The Ottawa Symphony Orchestra has expanded their concert season from four to five, announce the winner of a new music prize, reached out to a new venue for part of the season and helped fuel technological innovation in instrument making. And that doesn't include a
Alexander Shelley and the National Arts Centre Orchestra kicked off their 2017-18 season Wednesday evening with a potpourri of popular film music performed by the beloved violinist Itzhak Perlman. Perlman is no stranger to Southam Hall, thanks to his great friendship with Pinchas Zukerman. This time
If you look above the stage in Southam Hall this month, you just might see the spirit of Pina Bausch. The legendary German choreographer died 2009, but her works and her Tanztheater Wuppertal company continue to be seen worldwide including in Ottawa to kick off the
The Ottawa Choral Society season for 2017-18 will feature a collaboration with the choir of Ecole Secondaire de la Salle, an Ontario premiere of a new Canadian work, a performance by renowned baritone Russell Braun, a Christmas collaboration with Chamberfest and a joint celebration of
Marc Djokic, a violinist well-known to Ottawa audiences, has won the $125,000 Goyer prize given to a collaborative emerging artist. The prize is the largest in Canada and one of the largest in the world for a collaborative classical music artist. The prize is named for the
The musical duo of Canadian violinist Véronique Mathieu and pianist Stephanie Chua will open the 2017-18 Concerts by the Canal series at Southminister United Church on Sept. 16. In advance, ARTSFILE talked to Mathieu, who is based in Toronto, is an award winning performer, an
Michigan Avenue runs right through the Motor City — a giant spoke on a giant wheel. Sixto Rodriguez knows all about Michigan Avenue. He was born in 1942 at 831 Michigan, above a bar, the sixth child of Mexican immigrants parents. "I was born on top of
If Amiel Gladstone had been otherwise engaged a few years back, Onegin, the hip musical opening the new theatre season at the National Arts Centre next week, might never have happened. Playwright/director Gladstone together with musician/composer Veda Hille created Onegin based on Tchaikovsky’s popular opera Eugene
The late 1960s were perilous days. It was the height of the Cold War, as the Soviet Union and the United States fought for nuclear supremacy, and as, on a quiet street in Prince Edward Island, another arms race was fought for supremacy in, umm,
Pierre Théberge is back under the spotlight after leaving the public stage in 2009 when he retired, amid considerable controversy, as the director of the National Gallery of Canada. His re-appearance, at age 75, comes in a two-volume, French-language biography by Montreal art critic Nicolas Mavrikakis.
