2008 – 2009 Season
“an instrumental voice for the GLBT community”
The 11th annual World Cultural Conference of the International Lesbian & Gay Cultural Network will be happening September 19th and 20th, 2009. The Minnesota Philharmonic’s is a key part of Minnesota’s presence at this international conference.
The International Lesbian & Gay Cultural Network was created at the ILGA world conference in Paris in 1992 to promote international rainbow culture and exchange across borders.
The MPO welcomes violinist Andrew Sords as our featured guest soloist in our May, 2009 concert, “Hit Parade.” Sords will perform the ever popular Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto with the MPO, and he’ll stick around a few days afterwards to perform the third movement from the concerto at the annual Como Park QMC concert.
Sords will be the youngest soloist MPO has ever welcomed, and at the same time, he is also the first soloist we have ever engaged from “out of town” (Sords splits time between Cleveland, Ohio and Dallas, Texas.) For further information, visit his website!
The Queer Music Consortium was highlighted in a recent Lavender Magazine article spotlighting Twin Cities organizations which “have gone above and beyond in supporting our community.”
Minnesota Philharmonic Orchestra Music Director Joseph Schlefke remarks, “Through the establishment of the QMC Como Park Concert in early June, we have all expanded our audiences. Choral music lovers are exposed to great music from instrumental groups, and vice versa. Last year, we began sharing a large booth at the Pride Festival at Loring Park, which further helped all of us ‘cross-pollinate,’ if you will, our prospective audience members and other interested music lovers.” Ed Huyck for Lavender Magazine
Read the full article at Lavender Magazine’s web site!
Deadline: July 1, 2002 (postmark)
The Minnesota Philharmonic Orchestra, the nation’s first and only GLBT community orchestra, announces a commission opportunity for composers regardless of age or nationality.
The commission is in honor of the MPO’s 10th anniversary, and will be premiered on its spring concert of 2003. (Travel expenses to the performance in the Twin Cities are not provided.)
Following a four month search, the Minnesota Philharmonic Orchestra, Minnesota’s queer/ GLBT symphony orchestra, is pleased to announce the selection and appointment of Joseph Schlefke as its new principal conductor. Mr. Schlefke is already well known to the orchestra, having served as its apprentice conductor for the past two years.
Minnesota Philharmonic Orchestra
By Michael Davis (Originally published in Lavender Magazine)
The conductor search committee of the Minnesota Philharmonic Orchestra (MPO) must have felt a little like Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz. After an exhaustive four-month search that included highly qualified candidates from all over the world, the committee learned that what it was looking for was right in its own backyard all along.
