Dear Friends of SOR,

SOR reached a significant milestone last season. Not only did we celebrate our 40th anniversary, but our organization was selected by Arts Missoula to receive the prestigious 2025 Cultural Vision Award! We feel honored to have been given this recognition and are inspired to work hard to achieve new heights of musical excellence.

This season opens with a week-long regional tour of Montana, expanding our musical horizons to the Bitterroot Valley and traveling to Billings to launch the 75th anniversary of the illustrious Sukin Chamber Music Series. While in Billings, we will also participate in an outreach project working with local music students in the area before returning home to perform in Missoula.

We welcome three distinguished guest artists to our SOR series this season. Tippet Rise Arts Center Artistic Advisor Pedja Mužijević performs Beethoven’s fourth piano concerto–a masterpiece and favorite of pianists worldwide. Dr. Jennifer Cavanaugh, a beloved and esteemed member of the Missoula musical and academic community, joins SOR as soloist in Albinoni’s popular D minor oboe concerto–a baroque work of extraordinary beauty. Our season finale will be full of violin pyrotechnics when Stephanie Chase returns to Missoula to perform showpieces by Sarasate and Vaughan Williams, as well as a premiere of her new orchestral arrangement of de Falla’s Seven Popular Spanish Songs.

Additionally, we continue the vital work of providing mentorship and performance opportunities for exceptional music students in our Stockman Bank Master Class Series and our NextGen concert.

We appreciate and cherish each one of you who continues to support us and attend our concerts. Music is transformational–for both performers and audience members. The shared experience of the creative process powerfully affirms our vulnerability and humanity, comforts us, and enriches our lives.

Now—let’s make music!
Maria Larionoff
Artistic Director, SOR