By Stephen Sokolouski, The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra

This week, The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra is heading west to the Bay Area for a three-day residency at Cal Performances at the University of California, Berkeley. The SPCO will be the first chamber orchestra to participate in this program, joining the ranks of such world-renowned orchestras as the Vienna Philharmonic, the Mariinsky Orchestra, and the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela. The orchestra will be joined by conductor Benjamin Shwartz and one of our newest Artistic Partners, clarinetist Martin Fröst. In addition, each concert will feature a work by composer and former SPCO Creative Chair John Adams, who will be on stage for a pre-concert Artist Talk before Saturday’s performance.

One of the highlights of the weekend is sure to be Fröst’s performance of the Mozart Clarinet Concerto, which held audiences spellbound at our subscription concerts a few months ago. A full-length recording of that performance can be found in the SPCO’s free Listening Library.

Program listings and tickets are available on the Cal Performances website.