Life is pretty sweet on Sunny Ritter's side of the street. She lives with her mother in Vienna, Austria, one of the most exciting cities in the world. She's got friends and she has music. She especially has the piano. Sunny calls the instrument her
Donnie Deacon knows all about that old saw 'When one door closes, another opens'. He's lived it. Deacon started his professional life in music as a talented violinist firmly ensconced in the NAC Orchestra as principal second chair. Today he is the music director of the
Alexander and Zoe Shelley are basking in the glow of the arrival of their son. The music director of the NAC Orchestra announced the birth in an Instagram post. "A few short hours ago this beautiful little boy came into our lives. He and his mother, who
For Tanya Evanson, hip hop falls under the umbrella of the art form known as spoken word. The Antiguan-Canadian writer, performer, producer and educator presents her form of spoken word performance internationally, so she knows quite a bit about what she speaks. Both forms are possessed by
About 80,000 people have visited the new Ottawa Art Gallery in its inaugural summer, drawn to see the opening exhibition of the work of about 190 artists from this region called Àdisòkàmagan / Nous connaître un peu nous-mêmes / We'll all become stories, which starts to
The Gladstone Theatre turns 10 years old this fall. That may make it a mere stripling in the arts world, but in the past decade it’s taken on a very adult role in Ottawa’s theatre scene. And if its upcoming, jam-packed season – 24 shows by
Think of a great violin or cello solo. It is a marriage of two things: a well-made instrument and a talented musician. That synergy matters. This has been the purpose of the Canada Council's Musical Instrument Bank since it was founded in 1985. At the time, says
The National Gallery of Canada will host a retrospective of the work of the Swiss artist Paul Klee for the first time in Canada since 1979. The works by Klee highlight a busy fall season that also includes an exciting multi-disciplinary exhibition called Anthropocene and
Three years ago Ottawa native Yolanda Bruno got a Stradivarius violin. She didn't have a rich benefactor, nor is she wealthy. She got her instrument from an important institution, The Canada Council Musical Instrument Bank. In this interview with ARTSFILE, Bruno talks about her choice
Antonio Llaca was 18 when he arrived in Ottawa. That young man was, as he says today, in love with stringed instruments and he had applied, and been accepted, in the music department of the University of Ottawa intending to study classical guitar. Ottawa is a long
