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NATIONAL ARTS CENTRE ORCHESTRA
The orchestra’s music director designate, John Storgårds, leads a French-tinged program that includes Debussy’s Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune as well as pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet playing Saint-Saëns’s “The Egyptian” Concerto (Feb. 11 & 12). Los Angeles-based Troupe Vertigo fuses elements of cirque acrobatics, classical dance, and contemporary theatre. They appear with NACO from Feb. 19 to 21 in concerts featuring music from Wicked and the Harry Potter films. On March 18 & 19, Jaeden Izik-Dzurko, 2024 winner of the Leeds International Piano Competition and Concours Musical International de Montréal, plays Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 3 under conductor Gemma New. She also leads Copland’s Suite from Appalachian Spring and Kelly-Marie Murphy’s A Thousand Natural Shocks. Polish-Russian conductor Andrey Boreyko—regularly seen on the podium of major orchestras in Vienna, Chicago, Boston, London, Warsaw and Madrid—returns to lead Shostakovich’s Chamber Symphony in F major, Ravel’s Le tombeau de Couperin and NACO principal bassoon Darren Hicks in André Jolivet’s Bassoon Concerto (April 1 & 2). On April 8 & 9, violinist Joshua Bell brings together five of today’s leading composers (Kevin Puts, Jennifer Higdon, Edgar Meyer, Jake Heggie and Jessie Montgomery) to celebrate the beauty of our natural world in The Elements. In the same program, Alexander Shelley leads the orchestra in Wagner’s Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde and Bernstein’s Symphonic Dances from West Side Story. www.nac-cna.ca/en/
OTTAWA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
On March 29, the orchestra presents A Day at the Farm. This original Canadian production for children introduces young audiences to the instruments of the orchestra, with narration by Yvonne Gillespie that brings the farmyard to life. www.ottawasymphony.com
THIRTEEN STRINGS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
As 50th-anniversary celebrations continue, composer-conductor-performer Dinuk Wijeratne makes his Thirteen Strings debut on Feb. 13 with Gajaga Vannama, a work that combines Sri Lankan rhythms and Mozartian colour. Canada’s leading ambassador of the tabla, Shawn Mativetsky is guest soloist. March 6 sees our cover artist, Andrei Feher, conduct works by Mendelssohn, Price and Britten with soprano Elisabeth St-Gelais in Wagner’s Wesendonck Lieder. On April 3, soprano Mireille Asselin and mezzo-soprano Mireille Lebel are soloists in Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater. Strauss’s sublime Metamorphosen for 23 strings rounds out a program conducted by Jean-Marie Zeitouni. www.thirteenstrings.ca
OTTAWA CHAMBERFEST
Los Angeles Guitar Quartet and the Canadian Guitar Quartet take the stage on Feb. 14 in works that traverse South American folk themes, culminating in a finale featuring Patrick Roux’s La valse des temps nouveaux, performed with a full ensemble of local guitarists. Pianist Angela Hewitt returns on March 6 with the next chapter of her Mozart Odyssey project. She plays the Piano Concerto No. 18 as part of a tour that includes stops in New York, Milan, London, and Brussels. Mozart is the focus for two other great Canadian pianists on March 25. Marc-André Hamelin and Charles Richard-Hamelin play a two-piano arrangement of The Marriage of Figaro Overture as well as the Sonata for Two Pianos. www.chamberfest.com
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