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Professional pathways: Learning opportunities for artists and arts professionals
August 15, 2023This year, 46 talented young artists from around the world came together for the annual NAC Orchestra Mentorship Program – a unique, three-week professional development program for emerging orchestral musicians, conductors, and librarians. NACO musicians served as principal faculty,…
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Mozart meets Ivany: Two opera stars connect in the 21st century through...
June 8, 2023Joel Ivany knows opera. He is founder and artistic director of Against the Grain Theatre in Toronto; Artistic Director of Edmonton Opera; a familiar face to opera fans in Los Angeles, New York, Washington, Norway, Australia, and elsewhere; writer of at least seven librettos for various…
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A Buzz in the Air: The NAC Orchestra’s SPHERE festival
November 23, 2022Your donations to the NAC Foundation help to create artistic programming that is relevant to our time. SPHERE, a music, arts and science festival about our world in a time of climate crisis, engaged audiences between September 22 and 25. Co-curated by Alexander Shelley and…
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Bobby Thompson winner of 2022 NAC Orchestra Bursary competition
May 5, 2022Bobby Thompson, bassoon, takes home $7,000 grand prize It was a competitive weekend for music students from around the National Capital Region who congregated at the National Arts Centre (NAC) and on the University of Ottawa campus for the National Arts Centre Orchestra (NACO)’s Annual…
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Reggae Roots or an Unexpected Rendez-Vous!
April 4, 2022A video-on-demand series bringing to life the sounds and stories of the musical movement that grew to influence music around the globe! In February 2022, Orchestral Conductor Daniel Bartholomew-Poyser joined the National Arts Centre Orchestra as Principal Youth Conductor and Creative…
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Bryan Cheng Forges His Own Way with a Well-Loved Classic
February 17, 2020Attending open rehearsals is one of the many benefits donors receive when they support performance, creation and learning across Canada through the National Arts Centre Foundation. On the morning of Wednesday January 29, Ottawa-born and raised cellist Bryan Cheng returned to Southam Hall,…
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The National Arts Centre at 50: Propelling Canada’s Voices
June 18, 2019By Christopher Deacon, President and CEO of the National Arts Centre. One month ago, I was sitting in the darkened hall of La Seine Musicale in Paris, overwhelmed. On three large screens, Indigenous dancers performed a choreography by the Mohawk dancer and choreographer Santee Smith in…
