Small ensembles of Minnesota Orchestra musicians will perform chamber music on stage at Orchestra Hall. Plus, special guest pianist Inon Barnaton performs Chausson's Concerto for Piano, Violin and String Quartet alongside our musicians.

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Bacewicz, Bax and Chausson

Orchestra Hall Minneapolis

Grażyna Bacewicz’s astonishing quartet for four violins starts our season, and the concert concludes with Franz Schubert’s masterful Trout quintet, all performed by Marin Symphony all-stars.

Chamber Music 1: Schubert’s Trout Quintet

Mt. Tamalpais United Methodist Church

In honour of International Women’s Day, the first half of this special concert features pieces celebrating the musical achievements of three extraordinary women artists from three different musical eras - contemporary Chinese American composer Chen Yi, 20th century Polish composer Grażyna Bacewicz, and 19th century Venezuelan Teresa Carreño.

Music for a Sunday Afternoon: Winter Edition

Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre

The Springfield Symphony performed Beethoven’s ever-popular and dramatic Fifth Symphony at its inaugural concert in 1935, so in honor of our 90th year, we play it again. You will also hear Sibelius’s stormy and passionate Violin Concerto and Overture for Orchestra by Polish composer Graznya Bacewich, one of the first women composers from Poland to gain international acclaim. And there will be one more piece, a surprise for everyone to honor our anniversary…that you’ll have to be here to hear!

Stormy Weather

Missouri State University

'Joy and pain interweave in the light of the world…Thousands of years flash by with glory and strength, revealing that which is indestructible'. Extraordinary claims; but then extraordinary is the only word for the heaven-storming choral finale of Ferruccio Busoni’s colossal Piano Concerto: a masterpiece on the scale of a symphony, composed in 1904 by one of Mahler’s greatest fans. 

Gerstein plays Busoni’s Piano Concerto

Barbican Centre

Alumni of the Emerging Artist Fellowship program return to Garth Newel to present recitals as emerged professionals.

Emerging Artist Alumni Concert – War and Injustice: Solace Across Genres

Garth Newel Music Center

Associate Professor of Violin Timothy Kantor will present his final recital at the University of Arizona. He will be leaving Arizona to join the faculty of the Sydney Conservatorium of Music in Australia this fall. The recital opens with one of Mozart’s brilliant violin sonatas, the heart of which is a colossal D-minor theme and variations movement. This is followed by a lively quartet for violins performed with Adjunct Instructor and Tucson Symphony Associate Concertmaster Michelle Abraham Kantor and two of Professor Kantor’s extraordinarily accomplished former students. The program will conclude with Beethoven’s ultimate contribution to the violin sonata repertoire, a piece that in many ways concludes his heroic middle compositional period and alludes to some of the profound innovations of his latest works.

Faculty Artist Series Recital – Timothy Kantor, Violin

University of Arizona

Members of the Minnesota Orchestra join pianist Simon Trpčeski for an afternoon of chamber music on the Orchestra Hall stage.

Brahms, Prokofiev and Tabakova

Although it might seem that the peers Josef Bohuslav Foerster, born in Prague, and Leoš Janáček, born in Hukvaldy five years later, were friends or artistic partners, this is not the case. Rather, there was mutual respect between the composers. Like Janáček, Foerster came from a family of schoolteachers. Half a year older than Gustav Mahler and a whole generation older than Josef Suk and Vítězslav Novák, Foerster's music had one characteristic quality: strange inconspicuousness and modesty. Foerster never aspired to coin his own distinctly personal musical language. He formed a strong friendship and deep understanding with Mahler. They first met in Hamburg.

Grazyna Bacewicz

Events

Upcoming events

Oct 25, 2026

Brahms, Prokofiev and Tabakova · Minnesota Orchestra

Feb 15, 2027

Janáček. Foerster. Mahler · Prague Philharmonia

Past events

Mar 31, 2026

Bacewicz, Bax and Chausson · Minnesota Orchestra

4 - 5 Oct, 2025

Chamber Music 1: Schubert’s Trout Quintet · Marin Symphony

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