Celebrate the Easter season with a powerful performance of Handel’s Messiah, presented by the Zion Mission Choir. This monumental work invites audiences on a deeply moving journey through mystery, reflection, and renewal — expressing the full range of human emotion from sorrow to radiant hope and triumphant joy. Conducted by Dr. Stephanie Chung, the concert features the Zion Mission Choir alongside the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, the Vancouver Chamber Choir, and acclaimed soloists for a profound musical experience that will leave you in wonderment.
Bach’s Mass in B minor stands as one of the greatest achievements in Western music: the summation of a life’s work. Written near the end of Bach’s life, it gathers the breadth of his musical genius into a single, breathtaking composition. From the joyful dance of the “Gloria” to the profound cry for peace in the “Agnus Dei,” the Mass is a journey through awe, devotion, and profound expression, uniting soloists, choir, and orchestra in music of timeless and universal power.
Founded in the fifteenth century, The Choir of King’s College, Cambridge is undoubtedly one of the world’s best-known choral groups. While the Choir exists primarily to sing the daily services in King’s College Chapel, its worldwide fame and reputation, enhanced by its many recordings, has led to invitations to perform around the globe, and to an extensive international tour schedule. They’ll be travelling 7600 kilometres from Cambridge to Victoria to perform Mozart’s Requiem with our VS musicians.
The final concert of our 25/26 season AURUM could not be more golden than a new commissioned work by Sherryl Sewepagaham and A German Requiem by Johannes Brahms. Rather than a traditional prayer for the dead, Brahms’s Requiem is a personal and compassionate reflection on mortality, offering a deeply moving message of consolation and hope for the living.
Experience J.S. Bach’s Magnificat, one of his most joyous and colorful works. Originally composed to capture the magic and wonder of Christmas Day, this performance promises to be full of energy and an unmistakable sense of celebration.
Under the direction of Music Director and Conductor A. Dennis Sparger, The Bach Society Chorus and Orchestra will be joined by soloists Nola Richardson, Kim Leeds, Steven Soph and Tyler Duncan. The concert also features C.P.E. Bach’s Magnificat, offering a bold and expressive complement to his father’s masterwork.
The epic life and ministry of the prophet Elijah is set to some of the most thrilling music ever composed for large chorus and symphony orchestra. World-renowned baritone Tyler Duncan performs the title role, with our Combined Choirs and Orchestra. This is a season finale performance that will be unforgettable.
Now a cherished Washington, DC tradition, our annual performance of Bach’s Christmas Oratorio is as joyous as the ringing-in of the holiday spirit itself, no matter how you celebrate! The Washington Post was inspired to say that this “joyous” telling of the Christmas story shows that the Consort “could go head-to-head with period ensembles anywhere.”
