Public Building Tour
2024-11-10 12:30 - 13:15, 2024-11-03 12:30 - 13:15, 2024-10-27 12:30 - 13:15, 2024-10-20 12:30 - 13:15, 2024-10-13 12:30 - 13:15, 2024-10-06 12:30 - 13:15 (America/Chicago) | Landmark Center, 75 5th St W, Saint Paul, MN, 55102, United States
Join a Landmark Center volunteer tour guide for a free building tour. Learn about the building’s history, gangster connections, and restoration. Tours are held every Sunday, walk-ins are welcome and no reservation is needed.
Tours begin at the Information Desk at 12:30 pm and are 45 minutes in length.

Once Upon a Time Gala: Rio de Janeiro
2024-11-08 17:30 - 21:30 | Musser Cortile – Landmark Center, 75 5th St. W., Saint Paul, MN, 55102, United States
The Once Upon A Time Gala is a vibrant celebration in support of Landmark Center and its free and inclusive arts and cultural community programming. For the second year, we are transitioning from celebrating decades to immersing guests in the cultures of various countries and cities, much like our popular Urban Expedition program series. Our second city of focus will be Rio de Janeiro!

Courtroom Concert: Linda Chatterton, flute; Maja Radovanlija; Matthew McCright, piano
2024-11-07 12:00 - 13:00 | Courtroom 317 – Landmark Center, 75 5th St. W., Saint Paul, MN, 55102, United States
Hosted by composer Abbie Betinis, our popular Courtroom Concerts take place at noon most Thursdays in the Landmark Center in downtown Saint Paul. This series features accomplished musicians and composers from the Twin Cities and surrounding area, as well as occasional musical newcomers to the area. These one-hour concerts are free and open to the public.
About the Artists:
LINDA CHATTERTON, Flute
“The kind of performance that sparks wild standing ovations. Definitive” says the American Record Guide of flutist Linda Chatterton. Ms. Chatterton has performed in New York at Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center, was a featured recitalist on the prestigious Dame Myra Hess series in Chicago and has been heard throughout the US many times on National Public Radio’s Performance Today. A Minneapolis-based artist, Ms. Chatterton has performed with numerous groups including the Minnesota Orchestra, and she tours regularly as a duo performer with harp, guitar and piano. As a concerto soloist, highlights include many performances of traditional and contemporary repertoire in the US and Europe. She has served as a US State Department Arts Envoy overseas.
Ms. Chatterton has commissioned, recorded and premiered dozens of new works, including music by Edie Hill, Lu Pei, Abbie Betinis, Jocelyn Hagen, David Kechley, Wendy Wan-Ki Lee, Aaron Travers, Takuma Itoh and Roberto Sierra. She gave the world premiere of Chen Yi’s “Southern Scenes” flute and pipa concerto with the Hawai’i Symphony Orchestra, conductor JoAnn Falletta and pipa player Gao Hong, as well as the world premiere of Cuban composer Leo Brouwer’s work for flute and guitar quartet, with the Minneapolis Guitar Quartet, in St. Paul. She and guitarist Maja Radovanlija premiered a major new work written for them by Brazilian-American composer Clarice Assad, through a Chamber Music America Classical Commissioning grant.
Past projects include concert tours in China, Thailand, Hong Kong and Taiwan; a concerto performance with the State Hermitage Chamber Orchestra in Moscow, Russia, with a master class at the Moscow Conservatory; concerts and master classes in the UAE, Spain, France, Cuba, Montenegro and Romania; a concert tour of Australia with pianist Matthew McCright; and a sold-out concert at the DiMenna Center in New York City of contemporary chamber music by Hong Kong composers. Her London concert at the famous St. Martin-in-the-Fields concert series with McCright garnered the review: “Throughout the concert Chatterton displayed lovely tone and a fine sense of line, with technical prowess which was always understated, resulting in some involving and intelligent performances.”
She is the first and only two-time flutist to win a McKnight Artist Fellowship for Musicians, and she has received many awards from the Jerome Foundation, Chamber Music America, the Minnesota State Arts Board and the American Composers Forum.
In addition to her concert schedule, Ms. Chatterton is highly regarded for her insightful master classes, and she has served as a mentor to music students at the University of Minnesota’s School of Music. In a related realm, Ms. Chatterton often can be heard giving her “It Sounded Better at Home!” workshop series based on her extensive work on the psychology of optimum performance.
Ms. Chatterton has recorded on the CBS Masterworks, Innova, and Gothic labels, and has also independently released seven recordings, including her most recent recording, “Songs and Dances for Solo Flute.”
She received her Master of Music degree from the University of Minnesota, studying with Julia Bogorad, and her Bachelor of Music degree from the Eastman School of Music as a scholarship student of Bonita Boyd. A native of Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, her first flute studies were with Robert Webb.
Ms. Chatterton is a Powell Flute Artist and plays a custom made platinum Powell flute.
www.lindachatterton.com
MAJA RADOVANLIJA, Guitar
An international performer, improviser and teacher, Minneapolis-based guitarist Maja Radovanlija has been Instructor of Guitar at the School of Music, University of Minnesota since 2011. She tours nationally and internationally as a member of the Minneapolis Guitar Quartet and as part of a flute-guitar duo with flutist Linda Chatterton. She has also collaborated with other chamber musicians such as the Szilard Mézei trio, oboist Yasna Brandstäter, ImprovIsAndDo project, Improvised Ecosystems, OneVoice mixed chorus and Ansambl Studio 6.
Her concerts have taken her across the United States and to China, Thailand, Canada, Bulgaria, Greece, Tunisia, Switzerland, Luxemburg, Belgium and the former Yugoslavia. Festival performances include Plovdiv Guitar Festival in Bulgaria, the International Festival of Contemporary Music in Cuba; the Mid-America Guitar Festival, the Underwater-Overground Multimedia Festival in Croatia, the Ethno-Flanders Music Festival in Belgium and the GuitarArt Festival in Montenegro.
Since her early performing years in Belgrade, Maja has a strong interest in contemporary music. She has premiered new pieces by Aaron Travers, Clarice Assad, Leo Brouwer, PQ Phan, Szilard Mézei, Alex Lubet, Joey Crane, Ben Abrahamson, Jeffrey Van, Ian Krouse, Mary Ellen Childs, Catherine Dalton, Richard Barret and many others. In solo recitals Maja often performs her own pieces inspired by Balkan music, improvised pieces and arrangements of traditional Balkan songs.
Maja’s commitment to music education and community outreach is shown by her creation of the Minneapolis-based Powderhorn Music Project, a guitar program that offers free lessons, workshops and performances to for BIPOC children and their families. Her guest artist events at universities include solo recitals and masterclasses at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, the University of Hawaii, the University of Georgia and Indiana University. In addition to her teaching, she serves as an adjudicator in national and international competitions. Maja is proponent of music improvisation and is on the board of the International Society for Improvised Music.
Maja received her Master and Doctorate of Musical Arts degrees from Indiana University as a student of Ernesto Bitetti and Nigel North. She received her Bachelor’s degree in Music from the University of Belgrade in Serbia.

MATTHEW MCCRIGHT, Piano
American pianist Matthew McCright has performed extensively throughout the United States, Europe, Asia, and the South Pacific and on such prestigious stages as Carnegie Hall, Merkin Hall, St. Martin-in-the-Fields, and Ireland’s National Concert Hall. He has thrilled audiences and critics alike with imaginative programming that places the greatest piano repertoire alongside the music of today’s most innovative composers. A native of Pennsylvania, McCright now resides in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and is a member of the piano faculty of Carleton College. An accomplished recording artist, McCright has released eight solo recordings; his most recent Hanging by a Thread on the Proper Canary label, What is Left Behind also on the Proper Canary label, Endurance on the Vox Novus label, as well as three albums on innova Records (Second Childhood, A Waltz through the Vapor, and Blender), the piano works of Gene Gutchë on Centaur Records, and the piano music of Olivier Messiaen on Albany Records. His solo touring shows include Evening Preludes, The People’s Music, Contemplations: The Music of Olivier Messiaen, Connecting Flights, There and Back Again, Forward Looking Back, and Endurance.
A four-time winner of the Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative, McCright’s affinity for contemporary music and curiosity in seeking new sound worlds has led him to premiere numerous pieces, and has collaborated with such composers as Pauline Oliveros, Augusta Read Thomas, Paul Dresher, Michael Gordon, Mary Ellen Childs, Julia Wolfe, Mark Anthony Turnage, Terry Riley, Alvin Lucier, Amy Williams, Kirsten Broberg, Daniel Nass, Laura Caviani, Andrea Mazzariello, Sean Friar, Justin Merritt, Dorothy Hindman, Robert Voisey, Christopher Coleman, Kyong Mee Choi, Ingrid Stölzel, Justin Rubin, Mike McFerron, Reinaldo Moya, Stephen Andrew Taylor, David Evan Thomas, Edie Hill, Linda Buckley, Garrett Sholdice, Razak Abdul-Aziz, Greg Hutter, and Judith Lang Zaimont among many others.
McCright’s festival participation includes Bang on a Can at MassMOCA, Printing House Festival of New Music (Dublin), Late Music Festival (UK), Vox Novus, SEAMUS, Hampden-Sydney Chamber Music Festival, Engelbach-Hart, Kodály Institute, Perilous Night, Fringe, Bridge, Spark Festival of Electronic Music, SPLICE, Festival of Lakes, Rayuela, Oh My Ears, Source Song, Seward Arts, Zeitgeist Early Music, Duquesne University’s Summer Music, Music 2000, CCM Village Opening, and Minnesota Composers Alliance, as well as programs for the American Composers Forum across the country. He has been featured in articles in the NewMusicBox, Tutti, and Voice magazines and in radio broadcasts across the globe. He has performed in collaboration with a variety of ensembles including Ensemble 61, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, dal niente, Mirandola Ensemble, Wild and Wulliman, La Bonne Chanson, Intersections, Gypsy Hocket, Renegade Ensemble, Zeitgeist, Taipei Trio, Balkanicus, New Sound, New Century Piano Duo, Dixie Five, Composer’s Ensemble, Westminster Triptych, WC Jazz Ensemble, and with countless other chamber music groups. He is currently the Director of Music at Saints Martha and Mary Episcopal Church. He tours regularly with violinist, Francesca Anderegg. Since 2009, he performs internationally with flutist Linda Chatterton as part of the Chatterton-McCright Duo. Their 2016 album French Connections was released on the Proper Canary label.
McCright completed his Doctor of Musical Arts Degree in Piano Performance from the University of Minnesota, Master of Music Degree in Piano from the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati and earned his Bachelor of Music Degree in Piano Performance, Magna Cum Laude, from Westminster College. His past teachers include Lydia Artymiw, Lisa Moore, Nancy Zipay DeSalvo, and Richard Morris. He is represented by Proper Canary Artist Services. For more information please visit: www.matthewmccright.org

General Election
2024-11-05 07:00 - 20:00 | Landmark Center, 75 5th St W, Saint Paul, MN, 55102, United States
Landmark Center serves as a polling place for voters that live in St. Paul (W-2 P-7). Polls are open from 7am-8pm. Check your polling place here.

Schubert Club FamilyJam: The Silver Fox Opera - Family Opera in One Act
2024-11-02 11:15 - 12:15 | Courtroom 317 – Landmark Center, 75 5th St. W., Saint Paul, MN, 55102, United States
FamilyJam builds on the success of KidsJam Workshops for Homeschool Families – interactive programs that connect kids and families with community teaching artists to learn about the people, cultures, and musical traditions from around the world as they make music, move, and enjoy other creative activities. FamilyJam will take KidsJam programs into the weekend, where kids and families will experience a short 25-30 minute concert in one of Landmark Center’s historic spaces, followed by instrument demos and other hands-on experiences with the musicians in the Schubert Club Music Museum. In keeping with Schubert Club’s goal of offering free tickets to children and students, FamilyJam will be FREE for all participants, however advance registration will be required through Schubert Club’s website.
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
The Silver Fox: Family Opera in One Act is based on the bayou legend of a young girl who transforms into a silver fox to use her magical powers! Larsen’s music weaves Cajun folk tunes into a lyrical, lilting fable.
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Schubert Club FamilyJam: The Silver Fox Opera – Family Opera in One Act
2024-11-02 10:00 - 11:00 | Courtroom 317 – Landmark Center, 75 5th St. W., Saint Paul, MN, 55102, United States

Schubert Club KidsJam: The Silver Fox Opera – Family Opera in One Act
2024-11-01 10:30 - 11:30 | Courtroom 317 – Landmark Center, 75 5th St. W., Saint Paul, MN, 55102, United States
KidsJam Workshops are interactive programs that connect kids and families with community teaching artists to learn about the people, cultures, and musical traditions from around the world as they make music, move, and enjoy other creative activities.
KidsJam participation is free!
Registration is required.
(suggested ages 5-12)
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
The Silver Fox: Family Opera in One Act is based on the bayou legend of a young girl who transforms into a silver fox to use her magical powers! Larsen’s music weaves Cajun folk tunes into a lyrical, lilting fable.

Courtroom Concert: “The Silver Fox” by Libby Larsen
2024-10-31 12:00 - 13:00 | Courtroom 317 – Landmark Center, 75 5th St. W., Saint Paul, MN, 55102, United States
Hosted by composer Abbie Betinis, our popular Courtroom Concerts take place at noon most Thursdays in the Landmark Center in downtown Saint Paul. This series features accomplished musicians and composers from the Twin Cities and surrounding area, as well as occasional musical newcomers to the area. These one-hour concerts are free and open to the public.
About the Artists:
Libby Larsen, born December 24, 1950 in Wilmington, Delaware, is one of America’s most performed living composers.
She has created a catalogue of over 500 works spanning virtually every genre from intimate vocal and chamber music to massive orchestral works and over 15 operas. Grammy award-winning and widely recorded, including over 50 CDs of her work, she is constantly sought after for commissions and premieres by major artists, ensembles, and orchestras around the world, and has established a permanent place for her works in the concert repertory.
The Silver Fox: Family Opera in One Act is based on the bayou legend of a young girl who transforms into a silver fox to use her magical powers! Larsen’s music weaves Cajun folk tunes into a lyrical, lilting fable.

Gangster Ghost Tour 2024
2024-10-30 18:00 - 21:00 | Landmark Center, 75 5th St W, Saint Paul, MN, 55102, United States
History haunts the halls of Landmark Center as infamous gangsters return to life for Gangster Ghost Tour.
One night a year, the rumors of Landmark Center’s haunting come true, and Landmark Center is filled with the spirits of days gone by. Cross paths with the ghosts of gangsters, G-men, and judges long since departed, and see Landmark Center through the eyes of Saint Paul’s most famous and infamous inhabitants.
Tickets are $10 per person (suitable for ages 12+), tours begin at 6pm, last one hour, and depart every 15 minutes. The last tour scheduled is 8:30pm.
Advance ticket purchase is required. They can be purchased online or by calling 651.292.3063. Tickets go on sale October 1, 2024.

HORA: Romanian Monsters and Undead Myths
2024-10-27 13:00 - 15:00, 2024-10-20 13:00 - 15:00, 2024-10-13 13:00 - 15:00, 2024-10-06 13:00 - 15:00 | HORA – MN – Suite 319, 75 5th St. W., Suite 319, Saint Paul, MN, 55102, United States
Join us any Sunday in October to learn about strigoi, varcolaci, moroi, and vampires. All these creatures fill the rich Romanian folklore with beliefs and stories: born from the power of ancient memories and the fear of the unknown in the face of death, disease, illnesses, and events that change the life of people in major and unexplained ways, these beliefs have constituted a complex culture meant to empower the Romanian villager against unexpected odds. People invented many ways and means to “ward off” and protect themselves from the ills of evil forces that even though the Romanian villager is very religious, the religious festivals are surrounded and interspersed with pagan rituals meant to “complete” the instances when prayer didn’t seem to do the job. Pagan in origin, the belief in evil beings and the protection against them is still – even in these modern times – present, even though not always acknowledged. It is easy to understand why people needed to give explanations to catastrophes, disease, and adverse natural phenomena that changed their lives for the worse.

Sundays at Landmark: Great Pumpkin Halloween Celebration
2024-10-27 13:00 - 15:00 | Musser Cortile – Landmark Center, 75 5th St. W., Saint Paul, MN, 55102, United States
There is no Halloween without Landmark Center’s family focused favorite! Enjoy the community favorite Halloween festivities at Landmark Center with live entertainment, crafts, treats, and a costume parade.
Sundays at Landmark series is supported by Ecolab, Hubbard Broadcasting, Travelers, Xcel Energy Foundation, and Ramsey County.

History Revealed: Architects on the Past, Present, and Future
2024-10-24 18:30 - 20:00 | Courtroom 317 – Landmark Center, 75 5th St. W., Saint Paul, MN, 55102, United States
Presented by Ramsey County Historical Society
Join architects Alan Howell and James Garrett Jr. as they share their work and talk about the past, present, and future of architecture in Ramsey County and beyond.
James Garrett Jr. is a visual artist, writer and architect who expresses the urban condition through the lenses of art and design. His work employs diverse media to explore complex theoretical topics from a unique, ethno-experiential perspective. James is a 2019 American Institute of Architects National Young Architect Award recipient and a 2020 AIA MN Gold Metal recipient who currently serves on the Metropolitan Council Livable Communities & Transit Oriented Development Advisory Committees. James holds an A.B. degree in architecture from the College of Environmental Design at the University of California (Berkeley, CA) and a Master of Architecture degree from Parsons School of Design (New York, NY).
Alan Howell is a registered architect in the state of Minnesota, and has twenty-seven years of design/aviation-design experience and a decade of other interesting design experience to draw from as he assists and expands the Metropolitan Airports Commission’s Vision Statement To provide exceptional airport experiences so Minnesota thrives. In his role as Senior Airport Architect, he is responsible for the conceptualization and implementation of new facilities, major remodeled facilities, and facility redevelopment/repurposing at all of MAC’s airports, all with an interest and focus on sustainable practices and multi-department/multi-discipline coordination. Born in Chicago, and residing there for six weeks, Alan spent his early-years in a first-ring-minneapolis suburb, moved to the bucolic countryside at age eight, and, later, graduated from the University of Minnesota IT/School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (now College of Design). Alan has been a resident of the historic Selby-Dale neighborhood for roughly thirty-years, and currently spends some of his time away from the office rehabilitating his 1890 queen-anne Victorian home (with hopes to add an ADU in 2025).
Event is free, but registration is required (Register here)

Courtroom Concert: Miryana Moteva, piano; Anna Keiserman, piano; Fernando Meza, percussion; Erich Rieppel, percussion
2024-10-24 12:00 - 13:00 | Musser Cortile – Landmark Center, 75 5th St. W., Saint Paul, MN, 55102, United States
Hosted by composer Abbie Betinis, our popular Courtroom Concerts take place at noon most Thursdays in the Landmark Center in downtown Saint Paul. This series features accomplished musicians and composers from the Twin Cities and surrounding area, as well as occasional musical newcomers to the area. These one-hour concerts are free and open to the public.
About the Artists:
Bulgarian-born pianist Miryana Moteva enjoys a versatile career as a soloist, chamber musician and educator. She has recently appeared with Linden Hills Chamber Orchestra in Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 1 and Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 24. Next season, she makes her debut with Golden Valley Chamber Orchestra and Buffalo Community Orchestra performing Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5.
Moteva collaborates regularly with members of the Minnesota Orchestra and Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra in concerts across the US. She has performed at Schubert Club’s Courtroom Concerts in Saint Paul, the Bulgarian Concert Evenings in New York, New Jersey’s Mozaika Music Series, University of Minnesota’s Balkanicus Series, MacPhail Center for Music’s Spotlight Concerts, University of Wisconsin, Hamline University, the Basilica of Saint Mary, the Fitzgerald Theater, and the Cowles Center, among others. She has concertized with the Isles Ensemble and 10th Wave Music Collective. Her performances have been featured on Classical MPR and NPR’s ‘From the Top.’
During the 2024-2025 season, Moteva will be featured on University of Saint Thomas’ Chapel Arts Series, ‘Concerts by the Creek’ at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, and at Westminster Hall as part of the Schubert Club’s Courtroom Concerts. A recipient of a grant for a new classical music performance, she will appear as both a concert curator and a performer for the ‘Mysticism, Legends and Traditions’ and ‘The Catalan Tradition: Volume 2’ showcases at MacPhail Center for Music.
An ardent supporter of new classical music, Moteva has been an active commissioner of new works. Her most recent commission, in collaboration with violinist David Brubaker, was Catalonian composer Marc Migó’s Sonata for Violin and Piano ‘Death and Spring.’ Following the work’s successful premiere at Schubert Club in April 2023, the duo was invited to embark on a concert tour of Spain and record a Catalan Music CD on the IBS Classical Music Label in the summer of 2025.
Moteva has appeared at festivals such as ‘March Music Days,’ and ‘Music and Earth’ international festivals in Bulgaria, and ‘San Daniele International Piano Meeting’ in Italy, where she was awarded the audience prize for best classical performance of a Beethoven sonata. Currently, she is on the faculty of MacPhail Center for Music, where she serves as a staff pianist and maintains a thriving studio as a piano teaching artist. She is also an active board member of the Music Education Committee at the Schubert Club in Saint Paul.
Moteva holds Bachelor and Master of Music degrees in Piano Performance, and a Doctorate in Collaborative Piano from the University of Minnesota. A native of Bulgaria, she is a graduate of the National School of Music in Sofia, Bulgaria. Her principal teachers include Emma Tahmizian, Lydia Artymiw, and Timothy Lovelace.
Russian-born pianist Anna Keiserman is known for her creative programming, expressive freedom, and singular vision. Performance credits in New York City include Le Poisson Rouge, the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, and the Fête de La Musique. Other notable venues include the Jay and Linda Grunin Center for the Arts (Toms River, NJ), the Nash Theatre (Raritan Valley Community College) the Strand Theater (Hudson Falls, NY) and the Ateneu Barcelonès (Barcelona, Spain). Anna has toured through Italy, Spain and Russia. As a soloist she performed concerti with the Volgograd Symphony Orchestra (Russia), the University of Minnesota Symphony Orchestra and the Somerset Symphony Orchestra, among others. She has been awarded top prizes in piano competitions in Russia, and 2 nd place in the 2019 American Prize Competition. With her debut album, Russian Mosaic, released in 2019 on the Sheva Collection label, Anna offers rarely heard gems by Rachmaninoff, Shchedrin, Smirnov, and Medtner. Hailed as “the impressive pianist who played brilliantly” by New York Concert Review, the Atlanta Audio Club observed: “Her insights into the four masters of Russian piano music we have here bring them to instant, vibrant life before our very ears. Keiserman applies her notable brilliance to create the strongest impressions.”
Dr. Keiserman often collaborates with contemporary composers in projects including commissions, recordings, and world premieres. Her 2023-2024 season featured recordings of works for woodwind quintet by John Sichel and Steve Cohen, as well as the world premiere of
the song cycle “Paradoxides” by John Sichel. The trio for saxophone, bassoon and piano
Bercesue – Lament by Marc Migó will be released on the PARMA Records label in the fall of 2024. With a focus on actively engaging audiences, Anna created several custom programs for the Salmagundi Art Club in New York City. With her American Music 1917-18, Sounding Palettes, and New York Lights concerts, Anna invited audiences to explore surprising repertoire in a variety of cultural contexts. She served as the Artistic Director of the Mozaika Concert Series at Raritan Valley Community College, a series created to promote multicultural dialogue through music performance. In 2017 Anna received the “Culture and Art Award” from the New Russia Cultural Center (Rensselaer, NY) for her dedication to promoting arts and culture in the community. Anna Keiserman has served on the faculty of NYU Steinhardt School of the Arts, Rutgers University Extension Division, and William Paterson University. Having earned degrees
from the Gnessin Russian Academy of Music in Moscow and the University of Minnesota, Dr. Keiserman completed her Doctorate in Piano Performance at Rutgers University, where she earned the Elizabeth Wyckoff Durham Award for academic distinction and excellence in piano performance. From 2020 to 2024 Anna served as an Assistant Professor of Piano atRaritan Valley Community College before relocating to GA and joining the Music Department at the University of North Georgia.
Fernando Meza is Chair of Percussion Studies at the University of Minnesota School of Music and a regular guest percussionist with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and Minnesota Orchestra with whom he has recorded and toured in such recognized venues as Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Musikverein, and Berliner Philharmonie, amongst others, and on international cultural diplomacy tours in Cuba and South Africa. He has toured in Japan, Costa Rica and the USA, with legendary marimba virtuoso Keiko Abe, and is featured in her recording of Conversation in the Forest for the CD Keiko Abe and the World’s Leading Percussionists.
Meza was one of the 5 original percussionists for the Broadway production of Disney’s The Lion King; was the organizer/host of Marimba 2010 International Festival and Conference in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul, and is a performing artist/clinician for Grover Pro Percussion, Zildjian, and OBiolley Instruments, and percussion faculty for the Orchestra of the Americas since 2003. His recording J.S. Bach: Suites for Unaccompanied Cello performed on Marimba by Fernando Meza is distributed through cdbaby.com, iTunes, and other digital providers.
Erich Rieppel was appointed principal timpani of the Minnesota Orchestra in the fall of 2018. Prior to that, he held the same title at New World Symphony under Michael Tilson Thomas in Miami Beach, Florida. Rieppel has performed as principal timpanist with the Seoul Philharmonic, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Seattle Symphony, Detroit Symphony and New Jersey Symphony. Since 2013, he has played timpani and percussion with the Lakes Area Music Festival in northern Minnesota. Since 2023, he has performed as timpanist with the Grand Teton Music Festival. In January of 2024, he made his concerto debut with the National Symphony of Panamá.
At age 19, during a performance with the New York String Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, his playing caught the ears of a critic from the New York Times. He has also received acclaim in the Pioneer Press for a Minnesota Orchestra performance of Dvořák’s Eighth Symphony.
Believing in being a multi-faceted musician, Rieppel has experience in arts administration, college teaching, music librarianship, composition and conducting. He made his professional conducting debut with the Southwest Minnesota Orchestra in 2013 and returned in the spring of 2022 and fall of 2023 to conduct with his father, Dr. Daniel Rieppel, as soloist. As a teacher, Rieppel has served on faculty at the University of Minnesota and has given masterclasses at the Seoul Performing Arts Center, Sinfónica Azteca in México, the Ibera Academy in Medellín, Colombia, the University of Panamá and the University of Hawaii. As a chamber musician, Rieppel co-founded the 507 Collective, a piano/percussion quartet that includes his father.
A native of Minneapolis, Rieppel grew up near Marshall, Minnesota, and received early inspiration from his parents, both professional musicians. He attended Indiana University for his bachelor’s with a minor in conducting and master’s degrees where he studied a variety of percussion with John Tafoya, Kevin Bobo, Steve Houghton and Michael Spiro. He has also studied with Josef Gumpinger, David Herbert, Shannon Wood, Ed Stephan, Tom Freer and other artists of great influence. He spent one summer at the Aspen Music Festival and three winters at the New York String Orchestra Seminar. Rieppel proudly endorses Freer Percussion Products and Pearl/Adams percussion. In his free time, he plays hockey.

Woodturning Demonstration
2024-10-20 13:00 - 16:00 | AAW Gallery of Wood Art – Landmark Center, 75 5th St. W., Suite 222, Saint Paul, MN, 55104, United States
A demonstration in the art of wood turning will be given by one of the members of the American Association of Woodturners. Learn about the craft and visit their current gallery exhibit. For more information call 763-226-5723.

Sundays at Landmark: Saint Paul Civic Symphony Concert
2024-10-20 13:00 - 15:00 | Musser Cortile – Landmark Center, 75 5th St. W., Saint Paul, MN, 55102, United States
During the first concert of its season, the beautiful sounds of the Saint Paul Civic Symphony will fill the Musser Cortile. The Saint Paul Civic Symphony, founded in 1945, provides free concerts throughout Saint Paul and the surrounding community. The orchestra is an autonomous, nonprofit organization made up of volunteers from a variety of backgrounds.
Sundays at Landmark series is supported by Ecolab, Hubbard Broadcasting, Travelers, Xcel Energy Foundation, and Ramsey County.

Landmark Live: Pieta Brown
2024-10-18 19:30 - 21:30 | F. K. Weyerhaeuser Aud. – Landmark Center, 75 5th St. W., Saint Paul, MN, 55102, United States
The daughter of two preacher’s kids, Pieta Brown’s early upbringing in Iowa was in a rural outpost with no furnace, running water, or TV. There, she was exposed to traditional and rural folk music through her father, Greg Brown, the now beloved Midwestern folk singer. Continually revealing new layers as both a songwriter and performer, Pieta is being recognized as one of modern Americana’s true gems. With the release of her most recent album Freeway (September 2019, Righteous Babe) co-produced by Bon Iver drummer, S. Carey, followed by multiple experimental collaborations since with various artists including JT Bates, S. Carey, and Howe Gelb & The Colorist Orchestra, Pieta’s music and artistry continue to rise.
Individual concert tickets are $20 in advance/$25 at the door (available on Ticketleap) or $70 for full season tickets, also available on Ticketleap. (Tickets include admission to the cocktail hour from 6:45-7:30 pm.)
6:45 pm – Cocktail hour // 7:00 pm – seating opens // 7:30 pm – Concert
Landmark Center presents “Landmark Live” in the F.K. Weyerhaeuser Auditorium, presented with support from KFAI Radio and the Pioneer Press. Concerts begin at 7:30 pm and are preceded by a cocktail hour at 6:45 pm, giving audiences an opportunity to enjoy complimentary refreshments and a cash bar.

Courtroom Concert: Trés: piano-saxophone trio
2024-10-17 12:00 - 13:00 | Courtroom 317 – Landmark Center, 75 5th St. W., Saint Paul, MN, 55102, United States
Hosted by composer Abbie Betinis, our popular Courtroom Concerts take place at noon most Thursdays in the Landmark Center in downtown Saint Paul. This series features accomplished musicians and composers from the Twin Cities and surrounding area, as well as occasional musical newcomers to the area. These one-hour concerts are free and open to the public.
About the Artists:
Ryan Smith is a multiple woodwind player specializing in saxophone, flute, clarinet, and recorder. He lives in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and performs regularly throughout the Midwest. Depending on the week, you might find him playing show tunes with the pit orchestra at Theatre Cedar Rapids, jazz standards with the Blake Shaw Biggish Band, or recently-composed classical works with Durward New Music Ensemble. He also performs with Orchestra Iowa, the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Symphony, various chamber ensembles, and an occasional rock or indie-pop band. He was nominated for both a Grammy and a Latin Grammy award in 2023 for his work with Miguel Zenón and Minneapolis-based chamber ensemble, Trés.
Ryan serves on the board of Rapson Collaborative–an Iowa City-based non-profit arts organization with the mission of supporting original musical projects that explore critical social issues. The organization aims to foster collaborations between artists and audiences with an emphasis on projects that tell marginalized histories, support underrepresented artists, and engage diverse communities. For information on applying for a grant, please visit rapsoncollaborative.org.
Ryan earned a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Iowa in 2018. He now teaches applied woodwinds and improvisation at Grinnell College and Cornell College while maintaining private studios in Cedar Rapids and Iowa City. Fostering meaningful relationships with his students and helping them navigate both the technical demands and the emotional challenges of authentic musical expression has made teaching a deeply satisfying and rewarding part of his life.

Pianist Casey Rafn enjoys a varied career as a collaborative pianist both in the United States and abroad. He is the current pianist for VocalEssence and also plays for contemporary masses at the Basilica of St. Mary. Casey often collaborates in concert or in recordings with members of the Minnesota Orchestra, the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, and University of Minnesota School of Music faculty. As a piano soloist he took top prizes at the International Liszt-Garrison Competition in Baltimore, has appeared with the Duluth-Superior Symphony Orchestra.
Grammy Nominated and McKnight Fellow, José A. Zayas Cabán has presented performances and taught master classes throughout Europe, the Caribbean, and North America. A native Puerto Rican (born and raised in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico) and musician activist, José now resides in Minneapolis, MN and is building an artistic career focused on developing projects, albums, and collaborations that address, respond, and raise awareness about current events and social issues.
Winner of the 2019 New Music USA Project Grant, José has finished a collaboration with multiple Grammy Winning Artist and Guggenheim and MacArthur Fellow Miguel Zenón on a work titled El País Invisible (The Invisible Nation, 2019). The composition reflects on the relationship between Puerto Rico and the United States Empire.
That album’s commissioned piece El País Invisible, by Miguel Zenón, received a 2022 Grammy nomination for Best Instrumental Composition. Most recently, he and his trio {Trés} produced Romance al Campesino Porteño (2023) and received a 2023 Latin Grammy Best Instrumental Album nomination nomination.
In addition, José is developing a project with Angélica Negrón as the recipient of the McKnight Visiting Composer Fellowship that will result in a new composition titled Pedacito de Tierra (Little Piece of Land) Influenced by the work of Rafael Tufiño, and photographer Erika Rodriguez. Pedacito de Tierra will celebrate Puerto Rico’s stories and struggles. The collaboration with Angélica Negrón and Miguel Zenón is part of a larger, long term, project called Puerto Rico se Re-Inventa.
His debut album, Centennial, commemorates the women’s suffrage movement and the ratification of the 19th amendment in August 1920. It includes music by Kinds of Kingscomposers Gemma Peacocke (Skin, 2016) and Shelley Washington (Big Talk, 2016), as well as trios by Amanda Feery (Gone to Earth, 2018) and Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel (Trio, Op. 11, 1846).
José is the co-founder of the Chamber Music Trio {Trés}, which was started as a collaborative project by José and Colin Young with the purpose of creating transcriptions and commissioning new works for a two saxophone and piano ensemble to perform. The trio has since performed chamber music by a wide range of composers in Central America, the Caribbean, and throughout the United States. In the wake of Hurricanes Irma and María, {Trés} finished a national tour (2018) titled A Tribute to Puerto Rico to help raise funds and awareness about Puerto Rico and the island’s efforts to recover from the hurricanes. In November 2019, the trio completed its first residency in Puerto Rico.
José is a D’Addario, LefreQue and Yamaha Artist.

Opening Reception: Women’s Advocates’ Voices of Change: 50 Years of Hope and Healing
2024-10-15 17:00 - 19:00 | North Gallery – Landmark Center, 75 5th St. W., St. Paul, MN, 55104, United States
Join us on Tuesday, October 15 from 5-7pm to celebrate the opening of the Women’s Advocates’ Voices of Change: 50 Years of Hope and Healing exhibition in the North Gallery. The opening will include wine and other light refreshments.
Women’s Advocates proudly celebrates its 50th anniversary as the nation’s first shelter for victim-survivors of domestic violence. Join us in honoring the resilience of victim-survivors, recognizing the dedication of advocates, and celebrating progress towards a future free from abuse. To mark this milestone, artists committed to breaking the cycle of domestic violence are contributing their work for display and auction.
The artwork will be exhibited from October 1st through December 31st, with an auction taking place during Women’s Advocates’ 50th Anniversary Gala on October 17th. Proceeds will support Women’s Advocates’ mission. For more information, please contact development@wadvocates.org.

Cine Latino Film Screening: "Profe"
2024-10-11 15:30 - 17:00 | F. K. Weyerhaeuser Aud. – Landmark Center, 75 5th St. W., Saint Paul, MN, 55102, United States
World Premiere
Director Sergio Mata’u Rapu Attending
The Latine community is the fastest growing ethnic group in Minnesota – a state that also claims one of the largest opportunity gaps in the country. Today, two independent public schools are tackling this challenge by implementing a decolonized, bilingual, culture-affirming system to serve Latine students. Profe mixes historical interviews, archival and present day-verité to paint a picture of the Latine educational revolution in Minnesota – one which started with the Chicano Movement in the 1970s and is continuing to have real impact in Latine students today.

Courtroom Concert: Jennifer Lien, soprano and Lina Yoo Min Lee, piano
2024-10-10 12:00 - 13:00 | Courtroom 317 – Landmark Center, 75 5th St. W., Saint Paul, MN, 55102, United States
Hosted by composer Abbie Betinis, our popular Courtroom Concerts take place at noon most Thursdays in the Landmark Center in downtown Saint Paul. This series features accomplished musicians and composers from the Twin Cities and surrounding area, as well as occasional musical newcomers to the area. These one-hour concerts are free and open to the public.
About the Artists:
Jennifer lien, soprano
Lina Yoo Min Lee, piano
Soprano Jennifer Lien, lauded for her “sonorous, clear voice” and her dramatic range, has been seen on opera and concert stages in California, Florida, New York, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Singapore. She is a keen collaborator in chamber music, a proponent of contemporary music, and is known for her innovative recital programming. The 2023–2024 season saw Lien on tour with two projects: the world premiere and tour of Wendy Durrwachter’s Surface Displacements song cycle in Minnesota, and the recital Juxtapositions: European Orientalism, Asian America, & Asia in North Carolina. In the 2024–2025 season, Lien will premiere and tour her project of three commissioned song cycles from three Asian American composers set to Asian American texts.
In August 2022, Lien was featured in Messiaen’s Harawi with the Sing Song Club in Singapore. In June 2022, Lien made her Lyric Opera of the North debut as the Mother in Hansel and Gretel. In November 2021, Lien was featured in a virtual concert of French Orientalist music for the San Francisco International Piano Festival with pianist Gwendolyn Mok. In February 2020, Lien appeared as soprano soloist with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra in Joe Hisaishi’s East Land Symphony. During the pandemic season, her performance in Poulenc’s one-woman opera La Voix Humaine, originally performed in 2018 to wide acclaim with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra’s chamber series, was streamed internationally.
Lien has appeared in operatic roles with companies including New Opera Singapore, Mission City Opera, West Bay Opera, Oakland Opera Theater, West Marin Music Festival, Berkeley Opera, Solo Opera, San Francisco Lyric Opera, and Central Florida Lyric Opera. Oratorio engagements include Haydn’s The Creation and The Seasons; Saint-Saëns’ Christmas Oratorio; Handel’s Messiah; Vivaldi’s Gloria; Haydn’s Mass in Time of War; and Mozart’s Requiem. She has premiered numerous works by contemporary composers, and has performed in recital series in Minnesota, New York, California, and New Hampshire, and at the prestigious Esplanade arts center in Singapore.
Lien made her operatic debut in the role of Papagena (The Magic Flute) with Singapore Lyric Opera, where she also appeared as Princess Stephanie in The Student Prince. She received further operatic training as a resident artist with Central Florida Lyric Opera, a young artist with the Seagle Festival, an apprentice artist with Bel Canto at Caramoor, and as a member of the OperaWorks Advanced Accelerated Singer program. Since the pandemic, Lien has been an active member of Bel Canto Boot Camp. Outside of music, Lien is a co-founder of the Twin Ports APIDA Collective, an organization to advocate for and raise awareness of the Asian Pacific Islander Desi American community in the Duluth-Superior region. Lien is a fiscal year 2024 recipient of a Creative Individuals grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board.
Returning to music after an early career as a newspaper journalist, Lien first began her vocal studies at Dartmouth College, where she was an English major. Under the guidance of soprano Erie Mills, she later received her Master of Arts in Music at San José State University. Lien holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Voice and an M.A. in Historical Musicology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. A seasoned vocal educator, Lien has taught voice to majors and non-majors at UW-Madison and at Beloit College. She currently teaches at The College of St. Scholastica in Duluth, MN.
Lina Yoo-Min Lee is a highly prolific pianist and proactive pedagogue renowned worldwide for her captivating and insightful expressionist style. She has performed extensively both in the US and abroad, gracing prestigious venues such as Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center, Boston Symphony Hall, and Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall. Her most recent piano solo recital, “Music by Women,” held at Carnegie Hall in October 2022, received high acclaim for her exquisite interpretation of an eclectic program and powerful pianistic virtuosity. Broadcasting her concerts through platforms like WFMT, WQXR, WORT, Medici.tv, and YouTube has further expanded her reach to audiences around the world. Her piano solo digital album, “Memories,” featuring live performances of works by renowned composers, garnered praise from both the New York Concert Review and MBN, a major broadcasting network in South Korea.
Lee is also known for her extensive collaborations with internationally renowned singers and instrumentalists as a vivid collaborative pianist. She has performed at prestigious venues and actively engages with underserved communities, sharing her talents and passion for music. Lee has collaborated with members of the Madison Symphony Orchestra and the Sheboygan Symphony Orchestra and is enthusiastic about interdisciplinary collaborations with other artists. Her commitment to diverse collaboration has led her to participate in numerous music festivals, including the Aspen Music Festival, the Bowdoin International Music Festival, and the Stanford Summer Seminar, working with esteemed musicians such as Joaquin Valedepnas, Donald Weilerstein, Hamish Milne, Hung-Kuan Chen, Julian Martin, Anne Epperson, and Virginia Weckstrom.
In the 2023-2024 season, she returned to Carnegie Hall for a solo performance in May 2023 and actively collaborated with her flutist, featuring underrepresented works by Chen Yi, William Grant Still, Dominic Valadez, Eric Delgado, and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. She also performed piano four hands, featuring a wide range of genres from Baroque to contemporary. Her performance of the piano concerto “Fantasie Tropical” by Haitian composer Justin Elie with the University of Minnesota Duluth Orchestra in 2024 was very successful.
In the 2024-2025 season, Lee will bring a variety of solo and collaborative programs. She is scheduled to tour with singer Jennifer Lien, premiering and touring three commissioned song cycles from Asian American composers set to Asian American texts, and offering an engaging program as part of a quartet with two percussionists and two pianos. She will also tour different states in the US for her solo recitals.
As a passionate pedagogue and educator, Lee actively teaches piano and presents her research internationally. She has given lectures, masterclasses, workshops, and presentations at prestigious institutions such as Stanford University, the University of Kansas, the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Platteville, Seoul National University in Korea, the National Conference of Keyboard Pedagogy, and the European Piano Teachers Association International Conference. Lee has also been invited to adjudicate competitions and serve on juries for national auditions and exams, such as the 2022 Sejong Music Competitions and the MTNA Piano Competitions.
Community engagement and arts outreach hold a special place in Lee’s heart. She is dedicated to promoting the works of underrepresented and historically marginalized composers. She founded and served as the Artistic Director of the DEIB Festival in Madison, Wisconsin, focusing on diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging, as well as leadership, collaboration, and community engagement. Additionally, she actively supports providing high-quality music education and performances to underserved communities and children with disabilities. Lee regularly teaches piano for communities and is involved with Love in Music, a non-profit organization that offers free opportunities for young children from underserved communities to learn classical instruments through musically trained volunteers. She is also the Chair of Madison Area Music Educators, a non-profit organization fostering growth and enrichment in the local community’s cultural and artistic life.
Lee’s educational background includes training at Walnut Hill School for the Arts and New England Conservatory’s Preparatory School. She holds a B.M. in Piano Performance and M.M. degrees in Piano Performance and Pedagogy from the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University, where she was awarded various scholarships. She further pursued her studies and earned a D.M.A. in Piano Performance and Pedagogy from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a full scholarship and the Jeanette Ross Award.
Currently, Lee serves as an Assistant Professor of Piano at the University of Minnesota Duluth. Before this, she served on the piano faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and taught at the Peabody Preparatory School of the Johns Hopkins University through the piano pedagogy program.

Ballet Tuesdays
2024-10-08 12:00 - 13:00 | Musser Cortile – Landmark Center, 75 5th St. W., Saint Paul, MN, 55102, United States
Landmark Center hosts FREE lunch-hour ballet performances and demonstrations, from 12-1pm, in partnership with Ballet Co.Laboratory.
2024/2025 season dates:

October 8, 2024
November 12, 2024
February 11, 2025
March 11, 2025
April 8, 2025

Landmark Live: Ruth Moody
2024-10-06 19:30 - 21:30 | F. K. Weyerhaeuser Aud. – Landmark Center, 75 5th St. W., Saint Paul, MN, 55102, United States
Ruth Moody is an award-winning singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist hailing from Winnipeg, Manitoba. Her otherworldly soprano voice and her inspired songwriting have gained the admiration of the hearts, minds, and ears of millions of listeners. As a solo artist and a founding and current member of The Wailin’ Jennys, she has garnered two JUNO Awards and performed to rapt audiences in sold-out venues around the globe. Her brand new album, Wanderer (out May 17th on her own Blue Muse Records), is the chronicle of her life’s journey over the last ten years. Wanderer explores the emotional journey of motherhood, the joy and pain of life, the mysterious and complicated dance of love, and ultimately, the longing we all feel for home, wherever that might be.
Individual concert tickets are $20 in advance/$25 at the door (available on Ticketleap) or $70 for full season tickets, also available on Ticketleap. (Tickets include admission to the cocktail hour from 6:45-7:30 pm.)
6:45 pm – Cocktail hour // 7:00 pm – seating opens // 7:30 pm – Concert
Landmark Center presents “Landmark Live” in the F.K. Weyerhaeuser Auditorium, presented with support from KFAI Radio and the Pioneer Press. Concerts begin at 7:30 pm and are preceded by a cocktail hour at 6:45 pm, giving audiences an opportunity to enjoy complimentary refreshments and a cash bar.
