Students are welcome to combine a visit to beautiful North Vancouver with
daily harp lessons at Elizabeth's studio. Vancouver offers many
recreational activities available including biking, kayaking, hiking and swimming.
The following websites provide more information:
Hello BC
Tourism Vancouver
Cove Bikes
Deep Cove Kayak
Takaya Tours
Nearby Accomodation includes:
Beach View Retreat
Holiday Inn
Contact Elizabeth for more information.
Summer in Vancouver is always a wonderful time! It’s the finest season of the year for my favourite Canadian city, and I wouldn’t want to be anywhere else. You can stroll through Stanley Park, laze about on Jehricho Beach or enjoy a magnificent dinner downtown outside in the breeze. Even those folks who commute to North Vancouver daily have an unbelievably stunning panoramic view of the mountains on their way to work. Don’t believe me? See for yourself!
In my opinion, the only thing that is missing in Vancouver’s summer life is more of a music scene. Recently however, this has been trending towards a more robust offering of summer concerts, and this summer Vancouver is the proud host of an extraordinary event: the eleventh World Harp Congress. Harpists from all over the world will be congregating in Vancouver one month from now for seven days of exciting and unique concerts, performed by some of the greatest harpists of our time. Whether you’re into orchestral music, celtic music or even jazz harp (it exists and it’s fantastic!) there’s something for everybody, harpists and non-harpists alike. This is truly an eclectic, fascinating and truly electrifying event that totally hits the sweet spot as part of the growing Vancouver summer music scene.
I’m happy to be involved myself in this marvelous festival of all things harp. I’ll be conducting the Vancouver Symphony in two concerts filled with world-class harp soloists performing a wide array of concertos and solo pieces. The Grammy-winning Vancouver Symphony is an orchestra of the absolute highest calibre, and I’m thrilled to be conducting them again in these concerts, teamed up alongside our brilliant soloists who hail from Mexico to Japan to Australia. Check out the VSO’s website for more information on these shows!
http://www.vancouversymphony.
This festival is bold, fresh, contemporary and unique. You’re really not going to experience this anywhere else in the world, so beautiful Vancouver has landed yet another wonderful event to call its own this summer, and it’s going to be magnificent! You really owe it to yourself to check this out.
The World Harp Congress has all the information you need online. From their website you can peruse the concerts by clicking on “Festival” in the left menu bar, and register for the whole event or single days by clicking on “Registration.”
See you there!
Evan Mitchell
