Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra
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The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra (SPCO), based in St. Paul (the state capital of Minnesota), is the nation's only full-time professional chamber orchestra. As of 2005, it has 35 members. The group has a weekly radio program distributed by American Public Media (the national arm of Minnesota Public Radio), and claim to have 140,000 listeners each week. The program airs in Minnesota on Mondays at 8 PM and is hosted by Michael Barone, who also hosts Pipedreams.
The organization won a Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance in 1980 for their 1979 recording of Aaron Copland's Appalachian Spring, one of the earliest digital audio recordings to see commercial release.
Group leadership
- Leopold Sipe (1959–1971)
- Dennis Russell Davies (1972–1980)
- Pinchas Zukerman (1980–1987)
- Stanislaw Skrowaczewski (Interim Music Advisor, 1987–1988)
- Christopher Hogwood (Music Director, 1988–1992), Hugh Wolff (Principal Conductor, 1988–1992)
- Hugh Wolff (1992–2000)
- Andreas Delfs (2001–2004)
Bobby McFerrin has served as Creative Chair since 1994.
External links
- Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra (http://www.thespco.org)
- MPR: Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra (http://minnesota.publicradio.org/radio/programs/saint_paul_chamber_orchestra/)
- APM: Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra (http://spcoradio.publicradio.org/)