Music at Wentworth Villa - Season Pass 2026/27

We are excited to announce our 2026/27 season of Music At Wentworth Villa! There will be nine concerts this coming season. We have our usual mix of returning artists, and those who are new to Wentworth Villa. This season we have performers coming from Vienna, London, Paris, and Toronto, as well as those who are more locally based but internationally renowned.

Season Passes will be available from May 24th until September 1st at the special price of $360 for the nine concerts. The passes are fully transferable, so if you cannot attend a concert you can pass your seat to a friend. Any remaining tickets to individual concerts will then be available for purchase on our website, costing $45 each (students $25). As in previous seasons, all performances are on Sunday afternoons, starting at our regular time of 2:30 pm. We will be following our established format of two 35-45-minute halves, with a 15-minute intermission. Our performers will introduce their programs as they go, and there will be a chance to ask questions in a short Q and A at the end of the concert, after the encores.

Many thanks to our sponsors Burkett & Co. for their ongoing support, The Gail O’Riordan Climate and the Arts Legacy Fund through the Victoria Foundation, The McElhaney Briggs Foundation, our anonymous sponsors, and to Tom Lee Music for loaning us the beautiful piano.

-------------------------------------------------------------------

Our season starts with Schubert’s seminal song cycle Die Schöne Müllerin comprising twenty songs, settings of poems by Wilhelm Müller. We are happy to welcome back tenor Benjamin Butterfield, and collaborative pianist Robert Holliston to perform this beautiful song cycle, considered by many to be a pinnacle of German song.

Through paired solo piano works by Chopin, Coulthard, and Schubert, Vancouver-based concert pianist Jocelyn Lai reveals how composers across eras use the piano to express transcendence, identity, and human experience.

Take a journey through the evolution of musical colour, featuring Simon Farintosh’s innovative arrangements for guitar. The program pairs the delicate Impressionism of Ravel and Debussy with Alexander Scriabin’s piano preludes, reimagined to exploit the guitar’s natural penchant for tonal colour. Traditional masterworks are juxtaposed with the atmospheric textures of electronic pioneer Aphex Twin, and the vivid, celestial imagery of Takashi Yoshimatsu’s Sky Color Tensor, offering a unique bridge between 19th-century romanticism and the sonic landscapes of today.

A program of both well-known and less familiar Christmas music from Victoria’s popular professional octet. Join us to celebrate the Christmas season at Wentworth Villa!

Eve Egoyan’s works for augmented and acoustic piano delve into the space between what a piano can do and what she has always wished it could do. At their core is the live acoustic sound of the piano, but through the delicate intervention of technology and recorded sounds, Eve tests (and teases) the edges of that sound, pushing it beyond the familiar, through the impossible, and into the extraordinary.

Works by Bartók, Khachaturian, and Prokofiev from an exciting clarinet, violin, and piano trio formed in NYC, but now based in Paris.

A program to mark 200 years since the death of Beethoven. Based in Vienna, Daniel Adam Maltz is the leading fortepianist of his generation. He tours widely with his instrument and is a specialist in Viennese Classicism – especially the works of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven.

Making his Wentworth Villa debut, Henry Shapard, (co- principal cello, London Philharmonic Orchestra, UK) and esteemed Canadian pianist Jane Coop present the two Brahms sonatas for cello and piano, and a set of variations by Mendelssohn.

Harpsichordist extraordinaire, Alexander Weimann, is joined by violinists, Chloe and Christi Meyers, in a program of Baroque trio sonatas from the 17th and 18th centuries. Music for a spring afternoon that will uplift, inspire and delight you.