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Holly Cole: A Swinging Christmas with the NAC Orchestra

Start: 2023-12-13T20:00:00-05:00
End: 2023-12-13T23:00:00-05:00
Location: Southam Hall

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As part of our Sessions series, NAC Popular Music & Variety is honoured to welcome Holly Cole live in Southam Hall with the NAC Orchestra! Born and raised in The Maritimes, Holly grew up surrounded by music; her parents were classical players, her brother is a composer and a jazz artist, her uncle sang and acted on Broadway and her grandfather played Country & Western accordion. Cole has received praise as a preeminent interpretive singer and arranger working between...

Wed, December 13, 2023

8 PM EST

Southam Hall 1 Elgin Street Ottawa Canada

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Holly Cole: A Swinging Christmas with the NAC Orchestra

Dec 13, 2023 - 8 PM EST

Southam Hall

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As part of our Sessions series, NAC Popular Music & Variety is honoured to welcome Holly Cole live in Southam Hall with the NAC Orchestra!

Born and raised in The Maritimes, Holly grew up surrounded by music; her parents were classical players, her brother is a composer and a jazz artist, her uncle sang and acted on Broadway and her grandfather played Country & Western accordion.

Cole has received praise as a preeminent interpretive singer and arranger working between the poles of jazz and pop. Her unique interpretations are lauded as being highly musical, intensely original, sophisticated, witty, and sexy. Her approach is sensual, intense, non-calculating and without any retro pretensions. All of this has been a continuous virtue in the singer’s illustrious career, backed by passionate live appearances internationally, both of which have cemented her reputation as a major contemporary song stylist and a highly compelling, acclaimed performer.

Gold and Platinum record sales and countless successful tours including headlining with symphonies has brought many adoring fans and countless accolades.

In this very special concert featuring the NAC Orchestra, Holly Cole will bring us seasonal favourites from two of her most beloved holiday albums Baby It’s Cold Outside and Christmas Blues.

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Conductor Evan Mitchell

Conductor Evan Mitchell

Evan Mitchell is proving to be one of the most able and imaginative conductors in Canada. Mr. Mitchell has enjoyed seven triumphant seasons as Music Director of the Kingston Symphony, garnering praise for his programming, approach, and musical results. Prior to the pandemic, the past four seasons worth of KSO Masterworks Series performances, under Mr. Mitchell’s leadership, have been completely sold-out. Mr. Mitchell is one of Canada's pre-eminent conductors of film scores live in concert, having performed nearly twenty distinct film programs live to projection. After having performed Singin' in the Rain with the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony, he proceeded to conduct the North American premiere of Patricia Ward Kelly's curated show "Gene Kelly: A Life in Music" with the Kingston Symphony. He has a longstanding relationship with Attila Glatz Concert Productions as well as Cineconcerts, and will have conducted all eight of the Harry Potter films by the end of the 2022/2023 season. During the 2020 pandemic, Mr. Mitchell wrote, produced, directed and edited several standout digital orchestral initiatives which exponentially increased the KSO’s online profile of viewership. The KSO's digital performances, Symphonic Education Partnership presentation, and the landmark web series for young audiences entitled Harmon in Space (www.harmoninspace.com) among others have reached over 100,000 viewers, and have been internationally acclaimed as being the benchmark for digital excellence in innovation.

Mr. Mitchell is a champion of initiatives designed to enhance the live concert experience, such as insider videos, informational podcasts, pre-concert talks, and special concerts devoted to live, onstage insights into major orchestral works. His program SoundSync, which involves real-time guided listening updates delivered silently to mobile devices during the concert, was recently hailed as one of Canada’s best innovations to the live concert experience by the CBC. Equally comfortable in the realm of contemporary music, opera, and ballet, Mr. Mitchell has premiered over 30 new Canadian works ranging from the SOCAN award winning opera “Storybook” by Darren Russo, to Ryan Trew’s newly commissioned Symphony No. 1, as well as two digital full-orchestra world premieres during the COVID-19 lockdown (John Estacio: Domestic Divertimento, Dean Burry: Tracing Colville). He is a strong and vocal advocate for new, substantial, Canadian works. As the Vancouver Symphony's past Assistant Conductor, Mr. Mitchell is extraordinarily grateful to the VSO for his time and experience with such a world-class orchestra. He considers that experience to have been the most important element of his development as a conductor.

Evan Mitchell s’avère l’un des chefs d’orchestre les plus doués et les plus imaginatifs au Canada. Pendant sept saisons, il a triomphé comme directeur musical dans l’Orchestre symphonique de Kingston, suscitant les éloges pour sa programmation, son approche et la magnifique musique qu’il a su mettre en valeur. Durant les quatre saisons ayant précédé la pandémie, les spectacles des séries Chefs-d’œuvre de l’orchestre ontarien sous sa direction se sont tous tenus à guichet fermé. Evan est également l’un des maîtres canadiens de la musique de film en ciné-concert; il a en effet dirigé près de 20 programmes musicaux en direct avec projection filmique. Après Singin' in the Rain en compagnie de l’Orchestre symphonique de Kitchener-Waterloo, il a dirigé la première nord-américaine du spectacle Gene Kelly : A Life in Music, choisi par Patricia Ward Kelly, avec l’Orchestre symphonique de Kingston. Entretenant depuis longtemps une relation fructueuse avec les groupes de production Attila Glatz Concert Productions et Cineconcerts, il aura, au terme de la saison 2022-2023, dirigé chacun des huit spectacles de Harry Potter. Pendant la pandémie, Evan a écrit, produit, dirigé et monté plusieurs projets orchestraux numériques exceptionnels qui ont considérablement augmenté la visibilité numérique de l’Orchestre symphonique de Kingston. Des spectacles en ligne, un partenariat éducatif (le Symphony Education Partnership) et la série Web pour enfants unique en son genre Harmon in Space (www.harmoninspace.com), entre autres, ont touché plus de 100 000 spectatrices et spectateurs et ont été acclamés dans le monde entier pour leur excellence en matière d’innovation numérique.

Le prolifique chef d’orchestre est aussi derrière une foule d’initiatives conçues pour rehausser l’expérience en salle, comme des vidéos dans les coulisses des concerts, des balados instructifs, des causeries d’avant-spectacle et des représentations spéciales pendant lesquelles le public a un accès privilégié aux secrets derrière certaines œuvres orchestrales majeures. Ainsi, son programme SoundSync, qui permet aux membres du public de recevoir des informations sur le concert en temps réel et en silence à partir de leur appareil mobile, a récemment été déclaré par la CBC l’une des plus grandes innovations canadiennes en ce qui a trait à l’expérience du public. Autant à son aise avec la musique contemporaine qu’avec l’opéra et le ballet, Evan Mitchell a présenté en première plus de 30 nouvelles œuvres canadiennes allant de l’opéra primé par la SOCAN Storybook, de Darren Russo, à la nouvelle commande de la Symphonie No 1 par Ryan Trew, en passant par deux premières mondiales numériques avec orchestre complet pendant le confinement (Domestic Divertimento, dirigé par John Estacio, et Tracing Colville, dirigé par Dean Burry). Enfin, c’est un ardent défenseur des nouvelles œuvres majeures produites au Canada. Comme ex-seconde baguette de l’Orchestre symphonique de Vancouver, il est extrêmement reconnaissant du temps qu’il y a passé en compagnie de ce groupe de musiciennes et musiciens de calibre mondial. Pour lui, c’est l’une des expériences qui l’a le plus fait évoluer en tant que chef d’orchestre.

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