Latest Episodes
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Karina Canellakis
July 4, 2018 - Duration: 37:53
Karina Canellakis is the newly appointed Chief Conductor of the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra in
Amsterdam, beginning in the 19/20 season.Winner of the 2016 Sir Georg Solti Conducting Award, Karina is internationally acclaimed for her emotionally…
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The Man with the Violin
May 4, 2018 - Duration: 20:04
“Every time a child passed through the station, the child wanted to stop, and every time, the adult with them pulled them along on their way.” Sean Rice interviews author Kathy Stinson, illustrator Dušan Petričić and…
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Natasha Gauthier with Alice Sara Ott and Eivind Gullberg Jensen
April 10, 2018 - Duration: 49:17
Natasha Gauthier of Artsfile.ca interviews pianist Alice Sara Ott and conductor Eivind Gullberg Jensen who performed the Grieg Piano Concerto together with the NAC Orchestra, at the NAC, in January 2018. Join…
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Institute for Orchestral Studies
March 6, 2018 - Duration: 32:17
Sean Rice, second clarinetist of the NAC Orchestra, interviews the five apprentices who participated in the NAC's annual Institute for Orchestral Studies in the fall of 2017. They were:
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Joana Carneiro, NACO and the Tanztheater Wuppertal – Pina Bausch dance company
February 5, 2018 - Duration: 21:20
Portuguese conductor Joana Carneiro, a well-travelled artist, talks with Sean Rice about her first time with the Pina Bausch dance company and with the NAC Orchestra, all in the same week in September 2017.
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Chip Hamann’s new CD, Canadian Works for Oboe & Piano
December 6, 2017 - Duration: 55:48
Sean Rice interviewed the NAC Orchestra’s principal oboe Chip Hamann about his new album, a two-disc album that was released in June 2017. It was the first classical recording at the Isabel Bader Centre in Kingston. What a…
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Robert Chafe, lyricist for “Heirloom” co-produced with Larysa Kuzmenko
October 31, 2017 - Duration: 41:39
Robert Chafe is a 2010 Governor General Award recipient for his play, Afterimage. His extensive body of work also includes such plays as Place of First Light, Charismatic Death Scenes, Belly Up, Emptygirl, Oil and Water, Butler's Marsh,…
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Joel Quarrington and his new album: Schubert “An Die Musik”
September 20, 2017 - Duration: 41:02
Principal Bassist, Joel Quarrington, joins us to talk about his brand new solo album, Schubert: An die Musik, that he recorded with Canadian pianist, David Jalbert. We discuss his love of the music that…
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Ideas of North
August 31, 2017 - Duration: 33:46
Maestro Alexander Shelley shares his thoughts on the National Arts Centre Orchestra's 2017-18 opening festival of music, Ideas of North - featuring an array of Scandinavian composers and performers, including many of Sibelius' symphonies and tone poems. Principal Guest Conductor,…
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ENCOUNT3RS - Creation and Colaboration
May 19, 2017 - Duration: 1:08:23
In this bilingual panel discussion on Creation and Collaboration that preceded the world premiere of ENCOUNT3RS (April 20-22, 2017), animator Catherine Clark speaks with the six Canadian artists involved in this historic NAC dance-music commission celebrating Canada 150.…