CONDUCTOR CHANGE:
CONDUCTOR PERRY SO TO REPLACE HAN-NA CHANG
IN MINNESOTA ORCHESTRA CONCERTS THIS WEEK,
MARCH 16, 17 & 18

Program remains unchanged, including Beethoven’s Second Symphony and the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto with Simone Porter

Conductor Perry So will replace Han-Na Chang on the Minnesota Orchestra podium this week. Chang, who was to have made her Minnesota Orchestra conducting debut in concerts March 16 to 18, has had to withdraw from the performances due to illness. Perry So, who will also make his Minnesota Orchestra debut, will lead the previously-announced program with no alterations: Mozart’s Symphony No. 36, Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto with Simone Porter and Beethoven’s Second Symphony.

Perry So served as an inaugural Dudamel Conducting Fellow with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and has subsequently been a regular guest at both Walt Disney Hall and the Hollywood Bowl. Following a four-year tenure at the Hong Kong Philharmonic―as assistant, then associate conductor―he led that orchestra with Lang Lang in an internationally-televised celebration of the 15th anniversary of Hong Kong’s return to China. So has made debuts recently with the Cleveland Orchestra and Houston, New Jersey, Israel and Vancouver Symphony Orchestras. This season he debuts with the Detroit Symphony and returns to the Royal Danish Opera for a production of George Balanchine’s ballet Jewels. More: harrisonparrott.com, perryso.com.

[Editor’s Note: Conductor change listed below]

Minnesota Orchestra Classical Concerts
MOZART AND BEETHOVEN

Thursday, March 16, 2017, 11 a.m. / Orchestra Hall
Friday, March 17, 2017, 8 p.m. / Orchestra Hall
Saturday, March 18, 2017, 8 p.m. / Orchestra Hall

Minnesota Orchestra
Perry So, conductor (replacing Han-Na Chang)
Simone Porter, violin

MOZART Symphony No. 36, Linz
MENDELSSOHN Violin Concerto
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 2
Tickets: $25 to $96

TICKET PURCHASING INFORMATION

Subscription packages and individual tickets can be purchased online at minnesotaorchestra.org, or by calling 612-371-5656 (612-371-5642 for subscriptions) or 800-292-4141. Tickets can be purchased in person at the Orchestra Hall Box Office, 1111 Nicollet Mall, Minneapolis (open Monday to Friday, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., and beginning two hours before all ticketed performances); and at the Minnesota Orchestra Administrative Office, International Center, 5th floor, 920 Second Avenue South, Minneapolis (open Monday to Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.). For more information, call 612-371-5656, or visit minnesotaorchestra.org. For subscriptions, call 612-371-5642 or visit minnesotaorchestra.org/subscribe. For groups of 10 or more, call 612-371-5662.

All programs, artists, dates, times and prices subject to change.

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