Sphere Festival Opens With A Beautifully Intense Inter-discipline Performance

 The National Arts Centre kicked off its 2024 SPHERE Festival, an enlightened celebration of the coming together of arts and science, with UAQUE, a collaboration between Colombian Canadian choreographer Andrea Peña, renowned Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky, and the NAC Orchestra’s masterful Music Director Alexander Shelley. The curtain was up as

SPHERE Festival 2024: An Artistic Odyssey Celebrating Nature’s Wonders

 By David Johnson From September 10-20, the National Arts Centre will host SPHERE, a multidisciplinary festival celebrating the inspirations that lie in nature, as an opening to its 2024-25 season. Produced by the National Arts Centre Orchestra and curated by Alexander Shelley, the festival includes participation from the NAC Orchestra, NAC

20th Annual NAC Gala Brings a New Energy to the NAC

 Gala images by Ernesto Distefano and Andre Gagne. Saturday October 22ND, 2016 marked the 20TH Annual Natioanl Arts Centre Gala, featuring performances by five-time Grammy-winning Canadian artist Diana Krall, in collaboration with Music Director Alexander Shelley and the National Arts Centre Orchestra. This year’s Gala raised almost $725,000 in support

The Romantic Freedom of Beethoven and Schumann

 All photos by Myka Burkle. NAC Orchestra Music Director Alexander Shelley concluded the week-long Beethoven and Schumann Festival Thursday with an Ottawa debut for legendary Austrian pianist Rudolf Buchbinder and two masterpieces of classical music: Beethoven’s Piano Concerto Number 4 and Schumann’s Fourth Symphony. Alexander Shelley, the NAC Orchestra, and