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Alexander Shelley succeeded Pinchas Zukerman as Music Director of Canada’s NAC Orchestra in September 2015. The ensemble has since been praised as being “transformed... hungry, bold, and unleashed” (Ottawa Citizen) and Shelley’s programming credited for turning the orchestra into “one of the more audacious in North America” (Maclean’s).
Shelley is a champion of Canadian creation; recent hallmarks include the multimedia projects Life Reflected and UNDISRUPTED,and three major new ballets in partnership with NAC Dance for Encount3rs. He is passionate about arts education and nurturing the next generation of musicians. He is an Ambassador for Ottawa’s OrKidstra, a charitable social development program that teaches children life skills through making music together.
Alexander Shelley is also the Principal Associate Conductor of London’s Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and, starting with the 2024–2025 season, Artistic and Music Director of Artis-Naples and the Naples Philharmonic in Florida, USA. In the spring of 2019, he led the NAC Orchestra on its critically acclaimed 50th Anniversary European tour, and in 2017, he led the Orchestra in a tour across Canada, celebrating Canada’s 150th anniversary. Most recently, he led the Orchestra in its first performance at New York’s Carnegie Hall in 30 years.
He has made seven recordings with the NAC Orchestra, including the JUNO-nominated New Worlds, Life Reflected, ENCOUNT3RS, The Bounds of Our Dreams, and the acclaimed Clara, Robert, Johannes four-album series, all with Canadian label Analekta.
The Music Director role is supported by Elinor Gill Ratcliffe, C.M., O.N.L., LL.D. (hc)
Adrian Lo is a Hong Kong born, Chinese-Canadian conductor, jazz double bassist, composer, and educator. His earliest musical influences came from his training as a classical pianist, and from his father’s love for 60s pop-rock. In his mid-teens, Adrian began exploring concert band and jazz repertoire through the guidance of his high school music teachers. At the age of 15, he picked up his first baton, conducting his school’s string orchestra through the 5th Movement of Peter Warlock’s Capriol Suite. Since then, Adrian has been the conductor of the senior jazz bands at Castlemore Public School and Pierre Elliott Trudeau High School in Markham, Ontario. He is currently entering his fourth year in the music education program under the jazz stream at the University of Toronto, Faculty of Music.
Murray Lefebvre is a graduating student of the Bachelor of Music program at Queen’s University. Over the last four years, he has studied clarinet under Dr. Kornel Wolak and Gordon Craig and has studied conducting with Dan Tremblay and Darrell Christie.
Murray is the musical director of the Queen’s University Concert Orchestra (QUCO) and of the Kingston Military Wives Choir. He is also the assistant musical director of theatre writer Leslie Arden's Lancashire Lass workshop at the Dan School of Drama and Music in Kingston. Murray has shown his affinity for musical leadership as a teaching assistant, an ensemble manager, and an executive member for the Queen’s University Student Music Educators’ Association. Murray has also taken part in various musical theatre productions, in the Queen’s Clarinet Choir Orchestra, and in the Wind Ensemble in which he was co-concertmaster for the 2019-2020 school year.
Murray is an ardent advocate for music education and hopes to demonstrate this passion as a high school music teacher. He looks forward to facilitating learning and music-making, and to create music alongside his students. Murray is confident that, with the continued support of his friends, family, and amazing professors, this aspiration will soon become a reality.