- Windsor Symphony Orchestra, John Morris Russell, Mario Bernardi, Judith Forst, David Alan Miller, CBC Vancouver Orchestra, CBC Radio Orchestra, Jacques Lacombe, Canadian National Arts Centre Orchestra
- Andrew Dawes, George Zuckerman, John Avison, John Rudolph, CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Eitan Cornfield, Eugene Kash, Mario Bernardi, Canadian National Arts Centre Orchestra, Murray Adaskin, Victor Feldbrill
- Esprit Orchestra, Eitan Cornfield, John Weinzweig, Alex Pauk, Kazuyoshi Akiyama, Brian Victor Macdonald, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, CBC Vancouver Orchestra, William Littler, Harry Freedman, Nexus, Mary Morrison, Mario Bernardi
- Gilles Tremblay, Gilles Manny, Orchestre de Radio-Canada à Montréal, Serge Garant, Société de musique contemporaine du Québec, Alexander Brott, Bruce Mather, Jean Papineau-Couture, Mario Bernardi, Eitan Cornfield, John Weinzweig, John Rea, István Anhalt, Jacques Beaudry, CBC Vancouver Orchestra, John Beckwith, Montreal Tudor Singers, Nadia Papineau-Couture, Victor Schultz, Orchestre à cordes Radio-Canada
- John Ogden, David Duke, Don Mowat, William Bruneau, Eitan Cornfield, Patricia Fagan, Robert Silverman, Jane Adams, Dwight Bennet, Jean Coulthard, CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Purcell String Quartet, University of Alberta String Quartet
- CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Henriette Schellenberg, Vancouver Chamber Choir, Laverne G'Froerer, Jon Washburn, George Roberts, Keith Boldt
- Hannaford Street Silver Band, James Hunter, Hong Kong Sinfonietta, Marion Ross, Norma Beecroft, Orchestre National de France, Elmer Iseler, Erica Goodman, Yuli Turovsky, Robert Rogers, Yves Prin, The Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra, Luca Pfaff, Festival Singers of Toronto, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Canada Quartet, Quebec Contemporary Music Society, Days Months and Years to Come, Mario Bernardi, Canadian National Arts Centre Orchestra, Chia Chou, Evergreen Club Contemporary Gamelan, Barbara Pentland, Lyric Arts Trio, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Canada Festival Singers, CBC Vancouver Orchestra, John Avison, Musici di Montreal, I, Serge Garant, Tsung Yeh, Colin Tilney, Steven Staryk, Victor Feldbrill, Arthur Polson, Angela Hewitt, Jerome Pernod
- Naoko Okada, Thom Geise, Richard Margison, Kathleen Rudolph, William VerMeulen, Vancouver Chamber Choir, Jon Washburn, Gordon Crozier, Michel Corboz, Ensemble Vocal de Lausanne, 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.