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2022-2023 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. Children under the age of 5 who are accompanied by an adult are permitted to attend and must be masked at all times.​
Firebird
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​Sunday, October 16, 2022 - 3 PM (2:15 Pre-concert talk)
Benson Great Hall
3900 Bethel Dr, Arden Hills, MN 55112

​Ho-Yin Kwok, conductor
Tamara Dworetz, guest conductor
Curtis Streetman, bass


Gipps: Symphony No. 2, op. 30
Mussorgsky (orch. Shostakovich): Songs and Dances of Death
Stravinsky: Firebird Suite (1919 version)
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Bach Double
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​Sunday, December 4, 2022 - 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
Sarah Grimes and Susie Park, 
violin

Weinberg: Rhapsody on Moldavian Themes
J.S. Bach: Concerto for Two Violins
Gipps: Knight in Armour, op. 8
Respighi: Pines of Rome
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Mahler's Inspiration

Sunday, February 19, 2023 - 2:30 PM (1:45 Pre-concert talk)
Augustana Lutheran Church
1400 S Robert St, West St Paul, MN 55118

​Ho-Yin Kwok, conductor
Niloofar Sohi, viola

​Alex Rodriguez, student of Dr. Paul Wirth and winner of the St. Paul Piano Teachers Association Competition 2022
Tamar Simon, soprano
Geoffrey Schellenberg, baritone


Gipps: Jane Grey Fantasy for Viola, op. 15
Grieg: Allegro moderato molto e marcato from Piano Concerto in A minor​
Mahler: Des Knaben Wunderhorn​
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​Requiem for the Living (presented by Edina Chorale)

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Sunday, April 2, 2023 - 3 PM
Orchestra Hall
1111 Nicollet Mall, Minneapolis, MN 55403

​Ho-Yin Kwok, conductor
Fanya Lin, piano
Edina Chorale, Paige Armstrong, Artistic Director

Chorus Polaris, William Mathis, Artistic Director

Gipps: Song for Orchestra, op. 33
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 2, op. 16
Forrest: Requiem for the Living
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Enigma Variations

Sunday, May 21, 2023 - 3 PM (2:15 Pre-concert talk)
St Andrew's Lutheran Church
900 Stillwater Rd #2267, Mahtomedi, MN 55115
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​Ho-Yin Kwok, conductor
Clare Longendyke, piano


Kuntz: World Premiere, MVO Resident Composer Project
Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2, op. 18

Elgar: Variations on an Original Theme 'Enigma', op. 36

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