2008 – 2009             Eric Hannan, conductor
(see also the Hannan Programs and Photos pages for more)

October 17 and 18, 2008 (Ryerson)
Everlasting Light - music for choir and marimba
with  Ann-Julie Caron, percussionist
    Lozowchuk: Miserere Nobis (from Bright Sadness, 2005)
    Martland: Street Songs (1997/2003):
    Mendelssohn: Psalm 91
    Abe: Wind in the bamboo grove (Caron solo)
    Fulton: Fireflies (2008) (premiere) *** VCS Commission
    Hatzis: Everlasting Light (1999)
  

October 29, 2008 (Orpheum)
Video Games Live (VSO production)

December 12 and 13, 2008 (Orpheum)
Handel: Messiah - with Vancouver Chamber Choir and Vancouver Chamber Orchestra
Bernard Labadie, guest conductor
   Soprano: Shannon Mercer
   Countertenor: Robin Blaze
   Tenro: Frédéric Antoun, tenor
    Bass: Joshua Hopkins

December 21, 2008 (Holy Rosary) and December 22, 2008 (St. James Anglican)
A Christmas Reprise
with the Pacific Ring Handbell Choir (Rosemary Bell, director)
   14th C. English: Verbum caro factum est
   H. Praetorius: In dulci jubilo
   R. S. Willis: It came upon a midnight clear
   F. Mendelssohn: Weihnachten
   M. Praetorius: Lo, how a rose er blooming
   S. Rachmaninoff: Bogoroditse Devo
   W. Walton: Make we joy now in this fest
   L. Price: Come, Thou Long-Expected Jesus
   F. Mendelssohn: Hark! the herald angels sing
   15th C. English: Nowel syng we bothe al and som
   arr.  J. Rutter: Angels we have heard on high
   M. Larkin: Adam lay ybounden
   15th C. English: There is no rose of swych virtu
   F. Biebl: Ave Maria

February 13, 2009 (Holy Rosary)
Cori Spezzati - a Redshift presentation
with I Tromboni

  A. Gabrieli: Kyrie a 5, Christe a 8, Kyrie a 12
  O. Lozowchuk: Miserere Nobis (2005)
       A. Scott: Promenade 1 (premiere performance)
  O. Underhill: In Ecclesiis (premiere performance)
       J. Butler: Promenade 2 (premiere performance)
  J. Nobles: Lux Aeterna(premiere performacne)
  G. Gabrieli: O magnum mysterium
  J. Nobles: Stasis (premiere performance)
      K. Fulton: Promenade 3 (premiere performance)
  G. Kulesha: Romance (I Tromboni)
  F. Poulenc: Agnus Dei (from Mass in G)
  N. Bennet: Sancta Antarctica (I Tromboni)
       J. Morlock: Promenade 4 (premiere performance)
  A. Franzoni: Sancta Maria
  A. Gabrieli: Sanctus a 12

March 17, 18 and 19, 2009 (Roundhouse)
Voices in Motion, Bodies That Sing
with Dancers Dancing

  E. Bergman View Glagen-Lieder (Four Gallows Songs)
     K. Fulton: Interlude
  V. Tormis: Helletused (Childhood Memories)
     J. Butler: Interlude
  P. Hannan: Happiness Index (premiere performance / VCS commission)
  J. S. Bach: Komm, Jesu, Komm
     J. Morlock:Interlude
  F. Poulenc: Mass in G