Victoria Symphony

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Founded in 1941, the Victoria Symphony is Vancouver Island's largest and most celebrated performing arts organization and one of Canada's most successful regional orchestras. Under Music Director Christian Kluxen, the professional ensemble of 44 musicians presents over 50 main-series programs per season at the Royal Theatre, plus the beloved Symphony in the Summer Festival. The Victoria Symphony is renowned for the annual Symphony Splash, a free outdoor harbour concert drawing audiences of up to 30,000, and runs extensive education programs including school concerts and the tuition-free Victoria Youth Symphony.

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November 2, 2026

Upcoming Concerts

Sun

Nov 8

2:30 PM

Season Special: Kluxen — Ray Chen Plays Mendelssohn

Superstar violinist Ray Chen makes his long-awaited Victoria debut with Mendelssohn's beloved Violin Concerto. The concert opens with Canadi...

Royal Theatre

Victoria Symphony

Sun

Nov 15

2:30 PM

Kluxen & Choi — Prokofiev Classical & Haydn Cello Concerto

Rossini's mischievous Il signor Bruschino Overture sparkles with wit. Hayoung Choi, winner of the 2022 Queen Elisabeth Competition, brings b...

The Farquhar at UVic

Victoria Symphony

Sun

Nov 22

2:30 PM

Huynh & Valcheff — Beethoven Symphony No. 1 & Copland's Tender Land Suite

Copland's The Tender Land Suite celebrates community and gratitude in open harmonies. VS Principal Percussion Jacob Valcheff is soloist in t...

Royal Theatre

Victoria Symphony

Sat

Dec 5

7:30 PM

Christmas Pops with Steven Page

Steven Page, co-founder of Barenaked Ladies, joins the Victoria Symphony for a holiday programme pairing his own catalogue with seasonal rep...

Royal Theatre

Victoria Symphony

Sun

Dec 6

2:30 PM

Christmas Pops with Steven Page

Steven Page, co-founder of Barenaked Ladies, joins the Victoria Symphony for a holiday programme pairing his own catalogue with seasonal rep...

Royal Theatre

Victoria Symphony

Fri

Dec 11

7:30 PM

Messiah by Candlelight

Handel composed Messiah in just three weeks in 1741, and its message of hope and redemption has echoed ever since. Christ Church Cathedral g...

Christ Church Cathedral

Victoria Symphony

Sat

Dec 12

7:30 PM

Messiah by Candlelight

Handel composed Messiah in just three weeks in 1741, and its message of hope and redemption has echoed ever since. Christ Church Cathedral g...

Christ Church Cathedral

Victoria Symphony

Sun

Dec 13

2:30 PM

Messiah by Candlelight

Handel composed Messiah in just three weeks in 1741, and its message of hope and redemption has echoed ever since. Christ Church Cathedral g...

Christ Church Cathedral

Victoria Symphony

Wed

Dec 16

3:00 PM

Christmas Pops with the VS

Giuseppe Pietraroia conducts the Victoria Symphony in the orchestra's annual holiday programme for Sidney, mixing seasonal standards with or...

Mary Winspear Centre (Sidney)

Victoria Symphony

Wed

Dec 16

7:30 PM

Christmas Pops with the VS

Giuseppe Pietraroia conducts the Victoria Symphony in the orchestra's annual holiday programme for Sidney, mixing seasonal standards with or...

Mary Winspear Centre (Sidney)

Victoria Symphony

Sat

Dec 19

7:00 PM

Home Alone in Concert

The Victoria Symphony performs John Williams's score to Home Alone live to a screening of the complete film, under Giuseppe Pietraroia. Will...

Royal Theatre

Victoria Symphony

Sun

Dec 20

7:00 PM

Home Alone in Concert

The Victoria Symphony performs John Williams's score to Home Alone live to a screening of the complete film, under Giuseppe Pietraroia. Will...

Royal Theatre

Victoria Symphony

Sun

Dec 20

2:30 PM

Home Alone in Concert

The Victoria Symphony performs John Williams's score to Home Alone live to a screening of the complete film, under Giuseppe Pietraroia. Will...

Royal Theatre

Victoria Symphony

Fri

Jan 1

2:30 PM

New Year's Day Celebration

Victoria's joyous New Year tradition, with tenor Matthew Cairns, members of the Pacific Opera Victoria Chorus and dancers from Ballet Victor...

Royal Theatre

Victoria Symphony

Sat

Jan 23

7:30 PM

Latin Nights with Sal Ferreras & Adonis Puentes

Percussionist Sal Ferreras, vocalist Adonis Puentes and the Latin Jazz Sextet return after their SPLASH! debut with new works and music by S...

Royal Theatre

Victoria Symphony

Sun

Jan 24

2:30 PM

Latin Nights with Sal Ferreras & Adonis Puentes

Percussionist Sal Ferreras, vocalist Adonis Puentes and the Latin Jazz Sextet return after their SPLASH! debut with new works and music by S...

Royal Theatre

Victoria Symphony

Sun

Jan 31

2:30 PM

Kluxen — Wagner/Maazel: The Ring Without Words

Lorin Maazel's arrangement condenses Wagner's fifteen-hour Ring cycle, from Das Rheingold to Götterdämmerung, into seventy-five minutes of o...

The Farquhar at UVic

Victoria Symphony

Sun

Feb 7

2:30 PM

Season Special: Kluxen — Marc-André Hamelin Plays Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3

Canadian piano legend Marc-André Hamelin takes on Rachmaninoff's towering Third Piano Concerto. Christian Kluxen pairs it with Brahms's hero...

The Farquhar at UVic

Victoria Symphony

Sat

Feb 13

3:00 PM

M is for Music!

A participatory concert for children and families in which eight-year-old Sarah T. Murdoch discovers, with help from a conductor and a magic...

The Farquhar at UVic

Victoria Symphony

Sun

Feb 28

2:30 PM

Baigent & Crozman — Mozart's Jupiter & Walton's Cello Concerto

Canadian cellist Cameron Crozman plays Walton's lyrical Cello Concerto, framed by Marcus Goddard's orchestral-and-film work Antarctica: Life...

Royal Theatre

Victoria Symphony

Wed

Mar 3

6:30 PM

How to Train Your Dragon in Concert

DreamWorks' How to Train Your Dragon is screened while John Powell's Oscar-nominated score is performed live to picture by the Victoria Symp...

Royal Theatre

Victoria Symphony

Thu

Mar 4

6:30 PM

How to Train Your Dragon in Concert

DreamWorks' How to Train Your Dragon is screened while John Powell's Oscar-nominated score is performed live to picture by the Victoria Symp...

Royal Theatre

Victoria Symphony

Fri

Mar 5

7:30 PM

Sinatra and Friends in Hollywood

A film-with-symphony event celebrating Oscar-winning songwriter Jimmy Van Heusen, with archival performances by Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Ella...

Qualicum Beach Civic Centre

Victoria Symphony

Sat

Mar 6

7:30 PM

Sinatra and Friends in Hollywood

A film-with-symphony event celebrating Oscar-winning songwriter Jimmy Van Heusen, with archival performances by Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Ella...

Royal Theatre

Victoria Symphony

Sun

Mar 7

2:30 PM

Sinatra and Friends in Hollywood

A film-with-symphony event celebrating Oscar-winning songwriter Jimmy Van Heusen, with archival performances by Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Ella...

Royal Theatre

Victoria Symphony

Fri

Mar 12

7:30 PM

Cohn & Pion — Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade

Guest conductor Maurice Cohn leads Jocelyn Morlock's wild-bird tone poem and Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade, with pianist Élisabeth Pion in ...

Mary Winspear Centre (Sidney)

Victoria Symphony

Sun

Mar 14

2:30 PM

Cohn & Pion — Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade

Guest conductor Maurice Cohn leads Jocelyn Morlock's wild-bird tone poem and Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade, with pianist Élisabeth Pion in ...

Royal Theatre

Victoria Symphony

Sat

Mar 20

7:30 PM

Tausk — Bach's Mass in B minor

Vancouver Symphony Music Director Otto Tausk leads the Victoria Symphony, the Vancouver Chamber Choir and four soloists in Bach's Mass in B ...

Christ Church Cathedral

Victoria Symphony

Sun

Mar 21

2:30 PM

Tausk — Bach's Mass in B minor

Vancouver Symphony Music Director Otto Tausk leads the Victoria Symphony, the Vancouver Chamber Choir and four soloists in Bach's Mass in B ...

Christ Church Cathedral

Victoria Symphony

Sat

Mar 27

3:00 PM

The Science of Sound

CBC Quirks & Quarks host Bob McDonald leads a family afternoon of scientific hijinks showing how an orchestra makes sound by hitting, blowin...

The Farquhar at UVic

Victoria Symphony

Sun

Apr 11

2:30 PM

Tzigane, Boutin-Bourque & Gunter — Schubert Symphony No. 9

VS principals David Boutin-Bourque (clarinet) and Jennifer Gunter (bassoon) star in Richard Strauss's playful Concertino. Jacques Hétu's Lég...

Royal Theatre

Victoria Symphony

Sun

Apr 18

2:30 PM

Kluxen & Sarkissian — Schubert Symphony No. 5 and Rautavaara Flute Concerto

A celestial program: VS Principal Flute Arin Sarkissian performs Rautavaara's Dances with the Winds, between Langgaard's luminous Unnoticed ...

The Farquhar at UVic

Victoria Symphony

Fri

Apr 23

7:30 PM

Kluxen & Parker — Mozart & Sibelius

Pianist Jon Kimura Parker brings elegance and sparkle to Mozart's Jenamy Concerto, with Raminta Šerkšnytė's Midsummer Song and Sibelius's re...

The Farquhar at UVic

Victoria Symphony

Sun

Apr 25

2:30 PM

Kluxen & Parker — Mozart & Sibelius

Pianist Jon Kimura Parker brings elegance and sparkle to Mozart's Jenamy Concerto, with Raminta Šerkšnytė's Midsummer Song and Sibelius's re...

Royal Theatre

Victoria Symphony

Fri

Apr 30

7:00 PM

Star Wars: A New Hope in Concert

The complete film is screened while John Williams's Oscar-winning score is performed live by the Victoria Symphony.

Royal Theatre

Victoria Symphony

Sat

May 1

7:00 PM

Star Wars: A New Hope in Concert

The complete film is screened while John Williams's Oscar-winning score is performed live by the Victoria Symphony.

Royal Theatre

Victoria Symphony

Sun

May 2

2:30 PM

Star Wars: A New Hope in Concert

The complete film is screened while John Williams's Oscar-winning score is performed live by the Victoria Symphony.

Royal Theatre

Victoria Symphony

Sun

May 2

7:00 PM

Star Wars: A New Hope in Concert

The complete film is screened while John Williams's Oscar-winning score is performed live by the Victoria Symphony.

Royal Theatre

Victoria Symphony

Sun

May 9

2:30 PM

Kluxen — Shostakovich Leningrad Symphony

Christian Kluxen leads Shostakovich's monumental Seventh Symphony, composed in 1942 during the siege of Leningrad, a work that became a symb...

Royal Theatre

Victoria Symphony

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