Minnesota Orchestra Musicians Around Town
When Minnesota Orchestra musicians aren’t at Orchestra Hall, you can find many of them around the Twin Cities and beyond in other types of performances such as solo recitals and chamber music concerts, concerto appearances with other orchestras and more. Some of our musicians are skilled composers, arrangers, conductors and recording artists, to name just a few talents. Taking on outside projects gives them chances to flex musical muscles that aren’t engaged as often in typical Orchestra settings—while expanding musicians’ tool kits in ways that often come in handy at Orchestra performances.
Here you’ll find details about Orchestra musicians’ local performances beyond the confines of Orchestra Hall. Meanwhile, another opportunity to get to know the musicians takes place at post-concert onstage gatherings following selected Minnesota Orchestra concerts at Orchestra Hall. The next gathering follows the Orchestra’s Søndergård and Tchaikovsky performance on Saturday, June 13, 2026.
Musicians Around Town
On Sunday, June 7, 2026, at 3 p.m. at Westminster Presbyterian Church in downtown Minneapolis, The Michael Steinberg & Jorja Fleezanis Fund will present the premiere of a new chamber work by Ivette Herryman Rodriguez along with Brahms’ Piano Trio in B major, with performers including Minnesota Orchestra musicians Alan Snow, Anthony Ross, Kathryn Nettleman, Marni J. Hougham, Erich Rieppel and Susie Park, as well as narrator Stephen Yoakam and pianist Evren Ozel. The Michael Steinberg & Jorja Fleezanis Fund was established by the late former Minnesota Orchestra Concertmaster Jorja Fleezanis as as a memorial to her husband, the eminent musicologist Michael Steinberg who passed away in 2009, and has continued in tribute to them both since Fleezanis’ passing in 2022. The Fund annually commissions an emerging composer who will bring together music and the written word. Also available at the premiere will be a new collection of Steinberg’s writings, Defending the Music: Michael Steinberg at the Boston Globe, 1964-1976, published by Oxford University Press in collaboration with the Michael Steinberg & Jorja Fleezanis Fund. Tickets are available through the Minnesota Orchestra's website.
