Want to see the future of Canadian music?
Check out a concert by the Donna Fishwick Piano Ensemble this weekend.
The Burnaby-based piano ensemble is celebrating its 20th anniversary with a gala event at the Chan Centre on Sunday, June 22.
The 1 p.m. concert will feature the award-winning ensemble with a wide range of repertoire for two, four, six or eight hands at one or two pianos.
Since 1994, Fishwick's young pianists have been travelling around the world, with performances on cruise ships, at Disneyland and on such stages as the Cairo Opera House in Egypt, Liechtenstein Palace in Prague, the Bosendorfer Recital Hall in Vienna and Steinway Hall in New York.
Performers on the weekend will include winners of the 2013 Crescendo International Music Competition: Angela Hu, Brandon Jong, Ryan Zhu, Michelle Xu, Jasper Liang and Jasper Yoo.
Also on the bill will be the winners of the 2014 Little Mozarts Competition, Paul Wong and Oscar Shi.
Several members of the ensemble also earned themselves gold medals for achieving the highest marks in 2013 Royal Conservatory of Music piano examinations in B.C. and Canada: Angela Hu (Grade 4), Brandon Jong (Grade 5), Ryan Zhu (Grade 7), Laura Wang (Grade 7), Olivia Hu (Grade 8), Edward Su (Grade 9) and Mariya Orlenko (Grade 10). Bonnie Lee also achieved the highest mark in Canada for her licientiate diploma in piano performance.
Concerto performances will be accompanied by the West Coast Symphony Orchestra.
The concert takes place at 1 p.m. in the Chan Shun Concert Hall, with a reception to follow. Tickets are $25. Call 604-431-6700 for more information, or check out more about the group at yprs.ca.
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More rising Canadian talent will be ontage at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts this weekend - this time in the world of opera.
Burnaby Lyric Opera is bringing its next Sunday afternoon concert to the stage, with highlights from the opera Rusalka.
Antonin Dvorak's opera is the original story of The Little Mermaid, and it will be sung in Czech with English narration.
The concert features Burnaby native Fracesca Corrado, along with Rose-Ellen Nichols - star of the City Opera Vanoouver production of Margaret Atwood's new opera, Pauline.
Also featured are Shadan Saul, Sunny Shams and Scott Brooks, with Julie Duerichen, Christine Robinson and Sinéad Plunkett-Blazi.
The music director is David Boothroyd.
The concert is on Sunday, June 22 at 3 p.m.
Tickets are $15, available from the Shadbolt box office (604-205-3000) or at the door.
The Shadbolt Centre is at 6450 Deer Lake Ave.
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Got a teenager in the house who's looking for something to do?
The Tommy Douglas branch of Burnaby Public Library is offering a Teen Screen series, with movie showings for youth in grades 8 to 12.
On Friday, June 20, teens can take in the blast-from-the-past film Back to The Future, from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m.
On Thursday, July 17, it's 10 Things I Hate About You, and on Aug. 28, teens can enjoy Jurassic Park.
The Tommy Douglas Library branch is at 7311 Kingsway.
For more on library events, check out www.bpl.bc.ca/events.
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