News Releases

  1. THE NATIONAL ARTS CENTRE ORCHESTRA ANNOUNCES A SPECTACULAR 2012-2013 SEASON, WITH EXCITING REPERTOIRE AND EXCEPTIONAL GUEST ARTISTS

    February 22, 2012

    The National Arts Centre Orchestra today announced programming details of its 2012-2013 season – Pinchas Zukerman’s fourteenth season as Music Director and Principal Conductor. The season -- built around exciting firsts, fresh perspectives, and great music performed by great artists – offers exhilarating, deeply emotional experiences to music lovers, who will be entertained,... Read more

  2. Concertmaster Yosuke Kawasaki, National Arts Centre Orchestra musicians and NACO Bursary winners perform chamber music at the NAC Orchestra Bursary Benefit Concert on Sunday March 4 at 2 p.m. in Le Salon

    February 17, 2012

    The NAC Orchestra Bursary Benefit Concert is a concert of chamber music favourites featuring NAC Orchestra Concertmaster Yosuke Kawasaki, Associate Concertmaster Jessica Linnebach, musicians of the NAC Orchestra (Sean Rice, clarinet; David Hutchenreuther, cello; Hilda Cowie, double bass), and violist Paul Casey, who was awarded the Harold Crabtree Foundation Award at the 2011 NAC Orchestra Bursary... Read more

  3. L’OPÉRA DE QUAT’SOUSFebruary 28 to March 3, at 7:30 p.m.

    February 16, 2012

    “The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news,” wrote Bertolt Brecht, whose Threepenny Opera hasn’t been presented at the Théâtre français since the 1984 version directed by André Brassard. The incoming artistic director of the Théâtre français will be remounting the piece with a mind to restore its original ferocity,... Read more

  4. Tango Pasión brings the precision and intensity of authentic Argentine tango to the NAC on February 21, 2012

    February 14, 2012

    Tango Pasión, a larger than life production celebrating the incendiary art of tango, fills the NAC’s Southam Hall on February 21, 2012. The internationally acclaimed Argentine company showcases sensational dancers from among Buenos Aires’ best and explores the ever-evolving dance form through 30 distinct scenes. To create the visually spectacular production, Artistic Directors... Read more

  5. National Arts Centre hosts Canadian Conductors Workshop February 25-29, 2012 Young Canadian conductors lead NAC Orchestra in rehearsal during five days of intense, hands-on training led by renowned conducting instructor Kenneth Kiesler

    February 14, 2012

    OTTAWA, ON—Canada’s National Arts Centre Orchestra and the Institute for Orchestral Studies will host the 2012 Canadian Conductors Workshop from February 25-29, 2012. A supplement to the highly successful Conductors Program of the NAC Summer Music Institute, the Canadian Conductors Workshop will offer intense conducting instruction for emerging professional and pre-professional... Read more

  6. National Arts Centre hosts Canadian Conductors Workshop February 25-29, 2012 Young Canadian conductors lead NAC Orchestra in rehearsal during five days of intense, hands-on training led by renowned conducting instructor Kenneth Kiesler

    February 14, 2012

    OTTAWA, ON—Canada’s National Arts Centre Orchestra and the Institute for Orchestral Studies will host the 2012 Canadian Conductors Workshop from February 25-29, 2012. A supplement to the highly successful Conductors Program of the NAC Summer Music Institute, the Canadian Conductors Workshop will offer intense conducting instruction for emerging professional and pre-professional... Read more

  7. National Arts Centre hosts Canadian Conductors Workshop February 25-29, 2012 Young Canadian conductors lead NAC Orchestra in rehearsal during five days of intense, hands-on training led by renowned conducting instructor Kenneth Kiesler

    February 14, 2012

    OTTAWA, ON—Canada’s National Arts Centre Orchestra and the Institute for Orchestral Studies will host the 2012 Canadian Conductors Workshop from February 25-29, 2012. A supplement to the highly successful Conductors Program of the NAC Summer Music Institute, the Canadian Conductors Workshop will offer intense conducting instruction for emerging professional and pre-professional... Read more

  8. National Arts Centre hosts Canadian Conductors Workshop February 25-29, 2012 Young Canadian conductors lead NAC Orchestra in rehearsal during five days of intense, hands-on training led by renowned conducting instructor Kenneth Kiesler

    February 14, 2012

    OTTAWA, ON—Canada’s National Arts Centre Orchestra and the Institute for Orchestral Studies will host the 2012 Canadian Conductors Workshop from February 25-29, 2012. A supplement to the highly successful Conductors Program of the NAC Summer Music Institute, the Canadian Conductors Workshop will offer intense conducting instruction for emerging professional and pre-professional... Read more

  9. Pinchas Zukerman, star soloists from the National Arts Centre Orchestra, and guest pianist Angela Cheng are featured in the National Arts Centre’s ‘Music for a Sunday Afternoon’ concert on February 26 at the National Gallery of Canada

    February 13, 2012

    The third ‘Music for a Sunday Afternoon’ concert of the National Arts Centre’s 2011-2012 season features Pinchas Zukerman and Jessica Linnebach (Associate Concertmaster of the NAC Orchestra) playing the violin, cellist Amanda Forsyth (NACO principal cello), violist Jethro Marks (NACO principal viola), and guest pianist Angela Cheng. The concert includes the following... Read more

  10. Pinchas Zukerman, conductor and viola soloist, and Danish violin phenomenon Nikolaj Znaider shine in Zukerman, Znaider, and Mozart, the fifth NAC Orchestra Bostonian Bravo Series concert of the season at the National Arts Centre on February 23-24

    February 9, 2012

    In the fifth Bostonian Bravo Series concert of the 2011-2012 season, Music Director Pinchas Zukerman leads the National Arts Centre Orchestra and renowned violinist Nikolaj Znaider in the music of Mozart, Tchaikovsky, and Canadian composer Jacques Hétu. Pinchas Zukerman conducts the concert, and he is viola soloist in Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante. Nikolaj Znaider performs in both... Read more