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Step into the cosmos as we bring Holst’s The Planets (An HD Odyssey) to our stage in a celestial exploration of the skies. Projected in HD on a giant screen over the stage, the latest NASA images from modern space voyages provide a stunning visual canvas as our musicians perform this iconic composition. From the relentless rhythms of Mars (Bringer of War) to the serene beauty of Venus (Bringer of Peace), experience the magic of this multimedia event. The Planets is perfectly paired with Miguel Farías’ Retratos Australes (Southern Portraits), echoing the theme of mysterious beauty.

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Holst's The Planets

Salt Palace Convention Center

### Event Description: Susie Park Plays Ortiz with the Minnesota Orchestra

**Event Title:** Susie Park Plays Ortiz - Minnesota Orchestra

**Dates:** 
- Friday, February 14, 2025
- Saturday, February 15, 2025

**Venue:** Orchestra Hall, 1111 Nicollet Mall, Minneapolis, MN 55403

**Duration:** 2 hours, including intermission

**Event Overview:**
Experience an evening of captivating music as the Minnesota Orchestra, under the baton of Chilean-born conductor Paolo Bortolameolli, presents a program pulsing with new energy. This concert features three pieces performed by the Minnesota Orchestra for the first time, promising an unforgettable night of musical exploration.

**Program:**
1. **Miguel Farías’ Retratos Australes** - Introduced by Paolo Bortolameolli, this evocative piece sets the tone for the evening.
2. **Gabriela Ortiz’s Altar de Cuerda for Violin and Orchestra** - Performed by the Minnesota Orchestra’s First Associate Concertmaster, Susie Park, this blazing violin concerto is sure to mesmerize.
3. **Silvestre Revueltas’ La noche de los mayas** - A 1930s film score drawn from Mayan folklore, reminiscent of Igor Stravinsky’s style.

**Featured Artists:**
- **Paolo Bortolameolli, Conductor:** A prolific force on the podium, Bortolameolli is known for his dynamic leadership and advocacy for the arts. He holds several prestigious positions, including music director of the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional Juvenil in Chile and Sinfónica Azteca in Mexico.
- **Susie Park, Violin:** Australian-born Susie Park has been the Minnesota Orchestra’s First Associate Concertmaster since 2015. She has performed with numerous major orchestras worldwide and was a member of the Grammy-nominated Eroica Trio.

**Additional Information:**
- **Tickets:** Available now as part of a package. Save up to 15% and receive subscriber perks when you purchase tickets for three or more concerts. Individual tickets go on sale on July 29.
- **Pre-concert Activities:** Enhance your concert experience with pre-concert activities, valet parking, and pre-order beverages.
- **Accessibility Services:** Orchestra Hall offers a range of accessibility services, including armless and bariatric chairs, assistive listening devices, large-print programs, noise-canceling headphones, service animal accommodations, and wheelchair-accessible seating.

**Presented by:** Ameriprise Financial

**Plan Your Visit:**
- **Directions & Parking:** Convenient parking is available just steps away from Orchestra Hall in the city-owned and skyway-connected 11th and Marquette Ramp.
- **Minnesota Orchestra Mobile App:** Download the app to pre-order intermission drinks, scan your ticket for entry, and access exclusive deals.

Join us for an evening of extraordinary music and let the Minnesota Orchestra take you on a journey through evocative and powerful compositions.

Susie Park Plays Ortiz

Minnesota Orchestra

Chilean conductor Paolo Bortolameolli opens this orchestral showcase with Chilean composer Miguel Farías’ brilliantly explosive Estallido. Jean Sibelius’ Violin Concerto presents an ambitious glimpse into the soul of a troubled composer. Grammy® Award-winning soloist Augustin Hadelich performs this intimate and demanding work. Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6, “Pathétique”, completed just nine days before his death, punctuates the composer’s life with a soaring work filled with raw emotion, lush orchestration and graceful melodies.

Hadelich Plays Sibelius

Joan and Irwin Jacobs Music Center

Our backgrounds, who we are and where we’re from, shape the way we experience the world around us. Join us in a multicultural celebration of symphonic music and the incredible individuals (audience members and musicians, alike!) that help your KC Symphony to thrive.

Through The Lens

Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts

From gender equality to workers’ rights, musical protest and activism resonates through Latin American female artists, who have often led the charge and utilized everything from folk songs to symphonic compositions to raise their voice against injustice. Gustavo Dudamel leads the LA Phil in a concert honoring that musical legacy that includes Gabriela Ortiz’ tribute to Chilean Nueva Canción legend Violeta Parra, a new song cycle by Miguel Farías, and Mexican musician Silvana Estrada performing songs that have resonate across Latino America and the world that explore often-unspoken truths about gender violence and other important topics.

Canto en resistencia California Festival Dudamel leads the LA Phil and special guests in a musical tribute to Latina American artists and activists ranging from Violeta Parra to Silvana Estrada

Walt Disney Concert Hall

Love, loss, redemption, and enlightenment. Kris Bowers’ work, For a Younger Self, was inspired by the hero’s journey and the electrifying artistry of violinist Charles Yang, who makes an exciting return to Powell Hall. Miguel Farías paints a dynamic portrait of life in the southernmost region of South America. And Sergei Rachmaninoff recounts his own life’s journey in a capstone work, Symphonic Dances, which serves as a poignant, powerful anthology of musical memories.

Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic Dances

Powell Hall

Los Angeles Opera’s new Music Director, Domingo Hindoyan, leads Dvořák’s beloved and enduring Symphony No. 9. Bristling with spiritual- and folk-inspired melodies, the “New World” Symphony evokes the nostalgia of a distinct American landscape seen through immigrant eyes. At the 2025 Proms, Hindoyan showed a rare gift for Dvořák’s Ninth: “Rarely has the slow movement opened with such a velvety hymnal quality…its tension stunningly held; never has the Scherzo sounded so genuinely wildly, primitively whirling.” (Bachtrack)

Dvořák’s “New World”

This concert explores music's rich dialogue with other art forms. Language fascinates American prize-winning composer Caroline Shaw, and her work Three Essays considers the power of words to inform, mislead and enrich. Eleventh Rushworth Composition Prize winner Rob Hughes turns to pop, jazz, rock and electronica to inspire his music, while Gabriela Ortiz’s Six Pieces for Violeta is an atmospheric and haunting tribute to the Chilean composer, folklorist and ethnomusicologist Violeta Parra. Colourful Latino folk textures also flow through Ligereza by Chilean composer Miguel Farías and the vibrant Sinfonietta by Puerto Rican composer Roberto Sierra.

Composer

Miguel Farías

Events

Upcoming events

16 - 17 Jan, 2027

Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic Dances · St. Louis Symphony Orchestra

25 - 27 Mar, 2027

Dvořák’s “New World” · Los Angeles Philharmonic

Apr 14, 2027

Convergence and Contrast · Royal Liverpool Philharmonic

Past events

28 - 29 Mar, 2025

Holst's The Planets · Utah Symphony

14 - 15 Feb, 2025

Susie Park Plays Ortiz · Minnesota Orchestra

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