Birge's Picks

This week on Birge’s Picks, music and science intersect at Carleton College as its music department welcomes pianist, composer and cognitive scientist Vijay Iyer for an interview, jazz master class and performance with his trio. Find out more!

This week on John Birge’s Picks, Handel’s ‘Messiah’ begins its yearly rounds in Minnesota. Keep an eye out for performances by the Mankato Symphony, and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra and the Singers. Find out more!

This week on John Birge’s Picks, joyful voices welcome the season with vocal performances in Duluth, Cross Lake, Little Falls, Brainerd, Sioux Falls and the Twin Cities. Find out more!

This week on John Birge’s Picks, young, superb soloists and living legends perform exciting concerts across the state. Find out more!

This week on John Birge’s Picks, movies about music and hope make their way to theaters across Minnesota. Find out more!

This week on Birge’s Picks, vocal ensembles Voces8 and VocalEssence prepare to deliver choral performances at venues in St. Michael and Northfield. Find out more in John Birge’s weekly picks.

This weekend, lots of orchestras around the region celebrate their place in the world — geographical and musical — with concerts spotlighting their environs, their history and their country. Find out more in John Birge’s weekly picks.

If you’re a fan of Sergei Prokofiev’s ‘Peter and the Wolf,’ you’ll be excited to know that the classic musical children’s story is getting an update from Bono. Find out about that and more in this week’s Birge’s Picks.

This week on Birge’s Picks, the Minnesota Orchestra, Fargo-Moorhead Symphony and St. Cloud Symphony hold their opening season concerts. Find out more!

This week on Birge’s Picks, the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra welcomes Richard Egarr, the Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra opens it season and ‘Star Trek’ actor George Takei shares his story in St. Paul. Find out more!