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The National Arts Centre has found its new leader in-house, appointing Christopher Deacon, the NACO’s managing director, as the NAC’s president and CEO.
Deacon, a 59-year-old who has managed the orchestra for 22 years, replaces the NAC’s outgoing boss, Peter Herrndorf, 77, who spent almost 19 years at the helm.
The Montreal-born Deacon is the first person in the NAC’s 49-year history to be promoted from within the organization to become its leader. Deacon was chosen by a nine-person recruiting committee that undertook a national search process that began in November 2017.
“We found the right person right here at the NAC to provide the vision and leadership necessary to guide the organization into its next half-century. Few people know the NAC as well as Christopher Deacon,” said Adrian Burns, chair of the NAC’s board of trustees, in a statement.
Herrndorf called Deacon “a champion of the performing arts in Canada.”
“He’s got a proven record as a risk-taker and as an adventurous arts administrator leading highly ambitious projects,” said Herrndorf, who will move on to chair the Luminato Festival in Toronto and become a senior resident at Massey College at the University of Toronto.
Deacon said in a statement he was “humbled” by his promotion.
“The National Arts Centre is a place of dreams for artists and producers in Canada. It is the place where many do their best work, a destination that says they have ‘arrived.’ Or the launching pad for their future artistic path,” Deacon said. “I love what the NAC means to Canadians, and I have a passion for what it could become in the next chapter of its development.”
At the NAC, Deacon led the orchestra’s 2013 tour of China and its 2014 U.K. Tour. He was also instrumental in the orchestra’s most ambitious production, the commissioned multimedia work Life Reflected, which was performed across Canada last year and will be performed internationally as part of the NAC Orchestra’s 50th anniversary tour of Europe.
Deacon also chaired the NAC committee overseeing its architectural rejuvenation and production renewal projects, with a combined budget of $225.4 million, which are dramatically revitalizing not only the NAC building but also the institution itself.
Herrndorf is credited with transforming the NAC — North America’s only multidisciplinary, bilingual performing arts centre — into an artistically vibrant and financially viable entity. He oversaw the architectural rejuvenation of the institution, and was instrumental in launching the new department of Indigenous theatre, which is gearing up for its debut season in 2019.
Under Herrndorf’s leadership, the NAC dramatically raised its profile in Ottawa and across the country. Since 2003, the NAC has staged six festivals — Atlantic Scene, Alberta Scene, Quebec Scene, B.C. Scene, Prairie Scene and Northern Scene — that brought regional artists from across Canada to perform under its roof. That series culminated during last year’s sesquicentennial with Canada Scene, which presented 1,500 artists at more than 150 events.
In advance of Deacon’s hiring, a strategic plan that was released in March 2016 announced some of the NAC’s priorities moving forward.
One was the creation of the department of Indigenous theatre. The plan also stated that the NAC would make a more intensive effort to reach out to French Canadians, addressing a relationship that has atrophied in recent years.
phum@postmedia.com
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Deacon, a 59-year-old who has managed the orchestra for 22 years, replaces the NAC’s outgoing boss, Peter Herrndorf, 77, who spent almost 19 years at the helm.
The Montreal-born Deacon is the first person in the NAC’s 49-year history to be promoted from within the organization to become its leader. Deacon was chosen by a nine-person recruiting committee that undertook a national search process that began in November 2017.
“We found the right person right here at the NAC to provide the vision and leadership necessary to guide the organization into its next half-century. Few people know the NAC as well as Christopher Deacon,” said Adrian Burns, chair of the NAC’s board of trustees, in a statement.
Herrndorf called Deacon “a champion of the performing arts in Canada.”
“He’s got a proven record as a risk-taker and as an adventurous arts administrator leading highly ambitious projects,” said Herrndorf, who will move on to chair the Luminato Festival in Toronto and become a senior resident at Massey College at the University of Toronto.
Deacon said in a statement he was “humbled” by his promotion.
“The National Arts Centre is a place of dreams for artists and producers in Canada. It is the place where many do their best work, a destination that says they have ‘arrived.’ Or the launching pad for their future artistic path,” Deacon said. “I love what the NAC means to Canadians, and I have a passion for what it could become in the next chapter of its development.”
At the NAC, Deacon led the orchestra’s 2013 tour of China and its 2014 U.K. Tour. He was also instrumental in the orchestra’s most ambitious production, the commissioned multimedia work Life Reflected, which was performed across Canada last year and will be performed internationally as part of the NAC Orchestra’s 50th anniversary tour of Europe.
Deacon also chaired the NAC committee overseeing its architectural rejuvenation and production renewal projects, with a combined budget of $225.4 million, which are dramatically revitalizing not only the NAC building but also the institution itself.
Herrndorf is credited with transforming the NAC — North America’s only multidisciplinary, bilingual performing arts centre — into an artistically vibrant and financially viable entity. He oversaw the architectural rejuvenation of the institution, and was instrumental in launching the new department of Indigenous theatre, which is gearing up for its debut season in 2019.
Under Herrndorf’s leadership, the NAC dramatically raised its profile in Ottawa and across the country. Since 2003, the NAC has staged six festivals — Atlantic Scene, Alberta Scene, Quebec Scene, B.C. Scene, Prairie Scene and Northern Scene — that brought regional artists from across Canada to perform under its roof. That series culminated during last year’s sesquicentennial with Canada Scene, which presented 1,500 artists at more than 150 events.
In advance of Deacon’s hiring, a strategic plan that was released in March 2016 announced some of the NAC’s priorities moving forward.
One was the creation of the department of Indigenous theatre. The plan also stated that the NAC would make a more intensive effort to reach out to French Canadians, addressing a relationship that has atrophied in recent years.
phum@postmedia.com
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