Upcoming Events
Attending Concerts in the Covid Era
This fall, audience safety will be the VSO’s key priority. The COVID era is dynamic. Health measures change with short notice. As a result, how the VSO sells tickets and seats audiences is likely to shift throughout the season.
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Winter/Spring 2022 Subscriptions Now Available
Subscriptions Are Back! Winter/Spring 2022 Subscription Packages are on sale now. Save up to 40% when you subscribe to a series of concerts.
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VSO Online is back!
Digital performances continue this season with the new VSO Online series.
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Virtual Symphony Gala
Thursday February 10th, 2022
Paul Shaffer - Inaugural Golden Baton Award Recipient
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VSO 50/50
VSO 5050 Available now
Grand Prize Deadline February 26 at 9:00 pm
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Jan 21
Jan 22
Beethoven’s Eroica
Orpheum Theatre
Berlioz’s dramatic and fantastical tale is paired with a new commission from the highly original Barbara Assiginaak. Plus VSO principal flute Christie Reside is featured in Swiss composer Frank Martin’s haunting Ballade.
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Jan 28
Jan 29
Chopin, Fauré & Bologne
Orpheum Theatre
This (almost) all French program features award-winning Canadian Chopin specialist Charles Richard-Hamelin in a ravishing program led by Maestro Tausk.
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Feb 03
Tea & Trumpets: Mendelssohn & Satie
Orpheum Theatre
Claude Debussy was a master of musical colour in both his own symphonic work and orchestrations of others. Enjoy Debussy’s La mer and his treatment of Eric Satie’s Gymnopedies No. 1 & 3.
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Feb 04
Mendelssohn & Satie
Orpheum Theatre
Discover the colour of music with master French composer/orchestrator Debussy, the playful Erik Satie, and renowned Chinese composer Tan Dun.
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Feb 11
Feb 12
Paul Shaffer Live!
Orpheum Theatre
Paul Shaffer, former music director to David Letterman, shares symphonic renditions of his favourite pop, R&B, and jazz tunes plus anecdotes and reminiscences from a remarkable career.
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Feb 13
Carnival of our Animals
Orpheum Theatre
The beloved Carnival of the Animals is re-imagined and presented alongside a brand-new composition by William Rowson, featuring animals of the Pacific Northwest. Created in partnership with the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations, learn the stories of the Thunderbird, Salish Woolly Dog, and Eagle as we explore connections between music and story-telling.
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Introducing the VSO App
The VSO App is the easiest way to keep track of your tickets!
Download the FREE VSO App to your smartphone or tablet device today. Access your VSO tickets at any time, buy additional tickets, keep up-to-date with upcoming VSO events, and read concert programmes.Learn More
Support the VSO
The VSO needs your help now, more than ever before. Without the ability to present concerts during this uncertain period of time, we must rely on other ways to sustain our business until we can perform for you, our audience, again.
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VSO School of Music: In-Person & Online
Registration for 2021-22 is open all year round, with your choice of in-person and virtual learning experiences for people of ALL ages, abilities and aspirations. Browse our site to choose your classical, jazz or world music adventure!
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