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2021-2022 SEASON

Please note, for our audience's safety concert attendees should observe the following:
  1. All audience members must wear masks at all times when they are inside the concert venue.
  2. All audience members age 5 and older must either be fully vaccinated or be tested negative for Covid within 72 hours of the concert. Please be prepared to show a Vaccination Card or negative test result.
  3. Children under the age of 5 who are accompanied by an adult are permitted to attend and must be masked at all times.​
Sarah Grimes Plays Coleridge-Taylor (in memory of Henry Charles Smith)
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​Sunday, October 17, 2021 - 3 PM (2:15 Pre-concert talk)
Augustana Lutheran Church
1400 S Robert St, West St Paul, MN 55118

​Ho-Yin Kwok, conductor
Sarah Grimes, violin
Ryan Holt, 
student of Dr. Chris Weldon, winner of the St. Paul Piano Teachers Association Concerto Competition 2020

Siesky: Remnants (World Premiere in collaboration with ...And We Were Heard, initiative for underrepresented composers)
Coleridge-Taylor: Romance in G major for Violin, op. 39
Rachmaninoff: Moderato from Piano Concerto No. 2
Hanson: Symphony No. 2 'Romantic', op. 30


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Christmas with MVO
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​Sunday, December 5, 2021 - 3 PM (2:15 Pre-concert talk)
First Lutheran Church Columbia Heights
1555 40th Ave NE, Columbia Heights, MN 55421

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​Ho-Yin Kwok, conductor
Andrew Kim, 
guest conductor
Minnesota Boychoir


Offenbach: Orphée aux enfers Overture
Smyth: On the Cliffs of Cornwall from The Wreckers
Ibarra: Serenata for Strings (World Premiere)
Tchaikovsky: Waltz of the Snowflakes from The Nutcracker
Anderson: Sleigh Ride
J Strauss II: On the Beautiful Blue Danube
J Strauss II: Csárdás from Ritter Pásmán
Coleridge-Taylor: ​Christmas Overture from The Forest of Wild Thyme
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Mahler 1

Sunday, February 13, 2022 - 2:30 PM (1:45 Pre-concert talk)
Benson Great Hall
3900 Bethel Dr, Arden Hills, MN 55112

​Ho-Yin Kwok, conductor
Ryan Tani, 
guest conductor
Noah Greenstein Sheppard, student of Dr. Paul Wirth, winner of the St. Paul Piano Teachers Association Concerto Competition 2021

Coleridge-Taylor: Petite suite de concert, op. 77
R. Schumann: 
Allegro affettuoso from Piano Concerto in A minor, op. 54
Mahler: Symphony No. 1​
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Rite of Spring

Sunday, April 10, 2022 - 2:30 PM (1:45 Pre-concert talk)
Benson Great Hall
3900 Bethel Dr, Arden Hills, MN 55112

​Ho-Yin Kwok, conductor
Thomas Kociela, 
guest conductor
​Ben Odhner, violin


Coleridge-Taylor: Rhapsodic Dance No. 1, 'Bamboula', op. 75
Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 1, op. 26
Stravinsky: Le sacre du printemps (1913 version)
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Andrew Staupe Plays Bartók 2

Sunday, May 22, 2022 - 3:00 PM
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
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​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
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Opera: Hometown to the World

Recorded performance in collaboration with the University of Minnesota Opera Theatre

David Walsh, director
​Ho-Yin Kwok, conductor
University of Minnesota Opera Theatre


Kaminsky: Hometown to the World
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