Flutist

Curated by SPCO violinist Daria Adams, this Express Concert celebrates Johann Sebastian Bach and his undying influence through centuries of music-making across the world. Works by Heitor Villa-Lobos and Maria Kaneko Millar feature the qualities of dance central to much of Bach’s work, and Bach’s own Double Violin Concerto will showcase the SPCO’s Eunice Kim and Daria Adams in a dynamic whirlwind accompanied by the full orchestra.

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Express Concert: Bach's Double Violin Concerto

Benson Great Hall

Trinity Lutheran Church of Minnesota

Ordway Center for the Performing Arts

Featuring SPCO violinist Maureen Nelson’s new arrangement of Medieval works, this program is a musical response to the poet Rumi who wrote: “The lamps are different, but the Light is the same. One matter, one energy, one Light, one Light-mind, endlessly emanating all things.” Opening with music of Hildegard von Bingen, this Express Concert is a journey of light through the eyes of different composers. At the heart lies Franz Joseph Haydn’s uplifting Midday Symphony and Osvaldo Golijov’s lush Tenebrae for String Quartet.

Express Concert: Haydn’s Midday Symphony

Ted Mann Concert Hall

Temple Israel

Saint Paul's United Church of Christ

SPCO violinist Eunice Kim takes center stage in this program that builds toward Felix Mendelssohn’s seminal violin concerto — a Romantic paragon of the instrument’s standard repertoire and an audience favorite. Also included on the program are three movements from Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel’s epic piano cycle, Das Jahr, written to depict the twelve months of the year and arranged for chamber orchestra by SPCO Principal Horn James Ferree.

Eunice Kim Plays Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto

St. Andrew's Lutheran Church

This program features one of Franz Joseph Haydn’s famous “London” symphonies, Symphony No. 99, written in anticipation of his second trip to London and the first of three from this collection performed by the SPCO throughout the season. Also included on the program are the beautiful melodies of brother and sister Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn. Felix Mendelssohn’s String Octet brings the depth and complexity of a symphony with only eight players, and three movements from Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel’s epic piano cycle, Das Jahr, depict the twelve months of the year, arranged for chamber orchestra by SPCO Principal Horn James Ferree.


Haydn’s Symphony No. 99

Wooddale Church

Shepherd of The Valley Lutheran Church

Written during his summer in Spillville Iowa, Antonín Dvořák’s American Quintet draws on influences he saw as uniquely American — African-American spiritual melodies, taught to him by composer Henry T. Burleigh, and rhythms from Native American music, which he discovered through the traveling Kickapoo Medicine Show. Other pieces on this program reflect similar influence. David Bruce’s Gumboots is derived from the Apartheid-era South African dance, and Louis W. Ballard’s Ritmo Indio is a study in American Indian rhythms.

Ballard, Bruce and Dvořák

Capri Theater

SPCO concertmaster Steven Copes takes audiences on a deep dive into masterworks by four early 20th century composers, each distilling late-Romantic musical traditions into something fresh and modern. Arnold Schoenberg’s dramatic Chamber Symphony No. 1 for fifteen musicians condenses the symphonic language of Richard Wagner and Gustav Mahler into a colorful, action-packed thrill-ride. Maurice Ravel’s celebrated String Quartet in F Major and Richard Strauss’s Capriccio for string sextet, though no less modern, are lush and sentimental in contrast to Edgard Varèse’s Density 21.5 for solo flute played by SPCO flutist Alicia McQuerrey.

Express Concert: Musical Distillations with Steven Copes

Continuing our annual holiday tradition, the SPCO presents Johann Sebastian Bach’s most cherished set of orchestral works, the Brandenburg Concertos. The profound inventiveness and instrumental virtuosity of these enduring Baroque masterpieces are on full display as led by our own SPCO musicians and soloists.


Holiday Concerts: Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos

SPCO flutist Julia Bogorad-Kogan curates a program of Baroque chamber music including works by Élisabeth-Claude Jacquet de La Guerre, the first woman to compose opera in France, and Isabella Leonarda whose musical talent was compared to the military prowess of Emperor Leopold I. Discover their “marvelous” chamber music, which was largely unknown for centuries, alongside gems by more recognized Baroque composers Johann Sebastian Bach and Georg Philipp Telemann

Express Concert: Baroque Marvels with Julia Bogorad-Kogan

From Caroline Shaw to Duke Ellington, experience a program over the holiday weekend that highlights the wide range of sound and diversity of music from the United States in the 20th and 21st centuries. Sandbox composer-in-residence Viet Cuong will debut a new work in a celebratory culmination of his inaugural residency with the orchestra. An SPCO staple, Samuel Barber’s Adagio for Strings, rounds out this eclectic program of music from the U.S

Alicia McQuerrey

Flutist

Events

14 - 17 Mar, 2024

Express Concert: Bach's Double Violin Concerto · Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra

1 - 4 Feb, 2024

Express Concert: Haydn’s Midday Symphony · Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra

Sep 29 - Oct 1, 2023

Eunice Kim Plays Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto · Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra

22 - 26 Sep, 2023

Haydn’s Symphony No. 99 · Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra

4 - 5 May, 2023

Ballard, Bruce and Dvořák · Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra

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