Domingo Hindoyan conducts the Minnesota Orchestra with guest trumpet soloist Pacho Flores. In Arturo Márquez’s new trumpet concerto, Flores delivers the many colors and flavors of Latin American dance bands while he performs on four different types of trumpets. These concerts conclude with Dvořák...

Principal Trumpet Manny Laureano is in his 43rd season with the Minnesota Orchestra and calls the fellow trumpet players in his section his “pride and joy”.. Manny grew up in East Harlem to Puerto Rican parents, attended Juilliard and toured with Emerson Lake and Palmer before landing his first ...

Adam Romey is the mastermind behind the Minnesota Orchestra live broadcast and streaming productions. A trained musician, Adam studies the scores, plans and programs hundreds of cues for multiple robotic cameras and directs the crew for each concert.

Roberto Sierra’s Fandangos, titled after the lively partner dance from Spain and Portugal, is what the composer calls a “super-fandango” drawing on his fascination with other composers’ fandango music mixed with his own Baroque-style musings, contemporary sonorities and imaginative orchestration.

A riveting lament, embellished with an array of trills and dramatic ornamentation, leads to a furious, brilliant and breathtaking conclusion in the soloist’s own trumpet transcription of a showpiece originally spotlighting violin.

Composed in 2018 specially for Pacho Flores, the Concierto de Otoño (Autumn Concerto) calls for four types of trumpet, merging Latin musical styles with the traditional fast-slow-fast concerto form, opening with an Afro-Cuban dance-infused dialogue between soloist and orchestra, continuing with a...

Dvořák’s Eighth is full of luminous melodies and unexpected harmonic shifts. The second movement alludes to the funeral march of Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony, but lighter elements prevail in a whirlwind finale that is delightfully Czech.