The world's largest chamber music festival is celebrating its silver anniversary with $25 tickets on a wide range of concerts and an eclectic mix of performances from classic chamber music to the cutting edge. The 2018 Chamberfest opens on July 26 with a return appearance by
The spring edition of the Ottawa International Writers festival features philosophers and poets along with stories of immigration, identity, the latest in fiction from Canada and abroad and a crime novel by the former Supreme Court chief justice Beverley McLachlin. Kicking off the event on April
From the forest of Bali to the villages of China's Yunnan province, Canadian composer Vivian Fung is alert to the sounds around her. Sometimes those sounds stay in her head and resound continually in a synaptic looptape commonly called an earworm, sometimes called a brainworm, sticky
By Evelyn Myers A new exhibit at the Canadian War Museum explores the tragic Second World War saga of the St. Louis, which saw more than 900 Jewish refugees fleeing the Nazis aboard a German ocean liner were turned away from Canada, the U.S. and other
For more than 35 years the Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra was led by violinist Jeanne Lamon, who assumed the role of music director in 1981. The chamber orchestra, dedicated to the music of the Baroque period, has a worldwide reputation for the quality of its performance. Now
For a music critic, few things are more satisfying than watching a young prodigy bloom into a complete, mature artist. Quebec cellist Stéphane Tétreault has been making the classical music world sit up and take notice since he was a teenager. At 24, he’s fulfilled
The artistic advisor of the Ottawa Symphony Orchestra is now the music director. The OSO announced Monday afternoon that Alain Trudel has signed on the dotted line for two more years. Trudel joined the organization as Artistic Advisor and Principal Guest Conductor in the 2016-17
Some people get bad ties and slippers when they are turning 60. Not Angela Hewitt. She gets a Governor General's Performing Arts Award for a lifetime of achievement and a special concert in London, England. "I was thrilled to bits," she over the phone from New
The American Alice Notley is considered one of the foremost poets of her generation. The 75 year old is the author of more than 35 books of poetry and prose. She has been a full-time poet since 1970. She will be reading on the opening
In his time violinist Cameron Wilson has played in a mariachi band, a francophone band called Pastiche that sounds like La Bottine Souriante, a Parisian-style jazz band called Van Django, something called the Hard Rubber Orchestra, another called Tambura Rasa and he fills in as an extra
