The Thirteen Strings Chamber Orchestra, Ottawa’s premiere professional chamber orchestra, was founded in 1976 by conductor Brian Law and string players from the National Arts Centre Orchestra. The orchestra is now directed by Kevin Mallon. The orchestra’s repertoire is diverse – covering music from the Baroque era to 21st century music – having commissioned 100 new works from Canadian composers. The orchestra’s core of thirteen string players is regularly supplemented by guest performers. From baritones to sopranos, from marimba players to Klezmer specialists, guest artists have helped develop Thirteen Strings into one of the best-known and most eclectic chamber orchestras in Canada. The Thirteen Strings Chamber Orchestra presents its own subscription concert series and has collaborated with many arts organizations in Ottawa. These have included: Le Festival de musique sacrée, Ottawa’s Seventeen Voyces, the Music and Beyond festival, the Cantata Singers, Ottawa’s Viennese Winter Ball, the West Fest street festival and the McGill Chamber Orchestra. In December 2013, the annual Christmas Concert was filmed for television and broadcast to over 140 countries on EWTN. Many of its concerts have been broadcast across Canada on CBC Radio and Radio-Canada. The orchestra’s education project, the Junior Thirteen Strings, brings together a pool of talented youngsters to work alongside the professional members of the Thirteen Strings Chamber Orchestra. The Thirteen Strings Chamber Orchestra made its first recording on the Naxos label in June 2014, with a recording of Franz Beck’s six symphonies, opus 2.
dimanche, 14 décembre 2025 @ 19:30 – 21:00 – Joignez-vous à nous pour une soirée inoubliable où le baryton-basse canadien Gerald Finley, lauréat d’un Grammy Award, honorera de sa présence la scène lors d’un concert spécial marquant le 50e anniversaire de Thirteen Strings et la période des fêtes. Considéré comme l’un des plus grands interprètes dramatiques de notre époque, Gerald Finley a captivé le public du monde […]
mardi, 3 décembre 2024 @ 19:30 – 21:00 – La tradition très attendue du concert de Noël de Thirteen Strings comprendra cette année de la musique et des danses festives, une partie amusante et conviviale de la célébration de cette saison des plus joyeuses ! Avec un merveilleux choeur et le public se joignant aux chants de Noël, ce concert ne manquera pas de […]
dimanche, 11 juin 2023 @ 19:30 – 21:00 – Chansons connues d’Édith Piaf, dans des arrangements de Kevin Mallon
dimanche, 15 octobre 2017 @ 15:00 – 17:00 – Metamorphoses “I intend to speak of forms changed into new entities.” Ovid Andrew Ager: The Talk of the Town- world premiere- Sesquie for Canada’s 150th Jean-Philippe Rameau: Music from Castor et Pollux* Jean-Baptiste Lully: Music from Acis & Galatée* Richard Strauss: Metamorphosen *With Junior Thirteen Strings
dimanche, 3 juin 2018 @ 15:00 – 17:00 – June 3rd, 2018 , 3pm Dominion Chalmers Sunday afternoon at the opera! The orchestra presents an afternoon of opera favourites. Handel’s overture to Il pastor fido, is followed by excerpts from Mozart: Die Zauberflöte. Wagner’s sumptuous Siegfried Idyll (from his opera Siegfried) brings us to the richness of the 19th century, while violinist, Alexandre Da […]
vendredi, 4 mai 2018 @ 19:30 – 21:30 – The Subject is Light: 1718 – 1918 – 2018 Celebrating the centenary of the Canadian National Institute for the Blind, we go to 1718 and the works of Bach and Handel. Both suffering eye problems, they turn to the Chevalier John Taylor, pioneering surgical genius or quack? Two actors will explain. The orchestra plays Bach […]
vendredi, 30 mars 2018 @ 19:30 – 21:30 – March 30, 2018, Good Friday The Way of the Cross Dominion Chalmers Vivaldi and Bocherini! The orchestra performs lively concerti for two violins and four violins from Vivaldi’s Opus 3 collection, L’estro armonico (the harmonic inspiration). As part of our Good Friday tradition, presenting religious masterpieces, we present Boccherini’s glorious 1781 Stabat Mater. Soprano, […]
vendredi, 23 février 2018 @ 19:30 – 21:30 – Galant! With elegance and poise! With guest conductor, Bernhard Gueller (Conductor at Symphony Nova Scotia) and guest pianist, Ilya Poletaev. CPE Bach: Symphony in G major, H.657 Wolgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Concerto in C major, K. 415 Joseph Haydn: Symphony No.107 Hob.I:107 Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari: Serenade for Strings
mardi, 5 décembre 2017 @ 19:30 – 21:30 – Always a favourite, this year in our Candlelight Christmas Concert, we welcome the Ottawa Regional Youth Choir and their conductor Jamie Loback. Arcangelo Corelli: Concerto grosso: ‘Fatto per la Notte di Natale’, (Christmas Concerto) Arnold Schoenberg: Weihnachtsmusik (Christmas Music) John D. Geggie: New work John Rutter: Blow, blow, thou winter wind […]
dimanche, 15 octobre 2017 @ 15:00 – 17:00 – Metamorphoses/Métamorphoses “I intend to speak of forms changed into new entities.” Ovid Andrew Ager: The Talk of the Town- world premiere- Sesquie for Canada’s 150th Jean-Philippe Rameau: Music from Castor et Pollux* Jean-Baptiste Lully: Music from Acis & Galatée* Richard Strauss: Metamorphosen *With Junior Thirteen Strings Richard […]
dimanche, 15 octobre 2017 @ 15:00 – 17:00 – Metamorphoses/Métamorphoses “I intend to speak of forms changed into new entities.” Ovid Andrew Ager: The Talk of the Town- world premiere- Sesquie for Canada’s 150th Jean-Philippe Rameau: Music from Castor et Pollux* Jean-Baptiste Lully: Music from Acis & Galatée* Richard Strauss: Metamorphosen *With Junior Thirteen Strings Richard […]
vendredi, 28 octobre 2016 @ 19:30 – 21:30 – Thirteen Strings invites you to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with Piazzolla’s famous tango- inspired Four Seasons of Buenos Aires, featuring Ottawa violinist and international rising star, Kerson Leong. Guitarist-composer Ramses Calderon, from El Salvador, performs his new concerto, adding the spark of Central America traditional music. Thirteen Strings vous invite à célébrer le Mois du patrimoine […]
samedi, 17 décembre 2016 @ 19:30 – 22:00 – For the first time, Thirteen Strings presents Handel’s masterpiece. The holidays would not be the same without it! Rejoice! Ce sera la première fois que les Thirteen Strings présenteront le chef-d’œuvre de Haendel. Des fêtes sans cette oeuvre ne seraient pas les mêmes. Réjouissez-vous
dimanche, 18 décembre 2016 @ 19:30 – 22:00 – For the first time, Thirteen Strings presents Handel’s masterpiece. The holidays would not be the same without it! Rejoice! Ce sera la première fois que les Thirteen Strings présenteront le chef-d’œuvre de Haendel. Des fêtes sans cette œuvre ne seraient pas les mêmes. Réjouissez-vous!
vendredi, 27 janvier 2017 @ 19:30 – 21:30 – A special Concert for Peace brings music of reconciliation and hope. Including several iconic works- Barber’s Adagio and Ravel’s Le Tombeau de Couperin (arranged for strings), we augment our numbers to welcome the Junior Thirteen Strings, for a more lush sound in Vaughan Williams’ Fantasia on a theme of Thomas Tallis. This special concert includes […]
vendredi, 14 avril 2017 @ 19:30 – 22:00 – Thirteen Strings orchestra presents one of the greatest works of art of the western world. A Good Friday concert has become the orchestra’s tradition. Don’t miss this one L’orchestre Thirteen Strings interprétera l’une des plus grandes œuvres artistiques du monde occidental. Le concert du Vendredi saint est devenu une tradition chez l’orchestre. Ne le manquez pas.
vendredi, 12 mai 2017 @ 19:30 – 21:30 – Thirteen Strings Chamber Orchestra presents the aboriginal Thunderbird legend with baroque versions of Shakespeare’s The Tempest by Matthew Locke and Henry Purcell. Mezzo-soprano Marion Newman explores her First Nations roots with aboriginal arts, dance and song in Dustin Peters’ exciting work “Thunderbird”. L’orchestre de chambre Thirteen Strings présente la légende autochtone de l’oiseau-tonnerre et des versions […]
vendredi, 16 juin 2017 @ 19:30 – 21:30 – Thirteen Strings Chamber Orchestra contrasts two youthful and joyful works- Mozart’s Divertimento K.138 and Mendelssohn’s String Symphony no. 6. Juno-nominated bass clarinettist Jeff Reilly joins the orchestra in Peter-Anthony Togni’s beautifully meditative Illuminations, a contemplation on the idea of eternal light. L’Orchestre de chambre Thirteen Strings met en contraste deux œuvres pleines de jeunesse et […]
