Ryotaro Leo Ikenaga was on track to be an investment banker. He was going to one of the elite universities in the U.S., Cornell, and he had a job offer on the table. Still he chucked it all. But he wasn't going snowboarding or touring the
Paul Gauguin is an artist so recognizable, even more than a century after his death, that you can take a luxury cruise of the South Pacific islands seen in so many of his paintings. So it’s remarkable that a major aspect of his work, portraiture,
The 45 year old Great Canadian Theatre Company is not offering a world premiere of a new production in its new season, but that fact doesn't faze GCTC's Artistic Director who says in a media release: “Every play in our (2019-20) season has been a hit in
It was a Manitoba reunion of sorts Wednesday at NACO, with former Winnipeg Symphony music director Bramwell Tovey conducting Brandon-born violinist James Ehnes. The evening was supposed to feature the premiere of a new violin concerto Tovey is writing for Ehnes. That project is now
After 10 years as the artistic director of Ballet BC, Emily Molnar isn't singing the blues, but she definitely is choreographing them. That's Blues as in the posthumous album by Jimi Hendrix released in 1994. It forms the soundtrack of her latest choreography, To this day,
Ottawa and Alberta may not always be on the same page politically but there is a certain sympatico growing between the National Arts Centre and the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. Evidence of the cultural connection can be found in the new summer season that
This Saturday the city of Ottawa will formally crown two new poet laureates. The VERSeFest International Poetry Festival has announced that Deanna Young and Margaret Michèle Cook will each be named to a two-year term. The two women were chosen by a panel of judges because
It's been an improbable rise to prominence for the Quebecois pianist Alexandra Stréliski . After all she plays 'neo-classical' music on the piano she has had all her musical life. It's not the kind of music that necessarily sells out large halls, but that's is what
Listen to the music of J.S. Bach and you can hear it dance. The Baroque period was built on dance. The royal courts celebrated with dance and people studied the steps of the chaconne, the gavotte, the minuet and the rigaudon along with many more now seemingly
James Ehnes is basking in the glow of another Grammy win. The virtuoso violinist received his latest gong for a recording of a concerto by the American composer Aaron Jay Kernis. The co-commission is not the first piece Kernis has written for Ehnes. "About 12 years ago
