NACO Tour - Tsu, Japan

2025-06-05 19:00 2025-06-05 21:00 60 Canada/Eastern 🎟 NAC: NACO Tour - Tsu, Japan

https://nac-cna.ca/en/event/37974

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Canada’s National Arts Centre Orchestra is embarking on a monumental tour—the 99th since its founding in 1969. The Orchestra returns to Japan for the first time in four decades. The program begins with Listening Underwater by Japanese Canadian composer Keiko Devaux, premiering her work on the international stage. Commissioned by the NAC Orchestra, this evocative work, inspired by the communications of whales and other sea life, transports the audience to an organic...

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Mie Center for the Arts,1234 Isshindenkozubeta, Tsu, Mie 514-0061, Japan,Tsu,Japan
Thu, June 5, 2025
Thu, June 5, 2025
7 PM EDT
Mie Centre for the Arts
Alexander Shelley
Olga Scheps
Music Classical music Piano
Mie Centre for the Arts
Alexander Shelley
Olga Scheps
  • KEIKO DEVAUX Listening Underwater
  • Sergei Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2
  • LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67
  • In-person event
Tour event

Canada’s National Arts Centre Orchestra is embarking on a monumental tour—the 99th since its founding in 1969. The Orchestra returns to Japan for the first time in four decades.

The program begins with Listening Underwater by Japanese Canadian composer Keiko Devaux, premiering her work on the international stage. Commissioned by the NAC Orchestra, this evocative work, inspired by the communications of whales and other sea life, transports the audience to an organic underwater environment that is both familiar and mysterious. 

German piano prodigy Olga Scheps joins the NAC Orchestra for Sergei Rachmaninoff’s lush and emotionally charged Piano Concerto No. 2, a powerful—and superbly crafted—drama between piano and orchestra filled with passionate melodies, sumptuous textures, and rich harmonies. The program concludes with Beethoven’s iconic Symphony No. 5, one of the most recognized works in music history. Its electrifying power continues to captivate audiences more than two centuries after its debut.

Artists

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    Conductor Alexander Shelley
  • Piano Olga Scheps
  • Composer Keiko Devaux
  • National Arts Centre Orchestra