Flourishing The Art of the Cornetto Tickets on sale now A special concert featuring renowned German cornettist Friederike Otto on this rare and fascinating instrument and Vancouver-based Christina Hutten on harpsichord and organ. A kind of hybrid between a woodwind and a brass instrument, the cornetto was prized for its tremendous expressive flexibility, very like […]
Handel's Aci, Galatea e Polifemo The Early Music Society of the Islands Presents their 40th Season Opera Celebration! Event Dates: September 22, 24, 26 & 28, 2024 Event Time: 6:00 pm to 9:30pm Click on one of the following dates to buy Tickets: Sunday, September 22, 2024 performance Tuesday, September 24, 2024 performance Thursday, September […]
Handel's Aci, Galatea e Polifemo The Early Music Society of the Islands Presents their 40th Season Opera Celebration! Event Dates: September 22, 24, 26 & 28, 2024 Event Time: 6:00 pm to 9:30pm Click on one of the following dates to buy Tickets: Sunday, September 22, 2024 performance Tuesday, September 24, 2024 performance Thursday, September […]
Out of the Deep Buy Tickets See Special Pricing Options A pairing of the artistry and rich voice of Jonathon Adams with the passion and intensity of violinist Chloe Kim, in a program on the themes of loss and reconciliation. Born in amiskwaciwâskahikan (Edmonton), Jonathon Adams is an Indigenous (Cree-Métis) baritone whose career has taken […]
Iestyn Davies and Fretwork at Carnegie Hall Lamento Buy Tickets See Special Pricing Options Note: This concert was originally scheduled for Thursday, November 28, and has been moved to Friday, November 29 to accommodate travel plans of the artists. Countertenor Iestyn Davies makes his debut performance with EMSI, in the company of the incomparable British […]
Festive Canatas - Bach and Zelenka Joint concert presentation with Early Music Vancouver. Buy Tickets The Pacific Baroque Orchestra presents a program of festive cantatas for the season including the Gloria in excelsis Deo cantata BWV 191 by J.S. Bach with the Czech composer Jan Dismas Zelenka’s Missa Nativitatis Domini (ZWV 8) of 1726. Premiered […]
Gregorius, the Holy Sinner Buy Tickets Redeem your Flex Pass Voucher(s) for This Concert The incomparable Benjamin Bagby, well-known for his virtuosic rendering of Beowulf and as co-founder of Sequentia, returns to the EMSI stage with colleagues Jasmina Črnčič and leiken, with an astonishing 12th Century tale of one man's victory over despair (sung in […]
El Parnasso - Music for voice and vihuela from 16th Century Spain Note: Due to a delay in obtaining and entry visa, the concert originally planned for February 15, Huehuetenango, is unfortunately no longer available. We are pleased, however, to be offering in its place another fine programme featuring vihuelist Ariel Abramovich and soprano Perrine […]
The Early Moderns Buy Tickets Redeem your Flex Pass Voucher(s) for This Concert The brilliant American ensemble Quicksilver -- “Revered like rock stars within the early music scene” (New York Times) -- performs a program of music from the mid-17th century, when the modern world was emerging in Europe and composers were writing revolutionary works […]
Eh bien, dansez maintenant ! Buy Tickets Redeem your Flex Pass Voucher(s) for This Concert Imagine yourself in the elegant royal court of the French Renaissance, attending a ball with the elite of courtly society. That colourful world will be captured by the French ensemble Doulce Mémoire and dancer Hubert Hazebroucq. Very far from the […]
This date is sold out. We have added a second performance on Sunday, August 24 at 2:30. For tickets, please follow this link Banquo Folk Ensemble returns for a summer concert full of light and melody; a treat for all of the senses. The concert will take place in the grand ballroom of a gorgeous Arts […]
SPECIAL CONCERT In collaboration with Early Music Vancouver Amanda Forsythe Sings Handel Buy Tickets Amanda Forsythe returns to Victoria in this program of arias by Handel originally written for Élisabeth Duparc (‘La Francesina’). We have heard this renowned singer as a soloist in large choral works, but here is a chance to experience her artistry […]
Photo credit: J Abram Photography Treasure Trove: the Cantigas de Santa Maria Just as archaeologists attempt to reconstruct entire communities from a few sherds of pottery, the odd ancient coin and the faint residue of post holes in the earth, musicologists and early music performers must contend with the rarity of original manuscripts and the […]
Brilliant Baroque After a hiatus of far too long, we are welcoming back the ever-popular Tafelmusik to Victoria. In 1730s Leipzig, J.S. Bach gathered with friends at Zimmerman's coffeehouse for weekly concerts of brilliant music, carrying on a tradition of weekly meetings by the Collegium Musicum originally founded by his friend, Georg Philip Telemann. Today, […]
Photo credit: Åsa Maria Mikkelsen Yule The celebration of Yule in Northern Europe harks back to a transition from ancient Pagan Germanic culture to the more formal spirituality of the newer Christian rite. Christmas, as we mostly now call it, gave us hymns, processions and chants, and in between, silence in church. Yule meant a […]
Bach and Khayyam The ever-popular, ground-breaking ensemble Constantinople examines two of the greatest geniuses of the past millennium, presenting arrangements of some of the most beautiful spiritual songs and arias of JS Bach in dialogue with poems of Omar Khayyam sung in Persian. Separated by time and space, Johann Sebastian Bach and Persian mathematician-poet Omar […]
Strawberry Fields This dynamic Baroque ensemble is indeed creating a ruckus, with their visceral and playful approach to early music. Featuring two brilliant soloists, flutist Emi Ferguson and violinist Rachell Ellen Wong, Ruckus will bring us a rousing concert featuring instrumental music of Handel and his contemporary, the English former slave Ignatius Sancho, a remarkable […]
Vivaldi on Fire Back by popular demand, Ensemble Caprice, under the direction of dynamic Artistic Director Matthias Maute, returns to Victoria. A whirlwind of fiery passion and dazzling virtuosity, Vivaldi on Fire sets the stage ablaze with music by Antonio Vivaldi and vibrant, anonymous works from the Eastern European Uhrovska zbierka collection (1730). Ensemble Caprice’s […]
SPECIAL EVENT Artemisia - Light and Shadow Two nights: Friday, April 17, 2026 and Saturday, April 18, 2026 Buy tickets With the success of our opera and dinner production last September, we will once again be presenting a staged production with dinner at the Leonardo da Vinci Centre. ARTEK presents an account, in drama and […]
SPECIAL EVENT Artemisia - Light and Shadow Two nights: Friday, April 17, 2026 and Saturday, April 18, 2026 Buy tickets With the success of our opera and dinner production last September, we will once again be presenting a staged production with dinner at the Leonardo da Vinci Centre. ARTEK presents an account, in drama and […]
Il Gioco della cieca (Blind Man's Bluff) Buy tickets “Blind love I do not trust to thee, that makes desires full of obscurity”. Thus comments the chorus in Guarini's play, “The Faithful Shepherd” (Il pastor fido) on two lovers' passionate but beleaguered love tale. In the third act of the play, set in the idyllic […]
Cornucopia: An Autumnal Musical Feast Buy tickets An opportunity to hear bassoon and horn, in the rarely heard roles as solo instruments and featuring internationally renowned local musicians Katrina Russell and Andrew Clark. As befits the season, we have organized the concert around the theme of an autumnal feast, reflecting the plenty of the harvest season in a […]
Amazone Buy tickets Lutenist Thomas Dunford returns to EMSI's stage, leading Jupiter Ensemble, acclaimed as one of the finest in a new generation of early music ensembles. Soprano Lea Desandres, "one of today’s most exciting voices in early-music performance" - New York Times, is featured in a program on the theme of the Amazons, a […]
Stella Nova - The New Star Buy tickets Stella Nova offers a view into the unusually rich repertoire for Advent and Christmas that developed in Europe throughout the Middle Ages. Extending far beyond the strictly liturgical tradition, this music reflects festively embellished medieval Christmastime celebrations. The concert opens with an English devotional sequence and motet […]