National Arts Centre: Dvořák’s New World Symphony & & Kawasaki Plays Brahms

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Three things to know:

Xian Zhang, the Seattle Symphony’s first female Music Director, returns to Ottawa to conduct a program rooted in Eastern European folk music.
The NAC Orchestra’s beloved concertmaster, Yosuke Kawasaki, steps into the spotlight to perform Johannes Brahms’s Violin Concerto.
An interstellar symphony: Astronaut Neil Armstrong brought a recording of Dvořák’s “New World” Symphony aboard the Apollo 11 mission to the moon!
In his “New World” Symphony, Antonín Dvořák sought to create a portrait of America, inspired by his travels across the United States. The result is a musical tapestry of international scope, in which Dvořák weaves elements of African American spirituals and traditional Native American music with tunes from his Czech homeland in an endless stream of ear-catching melodies.

Johannes Brahms may have taken 25 years to compose a violin concerto for his close friend, Joseph Joachim, but it was worth the wait. In his only work for solo violin and orchestra, Brahms unleashes the full expressive potential of the violin with music of sublime lyricism, stormy emotions, and a foot-stomping finale inspired by Hungarian dances.

And transport yourself to late 19th-century Hungary in Zoltán Kodály’s Dances of Galánta—a vibrant exploration of the town’s folk music that travels from profound sorrow to breathless bliss.

Event Artists

Xian Zhang, Conductor; Yosuke Kawasaki, Violin; National Arts Centre Orchestra

National Arts Centre: Dvořák’s New World Symphony & & Kawasaki Plays Brahms

Date/Time
Wednesday, October 15, 2025
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Location
Southam Hall
1 Elgin Street
Ottawa, Ontario
Canada, K1P 5W1

Price
$31-125

Phone
613 947-7000

Website
https://nac-cna.ca/en/event/38405

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