Mississippi Valley Orchestra
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    • 2024-2025 Season >
      • Oct 13 2024: Bao Yuankai: Sketches of Taiwan
      • Dec 8 2024: Sarah and Lydia Grimes play Mozart
      • Feb 16 2025: Rachmaninoff 3
      • Apr 6 2025: Mozart's Requiem
      • May 18 2024: Bruckner 7
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    • 2024-2025 Bao Yuankai
    • 2023-2024 Ina Boyle
    • 2022-2023 Ruth Gipps
    • 2021-2022 Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
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ARTISTIC TEAM

The artistic director plans each season’s repertoire, and the artistic team exists to support them. Beyond keeping track of what MVO has performed in the past and gathering suggestions from musicians and audiences, the group serves as a sounding board for the artistic director, helping them articulate their vision and pursue the orchestra’s overall goals.

In addition to nuts and bolts, like concert length and venue—and making sure there are substantial parts for all sections of the orchestra in each concert—the team and artistic director plan the season—and every concert—with these priorities:
  • Artistic growth of the ensemble
  • Variety of styles and eras, and pieces that audiences don’t hear often but will appreciate
  • Representation of diverse aspects of the human experience, such as culture, era, gender, race, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, and religion
  • Anniversaries of composers lives, pieces of music, and historic events
  • Current local and national conversations
  • Seasons (This is Minnesota, after all!)

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