Chamberfest
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July 21-Aug. 4, Numerous locations
For program facts and to get tickets, lope to chamberfest.com
Chamberfest become one amongst the Ottawa fairs that stored going at some point soon of the pandemic, albeit with smaller audiences, fewer world performers and plenty extra dwell-streamed declare material.
Nevertheless now the festival is aid to its pre-pandemic level, with bigger than 70 in-particular person concert occasions between July 21 and Aug. 4, alongside with the return of family-friendly exhibits and community programming, plus the world-class concert occasions featured at the foremost-stage Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre (which is willing to be dwell-streamed, too) and the eclectic offerings of the Chamberfringe sequence, to be staged at La Nouvelle Scène Gilles Desjardins and Membership SAW.
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In marking this one year’s celebration of the artwork of the cramped ensemble, Chamberfest affords exhibits morning, noon and night time, with about a of them taking feature in surprising venues, reminiscent of the Beechwood Cemetery, Ottawa Metropolis Corridor, Crimson Chook Are living and the Picture Centre.
Here, Citizen arts writers Lynn Saxberg and Peter Hum point out the concert occasions you don’t want to pass away out:
LYNN SAXBERG’S PICKS:
Moskitto Bar,
July 23, 9 p.m., and
Blisk, July 26, 9 p.m.
La Nouvelle Scène Gilles Desjardins, 333 King Edward Ave
Two concert occasions within the eclectic Chamberfringe sequence stumble on the music of Jap Europe, equipped in partnership with the Capital Ukrainian Competition. Moskitto Bar will blueprint discontinuance you on a musical lag from Baghdad to the Balkans about a days sooner than the feminine vocal trio of Blisk demonstrates their synthesis of polyphonic tune with storytelling, dance and hypnotic percussion.
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Cris Derksen Quartet
July 29, 9 p.m. La Nouvelle Scène Gilles Desjardin, and
July 30, 2 p.m., Lansdowne Park
From the wilds of Northern Alberta comes Derksen, a Cree-Mennonite composer and cellist who weaves her Indigenous ancestry and classical-music coaching with a new electronic twist. Her quartet defies convention, too, because it involves a dancer, drummer and singer alongside Derksen and her cello.
Rachel Fenlon, July 30, 11 a.m.
Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre, 355 Cooper St.
Canadian soprano and pianist Rachel Fenlon makes her Chamberfest debut with an interpretation of Schubert’s Winterreise that will knock your socks off. The Victoria-raised, Berlin-essentially based musician no longer simplest sings the 24 poems within the tune cycle however also accompanies herself on piano, a extensive job now and again ever undertaken by a solo performer.
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Original Tune Now
Aug. 1, 1: 30 p.m., La Nouvelle Scène Gilles Desjardins, 333 King Edward Ave
A part of the mission of Chamberfest is to broaden the classical music custom, and that manner alongside with new music by living composers. Loads of new compositions will be getting a world premiere at some point soon of the festival, most of them to be unveiled at some point soon of this showcase, alongside with objects by Daniel Mehdizadeh, Edward Enman, John Armstrong and Ottawa’s hang Kelly-Marie Murphy, as effectively as works by Matthias McIntyre and Simon Bourget.
Danish String Quartet
Aug. 4, 7 p.m., Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre, and
Aug. 4, 9 p.m., La Nouvelle Scène Gilles Desjardins
Violinists Rune Tonsgaard Sørensen and Frederik Øland, violist Asbjørn Nørgaard and cellist Fredrik Schøyen Sjölin accumulate up the acclaimed Danish String Quartet, an ensemble so new and invigorating it makes you would possibly well well well per chance per chance be feeling adore you’re listening to chamber music for the first time. A hit at every festival they play, this is in a position to well well per chance also be their third confer with to Chamberfest, and you’ll gain to listen to each facet of their repertoire. The 7 p.m. present capabilities severe music by Pur