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