International soloists join orchestra and Victoria Choral Society to present third act of Wagner’s opera Victoria, BC – German composer Richard Wagner meets Finnish composer Jean Sibelius in the Victoria Symphony’s big season finale, May 11 and 12, 2019, at Victoria’s Royal Theatre. “We begin with the Prelude from Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde and flow […]
Victoria Symphony Announces 2019/20 Season – “Beethoven 250”: 9 Symphonies in 3 Weeks! Victoria, BC – The Victoria Symphony launched its 2019/20 season today, unveiling concert details for Maestro Christian Kluxen’s third season as Music Director. Kluxen will conduct all nine Beethoven Symphonies over the course of three consecutive weeks in March 2020. This “Beethoven […]
Victoria, BC – After decades of performances at its home base at the Royal Theatre, the Victoria Symphony has announced that it is being forced out of the Theatre due to exorbitant rental increases and curtailed access to booking dates. Recent changes to rental fees and newly created priority scheduling policies and procedures developed by the […]
Victoria, BC – Marcus Goddard, Associate Principal Trumpet with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, has joined the Victoria Symphony as the new Composer in Residence. His inaugural commission, Concerto for Trumpet, has its debut on November 3 with Principal Trumpet Ryan Cole performing the piece. Goddard is the latest in a series of talented Canadian composers […]
Victoria, BC – The Victoria Symphony’s new principal pops conductor, Sean O’Loughlin, launches the orchestra’s 2018-19 season of pops concerts on September 22 and 23 with a salute to Broadway and Bernstein. Concerts are presented Saturday, September 22 from 8pm to 10pm, and Sunday, September 23 from 2pm to 4pm, at the Royal Theatre, 805 […]
Victoria, BC – 74 musicians will join Maestro Kluxen on stage Monday, September 17 as he begins his second season as the Music Director of the Victoria Symphony. The Symphony…Gustav Mahler’s majestic and spectacularly orchestrated Symphony No. 4. Last played over 12 years ago, Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 reflects a short-lived spiritual period in his […]
Victoria, BC – CEO Kathryn Laurin announced the largest private donation in the Victoria Symphony’s history today, $1,000,000 gifted by Len Chapple and his late wife Dallas. “Dallas and Len Chapple’s gift is unprecedented in the arts community and creates an extraordinary legacy for the Victoria Symphony,” said Laurin. “It’s a leadership gift and the largest […]
Victoria, BC – The Victoria Symphony celebrates the diverse beauty of Canada’s spectacular soundscapes and landscapes in the 2017 New Music Festival. Featuring a wide variety of spatialized orchestral and choral works including music from Pulitzer and Grammy winning composer John Luther Adams, the festival is curated by VS Composer in Residence Jared Miller. The […]
Victoria, BC – April 13, 2016 VS Orchestra Members Terence Tam, Victoria Lindsay, and Tzenka Dianova take the stage under the baton of Maestra Tania Miller in the finale concert of the Victoria Symphony’s 2016 New Music Festival on April 23. Designed to showcase the ever-changing nature of orchestral music, the 10th annual New Music […]
