May 14, 2025
Shelley & Yeol Eum Son (Ottawa)
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm
1 Elgin St, Ottawa, Ontario, K1P 5W1 Canada
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About Event
Experience the NAC Orchestra’s next Tour – No Passport Required!
- This special concert is your front-row ticket to the Orchestra’s upcoming international tour. Immerse yourself in the stunning sounds and energy that will soon captivate audiences across the Pacific.
- Korean pianist Yeol Eum Son — whose popularity at home rivals that of K-pop stars — returns to perform a jazzy masterpiece by Ravel.
After shaking the foundations of Southam Hall with her fiery debut last season, pianist Yeol Eum Son makes her highly anticipated return to perform Ravel’s glittering Piano concerto, a piece inspired by the hot jazz he heard in Harlem and New Orleans during the Roaring Twenties.
Two musical poems showcase Strauss’s expert ability to tell vivid stories through music: Death and Transfiguration, a spiritual journey that finds serenity in the drama of the human experience, and Don Juan, in which Strauss places us in the centre of the legendary Spanish womanizer’s romantic adventures.
And as part of the NAC Orchestra’s Strauss Reimagined series, Don Juan receives a contemporary response in Canadian composer Kelly-Marie Murphy‘s Dark Nights, Bright Stars, Vast Universe.
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Bonus for ticket holders! Attendees will be among the first to access free tickets to the special May 20 concert with Olga Scheps.
Buy a ticket for ‘‘Shelley & Yeol Eum Son” and enjoy TWO incredible concerts!
Hosted by NAC
The National Arts Centre (NAC) is Canada’s bilingual, multi-disciplinary home for the performing arts, including the NAC orchestra and Indigenous Theatre.
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