2012 Season

In an eleven-concert festival, a company of local, national, and international artists create a music-village by the sea

About Music by the Sea

MBTS Staff
MBTS Board of Directors
Executive Artistic Director's Message
MBTS and the Environment
MBTS and First Nations
MBTS Status and Privacy Policy
MBTS: A Brief History

2009 Executive Artistic Director's Report
2008 Annual Report


Executive Artistic Director's Message


For many years it has been an abiding vision of mine—a place for a life-changing experience, where the most promising talented young musicians from around the world would have the opportunity to perform and study with some of the world’s finest musicians in a natural setting that has no equal—the bold and mystic beauty of the West Coast of Canada’s Vancouver Island.

During a concentrated period in the summer musicians would take in the powerful inspiration this stunning part of the world elicits— and it would focus the muse. And as the years passed, the music would draw audiences to a region which is ascendant— which is growing , culturally and economically—the Pacific Northwest.

I invite you to share in this vision......
We are now embarked upon our seventh season and I would like to extend to our sponsors, donors, volunteers, artists, audiences, Board of Directors and other MBTS friends and supporters my sincerest thanks.


Christopher Donison,
Founder and Executive Artistic Director,
Music by the Sea at Bamfield British Columbia