations, with a program of … Continue reading →

The Yarilo Music Ensemble has been a successful participant in the Canadian Music Centre’s venture, “New Music in New Places”, with a program that included Korndorf’s “Lullaby” and Matton’s “Danse … Continue reading →