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

Music Director Alexander Shelley welcomes guest pianist Yeol Eum Son to interpret Strauss.  A 25-year-old composer grapples with life’s big questions and a contemporary composer answers with a mystical journey.  Jazz and classical meet in one pretty concerto from Maurice Ravel.  Music Director and Maestro Alexander Shelley leads global phenom Yeol Eum Son and the NAC Orchestra in an interpretation of classical and contemporary pieces by Richard Strauss, Maurice Ravel,...

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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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  • 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
  • Music Director Alexander Shelley welcomes guest pianist Yeol Eum Son to interpret Strauss
  • A 25-year-old composer grapples with life’s big questions and a contemporary composer answers with a mystical journey. 
  • Jazz and classical meet in one pretty concerto from Maurice Ravel

Music Director and Maestro Alexander Shelley leads global phenom Yeol Eum Son and the NAC Orchestra in an interpretation of classical and contemporary pieces by Richard Strauss, Maurice Ravel, and Kevin Lau. 

To start the evening, the audience will experience Richard Strauss’s Don Juan following shameless womanizer through days and nights of promiscuity, debauchery, and cruel desire—until he meets a deserved and mournful end. 

Famously opening with the sound of a whip crack, Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G is jazz-tinged one moment and serene the next—one of the prettiest pieces of music ever written. Here, South Korean-born Son finds the true essence of Ravel’s fantastic piano concerto. 

At the ripe old age of 25, Richard Strauss was already grappling with the loftiest and most fundamental questions of human experience in his Tod und Verklärung—or “Death and Transfiguration.” 

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May 15
  • 8:00 pm
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    Conductor Alexander Shelley
  • Piano Yeol Eum Son
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    Featuring NAC Orchestra
  • Featuring Kevin Lau