Mozart, Hewitt & Beethoven's Fifth

with the NAC Orchestra

2025-03-19 20:00 2025-03-20 22:00 60 Canada/Eastern 🎟 NAC: Mozart, Hewitt & Beethoven's Fifth

https://nac-cna.ca/en/event/36107

In-person event

Experience the miraculous chemistry that happens when two great musical minds fuse into one, as guest pianist Angela Hewitt interprets Mozart on Southam Hall’s stage.  Montreal-based composer Keiko Devaux loves playing with electroacoustic sounds then translating them into emotional and genre-blurring music, resulting in beautiful and otherworldly effects.  Music Director Alexander Shelley leads the evening’s performance.  Our concert opens with...

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Southam Hall,1 Elgin Street,Ottawa,Canada
March 19 - 20, 2025
8:00 pm EDT

March 2025

  1. Mar 19 2025
    Wednesday

    8:00pm

  2. Mar 20 2025
    Thursday

    8:00pm

Close schedule
Angela Hewitt
Alexander Shelley
Music Classical music Masterworks Piano
Alexander Shelley
  • KEIKO DEVAUX Listening Underwater
  • WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Piano Concerto No. 21
  • LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67
  • In-person event
  • Bilingual
  • ≈ 2 hours · With intermission
  • Experience the miraculous chemistry that happens when two great musical minds fuse into one, as guest pianist Angela Hewitt interprets Mozart on Southam Hall’s stage. 
  • Montreal-based composer Keiko Devaux loves playing with electroacoustic sounds then translating them into emotional and genre-blurring music, resulting in beautiful and otherworldly effects. 
  • Music Director Alexander Shelley leads the evening’s performance. 

Our concert opens with Devaux’s Listening Underwater, which was written especially for the NAC Orchestra and had its world premiere in Southam Hall in May 2023. This magical work, inspired by the communications of whales and other sea life, transports us to an organic underwater environment that is both familiar and mysterious. 

Ottawa-born guest pianist Angela Hewitt performs Mozart like no one else, capturing the emotion Mozart put into this timeless work. Do not be surprised if your fellow audience members demand that Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 21 be played over and over.

The Orchestra will also take on Beethoven’s super-charged Fifth Symphony, a piece that is best experienced live. As one of the most recognized works in music history, it truly has “no predecessor, no successor in composition” (Christoph Eshenbach, conductor). You will walk away covered in goosebumps, more than two centuries after its first performance in 1808. 

Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun
Mar 17
Mar 18
Mar 19
  • 8:00 pm
Mar 20
  • 8:00 pm
Mar 21
Mar 22
Mar 23

Artists

  • Conductor Alexander Shelley
  • angela-hewitt
    Piano Angela Hewitt
  • Featuring NAC Orchestra