Contact

Do you want to to talk to someone at NOW Orchestra? Drop us a line and let us know what you think or how you may want to get involved with NOW.

Address

520 – 119 West Pender Street
Vancouver, BC VB6 1S5
Tel: 604 254 5016
Fax: same as above
General Inquiries
now@noworchestra.com

Electronic Mail

Artistic Director
Coat Cooke
coat@noworchestra.com

Administrative Director
Allyson McGrane (of Left Right Minds)
amcgrane@leftrightminds.com

Board of Directors

Alice Hamilton
Rebekka Harvey
Hanif Janmohamed
Brian Nation
Leslie Pomeroy
Bruce Suttie

Support (Canada Helps & donations)

NOW Orchestra is a charitable organization – we can issue tax receipts for all charitable donations. And to make it easy for you to donate, we’ve partnered with CanadaHelps.org to take donations online.

Volunteer & Membership (benefits – reduced admission, newsletter, discounts on CDs)

If you are interested in volunteering, please <a href="mailto:coat@noworchestra.com">e-mail us</a> or call us.

Reviews & Quotes

What critics say about the NOW Orchestra:
“Now nearly 20 years old, this most unconventional orchestra is sounding better than ever.”
Alexander Varty, Georgia Straight, November 2006

“…the NOW Orchestra featuring Marilyn Crispell. Canada's premier avant-garde big band, NOW draws as freely from contemporary classical techniques as from the standard big band vocabulary, and their performance -- particularly the pointedly topical West Side Stomp -- was an often thrilling mélange of intricate ensemble passages and hair-raising improvisation.”
J.D. Considine, The Globe and Mail, June 2006

“NOW? More like WOW!”
Alexander Varty, Georgia Straight July 26-August 2, 2001 Review of George Lewis/NOW Orchestra The Shadowgraph Series: Compositions for Creative Orchestra (Spool)

“…NOW enters a hyper-realm that levitates the stage, becoming a polar star of large improvising ensembles.”
Laurence Svirchev, CODA Magazine, November 2004

“Sunday night's finale offered a spectacular set by trombonist-bandleader-composer George Lewis and the NOW Orchestra…With Lewis conducting, the band's explosive brass riffs and perpetually churning reed obbligatos hardly could have been delivered more explosively or with more panache.”
Howard Reich, Chicago Tribune, September, 2002/Chicago Jazz Festival

“The highlight (of Seattle's Earshot Jazz Festival) -and it was a stunner- was the sprawling concert of original music ... by trombonist George Lewis, played by Vancouver's NOW Orchestra.”
Paul de Barros, Seattle Times, September, 1999, Earshot Jazz Festival

“I regard the NOW Orchestra as one of the finest large creative ensembles active in the last decade..”
George Lewis, September, 1999, Earshot Jazz Magazine

“Coat Cooke's "Wowow" is one of the best performances I've heard all year”
Jason Bivins, Cadence, June 2000/Review of NOW Orchstra CD WOWOW

“Le Tour du Bloc is the most sensational large-ensemble improvisational music of the decade.”
Lawrence M. Svirchev, 5/4 Magazine, USA/Review of CD Tour du Bloc.