The young British-Canadian conductor Henry Kennedy has already established strong credentials in the concert hall and opera house in both Europe and North America.

Currently inaugural Resident Conductor of Canada’s National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa, he is the founder of London’s Resonate Symphony Orchestra and former resident conductor of Poland’s Wrocław Opera. Having acted as assistant to a number of leading conductors, he has collaborated with major European orchestras, and, since graduating from London’s Royal Academy of Music, he has benefited crucially from the mentoring of Riccardo Muti, Christian Thielemann, Richard Bonynge and David Zinman.

Honouring Puccini on the centenary of his death in November 2024, Henry conducted a new production of Tosca in Lucca, the composer’s birthplace. Further performances followed in cities across northern Italy. Opera magazine noted “the sense of dramatic trajectory that Kennedy was able to project through the music while still keeping the tempos admirably supple,” while the Corriere Fiorentino declared that “Kennedy is the revelation in this Tosca.”

“Henry Kennedy, a fine young conductor, paid great attention to the cohesiveness of the orchestra, to the balance between stage and pit, and to the colours of the score, which absolutely demands an approach of this kind”

Luca Fialdini, Apemusicale.it
Tosca, Teatro del Giglio, Lucca, November 2024

Schedule

7 JAN | 2026

Relaxed performances
NACO, Ottawa

14 FEB | 2026

Turn of the Screw
Montreal Opera Atelier,
Montreal

28 FEB | 2026

Turn of the Screw
NACO/Montreal Opera Atelier, Ottawa

23 MAR | 2026

New opera readings
NACO, Ottawa

24 MAR | 2026

New opera readings
NACO, Ottawa

28 MAR | 2026

Ottawa Symphony Orchestra
Concert, Ottawa

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