Luminous strings: Max Richter at NAC!

Hey, Note Lovers, it's Carolyn here. Come join us for Max Richter with the American Contemporary Music Ensemble at the National Arts Centre.

Max Richter is one of today’s most influential contemporary classical composers, known for music that feels cinematic, emotional, meditative, and quietly powerful. His sound lives somewhere between classical music, minimalism, ambient music, and film score — spacious, melancholic, and deeply atmospheric.

For this concert, Richter is joined by the American Contemporary Music Ensemble for music from In a Landscape and The Blue Notebooks. Expect an evening of luminous strings, gentle repetition, emotional stillness, and music that slowly opens up around you.

I'll be there shortly before it starts only because.....
we are just walking upstairs after hearing Bobby Previte’s Pocket Orchestra play Bitches Brew from 7-7:45pm. a tight but fascinating same-night pairing: electric Miles-inspired storm, then Richter’s cinematic orchestral dream.

Max Richter with American Contemporary Music Ensemble
Date: Friday, June 26, 2026
Time: music starts at 8:00 p.m.
Venue: Southam Hall, National Arts Centre
Address: 1 Elgin Street, Ottawa
Tickets: 56$ BUY YOUR TICKET HERE! I bought upper balcony SEE PHOTO OF MY SEATS BELOW

This concert makes a fascinating double bill with Bobby Previte’s Pocket Orchestra plays Bitches Brew earlier that evening in the Azrieli Studio. First: Miles Davis-inspired electric turbulence. Then: Max Richter’s cinematic orchestral dream.

Good times!
Carolyn