{"id":2404164,"date":"2026-05-06T04:56:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T04:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2404164"},"modified":"2026-05-06T04:56:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T04:56:19","slug":"a-steve-reich-ode-and-an-international-roster-as-vancouver-new-music-announces-2026-27-season-stir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/a-steve-reich-ode-and-an-international-roster-as-vancouver-new-music-announces-2026-27-season-stir\/","title":{"rendered":"A Steve Reich ode and an international roster as Vancouver New Music announces 2026-27 season \u2014 Stir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-sqsp-text-block-content=\"\">\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">VANCOUVER NEW MUSIC\u2019S 2026-27 season has just been unveiled, bringing in artists from not only Canada and the U.S. but as far away as Japan, Korea, Egypt, and Australia.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The season launches with the Vancouver New Music Festival\u2019s Open Frequencies,<em> <\/em>running<em> <\/em>October 22 to 24 at Pacific Spirit United Church. It kicks off with Japan\u2019s Kuniko Kato Quartet performing a program celebrating Steve Reich\u2019s 90th birthday, the program boasting percussive new adaptations specially curated by the quartet with Reich. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The rest of the three-day fest presents internationally acclaimed and emerging artists working across experimental, interdisciplinary, and cross-cultural sound practices, including Korea-U.S.\u2019s Okkyung Lee, Egypt\u2019s Nadah El Shazl with Montreal\u2019s Sarah Pag\u00e9, and B.C.\u2019s Meredith Bates and Piu. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The season also marks the return of the One-Page Score Project on January 23, 2027 at Christ Church Cathedral. The popular series inviting community members to create graphic scores, which are then performed by Plastic Acid Orchestra. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Other season highlights include Aussie-U.S. vocalist Charmaine Lee on February 20 at The Beaumont Studios, with her experiments in feedback and live processing of vocals; Vancouver-based x\/o (Veron Xio) explores parallel terrain through voice and electronics to open the evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The eighth installment of VNM\u2019s community-focused PARALLELS series features Japanese-Australian koto player Miyama McQueen-Tokita, March 20 at the Annex.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The season wraps April 24 with American sound artist Olivia Block on the city\u2019s largest pipe organ.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n{if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\nn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\nif(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\nn.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\nt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\ns.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\nfbq('init', '1123014235324259');\nfbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.createastir.ca \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VANCOUVER NEW MUSIC\u2019S 2026-27 season has just been unveiled, bringing in artists from not only Canada and the U.S. but as far away as Japan, Korea, Egypt, and Australia.\u00a0 The season launches with the Vancouver New Music Festival\u2019s Open Frequencies, running October 22 to 24 at Pacific Spirit United Church. It kicks off with Japan\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2404165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2404164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/A-Steve-Reich-ode-and-an-international-roster-as-Vancouver.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2404164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2404164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2404164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2404166,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2404164\/revisions\/2404166"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2404165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2404164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2404164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2404164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}