NOW Orchestra Blog

If you keep checking back here, you will be able to keep up with what NOW Orchestra is up to. We will post information about upcoming shows, retrospectives about our long history, and anything else we believe you want to know.

We had a wonderful concert last Friday. Here are a few snippets of video taken by an audience member.

Kristian Naso

Kristian Naso is a Vancouver based trumpeter, composer, arranger, and educator who is currently a member of The Unsupervised, a contemporary Jazz quintet led by guitarist, Jeff Younger, and The Deep End, a seven-piece R&B, Soul, and Funk outfit fronted by the powerful and lovely, Dawn Pemberton.

Urban Sprawl: For One Evening Only, Orkestra Futura Meets VEE
Presented by New Orchestra Workshop Society (NOW)
celebrating 35 years of Great Canadian Music with Vancouver New Music & the Western Front

On April 12, 2013 at the Western Front, the eternal will meet the future. Urban Sprawl occupies the vast terrain between these two realms, featuring exciting world premieres from Giorgio Magnanensi and Coat Cooke. For this one-time concert, renowned improvisors Orkestra Futura pair with the incredibly

NOW is excited to announce our first show of 2013!

Come and experience URBAN SPRAWL featuring Orkestra Futura and the Vancouver Electronics Ensemble

More INFO to come.

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The Final night of Hear it NOW was the big show for NOW's Workshop students combining their knowledge, love for music and sounds.

Penolope Blair was able to capture the perfomance with these pictures below.

Enjoy and thank you again Vancouver.