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Tovey Conducts Bruckner & Debussy
Maestro Bramwell Tovey makes his return as VSO Music Director Emeritus after eighteen extraordinary years as the longest-serving Music Director…
Czech Beauty: The Moldau
The second concert in the VSO’s fun new afterwork series, featuring guest conductor Brett Mitchell and two of the best-loved…
Strings, Sonatas & Sextet
The Chamber Players shine a spotlight on strings with Gorecki’s highly virtuosic, Bartók-inspired Sonata for Two Violins, Ravel’s strikingly spare…
Mozart: The Magic Flute
Praised worldwide for his exceptional virtuosity, poetic playing, and intellectual depth, Chad Hoopes is a young violinist well on his…
Goldberg & Holberg
Extraordinary violinist Henning Kraggerud leads from the violin in a program that includes Grieg’s brilliant Holberg Suite, as well as…
Tea & Trumpets: From the New World
Revel in the epic music of one of Europe’s greatest composers, concluding with excerpts from his famous New World Symphony.
Hi-Lo Big Top Circus!
"Let’s all go to the Circus" and play together in the three musical rings of the Hi-Lo Big Top Circus!…
John Pizzarelli: A Century of Nat ‘King’ Cole
The superb guitarist and singer John Pizzarelli performs an incredible tribute to Nat ‘King’ Cole’s 100th anniversary in our own…
Platypus Theatre: Bach to the Future
This program was commissioned by the VSO in 1994, in the orchestra’s 75th Anniversary Season, and first performed in eight…
BMO PRESENTS Bernadette Peters
Stage legend and Golden Globe-winning actress Bernadette Peters joins the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra for a show brimming with classic Broadway…
Kadouch Plays Beethoven
French pianist David Kadouch makes his VSO debut performing Beethoven’s dramatic, ferocious Piano Concerto No. 3, a work by a…
Tausk conducts Mozart
VSO Music Director Otto Tausk presents a unique and fascinating concert perfectly suited to the Chan Centre for the Performing…
Loud and Queer
This concert recognizes the fiftieth anniversary of homosexual rights in Canada and celebrates the many, many vibrant voices that make…
Musically Speaking: Rodrigo’s Guitar Concerto
Former VSO Associate Conductor Tania Miller makes her welcome return, conducting a major Mozart symphony, and Schumann’s great Classical symphony,…
Liberation: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Richard Wagner’s music was appropriated by Nazi Germany, used for inspiration and a road map to a "vision of the…
From Russia with Jazz
George Gershwin, the American son of Jewish-Russian immigrants, was recognized as a musical genius, though he struggled to be taken…
Revolutionaries: Stravinsky, Prokofiev & Shostakovich
This concert features three Russian composers who dealt with the political minefields of Russia and the Soviet Union in very…
Visions of Joy: Beethoven’s 9th
The Unanswered Question by American composer Charles Ives poses that most vexing of existential questions: What is the meaning of…
Tea & Trumpets: Northern Lights
There is nothing like the stark, singular beauty of Scandinavia, except for the music of composers like Sibelius, Grieg, and…
Dancing & Romancing
Celebrate Dance and Romance at the beautiful Orpheum Theatre, with acclaimed veterans of Broadway, television and movies, singers/dancers Joan Hess…
Classical Kids: Beethoven Lives Upstairs
The world famous production of Beethoven Lives Upstairs features a lively exchange of letters between young Christoph and his uncle.
Muzical Zoo for Me & You!
Dance with teddy bears, rock with dinosaurs, and boogie with orangutans in this favorite show full of bouncy originals and…
Bramwell conducts Louis Lortie
Maestro Bramwell Tovey conducts the World Première of his own Concerto for Orchestra, a work commissioned by the VSO to…
Akiyama Returns
Beloved VSO Conductor Laureate Kazuyoshi Akiyama — one of the VSO’s most important Music Directors – conducts this historic program,…
Amoroso
For Jocelyn Morlock’s final Symphony at the Annex concert as VSO Composerin- Residence, she reveals her musical inspirations through composers…
Tchaikovsky’s String Quartet No. 1
A spectacular finale to the 2018/19 Chamber Players series, featuring Oskar Böhme’s stately Sextet for Brass, a new work by…
Tea & Trumpets: The Lonely Heart: An Afternoon with Tchaikovsky
Is there anything in art more personal and emotional than the great music of Tchaikovsky? A composer who wore his heart…
Women Rock
Longtime VSO collaborator Jeff Tyzik conducts a program that honours those powerful women who changed rock and popular music forever.
Debussy & Ravel: Colour & Image
Maestro Tausk conducts a sumptuous, Romantic French program that includes the full Images, a beautiful impressionistic masterpiece by Claude Debussy.
Season Finale: Zarathustra!
As the VSO’s 100th anniversary season draws to a close, Maestro Otto Tausk celebrates the VSO centenary in a concert…
100th Anniversary Gala
Save the date for a 100th Anniversary Gala celebration concert on Tuesday, June 11th, 2019, 8pm at the Orpheum. Maestro…
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince™ in Concert
VSO AT THE MOVIES: Introducing Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince™ in Concert to the Harry Potter™ Film Concert…
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Bernadette Peters with the VSO
Stage legend and Golden Globe-winning actress Bernadette Peters joins the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra for a show brimming with classic Broadway…
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Visions of Joy: Beethoven’s 9th
13 Apr
The Unanswered Question by American composer Charles Ives poses that most vexing of existential questions: What is the meaning of…
VSO Plays Nicole Lizée & Vivier: Lonely Child
18 Jan
"A brilliant musical scientist, Lizée’s madness is as steeped in method as any traditional classical composer, but she’s all about…