The BSO is a volunteer community orchestra made up of talented professional, semi-professional and amateur musicians who are selected through a highly competitive audition process. The BSO performs major symphonic works at accessible church, school, park and community center locations in the south and southwest Minneapolis/St. Paul metro area.

*All BSO concerts are handicap accessible and ushers are available to assist patrons with special needs.
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BLOOMINGTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA NEWS

Our next concert is Moving Forward, Looking Back, performed under the baton of Guest Conductor and Music Director Candidate Jeffrey Stirling. The BSO will feature percussionist Ian Ding as soloist.

Artists have always engaged in a creative dialogue with the past.  The composers on our program have all been challenged and inspired by musicians who have come before them.

The clear structures of Baroque dances offered Ravel ready-made vessels for his inspiration.  He applied his skills like a pointallist painter to imagine a “Menuet Antique” in vivid 20th-century colors.

Always the provocateur, Ned Rorem describes percussion as “strictly ornamental,” or even “superfluous.”  But when virtuoso Evelyn Glennie asked him for a concerto, he wrote a work that stresses “chords and tune, but never rhythm for its own sake.” Soloist Ian Ding performs on five different instruments in Rorem’s “Mallet Concerto.”

Brahms, always a diligent student of past masters, makes reference to his musical idols in many of his works.  Using a dark Romantic palette, Brahms looks back to the Baroque passacaglia, Bach and Beethoven in shaping the variations that bring his final symphony and our concert to a close.

This concert will be at St. Michael's Lutheran Church, in Bloomington, Minnesota. Please join us on Sunday, February 12 at 3 p.m. for this exciting performance.

Bloomington Symphony Orchestra seeks Marketing Intern (updated January 5, 2012)

The BSO is currently seeking a marketing intern. Please click here for a full position description and submit materials as requested.

Soloist announced for April concert

University of Minnesota freshman Angelika Strub, will be featured at the Bloomington Symphony Orchestra's concert, A Perfect Fantasy, on April 1. Ms. Strub was the winner of the Minnesota String and Orchestra Teachers Association Mary West Solo Competition this past fall. The Grand Prize is the opportunity to perform wtih the BSO and Ms. Strub will perform the Sibelius Violin Concerto under the direction of guest conductor Cheung Chau.