Violist

Curated by SPCO Principal Bassoonist Andrew Brady and flutist Alicia McQuerrey, this special Express Concert includes evocative works by Maurice Ravel, Astor Piazzolla and Osvaldo Golijov which explore the passion-filled dance between life and death. The program features Adolphus Hailstork’s hauntingly beautiful romance for viola, performed by SPCO violist Hyobi Sim, a flute solo by Valerie Coleman and Lili Boulanger’s impressionist masterpiece D’un matin de printemps.

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Express Concert: Ravel’s Le Tombeau de Couperin

Temple Israel

Saint Paul's United Church of Christ

Wayzata Community Church

Accordo is a string ensemble composed of present and former principal string players of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and Minnesota Orchestra. The group has been named “Best Chamber Ensemble” by the Minneapolis Star Tribune and “the dream team of chamber music” by Minnesota Monthly. Accordo has been performing since 2008 to consistently well sold and enthusiastic audiences.

Accordo

Westminster Presbyterian Church

Principal Bass Zachary Cohen plays an arrangement of Franz Schubert’s famous work for arpeggione, a now extinct instrument similar to a bowed guitar, alongside Florence Price’s technically and lyrically epic String Quartet No 2. Originally published in 1935, the quartet was rediscovered in 2009 with hundreds of manuscripts written by Price over her lifetime — audiences are in for a treat as the SPCO tackles the entire work after having previously performed the “Juba” movement for streaming audiences early in the pandemic.

Zachary Cohen Plays Schubert’s Arpeggione Sonata

Trinity Lutheran Church of Minnesota

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

ONE HOUR PROGRAM featuring selections from Accordo's performance on Monday, June 5th at Westminster Hall.

Accordo at Icehouse

Icehouse MPLS

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

Humboldt High School Auditorium

Join us at the Ordway for an evening with acclaimed string collective Accordo, the BRIJ Quartet, and pianist and composer Stephen Prutsman, featuring silent movies with original live music.
The increasingly popular Accordo with Silent Film is back in 2023. Join us at the Ordway for an evening with acclaimed string collective Accordo, the BRIJ Quartet, and pianist and composer Stephen Prutsman, featuring silent movies with original live music.

Accordo With Silent Film 2023

Ordway Center for the Performing Arts

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

Ted Mann Concert Hall

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

Pianist and composer Conrad Tao made his SPCO debut in a program built around Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s monumental Piano Concerto No. 24. A Renaissance madrigal by Carlo Gesualdo, a sunny keyboard concerto by C.P.E. Bach, and a cryptic work for viola and piano by Morton Feldman were like a twisting labyrinth of darkness and light that anticipated the harmonic instability and searching quality of Mozart’s concerto. Ruth Crawford-Seeger’s Music for Small Orchestra framed this journey with a slow, pensive descent into the dark maze and a roguish finale that climbs towards a window of light.

Hyobi Sim

Violist

Events

21 - 23 Mar, 2024

Express Concert: Ravel’s Le Tombeau de Couperin · Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra

Oct 24, 2023

Accordo · Schubert Club

5 - 7 Oct, 2023

Zachary Cohen Plays Schubert’s Arpeggione Sonata · Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra

22 - 26 Sep, 2023

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

Jun 6, 2023

Accordo at Icehouse · Schubert Club

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