Christopher Deacon appointed President and CEO of the National Arts Centre

On June 12, the Board of Trustees of the National Arts Centre (NAC) announced Christopher Deacon  as the new President and Chief Executive Officer of the arts organization. He succeeds Peter Herrndorf who stepped down from his position on June 2, 2018.                 Christopher Deacon is best known as the former Managing Director of the NAC Orchestra who lead some of the orchestra’s boldest initiatives such as  the China Tour in 2013, the project “Life Projected” , a work commissioned by four Canadian composers to createworks about four remarkable Canadian Women , performed during the Canada 150 Tour,  at theLiminato Festival in Toronto and it will be performed across Europe in  2019.

He will champion the NAC’s new emphasis on creation of new works in music, theatre and dance,  continuing to shape the NAC’s evolution  as the “living-room of the city”  through free programming in the NAC’s public space.

All our congratulations to the new director of the National Arts Centre and we wish him all the best in his exciting new endeavour..

The team of the Capital Critics’ Circle