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Ovation

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Our Ovation series will bring you to your feet with a bonanza of musical riches featuring stellar artists from around the world and right here at home. Australian violinist and YouTube sensation Ray Chen makes his NAC debut, and we warmly welcome esteemed guest performers like pianists Emanuel Ax and Louis Lortie back to Southam Hall. In other ovation-worthy performances, our spotlight turns to NACO’s own principal flutist Joanna G’froerer, and NACO violinist and Associate Concertmaster Jessica Linnebach.

Let yourself be swept away by the great masterpieces you cherish performed by the artists you love!

In-person

Emanuel Ax Plays Brahms
Focus: Clara, Robert, Johannes

Sep 13, 2023 - 8 PM EDT Sep 13, 2023 - 8 PM EDT Southam Hall

Our Festival Focus : Clara, Robert, Johannes celebrates the abiding friendship between Clara and Robert Schumann and Johannes Brahms who encouraged … read more
In-person

Schumann's Cello Concerto
Focus: Clara, Robert, Johannes

Sep 14, 2023 - 8 PM EDT Sep 14, 2023 - 8 PM EDT Southam Hall

Tonight, this tender cello concerto finds a much-deserved spotlight in the hands of German-French cellist Nicolas Alstaedt. … read more
In-person

Louis Lortie Returns
& Roderick Cox conducts Beethoven's Eroica

Oct 25 - 26, 2023 Oct 25 - 26, 2023 Southam Hall

Pianist Louis Lortie makes a welcome return to Southam Hall to perform some of the most beautiful music ever written for piano and orchestra. … read more
In-person

Shelley Conducts Strauss
& Felix Klieser Plays Mozart

Nov 22 - 23, 2023 Nov 22 - 23, 2023 Southam Hall

Richard Strauss’s tone poems depict epic tales and ask life’s big questions . … read more
In-person

G'froerer Plays Mozart
& Stephanie Childress conducts Mendelssohn

Jan 17 - 18, 2024 Jan 17 - 18, 2024 Southam Hall

Joanna G’froerer, NACO’s principal flutist since 1992, demonstrates what all the fuss is about. … read more
In-person

Storgårds, Mozart & Shostakovich's 5th
Featuring Jessica Linnebach

Apr 3 - 4, 2024 Apr 3 - 4, 2024 Southam Hall

Composed at a time when an artist’s work could be celebrated one day and be cause for exile or worse the next. Under the baton of Principal Guest Conductor … read more
In-person

Ray Chen, Mendelssohn & Mahler
with the NAC Orchestra

May 15 - 16, 2024 May 15 - 16, 2024 Southam Hall

Online personality and violinist extraordinaire Ray Chen has redefined what it is to be a classical musician … read more