12-04-2025
More than 80 concerts and internationally renowned artists highlight the SPCO's 2025-26 season
The St. Paul Chamber Orchestra's 2025-26 season is packed with more than 80 concerts spread around eight Twin Cities venues with a host of exciting programs.
'Our musicians, working in close collaboration with our Interim Artistic Director Jonathan Posthuma, have constructed a wonderful and exciting season ahead,' SPCO Managing Director and President Jon Limbacher says. 'In our musician-led artistic model, the musicians function as the music director and are involved in every aspect of the programming and what happens on stage.'
Since 2004, musicians have had a hand in the programming each season. This year, they took inspiration from Robert Schumann, one of the composers featured in the season, and his quote: "To send light into the depths of the human heart — this is the artist's calling!"
In addition to the music of Robert and Clara Schumann, the season includes Johann Sebastian Bach's four orchestral suites, which the SPCO says serve as a connection point throughout the season, pairing well-known works from oft-performed masters with contemporary composers.
The season includes appearances from renowned pianist Richard Goode, experimental South African cellist Abel Selaocoe (the SPCO recently performed his "Four Spirits"), pianist Jonathan Biss, Hungarian conductor Gábor Takác-Nagy, and violist Tabea Zimmerman, among others.
The SPCO opens the season on Sept. 12–14 with Mozart's Jupiter Symphony and continues that month with a performance of Bach's First Orchestral Suite featuring bassoonist Andrew Brady (Sept. 19–21) and Selaocoe's "Hymns of Bantu" (Sept. 26–28).
Concerts will take place at the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts, as well as Shepherd of the Valley Lutheran Church in Apple Valley; Wooddale Church in Eden Prairie; Saint Andrew's Lutheran Church in Mahtomedi; Basilica of Saint Mary, Capri Theater, and Ted Mann Concert Hall in Minneapolis; and Saint Paul's United Church of Christ.
The complete calendar can be found on the SPCO site, with tickets starting as low as $16 for adults. Children and students are admitted for free. Season passes are available now, and individual show tickets will go on sale in August.
