- David Alan Miller, Windsor Symphony Orchestra, Canadian National Arts Centre Orchestra, CBC Vancouver Orchestra, John Morris Russell, Mario Bernardi, Judith Forst, Jacques Lacombe, CBC Radio Orchestra
- Victor Feldbrill, Canadian National Arts Centre Orchestra, Murray Adaskin, Eitan Cornfield, Eugene Kash, George Zuckerman, CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Andrew Dawes, Mario Bernardi, John Rudolph, John Avison
- Eitan Cornfield, Esprit Orchestra, John Weinzweig, Mary Morrison, Mario Bernardi, William Littler, CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Nexus, Alex Pauk, Brian Victor Macdonald, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Harry Freedman, Kazuyoshi Akiyama
- Orchestre de Radio-Canada à Montréal, Gilles Tremblay, John Rea, Eitan Cornfield, John Weinzweig, John Beckwith, Bruce Mather, Mario Bernardi, Victor Schultz, Jacques Beaudry, Jean Papineau-Couture, Gilles Manny, Orchestre à cordes Radio-Canada, Nadia Papineau-Couture, Montreal Tudor Singers, CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Alexander Brott, Société de musique contemporaine du Québec, István Anhalt, Serge Garant
- Patricia Fagan, Jane Adams, University of Alberta String Quartet, Purcell String Quartet, Robert Silverman, Dwight Bennet, Jean Coulthard, CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Eitan Cornfield, William Bruneau, Don Mowat, David Duke, John Ogden
- Jon Washburn, Henriette Schellenberg, George Roberts, Vancouver Chamber Choir, CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Laverne G'Froerer, Keith Boldt
- Hong Kong Sinfonietta, James Hunter, Colin Tilney, Steven Staryk, Tsung Yeh, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Serge Garant, Canada Quartet, Luca Pfaff, Festival Singers of Toronto, Quebec Contemporary Music Society, CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Canada Festival Singers, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Days Months and Years to Come, Barbara Pentland, Evergreen Club Contemporary Gamelan, Chia Chou, Canadian National Arts Centre Orchestra, Elmer Iseler, Yuli Turovsky, Erica Goodman, Hannaford Street Silver Band, Mario Bernardi, Lyric Arts Trio, Marion Ross, Norma Beecroft, Musici di Montreal, I, John Avison, Victor Feldbrill, Arthur Polson, Angela Hewitt, Robert Rogers, The Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra, Yves Prin, Jerome Pernod, Orchestre National de France
- Jon Washburn, Richard Margison, Thom Geise, Naoko Okada, Kathleen Rudolph, William VerMeulen, Ensemble Vocal de Lausanne, Michel Corboz, Vancouver Chamber Choir, Gordon Crozier, CBC Vancouver Orchestra
CBC Vancouver Orchestra
Biography
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Vancouver Orchestra was founded in 1938 as the CBC Vancouver Chamber Orchestra. From 1939 to 1980, John Avison was the music director and during this period, he gave premieres of countless of works by Canadian composers, including Jean Coulthard, Barbara Pentland, and Elliot Weisgarber. In 1980, the orchestra abandoned its designation as a chamber orchestra upon the appointment of John Eliot Gardiner as music director. After a brief period of concentration on earlier repertoire, the orchestra returned to its commitment to contemporary works under the baton of Mario Bernardi, who became music director in 1983. The orchestra now commissions at least two major compositions every year. By the end of the twentieth century, the orchestra was the last-surviving radio orchestra in North America. It performs in a regular concert series in Vancouver, on tours in both Canada and the United States, and in broadcasts heard throughout Canada.