Okanagan Symphony

2025 2026 Season

MAINSTAGE SERIES Vernon Performing Arts Centre
Anna & Wolfgang October 19, 2025
Music without Borders November 16, 2025
Song for a Winter’s Night December 21, 2025
Julian Conducts Tchaikovsky February 8, 2026
Mostly Mendelssohn March 8, 2026
Beethoven’s Fifth May 10, 2026


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6 Concerts - Mainstage Series*
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$410.00 Adult - Tier A - Green
$357.50 Adult - Tier B - Yellow
$226.25 Adult - Tier C - Red

$318.25 Senior - Tier A - Green
$278.75 Senior - Tier B - Yellow
$180.25 Senior - Tier C - Red

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Season Events

Anna & Wolfgang
Okanagan Symphony Orchestra

Anna & Wolfgang

25 10 17 Anna Wolfgang 320

$79.25 Adult
$61.25 Senior 65+
$22.50 Youth (Up to 24 years)
Including fees & charges

Two master composers separated by 200 years, and a performance bursting with musical contrasts. Maria Fuller makes her OSO conducting debut in works by Mozart and Anna Clyne, one of the most in-demand living composers. Our own Martin Krátký is soloist in the soulfully melodic concerto DANCE; we conclude with Mozart’s most famous symphony.

Maria Fuller: one of the most exciting up-and-coming Canadian conductors working around the world.
One of the most important and popular contemporary composers; programmed all over the world. Well loved by the whole spectrum of symphony audiences

Program

Mozart: Overture to The Marriage of Figaro
Anna Clyne: DANCE
Anna Clyne: Restless Oceans
Mozart: Symphony No.40 in G Minor

Exuberantly Creative: Music Without Borders
Okanagan Symphony Orchestra

Exuberantly Creative: Music Without Borders

25 11 16 Exuberantly Creative 320

$79.25 Adult
$61.25 Senior 65+
$22.50 Youth (Up to 24 years)
Including fees & charges

A genre-defying evening with musical polymath Dinuk Wijeratne—composer, conductor, and pianist—blending classical, jazz, and Indian traditions. This concert will be performed without an intermission, Dinuk shares personal stories and performs music close to his heart, including Gajaga Vanama, a masterpiece for piano and strings inspired by his Sri Lankan heritage.

Program
Kareem Roustom: Dabke
Elgar: Serenade for Strings
Wijeratne: Two Pop Songs on Antique Poems
Bartok: Fifteen Hungarian Peasant Songs
Wijeratne: Gajaga Vanama

Song for a Winter’s Night
Okanagan Symphony Orchestra

Song for a Winter’s Night

25 12 21 Song For A Winter’S Night 320

$79.25 Adult
$61.25 Senior 65+
$22.50 Youth (Up to 24 years)
Including fees & charges

Freya joins the OSO and OSO Chorus for a heartwarming concert of original songs and new takes on beloved winter classics that celebrate the season’s beauty. This concert began as a small-town celebration and now welcomes Okanagan audiences to share a musical journey exploring connection, memories, and the cozy nostalgia of winter.

Program
TBA

Julian Conducts Tchaikovsky
Okanagan Symphony Orchestra

Julian Conducts Tchaikovsky

26 02 07 Julian Conducts Tchaikovsky 320

$79.25 Adult
$61.25 Senior 65+
$22.50 Youth (Up to 24 years)
Including fees & charges

“Music is indeed the most beautiful of all Heaven’s gifts,” wrote Tchaikovsky—and his monumental Symphony No. 5 embodies that spirit in full. In his conducting debut as music director, Julian Pellicano leads a program of symphonic masterpieces, including a special Side-by-Side performance with the Okanagan Symphony Youth Orchestra.

Program

Smetana: Overture to The Bartered Bride
Walker: Lyric for Strings
Berlioz: Rakcozy March (Side-by-Side) (Zeena Zaiyouna, conductor)
Verdi: Nabucco Overture (Side-by-Side)
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64

Mostly Mendelssohn
Okanagan Symphony Orchestra

Mostly Mendelssohn

26 03 07 Mostly Mendelssohn 320

$79.25 Adult
$61.25 Senior 65+
$22.50 Youth (Up to 24 years)
Including fees & charges

Beloved by Okanagan audiences, pianist Ian Parker returns—this time to the podium—to lead a program focused on Felix Mendelssohn. Following last season’s performance of his Italian Symphony, Parker conducts Mendelssohn’s dramatic Scottish Symphony. Pianist Roman Rabinovich, winner of the Arthur Rubinstein Competition, takes us on a journey with Mendelssohn’s Piano Concerto No. 1.

Program
Beethoven: Egmont Overture
Mendelssohn: Piano Concerto No. 1 in G Minor
Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3, Op. 56 in A minor “Scottish”

Beethoven 5
Okanagan Symphony Orchestra

Beethoven 5

26 05 10 Beethoven 5 Poster

$79.25 Adult
$61.25 Senior 65+
$22.50 Youth (Up to 24 years)
Including fees & charges

Experience the symphony that changed music forever. Shocking at the time of its premiere with its emotional intensity, today Beethoven’s 5th is one of the world’s most recognizable works of art. After more than a decade, the OSO returns to this iconic masterpiece to close the season with this monument of musical expression. This concert also features the OSO Chorus in Ola Gjeilo’s Sunrise Mass, a profound and expressive journey, full of soaring melodies and walls of sonic power.

Program
Ola Gijielo: Sunrise Mass
Beethoven: Symphony No. 5, op. 67