A longtime conductor and contributor of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra (VSO), Akiyama died in a hospital in Japan on Jan. 26 following a fall in his home on New Year’s Day. He was 84.
The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra USA's 2024-2025 season continues with two of the most celebrated masterworks on February 22 at 7 p.m. and February 23 at 3 p.m. at Skyview Concert Hall. The ...
By 1972, he was appointed conductor and music director of the Vancouver Symphony, a role he held until 1985 when he assumed the same position with the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra. In 1995 ...
Signature events returning for VCW 2025 include the traditional welcome brunch at ARC Restaurant in the Fairmont Waterfront ...
Kazuyoshi Akiyama, who conducted the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra (VSO) from 1972 until 1985, passed away last weekend at the age of 84. David Brown joined the VSO in 1978 as a young musician, ...
Composer Ari Kinarthy, who has a rare genetic condition called Spinal Muscular Atrophy, is the subject of Ari’s Theme, ...
Soprano soloist and longtime local resident, Michelle Johnson, returns to the SSO stage, singing Handel’s beautiful Lascia ch ...