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Soundstreams is a global leader in the presentation of innovative, carefully curated, and immersive musical experiences. Artistic Director Lawrence Cherney is committed to showcasing the work of living Canadian and global composers/musicians.

Our 2024/25 season offers new music for chamber ensemble, choir and opera. The program “with you and without you” asks important questions about the vulnerability of human relationships through the lens of the love song in provocative works by Ana Sokolovic, Oliver Knussen and Tansy Davies. Tarik O’Regan’s I Sleep But My Heart Waketh, performed by the illustrious Vancouver Chamber Choir, is inspired by the Biblical Song of Songs, considered by many the greatest love song ever written.

If we seek spiritual guidance from some thing or some being beyond ourselves, what would we ask for? Letters to God, featuring Japan’s legendary Fujii Percussion and choirs, explores some of those questions, including some astonishing ones from children. Invocations explores our yearning for spiritual connection through various traditions including: the “nign”, a wordless and improvised prayer dating back to medieval Hasidic Judaism; and German Romanticism.