About us
The Salt Spring Baroque Music Society is a non-profit organization founded by Kerry Graham.
The purposes of the society are:
- To advance the public's appreciation of the arts by providing high-quality artistic performances and concerts in publics areas in the Gulf Islands and surrounding areas.
- To advance education by providing instructional workshops and seminars on Baroque music to students and amateur musicians of all ages.
Our projects include chamber concerts, and educational opportunities such as workshops, lectures, coachings and masterclasses.
SOCIAL PROFILES

Salt Spring Baroque respectfully acknowledges that we live and work within the ancestral and unceded traditional territory of the Coast Salish people.
Directors
Kerry Graham ~ President & Artistic Director
Kerry is a freelance bassoonist who, in 2012, left her twenty-five-year engineering career to take up this fascinating instrument. She has studied with Adam Mikulicz, Christopher Sales, Jesse Read, Julia Lockhart, and Katrina Russell, and earned a BMus in Bassoon Performance from UBC in 2017. She is the principal bassoonist of the Civic Orchestra of Victoria, plays in the Faire Wynds wind quintet and the Bach on the Rock Chamber Orchestra. She is the co-founder of the Salish Sea Bassoon Collective, a unique initiative aimed at nurturing and growing the next generation of young bassoonists on Salt Spring Island.
Kerry is passionate about baroque music and has studied the baroque bassoon in Canada, the USA and Europe. She has studied at the Tafelmusik Baroque Summer Institute, the Oberlin College Baroque Performance Institute and has received scholarships from the San Francisco Early Music Society and Early Music Vancouver. In 2025, she earned a Master's of Music in baroque bassoon performance at the University of Victoria. She founded Salt Spring Baroque in 2020 to make baroque music more accessible to Salt Spring Islanders and share this beautiful repertoire with audiences throughout the islands.
John Kyle – Secretary and Treasurer
Being a fan of music from the late 70's and early 80's John thought Early Music meant Elvis and The Everly Brothers. He is learning to appreciate Bach, Boismortier, and Buxteheude and may soon delve into Charpentier, Corelli, and Couperin. John brings to the Board of Salt Spring Baroque his experiences gained from being on the boards of other non profit societies, as an adult education volunteer, and from twenty years of work at a multinational company.
Abby Boggs ~ Director
Abby Boggs is a professional classical singer, freelancing in Vancouver. She teaches private lessons for voice and cello at her home studio. Abby graduated in 2020 with her Master's of Music in Vocal Performance under the tutelage of tenor Ben Butterfield, and graduated with a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance from Wheaton College Conservatory in Chicago, IL. She is originally from Boston, Massachusetts, but has lived in Canada since 2018. She has performed as a soprano soloist with a number of organizations such as Pacific Opera Victoria, Ballet Victoria, Denman Baroque, Victoria Choral Society, The Linden Singers, and at the University of Victoria. She is a board member of Salt Spring Baroque and works full-time as the Arts Administrator and Dal Schindell Gallery Curator at Regent College in Vancouver.
Alan Rautenberg ~ Director

Kerry Graham- Founder, President and Artistic Director

John Kyle – Secretary and Treasurer

Abby Boggs- Director
Concerts
Click on the images below to see more information about our upcoming concerts.
Venue and ticketing information will be provided.
Education & Outreach
As part of our educational mandate, Salt Spring Baroque presents workshops, seminars and lectures relating to baroque music. We also help emerging artists, and we support Salt Spring youth on their musical journeys.
Two projects we are spearheading at the moment are the Gallo Chamber Players Recording Project and the Salt Spring Bassoon Incubator Project – check them out via the links to the right!
Membership
Become a member of Salt Spring Baroque Music Society!
For just $10 a year you can be a member of the Salt Spring Baroque Music Society.
You will receive early notification of our concerts and have a part in running the society with voting privileges at our Annual General Meeting.
Your membership fee helps us to present world-class performances, and encourages our funders to commit to an organization that the community believes in.
Annual memberships are not eligible for tax receipts.
Go baroque and include us in your giving plans!
As we finish up our fourth season, Salt Spring Baroque needs your support to keep the music coming. Support live baroque music on Salt Spring Island, and donate now.
The Salt Spring Baroque Music Society is a community non-profit organization. Ticket sales only cover a portion of the cost of presenting live music concerts. In addition to funding from ticket sales, memberships, grants, and sponsorships, the Society accepts cash donations to sustain its operations and assure its long-term sustainability.
Donations over $20 will receive a charitable donation tax receipt.
Sponsorship
Our government, foundation, and corporate sponsors give back to the community through the support of our performances and educational programmes.
Our wide range of projects offers sponsorship opportunities for large and small companies, who can support us while also reaching their corporate goals. Sponsors will be prominently recognized in concert programmes, posters, print and social media, and on our website.
To discuss the possibilities of corporate sponsorship, please send us an email via our contact page.
Contact us
Feel free to contact us using the form below.
Looking forward to hearing from you!




































