Welcome to our 2026-27 Season
A season that travels from galaxies to candlelight, from chamber whispers to symphonic thunder, exploring the music that moves us across time, imagination, and the human mind.
The Symphony of the Kootenays’ 2026 to 2027 season is a journey through galaxies, centuries, and states of mind. We launch with Voyage Beyond the Stars, where Jupiter roars, starships leap to warp speed, and epic worlds from Star Wars, Star Trek, Zelda, and Halo surge from screen to stage. Symphonic Christmas follows with pastoral elegance and festive brilliance, from Tartini and Rutter to a playful exploration of the Twelve Days of Christmas and a possible Hallelujah chorus that invites the whole hall to glow. Intimate storytelling takes centre stage in Passengers of Time, our chamber music offering, before electric guitars meet orchestral fire in Symphonic Rock alongside Cranbrook’s own Pretty for the People. The season culminates with Mirrors of the Mind, a deeply expressive program featuring Beethoven, Pärt, Schumann, Britten, and Tchaikovsky, honouring the emotional landscapes that shape great music.
Together, these concerts form a season that is bold, reflective, celebratory, and unmistakably alive.
Voyage Beyond Stars
October 3, 2026 - 7:30pm
Key City Theatre, Cranbrook
From Jupiter’s grandeur to the iconic themes of Star Wars, Star Trek, Zelda, and Halo, this concert launches the orchestra into the worlds that shaped our imaginations. Epic, cinematic, and boldly symphonic, it’s an adventure at full warp.
Echoes of Celebration
November 28, 2026 - 7:30pm
Key City Theatre, Cranbrook
From the gentle glow of Tartini’s Sinfonia pastorale to beloved carols by Rutter and a festive fantasia on Christmas classics, this concert wraps the orchestra in warmth and wonder. With a featured student pianist and a joyful musical journey through the Twelve Days of Christmas, it’s a celebration that sparkles from first note to final chorus.
Passengers of Time
January 23, 2027 - 7:30pm
Royal Alexandra Hall, Cranbrook
An intimate evening of chamber music anchored by Beethoven’s radiant Septet, a work brimming with elegance, wit, and warmth. In this close-up setting, every voice is distinct, every phrase personal, inviting audiences to travel through time in music that feels both grand and wonderfully immediate.
Tempest of Sound
February 27, 2027 - 7:30pm
Key City Theatre, Cranbrook
When orchestra meets electric edge, sparks fly. Tempest of Sound unites the Symphony with Cranbrook’s own Pretty for the People in a high-energy collaboration that blurs the line between concert hall and rock stage. Bold, rhythmic, and unapologetically loud in all the right ways, this is symphonic power with a backbeat.
Mirrors of the Mind
April 10, 2027 - 7:30pm
Key City Theatre, Cranbrook, B.C.
April 11, 2027 - 2:00pm
Charles Bailey Theatre, Trail, B.C.
A program of profound reflection and emotional depth, Mirrors of the Mind explores the inner landscapes of great composers. From Beethoven’s luminous lyricism to the haunting stillness of Pärt, the passion of Schumann, the clarity of Britten, and the yearning beauty of Tchaikovsky, this concert invites us to listen closely to the music shaped by the human spirit in all its complexity.