Chamber Music

Another channel you’ll only find on GALAXIE. No ads, no talk, just continuous chamber music. This is the channel the serious lover of classical music. Get swept away by the purity of the intimate, small ensemble and recital works of the world’s greatest composers. Haydn trios, Bach’s Goldberg Variations, Schubert string quartets and more.

Julian Armour has distinguished himself over the past 20 years as a performing musician, arts administrator and artistic director. He is currently Artistic and Executive Director of Ottawa’s new classical music festival, Music and Beyond. As well, he is Artistic Director of the Chamber Players of Canada, President of Ottawa Festivals, Principal Cellist of the chamber orchestra Thirteen Strings and teaches regularly at the University of Ottawa, offering courses in both music performance and arts administration. He is also President of the Friends of the Concert Hall and is a voting member of the Canadian Music Centre. For the past two summers, he has taught cello masterclasses at the Orford Arts Centre. For fourteen years he was Artistic and Executive Director of the highly successful Ottawa Chamber Music Society, an organization that he founded in 1993.

As a chamber musician he has appeared in television broadcasts on CBC, CTV, PBS, EWTN and Vision TV. He has played in most of Canada’s concert halls and many in the United States and Europe. He has recorded over 30 CDs for many labels including Marquis, Crystal, ATMA, CMS Classics, CentreDiscs, SRI, CanSona, Studea Musica and CBC. He was the subject of a full-length documentary on CBC radio and a half-hour documentary on the television series “Men of Music.” Julian Armour was named a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in December 2002 by the Government of France for his contributions to music. In 2003, he was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal by Her Excellency the Right Honourable Adrienne Clarkson, Governor General and Commander-in-Chief of Canada. Julian Armour was chosen as “Arts Newsmaker of the Year” in January 2006 by the Ottawa Sun.