Student Matinee : Bronfman's Beethoven | Feb 7, 2019

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Feb 7, 2019

Southam Hall 1 Elgin Street Ottawa Canada

naco-event-images-bronf2 — Yefim Bronfman © Dario Acosta

Music Classical music Masterworks

Approx. 1 hour and 15 minutes

Performance options	Start time	Language	Availability
Thursday, February 7, 2019	10:00 am	bilingual	Seats available

Returning to the brilliance of Beethoven, the NAC Orchestra welcomes international phenomenon and Ottawa favourite Yefim Bronfman to back to the stage to perform Beethoven’s exquisite 4th piano concerto. Beethoven himself publicly premiered the work in 1808, in his last appearance as a soloist with an orchestra.

Approaching each performance as a new experience, Bronfman delivers a unique moment of truth in every concert. If you experienced the journey through Beethoven’s genius that opened the 2018/19 NACO season, you won’t want to miss this opportunity to immerse yourself, once again.

John Storgårds conducts this evening’s program, which concludes with Vaughan Williams’s poignant and reflective Symphony No. 5 – in the NAC Orchestra’s first-ever performance of a symphony by the eminent British composer. Ralph VaughanWilliams, who was an unapologetic admirer of Jean Sibelius, dedicated his 5th symphony to Jean Sibelius “without permission and with the sincerest flattery.” He composed the work as the Second World War raged around him, perhaps as a way of escaping to the peaceful and idyllic England of his memories.

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This event ended on: Feb 8, 2019

Adults & chaperones

1 Free adult per 15 students

Free admittance for special needs assistants

$ (HST included) for additional chaperons At the discretion of the National Arts Centre

Payment deadlines

3 weeks before the performance

Full payment is required by the payment deadline. The NAC reserves the right to cancel any orders submitted but not paid for by the payment deadline.

Seating

There are no reserved seats for NAC student matinee performances.

Instead of tickets you will receive a letter of admission and groups will be seated on a first-come, first-served basis at the performance.

The letter of admission will be issued upon receipt of full payment.

If you have any questions, please contact us at education@nac-cna.ca

Artists

conductor John Storgårds
conductor John Storgårds

Principal Guest Conductor of the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa and Chief Conductor of the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, John Storgårds has a dual career as a conductor and violin virtuoso and is widely recognized for his creative flair for programming as well as his rousing yet refined performances. As Artistic Director of the Lapland Chamber Orchestra, a title he has held for over 25 years, Storgårds earned global critical acclaim for the ensemble’s adventurous performances and award-winning recordings.

Internationally, Storgårds appears with such orchestras as the Berliner Philharmoniker, Munich Philharmonic, Orchestre National de France, Vienna Radio Symphony, and the London Philharmonic, as well as all of the major Nordic orchestras, including the Helsinki Philharmonic where he was Chief Conductor from 2008 to 2015. He also regularly returns to the Münchener Kammerorchester, where he was Artistic Partner from 2016 to 2019. Further afield, he appears with the Sydney, Melbourne, Yomiuri Nippon and NHK Symphony Orchestras as well as the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and New York Philharmonic.

Storgårds’s award-winning discography includes not only recordings of works by Schumann, Mozart, Beethoven, and Haydn, but also rarities by Holmboe and Vask, which feature him as violin soloist. Cycles of the complete symphonies of Sibelius (2014) and Nielsen (2015) with the BBC Philharmonic were released to critical acclaim by Chandos. November 2019 saw the release of the third and final volume of works by American avant-garde composer George Antheil. Their latest project, recording the late symphonies of Shostakovich, commenced in April 2020 with the release of Symphony No. 11. In 2023, Storgårds and the BBC Philharmonic were nominated for Gramophone magazine’s Orchestra of the Year Award.

Storgårds studied violin with Chaim Taub and conducting with Jorma Panula and Eri Klas. He received the Finnish State Prize for Music in 2002 and the Pro Finlandia Prize 2012.

Premier chef invité de l’Orchestre philharmonique de la BBC et de l’Orchestre du Centre national des Arts, John Storgårds mène de front une carrière de chef d’orchestre et de violoniste virtuose, et est renommé pour ses programmes innovants et ses prestations à la fois fougueuses et raffinées. Il assure également depuis 25 ans la direction artistique de l’Orchestre de chambre de Laponie, renommé partout dans le monde pour ses prestations audacieuses et ses enregistrements primés.

Sur la scène internationale, Storgårds se produit régulièrement avec les orchestres philharmoniques de Berlin, de Munich et de Londres, l’Orchestre national de France et l’Orchestre symphonique de la radio de Vienne, de même que les principaux orchestres scandinaves, y compris l’Orchestre philharmonique d’Helsinki, dont il a été chef attitré de 2008 à 2015. Il retourne régulièrement diriger l’Orchestre de chambre de Munich où il a été partenaire artistique de 2016 à 2019. Sur les autres continents, il a été invité au podium des orchestres symphoniques de Sydney, de Melbourne, de la NHK à Tokyo et Yomiuri du Japon, ainsi que des orchestres symphoniques de Boston et de Chicago et de l’Orchestre philharmonique de New York.

La discographie primée du maestro comporte des enregistrements d’œuvres de Schumann, Mozart, Beethoven et Haydn, mais aussi des raretés de Holmboe et Vask, où on peut l’entendre comme soliste au violon. Avec l’Orchestre philharmonique de la BBC, il a gravé sous étiquette Chandos l’intégrale des symphonies de Nielsen (2015) et de Sibelius (2014), qui lui ont valu les éloges de la critique. En novembre 2019, il a publié le troisième et dernier volume des œuvres du compositeur américain d’avant-garde George Antheil. Leur dernier projet en date est l’enregistrement des symphonies tardives de Chostakovitch, notamment celui de la Symphonie n^o 11 paru en avril 2020. En 2023, Storgårds et l’Orchestre philharmonique de la BBC ont été en lice pour le titre d’orchestre de l’année décerné par le magazine Gramophone.

John Storgårds a étudié le violon auprès de Chaim Taub et la direction d’orchestre auprès de Jorma Panula et d’Eri Klas. Il a reçu le Prix de la musique de l’État finlandais en 2002 et le prix Pro Finlandia en 2012.
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