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