Our next performance....

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Join us on Sunday February 23, 2025 at 3:00 PM, for the third concert of our 2024-25 season: Inspiring Counterpoint.

Under the baton of Kenneth Freed, the orchestra will perform a program featuring pieces from different eras of music that all combine rigorous structure with sweeping emotional content. The program opens with Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson's 1996 work for string orchestra Sinfonietta #2 - Generations. Mozart's youthful classic Bassoon Concerto in B-Flat Major  follows and features Fei Xie, Principal Bassoonist of the Minnesota Orchestra, as soloist. The program concludes with the masterful Symphony #1 of Johannes Brahms. 

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Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd

4801 France Avenue

Minneapolis, MN

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Like all of our concerts, this one is FREE and open to the public. However, seating is limited and first-come, first-serve. Arriving 15-20 minutes before the concert will help ensure you are comfortably seated for the program.

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To accommodate a broader audience, this concert will likely be livestreamed. Click here to reach Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd's streaming page. This page will open in its own browser window. Scroll until you find the Civic Orchestra Concert. The stream will go live a few minutes before the 3:00 PM concert time on December 15. 

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An electronic copy of the concert program be found here.

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A Season of Possibility...

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On May 19, Cary John Franklin completed his 30 year tenure as the music director of the Civic Orchestra of Minneapolis. Grateful for three decades of strong leadership, the orchestra sent him out with a rousing and celebratory performance of Mahler's Symphony #5, closing one chapter of the orchestra's history and beginning a new one. 

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Since late 2023, the Civic Orchestra of Minneapolis has been searching for a new music director, and is pleased to report that five finalists for the position have been selected and confirmed. To see photos and thumbnail biographies of each finalist, visit the information on our Leadership Transition on the About Us page.

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Each finalist will conduct a cycle of rehearsals and a concert program of their own choosing on the 2024 - 25 season. The programs have been finalized and the season features a fantastic mix of standard repertoire, really new music, new spins on older music, and surprising musical gems from different eras. To get a glimpse of what's in store for the new season visit our Concerts page. ​​​​