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The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra (SPCO) is an American chamber orchestra based in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Its principal concert venue is the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts . In collaboration with five artistic partners, the orchestra's musicians present more than 130 concerts and educational programs each year in several venues throughout ...
The orchestra is made up of nonprofessional and freelance professional musicians who are selected by competitive audition. The Orchestra presents four to five classical programs each season, featuring instrumental soloists, which includes students, area college/university faculty and members of the Minnesota Orchestra and St. Paul Chamber ...
Jun. 17—The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra will make its debut at the Bravo! Vail Music Festival in Vail, Colo., opening the festival's 2021 season with three performances with violinist Joshua ...
In 1980, Saint Paul resident Sally Ordway Irvine (a 3M heiress and arts patron) dreamed of a European-style concert hall offering "everything from opera to the Russian circus". She contributed $7.5 million—a sum matched by other members of the Ordway family—toward the facility's cost.
Jun. 10—The St. Paul Chamber Orchestra's newly announced 2021-22 season will feature livestreamed and in-person concerts at the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts, 14 SPCO musicians featured ...
In 1972, the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra Society ended its sponsorship of the St. Paul Youth Orchestra, and Ralph Winkler established a new youth orchestra, the Minnesota Youth Symphony. MYS toured Romania in 1973, becoming the first American youth orchestra to tour in a communist country.
Brandt sang with the Minnesota Orchestra, the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Aspen Festival Orchestra, and the Kansas City Philharmonic during her career, and performed a wide variety of roles on stage; among these were Pamina in The Magic Flute, the Countess in Le nozze di Figaro, and Elle in La voix humaine. [1]
The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra is the only full-time professional chamber orchestra in the country, [81] and also tours and records. Professional orchestral ensembles outside the Twin Cities include the Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra [82] and the Rochester Symphony Orchestra and Chorale. [83]