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
By Connor Oke Negotiations continue in Carleton University’s plan to take over Centretown’s Dominion-Chalmers United Church but a recent decision by Ottawa city council put the project one step closer to completion. Councillors have approved a rezoning of the church, allowing it to be used as a
Comedian Kathy Griffin was shunned by friends and colleagues, banished from TV and hounded by the U.S. Secret Service for a picture showing her holding Donald Trumps severed head. But now she's back on the stage with what she's calling her Laugh Your Head Off
Tough, ambitious, obsessed with building his business empire, Ottawa lumber baron J.R. Booth would seem singularly ill-suited as a subject of poetry. Building on River says otherwise. The upcoming collection of five dozen poems by Ottawa’s Jean Van Loon tracks, compellingly, the life and times of
Mark Sakamoto has a lot on his mind. He is in the centre of a dot.com business success story that has seen the big data health company ThinkResearch mushroom in size and in revenue. "It's a hot area and we have done really well. We sleep
