An upcoming Vancouver concert will feature a symphony orchestra performing music from some of the world's most popular video games — and the orchestra's conductor wants to make new fans of symphonic music in the process.

Game On! will see the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra take on music from megahit games like and more at the Orpheum Theatre on June 11.

Conductor Andy Brick says that back when he first started working with symphony orchestras to perform music from video games in 2003, the idea was a novelty.

Brick says he was the first to conduct such a concert in the West, with the Czech National Symphony Orchestra in Leipzig, Germany — and admits many of his musicians, at first, expressed skepticism over being asked to play music from video games.

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