Minnesota native, composer, and 2024 Voyageurs artist-in-residence Marko Bajzer joins Bloomington Symphony Orchestra to present new music celebrating the 50th anniversary of Voyageurs National Park. Sky-Tinted Water reflects the beauty of the natural landscape and cultural history of northern Minnesota.
Voyageurs Conservancy staff will be on-site ahead of the performance to share park stories, Conservancy initiatives, and ways to get involved.
To close the Bloomington Symphony Orchestra’s twelfth season with Music Director Manny Laureano, the Bloomington Symphony Orchestra will present the Grand Prize Winner of the Minnesota String and Orchestra Teachers’ Mary West Solo Competition. Then, the BSO will tackle two works that will certainly make an impression. The first is from living composer (and Minnesota native) Marko Bajzer, who has selected America’s national parks as his subject, representing a number of them through music. We will open this concert with Bajzer’s Sky-Tinted Waters, a tribute to Voyageurs National Park in Northern Minnesota. Then, from the early twentieth century, we will present Ottorino Respighi’s famous representation of four scenes in Italy, the Pines of Rome. From children at play to an ancient catacomb, from moonlight to the returning Roman legion, the BSO will play this sonic spectacular, guaranteeing an unforgettable end to the 2025-2026 concert season!