Event Calendar

  • Classical Kids LIVE! Saint-Georges’ Sword & Bow

    Farquhar at UVic University Farquhar Auditorium, Ring Road, Victoria, BC, Canada

    Superb swordsman! Violin virtuoso! Coruscating kaleidoscopic composer! The one and only Joseph Bologne, le Chevalier de Saint-Georges! A new Classical Kids LIVE! concert that is sure to delight, excite, and inspire you to dream big. Hoping to become the next great pop sensation, a young girl discovers her music teacher was the biggest star in 18th-century France....

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    Beethoven Symphony No. 5

    Royal Theatre 805 Broughton St

    A fateful quote from The Iliad inspired Beethoven, and the American composer Carlos Simon. Is it fate, “knocking at the door” that their works should be featured on the same program? Like Beethoven, Prokofiev composed five piano concertos. From its premiere in 1921 with the Chicago Symphony, Prokofiev’s Third Concerto has proven to be his most popular—a brilliant showcase...

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  • Murdoch Mysteries in Concert

    Royal Theatre 805 Broughton St

    Hosted by series star Yannick Bisson, this exclusive event explores how music for the series is brought to life with award-winning composer Rob Carli. Blending television drama and live orchestral performance, witness the craft of how orchestral magic brings pivotal scenes to life. Then, watch the thrilling episode “Murder in F Major” on the big...

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    Murdoch Mysteries in Concert

    Royal Theatre 805 Broughton St

    Hosted by series star Yannick Bisson, this exclusive event explores how music for the series is brought to life with award-winning composer Rob Carli. Blending television drama and live orchestral performance, witness the craft of how orchestral magic brings pivotal scenes to life. Then, watch the thrilling episode “Murder in F Major” on the big...

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    Kluxen – Mozart & Bartók

    Farquhar at UVic University Farquhar Auditorium, Ring Road, Victoria, BC, Canada

    Two musical giants converge in a program that touches on music of the night. In modern parlance, Mozart’s Gran Partita could be subtitled “My Big Fat Viennese Wind Symphony.” Its rich sonority stems from a palette of woodwinds with double bass, likely written as an evening’s entertainment – music as big as all outdoors! Bartók paints a...

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    Kluxen & Chooi – Barber Violin Concerto

    Royal Theatre 805 Broughton St

    Even as a fledgling conductor, a 16-year-old Christian Kluxen was already taken with Tchaikovsky’s music. Its mix of romantic beauty with bittersweet melancholy pairs well with Barber’s Violin Concerto, especially as interpreted by the internationally-renowned, Victoria-born violinist, Timothy Chooi. Rodney Sharman’s update of Scarlatti’s music provides a modern perspective of its easy-going virtuosity and surprising...

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Victoria Symphony respectfully acknowledges and offers gratitude to the lək̓ʷəŋən people, known today as the Songhees and Xwsepsum Nations, whose unceded lands we live, work, and perform on. We honour their stewardship, care, and leadership — past, present, and future.