Yeol Eum Son 손열음

After shaking the foundations of Southam Hall with her fiery debut last season, pianist Yeol Eum Son makes her highly anticipated return to perform Ravel's glittering Piano concerto, a piece inspired by the hot jazz he heard in Harlem and New Orleans during the Roaring Twenties. Two musical poems showcase Strauss'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 centre of the legendary Spanish womanizer's romantic adventures. And as part of the NAC Orchestra's Strauss Reimagined series, Don Juan receives a contemporary response in Canadian composer Kelly-Marie Murphy's Dark Nights, Bright Stars, Vast Universe.