Minnesota Orchestra

The Minnesota Orchestra returns for it’s 2023–24 season as new music director Thomas Søndergård leads a program featuring music by Richard Strauss and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Watch now as host Melissa Ousley visits with Søndergård in his native Denmark in a video mini-documentary. Then join her at 8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 22, for YourClassical MPR’s live broadcast of the concert.

The Minnesota Orchestra’s recording of ‘brea(d)th,’ which premiered in May at Orchestra Hall, has been released on all streaming platforms by Decca Records.

Jon Kimura Parker shares his love and admiration for British singer, pianist and composer Elton John. Listen as he shares a snippet of a song that shaped his youth with YourClassical MPR host Melissa Ousley.

Jon Kimura Parker shares his passion for Sergei Rachmaninoff's 'Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini' with YourClassical MPR host Melissa Ousley. Find out what makes this well-loved classical piece tick.

Acclaimed pianist Jon Kimura Parker and the BRKFST Dance Company joined the Minnesota Orchestra for a program featuring works by Sergei Rachmaninoff, Maurice Ravel, Daniel Bernard Roumain and Igor Stravinsky. Listen to the concert now and watch as Parker demonstrates his love for Elton John and explains Rachmaninoff’s work.

The Minnesota Orchestra announced its 2023-24 season with new music director Thomas Søndergård, a Danish conductor and percussionist whose goal is to “be the music director for all generations.” Find out more about upcoming concerts, guest conductors and guest soloists scheduled to perform alongside the Minnesota Orchestra!

Last December, Border CrosSing and artistic director Ahmed Anzaldúa joined the Minnesota Orchestra in ‘El Mesías,’ a bilingual Spanish-English cross-cultural combination of George Frideric Handel’s ‘Messiah’ and Ariel Ramírez’ ‘Navidad Nuestra.’ Listen to the concert now!

A first-of-its-kind concert dubbed “The Listening Project” from the Minnesota Orchestra last fall put the spotlight on rarely heard music by Black composers. Read more about the composers featured in this interview by Cathy Wurzer with Louise Topper.

Minnesota Orchestra’s longest-serving concertmaster and the second woman to serve in that position in a major U.S. orchestra at the time of appointment, Jorja Fleezanis, died in her home in northern Michigan at 70.

The Minnesota Orchestra announced the appointment of Thomas Søndergård as its next music director on July 28. Listen to on-demand audio of his December debut with the orchestra, plus watch five other great moments with the exciting Danish conductor from the concert stage.