Victoria Symphony 2025 Concerts

Thursday, July 24th - Victoria Symphony & Pacific Opera Victoria at The Butchart Gardens​
Enjoy the Victoria Symphony and Pacific Opera Victoria at The Butchart Gardens!
Conductor: Giuseppe Pietraroia
Tenor: Adam Luther
Sorprano: Lauren Margison
Piano: Patrick Cao
Members of the Pacific Opera Victoria Chorus
*This concert is included in the price of admission to The Butchart Gardens. Admission to The Gardens can be purchased in advance or upon arrival at the venue.

Friday, July 25th - Victoria Symphony at Christ Church Cathedral
Music fills the warm summer air once again as our Symphony in the Summer Festival returns around some of Vancouver Island’s most beautiful locations.
Conductor: Giuseppe Pietraroia
Trumpet: Ryan Cole
Mozart: Overture to Die Zauberflote (The Magic Flute)
Neruda: Trumpet Concerto in E-flat major
Dvořák: Symphony No. 5 in F-major
 

Sunday, July 27th - Victoria Symphony at Qualicum Beach
Conductor: Giuseppe Pietraroia
Trumpet: Ryan Cole
Mozart: Overture to Die Zauberflote (The Magic Flute)
Neruda: Trumpet Concerto in E-flat major
Dvořák: Symphony No. 5 in F-major

Saturday, Aug 2nd & 3rd - Symphony SPLASH!
Expanded to two days over the B.C. Day long weekend, each day will include two musical sets showcasing a diverse range of musical styles and artists supported by orchestral accompaniment.
The programming includes appearances by the 90 members of The National Youth Orchestra of Canada, Juno award-winning Indigenous vocalists Celeigh Cardinal and Shawnee Kish, BC Entertainment Hall of Fame percussionist Sal Ferreras, Cuban vocalist Adonis Puentes, a Latin Jazz Sextet, and the Victoria Symphony.
Shows:

• August 2nd afternoon and evening
• August 3rd afternoon and evening

Sunday, Sept 14th - Season Openening: KLUXEN & LEONG – BEETHOVEN VIOLIN CONCERTO
VS launches the 2025/26 season with an energetic overture and a monumental concerto. Since his First Prize win at the International Yehudi Menuhin Violin Competition in 2010, Kerson Leong has been described as “not just one of Canada’s greatest violinists but one of the greatest violinists, period” (Toronto Star). The musical modernist Arnold Schoenberg paid tribute to “Brahms The Progressive” by orchestrating the latter’s Piano Quartet No.1. Hear this chamber work with fresh ears: in an orchestral setting that will make the most of its energetic Rondo alla Zingarese.

Sunday, November 16th - Klulxen & Tam – BARTÓK VIOLIN CONCERTO & BEETHOVEN’S EROICA
Three heroic works are featured, beginning with Subito con forza, by South Korea’s Unsuk Chin. Her orchestral miniature is “haunted by Beethovenian gestures…amid Chin’s own exquisite orchestral palette – icy shivers of strings, rasping woodwind and ghostly muted trumpets” (The Guardian). In producing his Violin Concerto No. 2, Bartók followed in the footsteps of Beethoven and Brahms with a work that was quickly championed by Yehudi Menuhin—here played by VS Concertmaster Terence Tam. Beethoven’s monumental Eroica Symphony was bigger and longer than anything that preceded it, and it remains a colossus of the musical literature today.
Conductor: Christian Kluxen
Violin: Terence Tam
Unsuk Chin: Subito con forza
Bartók: Violin Concerto No. 2
Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major, “Eroica”