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.

UPCOMING CONCERT - NOVEMBER 22, 2025

St. Cecilia Mass by Charles Gounod

& Eternal Light by Howard Goodall

The Victoria Philharmonic Choir, launches its new season on St. Cecilia's Day, November 22, appropriately enough with Charles Gounod’s ‘St. Cecilia Mass.’

The second half is a Victoria premiere, Howard Goodall’s much-loved ‘Eternal Light.’

For more information about this concert, go to Upcoming Concerts

Tickets ($35 regular, $10 for students and FREE for accompanied children under 13) will be available at the door tonight. CASH ONLY!

Please enter by the Quadra main doors unless you require disability access, which is from the Balmoral side parking lot.

…and later this season…

December 22, 2025 - Family Christmas Carol Sing-along - Tickets for this event are available now!
March 14, 2026 - English Music Old & New, including Henry Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas
June 6, 2026 - Joseph Haydn’s The Seasons

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The Choir

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Music Director

“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