The VSO’s 106th season of classical music will include five concerts at Surrey’s Bell Performing Arts Centre as part of the orchestra’s annual Surrey Nights series, plus a pair of Traditional Christmas concerts this December.
Last week’s 2024-25 season-launch announcement coincides with subscription ticket sales for diverse series packages found on vancouversymphony.ca, promising “Classic Vibes, Endless Possibilities” from Vancouver Symphony Orchestra.
“Our world needs music now more than ever, and we invite you to experience the monumental beauty and emotional power of the orchestra,” VSO Music Director Otto Tausk says in a webpost.
The Surrey Nights concerts at the Bell are Sundays at 7 p.m., with five-concert ticket packages starting at $166.65 on vancouversymphony.ca/series/surrey-nights.
This fall, the series at the Sullivan-area theatre starts Oct. 20 with the Andrew Litton-conducted “Stravinsky, Ravel & Márquez” night of music featuring the San Diego-born Anne Okiko Meyers, considered “one of the world’s most esteemed violinists” and “a trailblazer in her field” whose first national television appearances were on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson at age 11.
The four other Surrey Nights concerts in 2024-25 are “Josefowicz Plays Stravinsky” (Dec. 1, featuring violinist Leila Josefowicz), “Schubert’s Third Symphony” (Jan. 19, 2025, with Italian pianist/conductor Vanessa Benelli Mosell), “Brahms & Saint-Saëns’ Cello” (March 2, conducted by Christian Kluxen with Santiago Cañón-Valencia, cello) and “Chopin’s Second Piano Concerto” (March 30, 2025, with pianist Ingrid Filter and conductor Alpesh Chauhan).
Later this spring, the VSO’s current Surrey Nights series concludes with a May 12 concert at the Bell. “Maestro Tausk is joined by British composer and musicologist Paul Rissmann, as they discover and uncover the secrets to Hector Berlioz’s incomparable Symphonie fantastique,” explains a post on the theatre’s website. “Completely revolutionary at its premiere in 1830, the piece is the product of an opium induced dreamscape. Dive deep into this great musical drama and discover its lasting power to surprise and astonish.”
In Vancouver starting July 3, the VSO’s Summer Movies at the Orpheum concert series will feature screenings of “Shrek 2,” “Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl,” “Star Trek” and “Field of Dreams.”