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The Vancouver Chopin Society is dedicated to promoting the works of Frederic Chopin, as well as a great range of other composers, through performances by some of the most distinguished and exciting pianists in the world.

09/04/2026

Our Steinway & Sons piano is en route to Vancouver! The instrument should arrive in Vancouver early next week, in time for our first concert of the season.

Please join us on Sunday, September 20th, at 3:00 p.m., when Canadian pianist Kevin Chen, silver medalist of the 2025 International Chopin Competition in Warsaw, performs a recital of music by Scriabin, Liszt and Chopin. The concert will include the Vancouver premiere of Kevin's own transcription of Liszt's orchestral tone poem, Les préludes.

Please visit our website for more information or to purchase tickets or subscriptions.

08/30/2026

We hope that you have had a wonderful summer. As summer draws to a close, we just want to remind you of our first concert this season, a recital by Canada's own Kevin Chen, silver medalist of the 2025 International Chopin Competition in Warsaw, on Sunday, September 20th, at 3:00 p.m.

Kevin has had a busy summer performing all over the world, including performances in many countries - Canada, Korea, Taiwan, Switzerland, France, and throughout Poland, including a beautiful performance of Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, at the prestigious Chopin and His Europe Festival just last week.

Kevin's Vancouver concert will include music by Scriabin, Chopin and Liszt, including Kevin's own transcription of Liszt's orchestral tone poem, Les préludes. In this concert, Kevin will also be inaugurating our newly acquired Steinway & Sons concert grand piano.

Do join us for this spectacular opening concert of our 2026-2027 season. For information on all recitals, artists' biographies, programme information, or to purchase subscriptions or tickets, please visit our website.

08/16/2026

Standing ovations for Kevin Chen and David Khrikuli at the Chopin Festival in Duszniki-Zdrój. Kevin Chen will soon open our 2026–27
season on September 20 at the Vancouver Playhouse!

Pianist Yulianna Avdeeva performed the festival’s closing concert on August 15, 2026. Her program (Bach, Beethoven and Chopin) commemorated the 200th anniversary of Fryderyk Chopin’s historic 1826 stay in the spa town!
I listened to the second half of Avdeeva’s recital on the radio while travelling. She gave a brilliant performance of Chopin’s Études, Op. 25.

08/07/2026

As you continue to enjoy the beautiful summer weather, we would like to remind you of the incredible performances we have planned for you starting September.

Our 2026-2027 season will feature laureates from the International Chopin Competition in Warsaw - Canada's Kevin Chen, William Yang, Tianyao Lyu, and Aimi Kobayashi - superstar Daniil Trifonov, as well as brilliant pianists Saskia Giorgini, Zlata Chochieva, Federico Colli and Alexander Gavrylyuk.

Subscribe to 3 concerts and receive 20% off regular ticket prices, or subscribe to 4 or more concerts and receive a 25% discount off regular ticket prices.

Of course, we would love to see you at ALL our concerts next season.

Enjoy the rest of the summer. We look forward to seeing all of you in September!

07/27/2026

For his recital in Vancouver on Monday, October 12th, at 3:00 p.m., William Yang, laureate of the 2025 International Chopin Competition in Warsaw, has crafted a beautiful and highly imaginative programme.

Beginning with Bach's Partita in C minor, one of the composer's most popular keyboard works, Yang will move on to Tchaikovsky's highly dramatic "Dumka", continuing with a series of Preludes by Scriabin - real gems of the piano literature - and concluding the first half with Ravel's hugely virtuosic and orchestral La Valse.

William will begin the second half by offering us his inimitable Chopin playing, by way of the composer's Op. 32 Nocturnes, followed by the Sonata in B-flat minor, Op. 35. The recital will end with Scriabin's stunningly beautiful Fantasy in B minor, Op. 28.

Join us for William Yang's debut in Vancouver, and enjoy this programme that he personally chose for his first appearance on the stage of the Playhouse. Please check our website for details, or to purchase tickets or subscriptions.

07/24/2026

This month, pianist Saskia Giorgini will be performing in Quebec's prestigious Festival de Lanaudière.

On Sunday, November 22nd at 3:00 p.m., Giorgini will perform a recital in Vancouver, with a fascinating and varied programme.

A prolific recording artist, all of Giogini’s albums on Pentatone – Images (Debussy), Consolations (Liszt) und Harmonies Poétiques et Religieuses (Liszt) – have been highly praised by the international music press. She has received two Diapason d'Or, an Editor's Choice award in Gramophone, two Critics' Choice awards (2024) in Gramophone, Instrumental Choice of the Month in BBC Music Magazine, and Recording of the Month in International Piano, which refers to her Liszt recording as a "miraculous experience."

Join us in welcoming Saskia Giorgini to Vancouver, for her performance on our newly acquired Steinway & Sons piano!

07/20/2026

On Monday, October 12th (Thanksgiving Day), pianist William Yang will make his Vancouver recital debut at 3:00 p.m. at the Playhouse.

Writing about the 2025 International Chopin Competition in Warsaw, Gramophone magazine's Jed Distler refers to Yang as a musician who is "in a class by himself." In his performances of Chopin's Polonaise-Fantasie and the F minor concerto, Distler praises Yang's interpretation for "the utmost pianistic finesse, focus and sense of purpose. Accents, inner voices and dynamic gradations that may have eluded listeners and pianists alike turn up in Yang’s interpretations, not as attention-getting devices, but as components of the score."

In reviewing Yang's Carnegie Hall debut, George Grella (New York Classical Review) writes, "He is a musician who essentially disappears behind the music, and there’s an effortlessness to his playing that brings the focus away from him and toward the notes."

Do join us in welcoming pianist William Yang to Vancouver!

07/17/2026

As you enjoy the beautiful summer weather, don't forget to visit our website and look at all the fabulous concerts of our 2026-2027 season!

Purchase tickets for 3 concerts only and receive a 20% discount off regular prices. If you purchase tickets for 4 concerts or more you will receive a 25% discount off regular prices.

Our three Fall concerts feature 2025 International Chopin Competition (Warsaw) silver medalist Kevin Chen, laureate William Yang, as well as the immensely talented Saskia Giorgini. You will also get to experience the music making of these great artists on our brand new Steinway & Sons concert grand piano, selected for us especially by Charles Richard-Hamelin, our distinguished Artistic Director.

We look forward to seeing all of you at the Playhouse!

07/13/2026

Since winning the silver medal at the 2025 International Chopin Competition in Warsaw, Canadian Kevin Chen has been leaving musical footsteps all over the globe.

Earlier this month, he gave a televised all-Chopin concert in Żelazowa Wola. Most recently, Kevin gave a sold-out recital in the magnificent historic Baroque hall of the Oratorium Marianum, at the University of Wrocław, Poland, where he was praised for his "extraordinary depth of interpretation." In the upcoming weeks, Kevin will perform in France, Switzerland, Canada, Poland and South Korea, before returning to Vancouver on Sunday, September 20th (3:00 p.m.) for his long-awaited recital.

Kevin Chen's recital will not only open our 2026-2027 concert season, but will inaugurate our brand new Steinway & Sons concert grand piano. We hope to see you all there to help us usher in this new era for The Vancouver Chopin Society.

07/07/2026

An historic day for The Vancouver Chopin Society!

Early this morning, our contingent from Vancouver, along with our distinguished Artistic Director Charles Richard-Hamelin and piano technician Marcel Lapointe traveled to the Steinway & Sons factory in Queens, New York. After a fascinating factory tour, Charles got down to the serious business of selecting a concert grand piano for our society.

We are overjoyed to share with you that Charles selected for us a magnificent Model D concert grand piano, serial number 630046. The instrument will be prepared and shipped to Vancouver some time in August, to be readied for our opening concert on Sunday, September 20th, at 3:00 p.m., with Canadian pianist Kevin Chen.

Do join us for this very special performance, not just to open our new season, but to inaugurate this gorgeous new instrument for the Vancouver audience.

And please join us in welcoming this newest member of our Vancouver Chopin Society family!

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#400-601 West Broadway Avenue
Vancouver, BC
V5Z4C2

Opening Hours

Monday	9am - 5pm
Tuesday	9am - 5pm
Wednesday	9am - 5pm
Thursday	9am - 5pm
Friday	9am - 5pm

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+16048714450

Website

http://www.chopinsociety.org/

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