Corporate Giving & Sponsorship
For organizations that invest in live orchestral music, it pays substantial dividends in civic pride, cultural advancement, education and personal satisfaction.
For organizations that invest in live orchestral music, it pays substantial dividends in civic pride, cultural advancement, education and personal satisfaction.
The investment also helps you to meet marketing and business objectives through co-branding and advertising with a highly recognized cultural institution.
The VSO invites you to experience the benefits and opportunities of becoming a corporate partner.
Corporate support can be provided to the VSO in the following ways.
For more information, please contact:
Vicki Cummings
Director, Corporate Programs
604.684.9100 ext. 245
Direct Line: 236.427.4001
vicki.cummings@vancouversymphony.ca
Corporate Sponsorship
Our goal is to create a sponsorship package that is tailor-made to serve your corporate goals. Your company can choose to sponsor an individual performance, a full series, a special concert, education programs, or become an exclusive Season Sponsor. For detailed information on the VSO’s Sponsorship Program which includes publicity, advertising, complimentary tickets and an opportunity to entertain your guests.
Create an incredible evening at the Symphony that your guests will not forget. Customized benefits can include:
- Complimentary tickets
- Assistance in planning and organizing pre- and/or post-concert receptions
- Opportunity to invite guest conductors and guest artists to private receptions
- Pre-performance talks providing an overview of the evening’s performance
- Backstage tours for sponsor guests (subject to the number of guests)
- Opportunity for your employees to purchase tickets for the sponsored concerts at a 25% discount. Your employees will be entitled to a 15% discount on subscription and single ticket purchases throughout the season outside of your sponsored performances, excluding specials
Promotional benefits can be tailored to suit the nature of your sponsorship. With 150 concerts per season, and a variety of education and outreach programs, sponsorship with the VSO offers flexibility and the ability to reach all or segments of the VSO audience. Marketing opportunities may include:
- Inserts in VSO House Programs
- Product placement
- Sampling
- Your company’s alignment with specific areas of the orchestra’s work
- A unique promotion tailored to your organizational goals
As a corporate partner with the VSO, we will work with you to develop a recognition program that connects your brand to the VSO and demonstrates your investment in supporting great music in our city. Recognition includes:
- VSO Season Brochure
- Ads and recognition in VSO Allegro Magazine, both printed and digital
- Recognition in e-comms to more than 80,000 music lovers
- Press Releases announce your support to over 400 media contacts nationally
- VSO Website recognition with a direct link to your company website
- Recognition on video signage in performance venue
- Verbal announcement of sponsorship before the start of each performance
- Recognition printed on concert tickets, both digital and in-print
- Recognition in varying print and digital ads
- Hosting opportunities and a chance to connect with our musicians
Contact Jason Hulbert to discuss specific details and how we can tailor a package to meet your marketing goals and objectives.
Corporate Gifts
Giving to the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra is a rewarding tradition that directly connects you to the annual production and presentation of more than 130 concerts, and tens of thousands of students through our music education program.
The VSO has earned an international reputation for the highest standards of performance, and your corporate support is an investment in the VSO’s commitment to excellence. Your investment in the VSO enriches not only the local economy, but also the quality of life in our city, making Vancouver an outstanding place to live and work.
The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra depends on corporate support to help ensure:
- An engaging season of performances of masterworks of the orchestral repertoire as well as new commissions
- The continuing collaboration of the VSO with school boards in Greater Vancouver to provide BC curriculum-based education programs that reach approximately 25,000 students annually
- The growth of the hugely successful All Access Pass audience-development initiative for thousands of members under the age of 35
- New and exciting ventures in the coming years
Contra or Gifts in Kind
The Vancouver Symphony is always open to ideas regarding the exchange of services or product normally associated with annual organizational costs for recognition and benefits for your company listed under Sponsorship. Please contact us for detailed information.
Advertise with Us
Advertising in Allegro, the VSO’s house program, is the easiest way to put your brand in front of our audience. Allegro Magazine has proven an extremely effective tool in promoting the interests of the many advertisers and sponsors who support the VSO throughout the season. Each issue of Allegro is in active circulation to a diverse and appealing market, from six to eight weeks–resulting in a highly effective advertising vehicle.
