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Victoria Philharmonic Choir

The Victoria Philharmonic Choir is an auditioned, mixed-voice ensemble with a wide-ranging repertoire of choral masterworks from the Renaissance to the 21st Century. Here performing Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610 at St Andrew’s Cathedral, Victoria BC, June 2024.

Our New Season - 2026-27

Baroque rhythms, Romantic passions, Ocean waves

The Victoria Philharmonic Choir's 2026-2027 season celebrates great composers of the Baroque and Romantic periods - and the world premiere of a brand new choral work.

In November, Peter Butterfield conducts the choir, orchestra and soloists in one of JS Bach's Lutheran Masses, and in GF Handel's triumphal Dettingen Te Deum.

The music of the VPC's annual family Christmas Carol Sing-along in December is enriched by special guests, the Ukrainian women's choir Kalyna.

March 2027 features the works of two titans, with Beethoven's Mass in C major, and Luigi Cherubini's Requiem, which was played at Beethoven's funeral in 1827.

The season's special event on June 5th explores the wonders of the oceans, in the face of a changing climate. The VPC has commissioned this new piece by Victoria-based composer Tobin Stokes, whose works have been performed across Canada and internationally.

Please visit vpchoir.tickit.ca for tickets and subscriptions.

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“It is a pleasure to sing with our Music Director Peter Butterfield because of his choice of repertoire, his sense of humour, his musicality, his expectation that we can always do better and his ability to bring the choir up to a high standard of performance.”
— Bass Chorister
“Thank you for an excellent performance of St. Matthew’s Passion last night. Thanks be to Peter Butterfield for a superlative job in approximating the heavenly host in a way that all listerners could truly understand. The principals were lovely and affecting, and the orchestra played with elan. An inspiring and enchanting evening!”
— David B. Audience Member, April 21, 2019
“When you achieve oneness with a composer, even for a few bars, everything disappears. Everything: the individual, the conductor, the music itself. It can all disappear in a flash of perfection.”
— Peter Butterfield

Church photo by Mike Zastre. Other photos on this page courtesy Frank Lee, Aldridge Street Print & Media, and the Times Colonist.