Children's Concert
2025-02-18 09:00, 2025-02-18 10:30 (America/Chicago) | Winona Middle School, 1570 Homer Road, Winona, MN, 55987
DescriptionBringing to life the classic story of Peter and the Wolf, the Winona Symphony Orchestra is excited to offer area students an engaging performance that demonstrates music’s power of storytelling. Experienced by over 1,000 students, our increasingly popular Children’s Concert is a wonderful opportunity for area school children to discover the excellence of classical music through meaningful engagement and fun performances.
**SNOW DATE: February 20, 2025**
Program & ResourcesTicketsThe Symphony’s Children’s Concert is offered FREE through generous donations and support. This concert is recommended for students in grades 2 – 5. Teachers can reserve tickets online.
Reserve Tickets – 9:00 a.m.Reserve Tickets – 10:30 a.m.

Water Music: Chamber Concerts at the MMAM - Deanne Mohr & Eric Brisson
2025-02-20 19:00 | Minnesota Marine Art Museum
DescriptionWinona’s famous piano duo brings us ‘en bateau’ (French for ‘in a boat’) through a romantic program exploring water, boat rides, and beautiful melodies. The Minnesota Marine Art Museum’s new rotating exhibit Fluid: What is Marine Art and What Can it Be?, offers a companion to the music that invokes images of Venetian gondoliers and rocking, swaying vessels in which audiences can envision themselves sailing on majestic waters.
ProgramDEBUSSY: Petite Suite
FAURÉ: Barcarolle, Op. 26
RACHMANINOFF: Barcarolle, Op. 11
CHOPIN: Barcarolle, Op. 60
SCHUBERT: Fantasie in f minor, Op. 11
TicketsAdults – $25
MMAM Members – $20
Students w/ Student ID – $5
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Water Music: Chamber Concerts at the MMAM - 'Water Music' Gala
2025-04-10 19:00 | Minnesota Marine Art Museum
DescriptionOur season closes with another interactive event, featuring a festive performance of the work that inspired the entire series, Handel’s Water Music. The wonderful Winona Symphony Orchestra musicians masterfully embrace this momentous work that encapsulates the close connection between music and nature. Handel’s timeless music speaks to all audiences and will bring to life a season of sun, warmth, and delight.
Program
SELECTIONS FROM HANDEL: Water Music
Musicians of the Winona Symphony Orchestra

SELECTIONS FROM HANDEL: Water Music
Musicians of the Winona Symphony Orchestra
TicketsAdults – $25
MMAM Members – $20
Students w/ Student ID – $5
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Water Music: Chamber Concerts at the MMAM - Epic Journeys
2025-11-13 16:30 - 19:00 | Minnesota Marine Art Museum
Description“Epic Journeys”
“Water Music” Chamber Series
Minnesota Marine Art Museum
NEW! 4:30 and 7:00pm Concerts

New for the 2025-26 season, two concerts will be presented each evening, at 4:30pm and at 7:00pm. Between the two concerts will be a reception in the MMAM atrium featuring an edible treat prepared by MMAM’s new Waterbar Cafe + Provisions inspired by the night’s performance. Food is included in your ticket price and a cash bar will be available. So stay late, or come early, and enjoy some food, drink and conversation!

Program

Shostakovich – Two Pieces for String Octet
Mendelssohn – Octet for Strings
featuring guest violin soloist Nash Ryder and musicians from the WSO and Apollo Chamber Music

TicketsAdults – $30
Military – $25
Student w/ Student ID – $10
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Water Music: Chamber Concerts at the MMAM - Christmas Concertos
2025-12-11 16:30 - 19:00 | Minnesota Marine Art Museum
DescriptionThere will be two concerts offered on November 13, at 4:30pm and 7:30pm, with a reception hosted in atrium of MMAM in between the two concerts.
ProgramChristmas Concertos
Paired with Rockman: Oceanus
Torelli – Christmas Concerto
Vaughan Williams – Fantasia on ‘Greensleeves’
Corelli – Christmas Concerto
Featuring musicians from the WSO
TicketsAdults – $30
Military – $25
Student w/ Student ID – $5
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Jazz Jam to Benefit WSO Children's Concert
2026-02-15 14:00 - 17:30 | Two Fathoms Brewing

Cafe Congo~ WSO's Concert for the Kids
2026-02-22 14:00 - 15:00 | First Congregational Church of Winona
DescriptionWSO’s Concert
for the Kids

ProgramNicholas (Pianist), Valeria (Soprano), and McKenzie (Tenor) join Rachel Ryan (Cello)
in present a varied classical music program.
Featuring works of: Bernstein, Sondheim, Wagner, Puccini and Massenet.
Your Free will Donation will help the Winona Symphony Orchestra fund it’s annual Free Concert given to local school children.
A Reception will follow the program.
DOORS WILL OPEN AT 1:45.
The Church is ADA Accessible at the canopied entrance on Broadway.

TicketsFree Will Offering to Benefit WSO’s Children’s Concert

Water Music: Chamber Concerts at the MMAM - "Quince Ensemble"
2026-03-05 16:30 - 19:00 | Minnesota Marine Art Museum
Description“Quince Ensemble” featuring Erik Rohde, violin
Paired with “Fluid: What is Marine Art, and What Can it Be?”
NEW! 4:30 and 7:00pm Concerts
Reception hosted in the atrium in between concerts
ProgramZohn-Muldoon: Destierros
Zohn-Muldoon: Night
McKinley: Ten Medieval Songs
Featuring guest artists Quince Ensemble and Erik Rohde, violin
TicketsAdults – $30
MMAM Members – $25
Students w/ Student ID – $10
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Symphony on Wheels~ A Fundraiser to Benefit Music Education
2026-03-21 17:00 - 20:30
DescriptionSymphony on Wheels~ A Fundraiser Supporting the Education outreach of WSO.
Remlinger Collector Car Museum

ProgramBuffet Dinner by Chef’s Table
Cash bar
Silent Auction
Live Music
Museum Tours
TicketsTickets~ Dinner & drink ticket ~ $85
Table of 6~ $500
Ticket Deadline is 3/12

Symphony Spring 2026 Concert
2026-03-21 19:30 | Wesley United Methodist, 114 W Broadway, Winona, MN, 55987
DescriptionSpring 2026 Symphony Concert

ProgramFuchs – Serenade for Strings No. 1
Schoenberg – Notturno
Martines – Dixit Dominus
featuring the WSU Concert Choir
Colleen Chester, conductor

TicketsAdults – $25
Military – $20
Student w/ Student ID – $10
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Water Music: Chamber Concerts at the MMAM - Alan Dunbar, baritone
2026-04-16 16:30 - 19:00 | Minnesota Marine Art Museum
Description“The Coast and the Sea”
NEW! 4:30 and 7:00pm Concerts

Reception hosted in the atrium in between concerts

ProgramProgram to include new chamber works written for Alan Dunbar, baritone
featuring Alan Dunbar and guest musicians
TicketsAdults – $30
Military – $25
Student w/ Student ID – $10
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Elmaro Vineyards presents Violins & Vineyards
2026-08-23 13:00 - 16:00 | Elmaro Vineyard
Join us on August 23rd from 1-4 pm to experience amazing music against the idyllic backdrop of Elmaro Vineyard in Trempealeau. Whether you come for the music, the wine, the company, or the view, you are sure to experience an afternoon of tranquil, bucolic delight. Relax with a complimentary glass of wine and personal cheese board while you enjoy performances by the region’s favorite classical artists and help us “Fund a Need” to support WSO musicians and upcoming season.
Tickets $40, available at the door or at exploretock.com/elmarovineyard
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Symphony Fall Concert~Mendelssohn Melodies: A Sibling Symphony
2026-10-03 19:30 | Wesley United Methodist, 114 W Broadway, Winona, MN, 55987
DescriptionFeatures works by sibling composers Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn alongside concertmaster Hillary
Kingsley performing the iconic and beloved Bruch violin concerto. This program of romantic
symphonic favorites concludes with the celebratory and virtuosic “Italian” Symphony by Felix
Mendelssohn.

Program

Fanny Hensel: Overture in C Major
Max Bruch: Violin Concerto, Hillary Kingsley, violin

Max Bruch: Violin Concerto
Hillary Kingsley, violin

Felix Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4 ‘Italian’
TicketsAdults – $27
Senior & Military – $22
Student w/ Student ID – $12
Child (under 13)~ $7
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Youth Concert~ 2027 "The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra"
2027-02-09 | Winona Middle School, 1570 Homer Road, Winona, MN, 55987
Children’s Concerts: Tuesday, February 9 (snow date Feb 11)
9:00 and 10:30am, 3rd performance early afternoon TBD (Winona Middle School)
Mikhail Glinka: Overture to Ruslan and Lyudmila
Jocelyn Hagan: “Invention” from The Notebooks of Leonardo daVinci (5’)
Benjamin Britten: Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra
Alan Dunbar, narrator
This year the WSO Children’s Concert expands with more instruments for a performance featuring Britten’s classic introduction to all of the instruments in the orchestra.

Symphony Spring Concert - Generations of Genius
2027-03-20 19:30 | Wesley United Methodist, 114 W Broadway, Winona, MN, 55987
Spring 2027 Symphony Concert~ Generations of GeniusFeaturing beloved Winonan Eric Brisson, this concert brings together the beautiful organ at Wesley United Methodist Church, paired with the WSO in two baroque works by Bach and Handel. These are paired with contemporary composer Ellen Taaffe Zwilich’s homage to Handel written in honor of his 300th anniversary in 1985. The evening is capped off by Haydn’s brilliant and playful symphony dedicated to Oxford, written to commemorate his receiving of an honorary doctorate from the university.
Program

S. Bach: Sinfonia from Cantata 29

George Frederick Handel: Organ Concerto in G minor, Op, 4 No. 3
Eric Brisson, solo organ
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich: Concerto grosso 1985
Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 92 ‘Oxford’

J. S. Bach: Sinfonia from Cantata 29
George Frederick Handel: Organ Concerto in G minor, Op, 4 No. 3
Eric Brisson, solo organ
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich: Concerto grosso 1985
Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 92 ‘Oxford’
TicketsAdults – $27
Military – $22
Student w/ Student ID – $12
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