Leila Josefowicz © Chris Lee
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Leila Josefowicz © Chris Lee
Music Classical music Violin
  • Approx. 1 hour  and  15 minutes
Performance options Start time Language Availability
Thursday, June 6, 2019 10:00 am bilingual Seats available

Your Thursday, June 6 Leila Josefowicz concert experience includes:

- Pre-concert performance by 17 Voyces at the base of the Glass & Thorsteinsen staircase (6:00 pm – 6:45 pm)
- Full length concert with intermission

For details on the Friday, June 7 Leila Josefowicz concert click here.

 

With guest conductor Joana Carneiro and firebrand Canadian violinist Leila Josefowicz, the NAC Orchestra celebrates innovation and invention from three of Britain’s finest modern musical artists.

Music by Thomas Ades comes alive in the hands of  violinist Leila Josefowicz. Ades’s Violin Concerto: Concentric Paths, an energetic and atmospheric piece, is filled with dense layers of emotion and drama.

Anna Clyne is a risk-taker whose compositions are filled with kinetic and passionate physicality. Inspired by the rapid rewinding of analog videotape, with its inherent skipping, freezing, and jumping­­­­, Clyne’s <<rewind<< is filled with tension and release, by turns intriguingly intangible then filled with arresting themes that bind its structure.

Composer James Macmillan drew inspiration for his Woman of the Apocalypse from the mysticism of art by the likes of Rubens, Doré, and Blake. In this dramatic, almost hallucinogenic, orchestral piece, the enigmatic “woman clothed by the sun” from the book of Revelation does fierce battle with a dragon before triumphing and ascending into heaven. This is a provocative and epic work, no less fevered than the paintings that inspired it.

A quartet of singers from the ever-inventive Ottawa choir Seventeen Voyces offers a prelude of madrigals at 18:00 at the base of the Glass & Thorsteinsen staircase.

Artists

  • Conductor Joana Carneiro
  • Violin Leila Josefowicz

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Learning and engagement at Canada’s National Arts Centre is made possible through the support of many generous individuals and organizations from across the country. Arts Alive is generously supported by the Azrieli Foundation, the Government of Nunavut, Canadian North, Calm Air, The River Philip Foundation, The Turnbull Family Community Building Foundation, and The Thomas Sill Foundation. Thank you also to Grant and Alice Burton, Canada Life, A Donor-Advised Fund at the Community Foundation of Ottawa, Friends of the NAC Orchestra, Donors to the NAC Foundation's Future Fund, The Janice and Earle O’Born Fund for Artistic Excellence, and the donors and sponsors of the NAC’s National Youth and Education Trust, the primary resource for youth and education funding at the National Arts Centre.