John Storgårds to be Next Music Director of Canada’s National Arts Centre Orchestra

In Wednesday’s (9/3) Canadian Press, an unbylined article states, “Canada’s National Arts Centre (NAC) has announced the next music director of its orchestra. Finnish conductor John Storgårds, who has served as the centre’s principal guest conductor since 2015, will be the orchestra’s eighth music director and will begin his tenure in September 2026. Storgårds is currently chief conductor of the BBC Philharmonic and the Turku Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as artistic director of the Lapland Chamber Orchestra. He succeeds Alexander Shelley, who will conclude his tenure as the orchestra’s current music director this coming July. A news release from the National Arts Centre said that Storgårds is also an accomplished violinist and chamber musician…. As a conductor, he appears with many of the world’s foremost orchestras, including the Berlin Philharmonic, the New York Philharmonic and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. While in Canada, he also appears with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal…. The centre said that under Storgårds’s baton, the NAC Orchestra has [performed] Rachmaninoff’s Symphony No. 3, Vaughan Williams’s Symphony No. 5, Nielsen’s Symphony No. 2 and Sibelius’s Symphony No. 3. In 2019, he conducted the world premiere of Canadian Métis composer Ian Cusson’s Le loup de Lafontaine.”