Shelley & Yeol Eum Son

with the NAC Orchestra

2025-05-14 20:00 2025-05-15 22:00 60 Canada/Eastern 🎟 NAC: Shelley & Yeol Eum Son

https://nac-cna.ca/en/event/36121

In-person event

Three things to know ... Korean pianist Yeol Eum Son — whose popularity at home rivals that of K-pop stars — returns to NACO to perform a jazzy masterpiece by Ravel. Even at 25 years old, Richard Strauss was already wrestling with notions of death and artistic fulfillment in his music. After shaking the foundations of Southam Hall with her fiery NACO debut last season, pianist Yeol Eum Son makes her highly anticipated return to perform Maurice Ravel's glittering Concerto in...

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Southam Hall,1 Elgin Street,Ottawa,Canada
May 14 - 15, 2025
May 14 - 15, 2025
8:00 pm EDT

May 2025

  1. May 14 2025
    Wednesday

    8:00pm

  2. May 15 2025
    Thursday

    8:00pm

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Yeol Eum Son © Marco Borggreve
Alexander Shelley
Music Classical music Piano
Yeol Eum Son © Marco Borggreve
Alexander Shelley
  • RICHARD STRAUSS Don Juan, Op. 20
  • Maurice RAVEL Piano Concerto in G major
  • Kelly-Marie Murphy Dark Nights, Bright Stars, Vast Universe (NACO commission)
  • RICHARD STRAUSS Tod und Verklärung (Death and Transfiguration), Op. 24
  • In-person event
  • Bilingual
  • ≈ 2 hours · With intermission

Three things to know ...

  • Korean pianist Yeol Eum Son — whose popularity at home rivals that of K-pop stars — returns to NACO to perform a jazzy masterpiece by Ravel.
  • Even at 25 years old, Richard Strauss was already wrestling with notions of death and artistic fulfillment in his music.

After shaking the foundations of Southam Hall with her fiery NACO debut last season, pianist Yeol Eum Son makes her highly anticipated return to perform Maurice Ravel's glittering Concerto in G for piano and orchestra. Inspired by the Basque folk songs of his childhood and the hot jazz he heard while on tour in Harlem and New Orleans during the Roaring '20s, Ravel's captivating concerto journeys between moments of whip-crack humor and sweet nostalgia.

Two musical poems by Richard Strauss showcase the German composer's expert ability to tell vivid stories through music: Death and Transfiguration, a spiritual journey that finds serenity in the drama of the human experience, and Don Juan, in which Strauss places us in the center of the legendary Spanish womanizer's romantic adventures.

And as part of NAC Orchestra's ongoing Strauss Reimagined series, Don Juan receives a contemporary response in Canadian composer Kelly-Marie Murphy's Dark Nights, Bright Stars, Vast Universe — a tribute to the life and work of 19th-century Scottish astronomer Williamina Fleming.

Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun
May 12
May 13
May 14
  • 8:00 pm
May 15
  • 8:00 pm
May 16
May 17
May 18

Artists

  • Conductor Alexander Shelley
  • yeol-eum-credit-marco-borggreve-3-cropped
    Piano Yeol Eum Son
  • bio-orchestra
    Featuring NAC Orchestra
  • Featuring Kevin Lau