About Us

The mission of the Victoria Symphony is:

To enrich lives through the shared experience of extraordinary music.

In its 70th year of operation, the Victoria Symphony is Vancouver Island’s largest and most active performing arts organization. With over 50 performances in its season which spans September to May, the Victoria Symphony continues to engage and inspire the community with high-quality concerts in seven diverse series and also with its outstanding education and outreach programs.

Over 125,000 people hear the Victoria Symphony every year, including 10,000 children. The Victoria Symphony also hosts the premiere event of the summer, the annual Bayview Residences Victoria Symphony Splash which attracts over 40,000 Victoria residents and visitors on the BC day long weekend in August. This great community event will celebrate its 20th anniversary in 2009.

The 2009/2010 season marks Maestra Tania Miller's seventh season as music director of the Victoria Symphony, an appointment that made her the first Canadian woman to be appointed to such a significant position in Canada. Her vibrancy and dynamic approach to music making have inspired many innovations with the Victoria Symphony and a new era of artistic growth for the orchestra including programming innovations such as the New Currents Festival of Music, the contemporary Odyssey series of collaborative arts and genres, as well as expanded and committed educational programming. Her extraordinary commitment to masterworks classics, have elevated the musical impact of the orchestra on the Canadian music scene.

Maestra Miller is the 8th Music Director in the History of the Victoria Symphony, following:

Melvin Knudsen (1941-1948)
Hans Gruber (1948-1964)
Otto Werner Mueller (1964-1967)
Laszlo Gati (1967-1978)
Paul Freeman (1979-1988)
Peter McCoppin (1989-1999)
Kees Bakels (1999-2001)