{"id":786466,"date":"2026-07-07T17:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T17:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/786466\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T17:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T17:06:08","slug":"ottawa-chamberfest-to-host-north-american-premiere-of-odesa-classics-festival-in-exile-%e2%94%82-exclaim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/786466\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa Chamberfest to Host North American Premiere of Odesa Classics: Festival in Exile \u2502 Exclaim!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Running from July 23 to August 2 this year, <a href=\"https:\/\/exclaim.ca\/venues\/ottawa\/carleton-dominion-chalmers-centre\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ottawa Chamberfest<\/a>&#8216;s 2026 summer festival programming is led by the North American premiere of the internationally acclaimed Odesa Classics: Festival in Exile.<\/p>\n<p>Founded in 2015 by pianist Alexey Botvinov, the celebration of Ukrainian music, artists and cultural spirit has continued on in exile following Russia&#8217;s full-scale invasion of its home city in 2022 \u2014 and now, Chamberfest is bringing it to Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Uniting Ukrainians and Canadians (and Ukrainian-Canadians) in collaboration, Odesa Classics&#8217; all-Ukrainian program features the North American debut of Valentyn Silvestrov&#8217;s new piano trio, as well as works by Poleva, Karamanov and Barvinsky.<\/p>\n<p>Taking the stage at the <a href=\"https:\/\/exclaim.ca\/venues\/ottawa\/carleton-dominion-chalmers-centre\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre<\/a> on July 25 will be festival founder Botvinov, Anna Pompeeva, Ihor Mostivoi, Carissa Klopoushak, Gryphon Trio (Roman Boris, Annalee Patipatanakoon and Jamie Parker), Emily Kruspe and Sam Loeck. Concluding in a particularly moving fashion, the concert draws to a close with Myroslav Skoryk&#8217;s Melody in A Minor, performed alongside displaced Ukrainian musicians living in the Outaouais region.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere in Chamberfest&#8217;s expansive summer programme are more performances by Canadian and international artists alike, including a semi-staged presentation of Purcell&#8217;s Dido and Aeneas, created collaboratively with Toronto&#8217;s Opera Atelier and starring Measha Brueggergosman-Lee, as well as the Ottawa debut of the Poiesis String Quartet and Council, the indie-classical project of violinist Pekka Kuusisto and singer-songwriter Gabriel Kahane.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll also be able to catch pianists Jon Kimora Parker, Philip Chiu and Janelle Fung, plus the National Youth Orchestra of Canada, Ottawa&#8217;s own Ironwood Quartet, the Chamberfest Camerata, a complete performance of Elvis Costello&#8217;s The Juliet Letters, and more.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/chamberfest.my.salesforce-sites.com\/ticket\/#\/instances\/a0FJR00000DIBOv2AP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Tickets<\/a> for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chamberfest.com\/event\/2026\/odesa-classics-festival-in-exile\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Odesa Classics<\/a> \u2014 and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chamberfest.com\/tickets\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">the rest of this year&#8217;s Chamberfest summer season presentations<\/a> \u2014 are on sale now. Find the full programming details via the Ottawa Chamberfest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chamberfest.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Running from July 23 to August 2 this year, Ottawa Chamberfest&#8216;s 2026 summer festival programming is led by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":786467,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,20739],"class_list":["post-786466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ottawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=786466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/786467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=786466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=786466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=786466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}