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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

Enjoy selections from our fifth annual Musician Appreciation Concert, a celebration of the musicians of The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, who enrich our community by sharing their incredible artistry with thousands of people every year. This special concert showcases the extraordinary talents of our musicians in solo and ensemble performances and features unique opportunities to get to know members of the orchestra. With works by Felix Mendelssohn and Antonio Vivaldi, this concert features popular pieces from both the Classical and Baroque eras.

Musician Appreciation Concert

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

Dan Caputo, a composer of instrumental and electronic music, explores the ways detailed aural textures and curious musical behaviors can elicit complex psychological responses. Măcelaru leads the Festival Orchestra in Liminal, a work that aims to reflect the psychological behaviors people experience during transitional states

Wild Geese

Civic Auditorium Santa Cruz

After a five-year hiatus, Festival Mozaic is proud to return to Mission San Miguel Arcángel for an afternoon showcasing chamber music for piano and strings. Pianists Stewart Goodyear and John Novacek will lead works by Fauré and Brahms. Opening the program is a unique piece by American composer Henry Cowell which features Iranian rhythms in the drum.

Chamber Concert 3: Mission San Miguel

Mission San Miguel Arcángel

Violinist Eunice Kim and pianist John Novacek collaborate on a mini-recital of works for violin and piano.

Midday Mini-Concert: Eunice Kim & John Novacek

Performing Arts Center San Luis Obispo

This program celebrates the quintet in all of its forms. Pianist Stewart Goodyear joins forces with a string quartet for Hummel’s piano quintet; a string trio joins harp and flute for Francaix’s quintet; and we close with Beethoven’s only piece originally conceived for a string quintet. Also on the program is a rhythmic and lyrical duet for violin and soprano by Villa-Lobos.

Chamber Concert 1: Hummel, Françaix & Beethoven

Cuesta College

To celebrate the opening of the 2023 Summer Music Festival Scott Yoo and the Festival musicians will join forces with the Movement Arts Collective for a new setting of Copland's Appalachian Spring, choreographed by Ryan Lawrence. Also on the program are Beethoven’s Spring sonata for violin and piano, a duet for violin and viola by Czech composer Martinu, and a work for voice and strings by Korean-American composer and Scott Yoo’s professor at Harvard, Earl Kim.

Opening Night: Appalachian Spring

Fans of chamber music will delight in this concert featuring three quintets of winds and strings alike. Franz Hasenöhrl's arrangement of Richard Strauss’ immensely popular tone poem Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks cleverly distills the large-scale orchestral work to its essence. The work is based on medieval German folk tales about a practical joker whose exploits range from pranks in the marketplace to revenge on upper-class society. Closing out the program is Antonín Dvořák’s American Quintet, written during his summer in Spillville Iowa.

Dvořák, Haydn and Strauss

Shepherd of The Valley Lutheran Church

Humboldt High School Auditorium

Saint Paul's United Church of Christ

Wayzata Community 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

Experience the buoyant energy and virtuosity of Mozart’s Symphony No. 35 (“Haffner”) along with two young virtuoso soloists. Violinist Eunice Kim and double bass phenomenon Xavier Foley will amaze you in the Bottesini Gran Duo, as well as an original composition by Foley.

Mozart’s Haffner Symphony

Shreveport Riverview Theatre

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

Wooddale Church

Ted Mann Concert Hall

Minnesota-based choir Border CrosSing explores Baroque music by Johann Sebastian Bach and Latin American composers Manuel de Zumaya, Esteban Salas y Castro and Manuel Mesa y Carrizo. Bach’s Sanctus from Mass in B Minor, selections from Cantata No. 147 including “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring” and a double concerto for violin and oboe are paired with celebratory works for chorus and orchestra by Baroque composers from Mexico, Cuba and Bolivia.

Express Concert: Border CrosSing Sings Bach and Zumaya

2023.24 Sandbox Composer-in-Residence Clarice Assad's Synchronous is a two-movement work composed for oboe and string quartet depicting the same five minutes of time, first as a beautiful sunrise, and second as disconnected images of events happening around the world during those same five minutes. 

Assad, Farrenc and Schubert

Join music director Scott Yoo for a look behind the score of Franck's Piano Quintet. Scott and the artists will take you on an exploration into the music by Franck, discussing details of the composer's life, musical elements to listen for, and offer their own perspectives on the piece.

Notable Insight: Franck Piano Quintet

Harold J. Miossi Cultural and Performing Arts Center

The Festival artists lead an exciting evening of chamber music at the Harold Miossi Cultural & Performing Arts Center, including the West Coast Premiere of George Tsontakis' Portraits by El Greco Book II.

Eunice Kim

Violinist

Events

14 - 17 Mar, 2024

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

Mar 2, 2024

Musician Appreciation Concert · Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra

Sep 29 - Oct 1, 2023

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

Aug 13, 2023

Wild Geese · Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music

Jul 26, 2023

Chamber Concert 3: Mission San Miguel · Festival Mozaic

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