Symphony SPLASH! Returns to the Inner Harbour
Victoria Symphony (VS) is celebrating a milestone anniversary, highlighted by the return of the beloved Symphony SPLASH! as part of the annual Symphony in the Summer Festival (July 24 – August 3, 2025).
The 2025/26 Season will run from September 14 to May 10 and feature 30+ extraordinary programs across Southern Vancouver Island.
“This season reflects the heart and spirit of Victoria,” says VS Music Director Christian Kluxen. “With exciting new faces joining our already exceptional core of musicians, every performance will be more vibrant than ever.”
Season Highlights
• Beethoven’s Violin Concerto played by rising Canadian star Kerson Leong as our season opening.
• The debut of Leeds International Piano Competition winner, pianist Jaeden Izik-Dzurko for Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4.
• Stewart Goodyear playing Ravel’s Piano Concerto in a special presentation featuring the Vancouver Island Symphony.
• Internationally renowned Canadian baritone Joshua Hopkins in a new work for orchestra and soloist by Jake Heggie with poetry written by Margaret Atwood.
• The return of two iconic Canadian jazz artists for Christmas Pops—Denzal Sinclaire and Dee Daniels.
• Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons played by BC-born star of the baroque violin and current Concertmaster of Boston’s Handel and Haydn Society, Aisslinn Nosky.
• Three ‘Films in Concert’: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Elf, and Back to the Future.
• Exciting community collaborations with the Greater Victoria Youth Orchestra for Fauré’s Requiem and Saint-Saëns’ Organ Concerto, and The Belfry Theatre and Victoria Choral Society for a semi-staged production of Grieg’s Peer Gynt.
• Mahler’s majestic Symphony No. 5 led by Maestro Christian Kluxen as our season finale.
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