Tuesday, July 1, 2025 @ 2:30 pm – 3:45 pm – A Canada Day tradition in the heart of Ottawa! Celebrate July 1 with a National Arts Centre Orchestra concert hosted by the slam poet, musician, and composer, YAO. Join us for an uplifting afternoon of music spanning over 100 years of Canadian creativity—featuring works by Ian Cusson, John Estacio, Kati Agócs, Jordan Nobles, and Oscar Peterson’s iconic Hymn to Freedom. […]
Friday, July 11, 2025 @ 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm – Join us for an electrifying evening that pulls back the curtain on CBC’s hit series Murdoch Mysteries—live in concert with the National Arts Centre Ochestra.
Thursday, July 17, 2025 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm – Step into a special summer concert that feels like a breath of fresh air. Come as you are and let Beethoven sweep you away with big sound and pure emotion!
Thursday, July 10, 2025 @ 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm – Join us for an electrifying evening that pulls back the curtain on CBC’s hit series Murdoch Mysteries—live in concert with the National Arts Centre Ochestra.
Thursday, April 4, 2024 @ 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm – The lark is a small ground-nesting bird with an extravagant song that English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams captured in his The Lark Ascending, just as World War I began. NACO’s own Associate Concertmaster, violinist Jessica Linnebach, tenderly conveys the lark’s almost impossibly beautiful call in this masterwork. Dmitri Shostakovich composed his Symphony No. 5 “in […]
Wednesday, April 3, 2024 @ 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm – The lark is a small ground-nesting bird with an extravagant song that English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams captured in his The Lark Ascending, just as World War I began. NACO’s own Associate Concertmaster, violinist Jessica Linnebach, tenderly conveys the lark’s almost impossibly beautiful call in this masterwork. Dmitri Shostakovich composed his Symphony No. 5 “in […]
Sunday, May 26, 2024 @ 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm – The music from Brazil is as vibrant as it is diverse. Luciano brings light to some of the origins of Brazil’s vast musical landscape through his repertoire of original songs and traditional rhythms. By interlacing each song with stories that provide artistic and cultural context, Luciano takes the audience on a journey where influences from […]
Sunday, May 26, 2024 @ 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm – The music from Brazil is as vibrant as it is diverse. Luciano brings light to some of the origins of Brazil’s vast musical landscape through his repertoire of original songs and traditional rhythms. By interlacing each song with stories that provide artistic and cultural context, Luciano takes the audience on a journey where influences from […]
Sunday, May 26, 2024 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm – The music from Brazil is as vibrant as it is diverse. Luciano brings light to some of the origins of Brazil’s vast musical landscape through his repertoire of original songs and traditional rhythms. By interlacing each song with stories that provide artistic and cultural context, Luciano takes the audience on a journey where influences from […]
Thursday, May 16, 2024 @ 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm – Online personality and violinist extraordinaire Ray Chen has redefined what it is to be a classical musician, and every performance shows why he’s a musical hero around the world, inspiring a new generation of musicians and music lovers. Felix Mendelssohn took more than five years to complete his beautiful Violin Concerto in E minor, and […]
Wednesday, May 15, 2024 @ 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm – Online personality and violinist extraordinaire Ray Chen has redefined what it is to be a classical musician, and every performance shows why he’s a musical hero around the world, inspiring a new generation of musicians and music lovers. Felix Mendelssohn took more than five years to complete his beautiful Violin Concerto in E minor, and […]
Thursday, May 9, 2024 @ 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm – Feel all the passion and sizzle of Latin America as NAC Orchestra Creative Partner Gabriela Montero performs her Latin Concerto, “a portrait of Latin America in all its splendour.” Venezuelan pianist Gabriela Montero’s skill and virtuosity at the piano borders on the supernatural. Her mastery of the classical repertoire and her ability to improvise on […]
Wednesday, May 8, 2024 @ 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm – Feel all the passion and sizzle of Latin America as NAC Orchestra Creative Partner Gabriela Montero performs her Latin Concerto, “a portrait of Latin America in all its splendour.” Venezuelan pianist Gabriela Montero’s skill and virtuosity at the piano borders on the supernatural. Her mastery of the classical repertoire and her ability to improvise on […]
Sunday, May 5, 2024 @ 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm – For one night only, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra (TSO) takes the stage of Southam Hall, joined by acclaimed Italian Canadian mezzo-soprano Emily D’Angelo, who will perform music from her 2021 album enargeia, released on Deutsche Grammophon. “One of the world’s special young singers,” “wondrous and powerful” (The New York Times), winner of the 2020 Lincoln […]
Saturday, May 4, 2024 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm – WolfGANG Sessions at Club SAW is a night of music that is sure to entertain. Grab your adventurous friends and take them out for a wild night of chamber music with your favourite musicians from the NAC Orchestra.
Saturday, April 27, 2024 @ 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm – Sass, style, and serious classical chops: that’s what the dragnificent Thorgy Thor brings to Southam Hall when she and Principal Youth Conductor and NACO Creative Partner Daniel Bartholomew-Poyser join the NAC Orchestra for an evening of virtuoso violin playing and fabulousness! Fresh from a star-making turn on Season 8 of RuPaul’s Drag Race, the “Queen […]
Friday, April 26, 2024 @ 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm – Sass, style, and serious classical chops: that’s what the dragnificent Thorgy Thor brings to Southam Hall when she and Principal Youth Conductor and NACO Creative Partner Daniel Bartholomew-Poyser join the NAC Orchestra for an evening of virtuoso violin playing and fabulousness! Fresh from a star-making turn on Season 8 of RuPaul’s Drag Race, the “Queen […]
Thursday, April 25, 2024 @ 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm – Sass, style, and serious classical chops: that’s what the dragnificent Thorgy Thor brings to Southam Hall when she and Principal Youth Conductor and NACO Creative Partner Daniel Bartholomew-Poyser join the NAC Orchestra for an evening of virtuoso violin playing and fabulousness! Fresh from a star-making turn on Season 8 of RuPaul’s Drag Race, the “Queen […]
Sunday, April 21, 2024 @ 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm – From the bottom of the ocean to the top of the highest mountain, from the tiniest insect to the mightiest elephant, from the deepest tree root to the farthest reaches of outer space—our world is full of spine-tingling wonders and incredible secrets. Join the NAC Orchestra and its special guests for a musical exploration of […]
Sunday, April 7, 2024 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm – Thanks to the generosity of the members of the NAC Orchestra and of additional organizations and individuals, up to eight Finalists will be chosen from the Preliminary Auditions to compete in the Finals for the following prizes: The NAC Orchestra Bursary, The Crabtree Foundation Award, The Friends of the NAC Orchestra Award, The NAC Orchestra […]
