William Hagen | Recital with Albert Cano Smit
William Hagen and the fantastic pianist Albert Cano Smit offer a program comprised of three of the greatest violin sonatas ever written.
Albert Cano Smit Photo credit: Wenqi Ke
William Hagen | Seeds of Music
Join violinist William Hagen for an event focused around music and nature, two universal languages that stir our emotions and benefit us all.
Shanghai Quartet | Marcos Balter Commission with Anthony Roth Costanzo
The Shanghai Quartet and countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo join forces in a new song cycle from Marcos Balter.
Photo credit: Matthew Placek
Orion Weiss | Arc II: Ravel, Brahms, Shostakovich
Acclaimed pianist Orion Weiss released his newest album, Arc II: Ravel, Brahms, Shostakovich in November 2022 on First Hand Records. Featuring performances of Ravel’s Le Tombeau de Couperin, Brahms’ Variations on a Theme by Schumann and Chorale Preludes Nos. 10 & 11, and Shostakovich’s Piano Sonata No. 2, Arc II is the second album of a three-part series and strives to understand the varying ways composers comprehend grief, loss, and death. In this combination of works, Weiss follows the paths these composers walked in their own grief as their tracks lead us from death back towards life, from horror to hope.
Orion Weiss | Arc I: Granados, Janáček, Scriabin
Acclaimed pianist Orion Weiss released his album, Arc I: Granados, Janáček, Scriabin in March 2022 on First Hand Records.
Orion Weiss & Shai Wosner
Orion Weiss and Shai Wosner continue their longtime collaboration with a two-piano program combining an exploration of fugues spanning three centuries together with Rachmaninov’s monumental Symphonic Dances.
Honens Competition
Jon Kimura Parker serves as the Artistic Director of the Honens International Piano Competition which takes place every three years and is considered one of the world’s most prestigious events of its kind.
Minnesota Orchestra Creative Partner For Summer Programming
The Minnesota Orchestra outlined a new leadership model for its summer festival in 2019, naming pianist Jon Kimura Parker its first-ever Creative Partner for summer programming and recently announced an extension that will see him continue in this role through 2024.
Concerto Chat
This series of short videos features interviews, short demonstrations, and colorful anecdotes on each of the piano concertos in Jon Kimura Parker’s active performing repertoire.
Miró Quartet | Celebrate Beethoven!
The Miró Quartet celebrated its 25th anniversary in the 2020 season by performing a wide range of repertoire that pays homage to the legacy of the string quartet and also looks to the future of chamber music and string quartet playing in the U.S. In honor of the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth at the start of the pandemic, the Quartet undertook a remarkable project during which they broadcast live performances of the composer’s complete string quartets remotely from venues throughout Austin, TX for the Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival and audiences from around the world in summer 2020.
Karen Slack | Damien Geter: Justice Symphony
Karen frequently appears as the soloist for Damien Geter’s Justice Symphony for orchestra, soloist and SATB Choir.
Karen Slack | Of Thee I Sing!
Of Thee I Sing! Songs of Love and Justice is a critically acclaimed recital created by Karen Slack in the late Summer of 2020 during the height of the pandemic and just after the murder of George Floyd. The center of this moving program is the raw and powerful yet hopeful Langston Hughes poem, The Kids Who Die (1938), and a commissioned setting of that riveting text by American composer Scott Gendel.
Karen Slack | Gladys Bentley Project
Karen is a skilled storyteller, a champion for new work, and a thoughtful producer, and she is developing a project to honor the life of the iconic Harlem Renaissance performer Gladys Bentley, putting Black Queer voices front and center while exploring themes of Black love, identity, and artistry through the lens of the Harlem Renaissance.
Gabriel Kahane | emergency shelter intake form
Homelessness, eviction, and the lack of affordable housing are of great concern to many. The release of Matthew Desmond’s Evicted shed further light on the eviction crisis and was one of the inspirations for composer Gabriel Kahane’s emergency shelter intake form.
Gabriel & Jeffrey Kahane | Duo Recital
Jeffrey and Gabriel Kahane are offering a special recital program in the 2024-25 and 2025-26 seasons from this father-son duo.
Jeffrey Kahane photo credit: E.F. Marton Productions
James Lee III: Principal Brothers
This new program highlights Demarre McGill, Titus Underwood, Anthony McGill, and Bryan Young — four Black artists who are orchestral principals and inspirational leaders in the field.
Gabriel Kahane & Anthony McGill | Rhapsody
The history of Blacks and Jews in America is, and always has been, complex and multivalent. Stories of solidarity in labor movements in the 1930s and ‘40s, as well as in the struggle for civil rights in the 1960s, are well-documented. Sadly, there is also a rich history of anti-Black racism in Jewish communities, and antisemitism in Black communities.
Anthony McGill & Gloria Chien
Anthony McGill is joined by longtime collaborator and friend Gloria Chien for a program of clarinet and piano duos and solo works featuring pieces by Weber, Montgomery, and Brahms, among others.
Anthony McGill | Anthony Davis’ You Have the Right to Remain Silent
In the mid-1970s, more than 40 years before he won the Pulitzer Prize for music, pianist and composer Anthony Davis was driving with his wife to Boston for a concert when a police officer pulled them over.
Amy Dickson | Take a Breath
Take a Breath started in 2015 as a program designed to teach relaxed breathing techniques to primary school-aged children, in order to help them combat and build a resilience to stress and anxiety.