Vancouver Symphony Orchestra announces 2025 national tour
More than 100 musicians will be making the journey to Ontario in March 2025
Vancouver Symphony Orchestra.
THE VANCOUVER SYMPHONY Orchestra has just announced it will embark on a national tour in March 2025. The trip will mark the group’s first visit to Eastern Canada since 2018, with more than 100 musicians making the trek to Ontario.
The ensemble will present works by two local talents: the VSO’s former composer-in-residence, the late Jocelyn Morlock, and one of its own musicians, trumpet player Marcus Goddard.
Joining the VSO, under the guidance of music director Otto Tausk, are three internationally renowned soloists who have recently collaborated with the orchestra: pianist Stewart Goodyear for Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3 (Ottawa), violinist Vadim Gluzman for Brahms’s Violin Concerto (Toronto and Kingston), and mezzo-soprano Marion Newman of Kwagiulth and Stó:lō First Nations for the world premiere of Goddard’s Mountain Visions (Toronto, Kingston, and Vancouver).
Also performing on the tour is Sinfonietta, the VSO School of Music’s advanced string ensemble.
The VSO will perform in Kingston on March 15 at Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts; Toronto on March 16 at Roy Thomson Hall; and Ottawa on March 17 at the National Arts Centre.
To conclude the tour, Vancouver audiences will be able to welcome home the orchestra on March 21 and 22 at 8 pm and March 23 at 2 pm at the Orpheum and experience encore performances of Mountain Visions. A special side-by-side performance of Dvořák’s Symphony No. 9, “From the New World” with the students of Sinfonietta will take place at the March 23 matinee concert. 
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