The Juno and Grammy-award winning Vancouver Symphony Orchestra is the largest arts organization in Western Canada and third largest orchestra in Canada. It presents passionate, high-quality performances of classical, popular and culturally diverse music, creating meaningful engagement with audiences of all ages and backgrounds wherever they perform and developing and delivering inspirational education and community programs.

Dutch conductor Otto Tausk is the Music Director of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. Until spring 2018, Tausk was Music Director of the opera Theatre and Tonhalle orchestra St Gallen. He appears as a guest conductor with such orchestras as Concertgebouw Orchestra, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Melbourne Symphony, the Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre, the orchestras of Perth, Tasmania, Auckland and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and BBC Scottish symphonies. He is a hugely respected musical personality in his native Holland, working with all its major orchestras and composers.