(March 6 to April 10)
Under the auspices of Musica and Beyond, Julian Armour presents an online, six-lecure series entitled A Voyage through Classical Music. This series has something for everyone from classical music lovers to those who are starting to discovering music. Each class will be filled with interesting facts, fund anecdotes and plenty of musical examples! There will be lots of opportunities to join the discussion and ask questions. Each lecture will be given in English, but participation in French is welcome!
2 Saturday)
The Ottawa Bach Choir's second concert of the season features sacred and profane music by Claudio Monteverdi, who was Maestro di cappella of San Marco in Venice over the course of 30 years, from 1613-1643. Works include his Missa a 4 voci da cappella and selected Madrigals from Books 1-8, a prolific output of works that marked the transition from the Renaissance to the Baroque
The Capital Chamber Choir presents a winter-themed concert Sun-Dogs. Canadian winters are often bleak and cold…and when the sun comes out to sparkle over the landscapes, there emerges a sun dog. The title piece “Sun-Dogs” is by Scottish composer James MacMillan, a setting of a poem by Michael Symmons Roberts. CCC will also perform selected choral works by Canadian composers Andrew Balfour, Christine Donkin, Frances Farrell, Don MacDonald, Sarah Quartel, as well as Latvian composer Pēteris Vasks
The Kanata Choral Society presents O Canada!, a mesmerizing concert of Canadian choral music, featuring traditional and contemporary arrangements of songs from Canada's vast landscape. Drawing from the diverse choral traditions of our country, the choir and soloists will present an enjoyable mix of folk, classical and popular Canadiana from celebrated Canadian composers across the land including: Laura Hawley, James Wright, Larry Nickel, Paul Halley and others
The National Capital Band presents a concert, Band Together at Riverside United Church. The concert features various sections of the band. Maestro Romeo has selected a range of light works that demonstrate the virtuosity of the musicians, such as the William Tell Overture; The Pennywhistle Song; Pie in the Face Polka; Trumpets Wild; Tico Tico; Five to Go; the Trombone King; Dixieland Front and Centre , among other works! Admission by freewill offering
3 (Sunday)
The Ottawa Regional Youth Choir presents St. Joe’s Supper Table Fundraiser
The Canadian Centennial Choir presents Love, Love, Love. Love: not just the mushy kind! The choir sings of love of nature and place, spiritual love, lost love and crazy love. The repertoire will span hundreds of years, from Renaissance madrigals to recent pop arrangements. Full choir and small groups.
The uOttawa music department presents Chamber Music Treasures from the 20th Century, featuring Jinjoo Cho and Timothy Chooi, violin; Paul Marleyn, cello and David Jalbert, piano
The inaugural HarpSparks Festival presents Hymn of the Labyrinth. This program will stretch your perceptions of the harp and immerse you in a new, imaginative soundscape. If you're ready for a musical adventure in an intimate venue, join us for an evening of sonic surprises that will ignite your creativity and leave you wondering what more is possible
4 (Monday)
Chamberfest hosts the Hagen Quartet in their highly-anticipated Ottawa debut years in the making. Hailed as "the ideal string quartet" by the Los Angeles Times, this concert is not to be missed! The program features masterworks by Haydn, Debussy, and Beethoven
5 (Tuesday)
The Ottawa Choral Society presents Triumph of the Spirit. The concert opens with Leonard Bernstein’s irrepressibly joyful Chichester Psalms. And then agroup of enthralling shorter works drawn from the Hebraic tradition, leads to the powerful Triumph of the Spirit by Canada’s Srul Irving Glick, plus works by several other Jewish composers.
6 (Wednesday)
The noon-time series DOMS presents The Roaring Twenties. The Great Gatsby stars Carmen Harris (soprano) and Adam Sperry (tenor) with composer Andrew Ager (piano) present a selection of musical theatre numbers
7 - 8 (Thursday - Friday)
The National Arts Centre Orchestra joins forces with the Orchestre symphonique de Québec (OSQ), the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir, and sensational guest pianist Kevin Chen to perform works by Kelly-Marie Murphy, Camille Saint-Saëns and Jacques Hétu
9 (Saturday)
The Music by Women Marathon is an afternoon of musical performances of music composed by women. The event is structured as a come-and-go event where audience members can drop in to listen to performances throughout the day. The mission of this concert is to celebrate Women's History Month with a celebration of music composed by women and to raise money for Ottawa's women's shelters. Admission is by donation.
Ottawa pianist Carson Becke presents a concert featuring the music of Rebecca Clarke, Eugen D'Albert, Richard Wagner, and Percy Grainger. He will also be performing his own composition after Giacomo Puccini: Tosca Fantasy
10 (Sunday)
Les Concerts Ponticello present the award-winning pianist Philippe Prud’homme performing the music of Scriabin, Liszt, and Morel
OPEROTTAWA presents Gates of Heaven: Requiem for a Life of Peace a new opera by Jack Hui Litster. This opera is written for female voices and chamber orchestra. His previous commissions for OperOttawa depicted childbirth (The Day You Were Born), love (What is Love), and now this Requiem explores the journey through the gateway of death into the next life (In Paradisum).
13(Wednesday)
The noon-time series DOMS presents Poet of the Piano. Celebrating Frédéric Chopin, the most iconic composer of the Romantic generation, Antonio di Cristofano plays piano works from throughout the composer’s life
16 (Saturday)
The Young String Performers will delight you with another of their wonderful concerts at the First Unitarian Church of Ottawa
The Ewashko Singers present An Evening of Bach Cantatas which also includes a new work by composer Edward Enman
The Ensemble Prisme always seems to present concerts with a twist. That can surely be said of today's offering. Not only does it feature two quite different composers -- Stravinsky and Schumann -- it also presents some unusual instrumentation. First up is the Rite of Spring for wind quintet and piano! And the same instrumentation holds for Schumann's Op. 44, orginally written for piano quintet (strings).
The 10,000 Hours Piano Rehearsal Studio presents a Young Artists Recital. These young artists will take the stage to perform works by Rachmaninov, Liszt, Bach, Beethoven, Scriabin, Prokofiev and more! These students are among the best in Canada. Come and hear for yourself!
17 (Sunday)
Les Concerts Ponticello present the Baroque trio Les Boréades performing works by Bach originally written for organ
20 (Wednesday)
The noon-time series DOMS presents Primary Colours II. From soft heart-wrenching ballads to energetic grooves, the Primary Colours jazz piano trio continues blending jazz tradition with their own voices in original works.
20 - 21 (Wednesday - Thursday)
At the NAC: Conductor Bernard Labadie and La Chapelle de Québec present an all-Handel concert
21 (Thursday)
Under the auspices of Music and Beyond, Bach's mighty St. John Passion is presented by L’Harmonie des saisons, a vocal ensemble and orchestra on period instruments. According to Gilles Cantagrel, "It is through human feelings – fear, pain, compassion – that the musician Bach, the preacher Bach, leads his listeners to contemplate the divine drama."
23 (Saturday)
Tone Cluster presents a Letters to Myself
The organization Plaisirs du clavecin (joys of the harpsichord) presents Fantaisies pour théorbe, violon et clavecin . This is a musical exploration of the Baroque repetoire adapted for the plucked strings of the theorbo and the harpsichord
24 (Sunday)
The NAC presents a concert for children: Recorders on the Run. Some amazing musicians use different types of recorders, from the sopranino to the great bass, to showcase an array of musical styles including baroque, contemporary, popular, and world music
The uOttawa's series Music at Tabaret presents Frédéric Lacroix, fortepiano, performing works of the Schumann Circle -- Brahms, Clara Schumann, Schuncke, and Sterndale Bennett
27(Wednesday)
The noon-time series DOMS presents Cantatas for Lent. Caelis Academy Ensemble, directed by Matthew Larkin, marks a time of transition performing J.S. Bach’s Cantatas BWV 4 and 150 with string orchestra

* Lawrence Harris and singers from Chorus Ecclesiae invite you to an Open House Class for 90 minutes of listening, learning, and singing a selection of beautiful and engaging Gregorian chants for Holy Week. The Chorus is actively recruiting for next year's Good Friday "Gregorian Chants for Meditation" performance! The event is at 7:30 pm at Dominican University College, 96 Empress Ave, Ottawa — Classroom 201. Free admission. (No link.)

29 (Friday)
The Thirteen Strings present Reflection -- Music for Good Friday. Although titled a concert for Good Friday, the orchestra has always striven to present a contemplative concert with a broad spirituality. Thus a cantata by Bach is juxtaposed with a new work by the orchestra’s Music Director, Kevin Mallon that celbrates the Hindu Festival of Colours, Love and Spring.
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