Newswire | Alexander Shelley and NACO Host Free Canada Day Concert
June 18, 2026 – OTTAWA – Canada’s National Arts Centre Orchestra will celebrate the nation’s 159th birthday with a free, ticketed concert featuring an exciting…
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Alexander Shelley: Saying Goodbye to NACO
Eleven years ago, in 2015, Alexander Shelley was named the youngest-ever music director of the National Arts Centre Orchestra (NACO). He recalls the great anticipation…
Newswire | Canada’s National Arts Centre Orchestra Announces 100th Tour
February 24, 2026 – OTTAWA (Canada) – Canada’s National Arts Centre Orchestra (NACO) is thrilled to announce its 100th tour since its founding in 1969. This spring, the…
Newswire | NAC Orchestra Releases Second Volume in Strauss Recording Project
Throughout this project, our composers are encouraged to reflect, critique, embrace, reject or deconstruct Strauss’s language and model. It is an exploration of the notion…
Newswire | Toronto Mendelssohn Choir Renews Jean-Sébastien Vallée
Toronto, October 3, 2025 — The Toronto Mendelssohn Choir (TMChoir) is thrilled to announce the upcoming renewal of Jean-Sébastien Vallée’s contract as Artistic Director and…
Newswire | Canada’s National Arts Centre Orchestra to Open 2025-26 Season with Tosca, Opera in Concert
September 5, 2025 – OTTAWA (Canada) – Canada’s National Arts Centre Orchestra (NACO) will open its 2025–2026 season dramatically with a semi-staged presentation of Tosca,…
NAC Orchestra Announces Appointment of John Storgårds as its Next Music Director
September 3, 2025 – OTTAWA (Canada) – Canada’s National Arts Centre (NAC) announced today that the internationally acclaimed Finnish conductor John Storgårds will become the…
Celebrate Canada Day with a free concert featuring Alexander Shelley and the NAC Orchestra
June 25, 2025 – OTTAWA – Canada’s National Arts Centre Orchestra is delighted to host a free Canada Day concert featuring an all-star line-up of…
Alexander Shelley to Conclude Remarkable Tenure as Music Director of Canada’s National Arts Centre With Bold Final Season in 2025–2026
May 14, 2025 – OTTAWA (Canada) – On the evening before it publicly unveils its 2025–2026 programming, Canada’s National Arts Centre (NAC) announced that Alexander Shelley will end his…
CD Review | James Ehnes, Bach Violin Concertos
Johann Sebastian Bach: The Complete Violin Concertos James Ehnes, violin; National Arts Centre Orchestra; Alexander Shelley, conductor Analekta, 2025 Bach’s corpus of concertos for violin…
