Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra give US premieres of two works...

14 May 2025

Legendary conductor Gábor Takács-Nagy, soloist and principal clarinet Sang Yoon Kim, and the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra give the US première of Geoffrey Gordon's Fumée, for clarinet and chamber orchestra (after the chanson of Reynaldo Hahn) - a work co-commissioned by SPCO, the Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Lausanne Chamber Orchestra and the Hong Kong Sinfonietta - as well as the US premiere of Gotham News, a work for string orchestra inspired by the painting of the same name by Dutch-born American painter Willem de Kooning - 13-15 June 2025, at the Ordway Concert Hall in Saint Paul, Minnesota.