Support Victoria Baroque

Keep the music playing.

Victoria Baroque is a volunteer-run charity. Ticket sales cover only part of what it takes to bring each concert to the stage — donors make up the rest.

Tax receipts are issued for gifts of $25 or more.

Victoria Baroque

Baroque music was written for rooms where the audience sat close enough to hear the bow meet the string. Hearing it that way — live, in a church or a small hall, played by musicians who have given their working lives to this repertoire — is rare. Bringing that experience to Vancouver Island audiences is the reason the Victoria Baroque Music Society exists.

We are a volunteer-run, not-for-profit charitable society. Ticket sales cover only part of what it takes to put a concert on stage: musicians, rehearsals, venues, and programmes all come before the first note is played. The rest comes from people who love this music and want to keep hearing it here.

Whether you give $25 once, set up a monthly gift, or underwrite a whole season, your support is heard in the hall. Thank you for keeping baroque music alive in Victoria.

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Underwrite a musician or a concert

Underwriting ties your gift to something specific — a full season, a single concert, a guest artist, or one of our own musicians. Gifts can be made in the name of a loved one, or anonymously.

  • Every underwriter is acknowledged in the concert programme.
  • A tax receipt is issued for your gift.
  • Underwriters are invited to a post-concert reception to meet the artists.

To arrange an underwriting gift: info@victoria-baroque.com or 250-590-9770

Underwriting options
$5,000 A season Support a full season of baroque music.
$1,500 A concert Choose your favourite concert in our season.
$1,000 A guest artist or soloist Choose your favourite guest artist in our season.
$750 A Victoria Baroque musician Choose your favourite instrument or musician.

The Victoria Baroque Music Fund

With the generous help of anonymous donors, Victoria Baroque has established an endowment fund with the Victoria Foundation. It offers a way to make significant gifts with a long-term impact on the music in this city.

  1. Through Victoria Baroque

    Donate in the usual way — online or by cheque — and note that your gift is intended for the Endowment Fund. Victoria Baroque will issue your receipt.

  2. Directly through the Victoria Foundation

    • By phone: 250-381-5532
    • By cheque, payable to “Victoria Foundation” and noting the “Victoria Baroque Music Fund”, mailed to Victoria Foundation, #200 – 703 Broughton Street, Victoria, BC V8W 2L5
    • Online at victoriafoundation.bc.ca — choose “Make a Donation”

Giving directly to the Victoria Foundation is the simpler route for gifts of securities rather than cash; the Foundation can arrange these through its broker, CIBC Wood Gundy, and issues receipts for donations made directly to it.