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Jon Washburn is the founder, artistic director and long-time conductor of the Vancouver Chamber Choir, Canada’s outstanding professional vocal ensemble. He has earned international acclaim for mastery of choral technique and interpretation, traveling widely as guest conductor, lecturer, clinician and master teacher. He conducts dozens of performances each year, has recorded nearly 50 CDs and…
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As a young girl in the 1950’s, Judy Ginn began her musical career performing on radio, concert stages and television. In the early 1960’s, her first booking at Isy’s supper Club in Vancouver, opened the stage door to her next ten years of performing in lounges, hotel dining rooms and supper clubs across Canada and…
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Born in 1930, Zena Deanna Wagstaff was an accomplished violinist and member of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra for 50 years. She was also prominent in Vancouver’s music scene through Zena’s Musical Staff. She was inducted into the BC Entertainment Hall of Fame in 1997 for her services to the music industry. Her other loves were…
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Vancouver Opera was founded in 1958 by a group of visionary community leaders who, recognizing the power of opera to connect people to the universal human drama, set out to build an opera company for Vancouver. Artistic Director Irving Guttman  directed the company’s first production, Carmen, starring Nan Merriman, Richard Cassilly and Louis Quilico. It…
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