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