Minnesota Orchestra

Hear audio from Minnesota Orchestra concerts for 30 days after YourClassical MPR’s broadcasts and read more about the orchestra’s activities.

Listen to Thomas Søndergård's conducting debut with the Minnesota Orchestra
Listen: Latvian, Minnesota choirs perform Esenvalds' music at Latvian Song and Dance Festival
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Listen: Conductor Yue Bao and the Minnesota Orchestra examine the role of destiny together
Minnesota Orchestra selected as Gramophone's orchestra of the year
Minnesota Orchestra and Vikings team up for the win

Minnesota Orchestra and Vikings team up for the win

Two of Minnesota's biggest brands teamed up Sunday for an unlikely partnership. Just before kickoff of the Seattle Seahawks-Minnesota Vikings game at U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, the Vikings unveiled a new video mashup featuring their players and the Minnesota Orchestra.

Minnesota Orchestra to require proof of vaccination or negative COVID test at concerts
Listen: Minnesota Orchestra plays Tchaikovsky, Still and Mozart

Listen: Minnesota Orchestra plays Tchaikovsky, Still and Mozart

Conductor Karina Canellakis leads the Minnesota Orchestra in a concert featuring Peter Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4, along with selections from William Grant Still’s Symphony No. 1 and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 21, with pianist Jon Kimura Parker. Listen now, with host Steve Seel.

Minnesota Orchestra will begin welcoming back audiences in late June
Minnesota Orchestra adds some heavy metal to its percussion section

Minnesota Orchestra adds some heavy metal to its percussion section

From Mahler to Berlioz, bells are an important part of orchestral repertoire. But, for the longest time, the Minnesota Orchestra relied on computer-based bell samplings and chimes to bring out those booming sounds. Thanks to a generous gift, however, two new bells will be added to the ensemble.

Minnesota Orchestra announces $11.7 million deficit for fiscal 2020

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