Lifelong friends Nico Rhodes and Patrick Courtin set off on a quest to redeem the keyboard and reinstate its reputation as the greatest instrument of ALL TIME! Armed with the music of the greatest composers, songwriters, and performers of the past 300 years, this duo presents a mishmash of comedy, audience participation, heartfelt stories, a pinch of history, and a world of musical madness.
Nico Rhode is a genre-jumping, multilingual musician who collaborates with other artists and art forms to experience and explore music in as many styles as possible. He is one of Canada’s most in-demand young arranger/musical directors, with 40 stage musicals to his credit. Nico has written 400 original compositions and four original musicals and arranged two symphonic pop concerts. He composes for stage, screen, and media, collaborates with multiple choirs, plays with several jazz trios and tours in a duo with his mother, renowned chanteuse Joelle Rabu. In 2022, Nico created his dream show – Piano Heist, and produced a series of four multi-artist, multi-genre concerts entitled Chapters for The Port Theatre in Nanaimo, B.C.
Patrick Courtin is first and foremost a pianist, but is also a multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger, music director and teacher. Since graduating in 2012 with a Bachelor’s Degree of Music in Jazz Studies from Vancouver Island University, Patrick has directed musical theatre productions, created music for film & TV, and toured across Canada, the United States and China. Patrick is comfortably at home in many musical settings, having played in professional ensembles in various genres, from jazz and classical to rock and funk. He also regularly leads his own ensembles, and has recorded two full-length albums.
Library concerts are made possible thanks to a generous bequest from the estate of Robert Leslie Welsh. This fall’s concert series is sponsored by Amica West Vancouver and British Pacific Properties through the WVML Foundation.
- Doors open at 7 p.m.
- No registration is required.
- Seating is general admission with no ticketing.