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St. James Cathedral's Assistant Director of Music & Organist Christopher Stroh presents a diverse sampling of American composers, both U. S.-born and naturalized, on the awesome Rosales and Hutchings-Votey organs (played from the Rosales console). Music by Samuel Barber, Mary Elizabeth Downey, Jessica French, Larry Peyton King, Undine Smith Moore, George Shearing, and Pietro Yon.

Doors open at 6:30pm for a 7:00pm program. Join us after the hour-long concert for a reception in the courtyard on the south side of the Cathedral, where you can greet the artist and enjoy a complimentary cold summertime treat.

More info at https://www.stjames-cathedral.org/music/Concerts/2026-07-21-Christopher-Stroh.aspx.

The Victoria Summer Music Festival presents Poiesis Quartet, 2025 first-prize winners of the Banff International String Quartet Competition, in a concert featuring music by Lasagna, Shawler, Scott, Lanzilotti, Queen Lili’uokalani (arr. Padilla), and Beethoven. Full programme details are available on our website: vsmf.org

This is the opening concert of our 30th anniversary season. The Festival continues through August 9, 2026.

Erin Hennessey (violin) and Gabriel Merrill-Steskal (piano) transport their audience to Vienna in the early 1920s, and invite them into the unique world of composer Arnold Schoenberg’s Society for Private Musical Performances, where contemporary music had a chance to be performed away from the conservative concert hall crowds and critics of the time.

More than 100 years later, the duo reimagines this groundbreaking space, including works by two stalwarts of the Society, Debussy and Ravel, but also including work by Mary Dickenson-Auner, a violinist and composer performing in the Society concerts in the 1920s, but not widely acknowledged at the time for her work as a composer. Like many of Dickenson-Auner's compositions, Irish Melody of Violin and Piano has not been heard since the early 20th century- this will be an American premiere!

The Victoria Summer Music Festival presents Poiesis Quartet, first-prize winners of the Banff International String Quartet Competition 2025, and Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt, viola, in a matinee concert featuring music by Lang, Wiancko, Lambright, and Coleridge-Taylor.

This is the second concert in our 30th Anniversary season, which continues through August 9, 2026.

The Victoria Summer Music Festival presents David Boutin-Bourque, clarinet; Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt, viola; and Arthur Rowe, piano, in a concert featuring music by Vieuxtemps, Bruch, Clarke, and Brahms.

This is the third concert in our 30th Anniversary season, which continues through August 9, 2026.

***SOLD OUT***

The Victoria Summer Music Festival presents James Ehnes, violin, and Andrew Armstrong, piano, in a matinee concert featuring music by Sinding, Brahms, Braden, and Bartók.

This is the fourth concert in our 30th anniversary series, which continues through August 9, 2026.

Join us for FREE JAZZ SUNDAY in the Sunset Lounge on Sunday, August 2nd featuring The Hot Club of PT! The Hot Club of PT is an ensemble of accomplished musicians. The repertoire features Django Reinhardt style Hot Club jazz, harmony vocals (in English and French), French waltzes and an occasional Brazilian choro.

The Victoria Summer Music Festival presents Élisabeth Pion, piano, in a concert featuring music by De Montgeroult, Brahms, Schubert/Liszt, Albeniz, Pion, and Ravel.

This is the fifth concert in our 30th Anniversary season, which continues through August 9, 2026.

SAT AUG 8 2:00PM
CELEBRATE 10 YEARS OF THE OLYMPIC CHAMBER MUSIC FELLOWSHIP

HAYDN Piano Concerto in D major, Hob. XVIII:11
GRIEG String Quartet in G minor, Op. 27
SCHUMANN Piano Quintet in E-flat major, Op. 44

ARTISTS:
Eunae Koh, violin (2018 Fellow)
Jason Moon, violin (2022 Fellow)
Bethany Hargreaves, viola (2021, 2022 Fellow)
Yi Qun Xu, cello (2017 Fellow)
Rieko Tsuchida, piano (2016, 2017 Fellow)

The Victoria Summer Music Festival presents David Lakirovich, violin; Desmond Hoebig, cello; and Arthur Rowe, piano, in a matinee concert featuring music by Beethoven, Debussy, and Schubert.

This is the closing concert of our 30th anniversary season.