Violinist and composer Anne Lindsay will perform music for violin and nyckelharpa, animated by the ghost of a lost architectural masterpiece.

During the COVID lockdown, Anne Lindsay sought solace within Toronto's historic St Anne's Church, renowned for its elegant Byzantine style, its decoration by some of Canada's most important artists (including members of the Group of Seven), and its superb acoustics. Under St. Anne's majestic dome Anne Lindsay recorded a luminous suite of pieces that became an album called Soloworks 2.

By the time Soloworks 2 was set to release in June 2024, St. Anne's had burned down – a disaster for Canadian heritage that was front-page news right across the country.

No audience ever heard Soloworks 2 performed there, and none ever will. That’s where the Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre (CDCC) comes in.

The CDCC is in many ways an Ottawa doppelgänger of St. Anne’s with its Byzantine dome and outstanding acoustics. Soloworks 2 will be performed in this beautiful and resonant heritage building – the performance no one got to hear at St. Anne's.

The evening will begin with short introductory presentations on the architecture, art, and acoustics of St. Anne’s and of Dominion-Chalmers, by Carleton professors Peter Coffman, Brian Foss and James Wright.