THE DAKOTA VALLEY SYMPHONY & CHORUS 2023-2024 Concert Season

Join us at the Ames Center in Burnsville as we kick off our 2023-2024 concert season, making music for all ages and occasions. Visit our Concerts page for more information on each event.

Up Next: Young Artists' Concert

Sunday, April 21 at 2:00 PM
Featuring the Dakota Valley Symphony and the annual Young Artists Competition winners.

Ottorino Respighi: Pines of Rome
Randy Stokes: The Light Fantastic
Gioachino Rossini: William Tell Overture
Young Artists’ Competition Winners
Saint-Saens: Piano Concerto no. 2 in G Minor (Op. 22, 1st movement) featuring Tingting Wang, piano
Prokofiev: Violin Concerto no. 2, (Op. 63, 1st movement) featuring Vladamir Tsiper, violin

The young artists’ who appear in this concert are admired by many for their maturity of spirit and facility of technique. One can hardly believe the talent and dedication exhibited by these young people. Young Artists’ Competition performances are surrounded by two well-loved and thrillingly colorful works by Italian composers Respighi and Rossini, as well as a newly reimagined premiere of a vibrant work by our own principal trombonist Randy Stokes. With the Respighi, especially, Dakota Valley Symphony will bring the largest orchestra in recent memory and experiment with surround-sound in the Ames Center.