CALENDAR
2025/26 season
June 30, 2025 - 8:15pm
OPENING NIGHT
Chautauqua Institution: Festival Orchestra
Assistant Conductor
Timothy Muffitt, conductor
MORE INFORMATION
Harlin: Earthrise
Mozart: Symphony No. 31 ‘Paris’
Grant Still: Symphony No. 2
Performances
July 7, 2025 - 8:15pm
Chautauqua Institution: Festival Orchestra
Conductor and Assistant Conductor
Timothy Muffitt, conductor
Sean Yang, piano
MORE INFORMATION
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto. No 1
Barber: Essay No. 2
Debussy: La Mer
July 19, 2025 - 8:15pm
MAHLER’S RESURRECTION SYMPHONY
Chautauqua Institution: Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra and Festival Orchestra
Assistant Conductor
Rossen Milanov, conductor
Emily Finke, soprano
Rosamund Dyer, mezzo-soprano
MORE INFORMATION
Mahler: Symphony No. 2 in C Minor, ‘Resurrection’
July 21, 2025 - 8:15pm
Chautauqua Institution: School of Dance and Festival Orchestra
Conductor and Assistant Conductor
Yue Bao, conductor
MORE INFORMATION
Tchaikovsky: Serenade for Strings
Dvorak: Symphony No. 9
Dukas: The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
July 28, 2025 - 8:15pm
Chautauqua Institution: Opera Conservatory and Festival Orchestra
Assistant Conductor
Timothy Muffitt, conductor
MORE INFORMATION
de Falla: La Vide Breve
Aug 6, 2025 - 8:15pm
Chautauqua Institution: Chautauqua Opera Company and Festival Orchestra
Assistant Conductor
Steve Osgood, conductor
MORE INFORMATION
Puccini: La bohème
Aug 9, 2025 - 8:15pm
Chautauqua Institution: Chautauqua Dance, Theatre, and Festival Orchestra
Conductor
MORE INFORMATION
Stravinsky: L’Histoire du soldat
Aug 11, 2025 - 8:15pm
Chautauqua Institution: Festival Orchestra
Conductor and Assistant Conductor
Timothy Muffitt, conductor
MORE INFORMATION
Torke: Javelin
Tchaikovsky: Francesca da Rimini
Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra
Oct 5, 2025 - 3pm
DRAMA, SATIRE, AND SOUL
Wayzata Symphony Orchestra
Music Director
Fanya Lin, piano
Tchaikovsky: Polonaise and Waltz from Eugene Onegin
Prokofiev: Lieutenant Kijé Suite
Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2
Oct 31, 2025 - 7:30pm
Carleton Orchestra
Conductor
TBD
Nov 6, 2025 - 3pm
SPIRIT AND RENEWAL
Wayzata Symphony Orchestra
Music Director
Farrenc: Overture No. 2 in E-flat Major
Copland: Appalachian Spring
Schumann: Symphony No. 4 in D Minor
Jan 18, 2026 - 3pm
FROM STAGE TO SCREEN
Wayzata Symphony Orchestra
Music Director
Rossini: Overture to William Tell
Beethoven: Symphony No. 7, ii
Saint-Saëns: Dance Macabre
Mascagni: Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticano
Bernstein: selection from West Side Story
Williams: Tribute to John Williams
Mar 6, 2026 - 7:30pm
Carleton Orchestra
Conductor
TBD
Mar 22, 2026 - 3pm
JOURNEY AND BELONGING
Wayzata Symphony Orchestra
Music Director
Charles Lazarus, trumpet
Berlioz: Corsaire Overture
Steve Heitzeg: American Nomad
Dvorak: Symphony No. 8
May 17, 2026 - 3pm
TRANSFORMATIONS
Wayzata Symphony Orchestra
Music Director
Shawn Okpebholo: Stomp the Dust
Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Joseph Haydn
Mahler: Totenfeier
May 24, 2026 - 7:30pm
Carleton Orchestra
Conductor
TBD
Outreach and Masterclasses
May 21-23, 2025
Minnesota Public Radio: YourClassical’s Masterclass Project
Lead conducting masterclasses with high school orchestras in the greater Minneapolis-St. Paul metro
MORE INFORMATION
South Washington County Schools
Park Center High School
Maple Grove Middle School