To close our twelfth season with Music Director Manny Laureano, the Bloomington Symphony Orchestra will present the Grand Prize Winner of the Minnesota String and Orchestra Teachers’ Mary West Solo Competition. Then, the BSO will tackle two works that will...
How does a Black American woman find the freedom to compose music for the concert hall in an era when doing so seemed impossible? How does a British composer avoid the incoming shells of a cruel foreign regime and write a solo concerto with a peaceful quality for the...
The Bloomington Symphony opens its 63rd concert season with the excitement you are accustomed to, starting with a solo appearance by our concertmaster, Michael Sutton, who will play the beloved and heralded Concerto for Violin in E Minor by Felix...
The season’s third concert will open with a rollicking and witty jaunt by American composer Joan Tower, her Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman. Following that, Soojung Hong, a soloist who is new to BSO audiences but familiar to Bloomington through her faculty position at...
Marko Bajzer is a Croatian-American composer, visual artist, bassoonist, wilderness guide, and educator based in the San Francisco Bay Area in California. Bajzer has written for a variety of media, including orchestra, wind ensemble, chamber music, voice, and...
