The Kessler Academy 2025

SUNDAY, AUGUST 10, 2025
THE ROUNDHOUSE | 181 ROUNDHOUSE MEWS | Google map
Doors open at 2:30PM. Concert at 3:00PM

TICKETS | $20-$40

Regular, student/arts worker

featuring:

Charles Daniels, tenor

The Microcosmos Quartet:
Marc Destrubé, violin I
Andrea Siradze, violin II
Tawnya Popoff, viola
Zoltan Rozsnyai, cello

The Kessler Academy’s String Orchestra
Young string players: Want to apply to the Kessler Academy? Click here.

Music on Main offers a limited number of complimentary tickets for all self-identifying Indigenous peoples. This policy is informed by our commitment to recognize and honour the original and ongoing stewards of these lands. Tickets can be reserved by contacting [email protected] or by calling 604-879-9888.

Luminous music for a summer afternoon

Led by Vancouver’s beloved Microcosmos String Quartet, the annual Kessler Academy String Orchestra brings together emerging string professionals and advanced students for a week of intensive rehearsals and orchestral music making.

At this year’s concert, celebrated English tenor Charles Daniels is the featured soloist for Benjamin Britten’s “Les Illuminations,” an evocative and luminous song cycle. The orchestra also plays Michael Tippet’s popular and uplifting “Concerto for Double String Orchestra.” It’s a perfect summer afternoon of great music making.

The Kessler Academy is generously supported by The Greygates Foundation, held at the Vancouver Foundation.

We’re also deeply grateful to the individual donors who have made this year’s program take flight:

Sarah Ballantyne & Nou Dadoun, Alan & Elizabeth Bell, Bing Dai, Marc Destrubé, Maureen Girvan, Martha Lou Henley (Sponsored a Microcosmos Mentor), Stan Holman (Sponsored a Participant), Jean Lum, Natalie Mackie, Eileen Mate, Irene Forster Meier, James Ochs, Lynda & Richard Spratley, Glenn & Joan Sutherland, Johanna Thomas, Edward Top, José Verstappen, Robin Wenham, Anonymous (4).

Programme

Benjamin Britten – Les Illuminations, with soloist Charles Daniels

Michael Tippett – Concerto for Double String Orchestra