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