2020 Season

Friday, July 31  |  Pre-show events, 8 p.m. concert

Northern Pacific Center Event Space, Brainerd

Beat the heat at our largest fundraiser of the year, with songs inspired by the sweltering sun and swinging palms of the equator. The LAMF Symphony Orchestra and world-renowned vocal soloists will take you from Rodgers and Hammerstein’s South Pacific to the first sinfonic samba and more. Come kick off the 2020 season in style!

This is a ticketed event. On sale April 1 (last year’s gala dinner sold out)

Saturday, August 1  |  7:30 p.m.

Tornstrom Auditorium, Brainerd

Our Symphony 101 format will feature conductor Stephen Mulligan guiding the audience through composers’ depictions of water through music, with musical examples and storytelling followed by a full performance of Debussy’s masterpiece.

No tickets required.

Sunday, August 2  |  2 p.m.

Tornstrom Auditorium, Brainerd

Join the Lakes Area Music Festival Orchestra for a music- packed adventure designed to engage, educate, and entertain kids of all ages! Enjoy famed orchestral works like The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, and an invitation to our instrument ‘petting-zoo’ following the concert!

No tickets required.

Wednesday, August 5  |  7:30 p.m.

Tornstrom Auditorium, Brainerd

Franz Schubert’s Trout Quintet is a longtime Festival favorite, and will be presented alongside Beethoven’s Octet for Winds and water-themed selections of German lieder by Schubert, Robert Schumann, and Richard Strauss.

No tickets required.

Saturday, August 8  |  7:30 p.m.
Sunday, August 9  |  2 p.m.

Tornstrom Auditorium, Brainerd

Baroque composer Jean-Philippe Rameau falls in the cracks between early music and grand opera. Therefore, his works rarely done–but certainly not because of a lack of genius. His opera Platée packs a comedic punch ands social commentary that matches the music’s dazzling complexity. This story is told through song and dance, featuring our Amsterdam-based dance partners, the House of Makers.

No tickets required.

Wednesday, August 12  |  7:30 p.m.

Northern Pacific Center Event Space, Brainerd

Composers have long been inspired to capture the beauty of water in music. In this program, pianist Henry Kramer will explore pieces evoking water in all its forms, from John Adam’s meditative raindrops in “China Gates” to Debussy’s dancing snowflakes. And he will be joined by flute and cello for George Crumb’s mesmerizing Voice of the Whale.

No tickets required.

Friday, August 14  |  7 p.m. (note earlier start time)
Sunday, August 16  |  2 p.m.

Tornstrom Auditorium, Brainerd

In this year’s opera, Der fliegende Holländer, Richard Wagner transforms the legend of a cursed seafarer into a haunting musical epic. Acts of obsession, desire, and sacrifice play out against an evocative and volatile orchestral score— an aural landscape as violent as the seas, and as stark as northern coasts.

No tickets required.

Wednesday, August 19  |  7:30 p.m.

Tornstrom Auditorium, Brainerd

The Glière Harp Concerto is to harpists what Rachmaninoff’s concerti are to pianists. Dallas Symphony harpist Emily Levin, tackles this dazzling work, alongside chamber orchestra masterpieces by Felix Mendelssohn and Robert Schumann.

No tickets required.

Saturday, August 22  |  7:30 p.m.
Sunday, August 23  |  2 p.m.

Tornstrom Auditorium, Brainerd

Sibelius and nature are often very much linked together, and one can imagine natural forces being at play when listening to his music. Sibelius’ second symphony is paired with the sounds of nature from symphonic opera excerpts by Richard Wagner and Benjamin Britten.

No tickets required.