There are two performances and, like all festival events, there is guaranteed seating for all. Performances are professionally staged to ensure maximum enjoyment.

Con Brio Sun Peaks 2026 Gala Concert

THE KASPERL BRASS QUINTET

Known for their creative, genre-blending repertoire, the Kasperl Quintet is a brass chamber group consisting of five young musicians who met at University of Victoria’s School of Music on the unceded territory of the lək̓ʷəŋən people. Formed in 2021, the group quickly established a partnership with Con Brio, performing at Whistler and Sun Peaks festivals and inspiring over seven-thousand young musicians across North America. Performing jazz, pop, rap, Brazilian fusion funk, video game music, and memes – the Kasperl Quintet aims to show that music-making extends far beyond what chamber music can be, and how it can be endlessly imagined.

MARCUS MOSELY, DIANE LINES & FRIENDS

Originally from Ralls, Texas, Marcus grew up immersed in the music and culture of the Gospel tradition, moved to Canada in 1985 and was inducted into the B.C. Entertainment Hall of Fame in 2016.  He has starred in the stage productions of Ain’t Misbehavin’, Black and Gold Revue (both Arts Cub), and Show Boat (Livent). He also created and directed It’s Time to Sing (Arts Club), a chronicle of African-American Gospel music from slavery to Carnegie Hall and was nominated for a Jessie Richardson Award for Best Performance in a Musical. In the studio, he has worked with Jim Bynes and Colin James. He also appeared in the movie Twist of Faith, in Holiday Heart as the singing voice of Ving Rhames and the singing voice of Fluttershy in an episode of My Little Pony. More recently he has starred as the voice of Kenny G in the Big Bad Boo Production of ABC with Kenny G, for which he was nominated for a Leo  in 2021, and has recently finished recording season 2. Marcus served as artistic director of the Marcus Mosely Chorale from 2011 to 2022 and is a founding member of the award-winning roots Gospel trio, The Sojourners, who won WCMA Awards for Best Contemporary Christian/Gospel Recording in 2011, Best Spiritual Album of the Year in 2014 and were nominated for a JUNO in 2010. The trio has opened for such Gospel and Music legends as The Dixie Hummingbirds, The Five Blind Boys of Alabama, Dr. John and David Sanborn, and Bobby McFerrin. Marcus has also led Gospel workshops across Canada. Today, he focuses on his solo career and directing the Marcus Mosely Ensemble.

DIANE LINES

was inducted into the BC Entertainment Hall of Fame in 2018.   She was also nominated for an Ovation Award as Musical Director of the Year.  Diane was the pianist/accompanist for Grammy winner Michael Bublé and has also performed with a variety of artists including Gabriel Mark Hasselbach, Marian McPartland, Beverley Elliott, Dee Daniels, Jim Byrnes, Blues Boss Kenny Wayne, Gospel great John Boutte, Alfie Zappacosta, Bria Skonberg, Linda Tillery, Amanda Wood and Shari Ulrich. Diane was the principal pianist and vocalist with the Dal Richards Orchestra from 2002 to the present.  She has performed throughout the United States as keyboardist and vocalist with Mac Frampton’s Hollywood Hills Orchestra. has recorded and toured in Canada with Juno Award winning singer/songwriter Gary Fjellgaard and appears on Gary’s CDs Under Western Skies and The Best of Gary Fjellgaard.  Diane’s work with Fjellgaard earned her consecutive nominations for BCCMA’s Keyboardist of the Year. Theatre credits include her work as musical director of Bittergirl: The Musical for the Charlottetown Festival (2015) Edmonton’s Citadel Theatre (2016) and for the Arts Club Theatre (2017).  Other Arts Club shows include Tapestry: A Tribute to Carole King also starring Denzal Sinclaire and Shari Ulrich and All Grown Up. Since the fall of 2011, Diane and her cast of stellar musicians have been touring with her signature show Diane Lines’ JUMP! A Celebration of Swing, Boogie, and Jump Blues, with performances in Switzerland, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Las Vegas and in various venues, theatres and festivals throughout British Columbia. Diane Lines received her musical education at the Banff School of Fine Arts, the Humber School of Creative and Performing Arts in Toronto, and at Cleo Laine and John Dankworth’s Wavendon Music Program in England.

TIM PORTER 

Gifted and versatile guitarist Tim Porter has long been one of the mainstays of Vancouver’s live music scene.  Tim has recorded and toured with scores of artists as diverse as The Tenors, Long John Baldry, The Powder Blues Band, John Lee Sanders, Joani Bye & the Homewreckers, Jim Byrnes, Dal Richards and Carol Welsman, and performed with Colin James, K.D. Lang, Natalie Cole, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Jeff Healy, Billy Preston. Keith Richards, Little Feat, Bonnie Raitt, Robert Plant, Steve Winwood, Spinal Tap, and One More Girl.

Bassist – TBA