On Monday, January 31, 2011, the 100-member Ottawa Symphony Orchestra will present a concert at 8:00 p.m. in Southam Hall at the National Arts Centre.

In the third concert of its season of 7th Symphonies, the OSO will perform Wagner’s Wesendonck Lieder, followed by Bruckner’s Symphony No.7 in E Major. For this concert, the OSO will be led by guest conductor Jean-François Rivest.

Quebec conductor Jean-François Rivest is renowned for his energy, precise technique and a style that is passionate, moving and deeply involved. Currently artistic director of the Orford Arts Centre, he has also been artistic director of the Orchestre symphonique de Laval and Ottawa's Thirteen Strings Ensemble, as well as conductor in residence of the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal from 2006 to 2009. The newspaper Le Soleil has called him “a magician: with a touch of his magic wand he always transforms any concert into an extraordinary and unique event.”