Minnesota Orchestra

Minnesota Orchestra rings in 2026 with pianist Aaron Diehl and a program featuring music by Tilson Thomas, Andres, Bernstein and Copland. Listen to the live broadcast with host Melissa Ousley at 2 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 1, on YourClassical MPR.

A Twin Cities native and Mounds View High School graduate, Thompson will step into his new position in Minneapolis on Oct. 14.

She’ll lead seven different orchestras in concerts with genre-bending band King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard.

Freed, who died unexpectedly on June 29, joined the Minnesota Orchestra as a violist in 1998.

The Minnesota Orchestra, under music director Thomas Søndergård, is performing Puccini’s Turandot in concert for the first time in years, featuring soprano Christine Goerke.

Led by conductor and composer Steve Hackman, the Minnesota Orchestra — along with three vocalists — performed to a sold-out audience Friday night in Minneapolis. See a recap and a gallery of photos from the concert.

When legendary pianist Vladimir Horowitz gave the local premiere of Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Third Piano Concerto with the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra in 1933, he had already been playing the work for 10 years. And the Ukrainian teacher who taught it to him ended up in Duluth. Find out more!

Conductor Lina González-Granados made her Minnesota Orchestra debut in a concert featuring pianist Jon Kimura Parker and music from the Roaring '20s. Listen to the concert now!

Minnesota Orchestra music director Thomas Sondergard shares a tongue-in-cheek secret of conducting during a chat with YourClassical MPR host Melissa Ousley at an MPR event.

Minnesota Orchestra music director Thomas Søndergård explains how he and his husband, baritone Andreas Landin, share their love of music during a chat with YourClassical MPR host Melissa Ousley at an MPR event.