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Osmo Vanska became the tenth music director of the Minnesota Orchestra in September 2003 and will complete his 19-year tenure in August 2022.

Led the orchestra on five major European tours and historic tours to Cuba in 2015 (first American orchestra tour since Cuban-American diplomatic thaw) and South Africa in 2018 (first professional U.S. orchestra visit to the country).

Recording projects with the orchestra include a Grammy Award-winning 2014 recording of complete Sibelius symphonies and a 2017 Grammy-nominated recording of Mahler's First Symphony as part of an ongoing Mahler symphonies series.

Received numerous honors including honorary doctorates from University of Glasgow and University of Minnesota, Royal Philharmonic Society Award, Ditson Award from Columbia University, 2005 Musical America Conductor of the Year, and 2010 Minneapolis Star Tribune Artist of the Year.

Will join founding music director Emil Oberhoffer and sixth music director Stanislaw Skrowaczewski as the longest-tenured music directors in Minnesota Orchestra history.