Pianist Jon Kimura Parker returns to Orchestra Hall to perform Beethoven’s Concerto No. 3. The program opens with Carlos Simon’s Fate Now Conquers, inspired in part by Beethoven’s own writing in 1815, and concludes with Beethoven’s Symphony No. 2. Nicolas Collon conducts.

We’ve chosen seven exciting, emerging composers out of hundreds who sent us their most imaginative work. We proudly share their inspiring scores with you in this concert, the culmination of the Orchestra’s annual Composer Institute. Bold, colorful, tender and always surprising, the music proclaim...

Lunar New Year is a two-week-long festival celebrated across Eastern Asia that encourages family and friends to gather together. In this performance, with artistic guidance from our own Principal Bassoon Fei Xie, conductor Junping Qian leads the Minnesota Orchestra in music that honors family tra...

Music Director Osmo Vänskä and the Minnesota Orchestra ring in 2022 with an all-Sibelius program that includes performances of Symphonies Nos 2 and 7, plus the Minnesota Orchestra debut of violinist Stella Chen performing the Humoresques.

Richard Strauss’ Ein Heldenleben (A Hero’s Life) tells of thrilling adventures, romance, adversaries, and ultimate fulfillment. We welcome Danish conductor Thomas Søndergård to the podium for his Minnesota Orchestra debut and Argentinian pianist Ingrid Fliter for her return in Mozart’s Piano Conc...