Saturday, Sept 7, 2019 • 5:00 pm at Cedaredge Town Park

Sunday, Sept 8, 2019 • 5:00 pm at Montrose Riverbottom Park

Orchestra and Chorus

For the only free and outdoor concerts of the season, the VSA orchestra and chorus perform a range of popular and contemporary music styles, including Americana, jazz standards, well-known classical works, movie music, rock ‘n’ roll, Broadway tunes, and traditional marches.

Listen to our radio spot about this concert or our radio interview, or see our press release

With thanks to our Concert Partner

Sunday October 27, 2019 • 3:00 pm at the Montrose Pavilion

Orchestra

Sassy and classy, Spain evokes images of sensual flamenco dancers, fiery matadors, and exotic cultural influences from North Africa. This concert features the beguiling, alluring, and captivating rhythms of Spain, interpreted by Spanish composers as well as Frenchman Georges Bizet, Italian Giacomo Rossini, and Russian Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.

View the program, listen to our radio spot, our radio interview or read our press release

With thanks to our concert partner

Saturday, November 30, 2019 • 7:30 pm at the Montrose Pavilion
Sunday, December 1, 2019 • 3:00 pm at the Montrose Pavilion

Orchestra and Chorus

This annual holiday offering celebrates the sounds of the season in light-hearted fashion. The orchestra and chorus come together to present an array of traditional carols, hymns, and spirituals, along with popular secular seasonal selections. The concert culminates with the “Hallelujah” chorus from Handel’s “Messiah.”

See our press release

With thanks to our Concert Partner

The Valley Symphony Association (VSA) is an all-volunteer regional performing arts organization in its 49th season. For the first time in its nearly 50-year history, it has a home base.

“We are thrilled to open an administrative headquarters in the Montrose Center for the Arts building in downtown Montrose,” VSA board member Priscilla Fry said. “We can hardly wait to take part in their events like the First Friday downtown shopping and gallery walk event.” The first Friday of every month select businesses remain open until 7pm and extend special offers, deals, and refreshments to encourage people to head down to Main Street. The next is slated for Friday, February 7. The VSA will be there to welcome and greet the community at their new headquarters space.

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Sunday February 23, 2020 • 3:00 pm at the Montrose Pavilion

Orchestra

Featuring local talent from within our ranks, the winter concert highlights the remarkable gifts of orchestra members through favorite established repertoire—like Bach’s “Brandenburg Concerto No. 4” featuring our concertmaster and flute section members—and exciting compositional premiers from the oboe and bass sections. 

Learn more about our local soloists and composers, listen to our radio spot or see our press release.

With thanks to our concert partner

CANCELED

March 29, 2020 at 3:00, Montrose Pavilion

Chorus

Full of feel-good music, our spring choral concert will leave you uplifted, inspired, and a little closer to true joy. The headliner piece, “High Lonesome: a bluegrass mass,” combines two expressions and forms of spirituality: etheric choral music and bluegrass. Guitar, mandolin, banjo, bass, and piano back the chorus to take you through a lifetime, blending dissonance and beauty into a soaring depiction of life and spiritual harmony.

Tickets will be sold at the door (tickets already purchased will be honored)

Listen to our radio spot or see our press release

With thanks to our Concert Partner

CANCELED

April 26, 2020

Orchestra

The VSA welcomes the three Valley Youth Orchestras in a combined concert about honor and respect. Each youth orchestra will be featured, and the VSA orchestra will salute past and present service members. The groups will then combine to pay tribute to popular American music icons Sinatra and Elvis, and legendary British bands the Beatles, The Who, and Queen.

With thanks to our concert partner