Little Chamber Music occupies a unique place in Vancouver’s vibrant and diverse new music scene.
We are a non-profit that creates public events of artistic excellence to engage audiences with contemporary performing arts. We hire high caliber local artists and performers at professional fees to do so.
Little Chamber Music maintains artistic standards of excellence in performance and in contribution to new music in B.C. We take on the major challenges and risks of increasing the breadth and depth of community engagement.
We are currently Series in Residence at Vancouver’s Mountain View Cemetery.
Our mission
Little Chamber Music is committed to excellence in new music, inter-arts creations, barrier-free, artist-led community projects and events, and unique cost-free public performances.
We are devoted to Canadian music, focused on B.C. and Vancouver composers and performers, and known for welcoming new audiences through innovative and humorous events.
Our mandate
- Bring sound and contemporary music to new and re-contextualized settings
- Draw people into new sonic worlds by integrating with other art forms
- Remove barriers (especially financial) to new music
Our story
The Little Chamber Music Series That Could Society started in 1990 and became highly regarded as an innovative presenter of new music in Vancouver. As resident series at the Cultch it gained acclaim for commissioning and producing original work (The White Album Concert, Cam Wilson’s Playground Rhymes for Grownups). In 2005, the society fell dormant after the death of one of the artistic directors. The legacy of the series was strongly felt in the community as the original core of the organization continued to perform and champion new music: Les Dala (Vancouver Opera), Allen Stiles (Standing Wave), Cam Wilson (Joe Trio) and many more. The series also had engaged a wide spectrum of professional musicians in Vancouver and B.C.
At the suggestion of President Allen Stiles, Mark Haney, with the help of Diane Park, reactivated The Little Chamber Music Series That Could in 2012 to invite new audiences into contemporary performances through the ‘hook’ of a great story told with warmth, and by producing inspiring events that challenge audiences and artists to re-evaluate their relationship to the arts.