For 30 years, Montreal's ECM+ has been leading the way in the performance and celebration of music by contemporary Canadian composers. And for the past decade they have been touring the music of younger artists across Canada. ECM+'s founder and music director Veronique Lacroix has
Evelyn Hart, the Royal Winnipeg Ballet’s legendary prima ballerina, made her first Southam Hall appearance as a young dancer more than 40 years ago. Hart left the company in 2005 and retired from major classical roles a year later, but never hung up her dancing
Charline Dequincey is a maker of violins, violas and cellos. She shapes them by hand out of wood. It started when she was 13 and playing the viola in her home region of Franche-Comté. She was chatting with her teacher who told her there was a school for
"I am at Pink Lake very far in the woods right now collecting things for my photographs." With that, an interview with the photographer Whitney Lewis-Smith got started. She was up a tree at the time and descended to sit on a nearby stump and explain
In the days after the Sept. 21 tornadoes that ripped a path of devastation across Ottawa and Gatineau, Erin Benjamin was sitting at her desk looking at all the film of the destruction. It was a shocking revelation. "I had been like many people sort of cut
The National Arts Centre is at the heart of official Ottawa located near the Parliament Buildings. But even closer is the National War Memorial. As the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World Aar approaches, the NAC will use music and the visual power
When you are producing a concert that features 3D printed instruments, you need someone to play those instruments. The Ottawa Symphony Orchestra's 3D String Theory Project features an octet called Singularity. One of the eight women performing the music by Harry Stafylakis is Geena Salway.
