MISSISSIPPI VALLEY ORCHESTRA

Ho-Yin Kwok // Artistic Director and Conductor
Sarah Grimes // Concertmaster

Founded in 1976, Mississippi Valley Orchestra is an excellent civic orchestra that plays incredible music east and west of the Mississippi River in the Minneapolis - St Paul metro area.

​​MVO Foreground Composer 2021-2022: Samuel Coleridge-Taylor​

Every year, beginning in the 2021-22 season,​ the Mississippi Valley Orchestra focuses its program on an underrepresented composer by performing the composer's works throughout the season, bringing them to the "foreground" for audience to rediscover their neglected musical geniuses. For Season 2021-2022, we feature Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. Read more about the composer and enjoy videos from MVO's performances here.

If you want to know more about Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's life and works, please come to our concert on May 22, 2022 and join our pre-concert talk with Penelope Corbett at 2:15 p.m. 
Upcoming Concerts

Andrew Staupe Plays Bartók 2
​Sunday, May 22, 2022 - 3:00 p.m.
Pre-concert talk featuring Penelope Corbett on Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's life and works - 2:15 p.m.

St. Andrew's Lutheran Church
900 Stillwater Rd #2267, Mahtomedi, MN 55115
For our audience's safety, concert attendees must wear masks at all times when they are inside the concert venue.

​Ho-Yin Kwok, conductor
Andrew Staupe, piano

Coleridge-Taylor: Overture to The Song of Hiawatha, op. 30
Bartók: Piano Concerto No. 2
Dvořák: Symphony No. 9 'From the New World', op. 95

MVO at Parkway Theater - Strings Attached
​Sunday, June 26, 2022 - 4:00 p.m doors / 5:00 p.m. music

Parkway Theater
4814 Chicago Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55417
The Parkway Theater requires Proof of COVID-19 Vaccination or Negative Test Result for Entry to all events.

Advance General Admission $20 / At The Door $27
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Mississippi Valley Orchestra is teaming up with a stellar roster of Minnesota music-makers to create a one-of-a-kind performance experience. Each artist will perform a mini-set of original music, accompanied by the full orchestra.

Local luminaries Jillian Rae, High On Stress, Fathom Lane, Katy Vernon, Jenny Russ, Michael Mothershed and Bud Roberts will reimagine their songs in this unique Sunday matinee performance. Help support this our orchestra and the Minnesota music scene!

Emceed by Diane Miller, host of The Local Show on 89.3 The Current.

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MVO 2022 Summer Crewtet Series
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Bauhaus Brew Labs
1315 Tyler St NE, Minneapolis, MN 55413

Thursday, June 2 - 6 p.m.
Thursday, July 7 - 6 p.m.
Thursday, August 4 - 6 p.m.
Saturday, September 1 - 4 p.m. and 6 p.m.
​Lake Monster Brewing
550 Vandalia St #160, St Paul, MN 55114

Tuesday, June 14 - 6 p.m.
Tuesday, July 12 - 6 p.m.
Tuesday, August 9 - 6 p.m.
Tuesday, September 13 - 6 p.m.
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