Artistic Partners

The Minnesota Orchestra ranks among America's top symphonic ensembles, with a distinguished history of acclaimed performances in its home state and around the world, award-winning recordings, radio broadcasts and educational outreach programs, and a visionary commitment to building the orchestral repertoire of tomorrow.
 
Minneapolis Public Schools is the school district of choice for 33,000 students and their families. Nearly 25,000 adult learners embrace life-long learning through a variety community education courses. Relationships – with families and community partners – are a critical component of helping all learners reach higher.
 
The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, beginning its 50th anniversary season in September 2008, is the nation's only full-time professional chamber orchestra and is widely regarded as one of the finest chamber orchestras in the world.

Season Partners

The mission of the Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra is to perform outstanding symphony concerts for diverse audiences throughout the Twin Cities metropolitan area.
 
The mission of the Minnesota Dance Theater & the Dance Institute is to create masterful and provocative dance performances which entertain and inspire audiences, and to foster talent by providing a comprehensive classical and contemporary training curriculum focused on the technical and artistic demands of a professional dance career.
 
Founded in 1972, Minnesota Youth Symphonies (MYS) is one of the nation’s premier youth orchestra education programs. MYS is dedicated to conservatory-level orchestral training for students.
 
Stephen Paulus is a prolific composer of over 350 works. He is fluent in all genres, including orchestra, opera, chorus, chamber ensemble, solo voice, concert band, piano and organ.
 
The music of Janika Vandervelde grows out of a vigorous dialogue between instinct and form. Her subtle, assymetrical weave of pitches and rhythms has been described by musicologist Susan McClary as "endlessly fascinating — almost like facets of a crystal that seem to change with each turn . . . ordered, yet timeless."