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