Today in the ArtZany Radio studio Paula Granquist welcomes Cannon Valley Regional Orchestra (CVRO) conductor and founder Paul Niemisto and violinist Paul Huppert to preview the In Memoriam concert honoring the Life of CVRO’s Clark Ohnesorge.

https://northfieldartsguild.org/arts/music/cvro-2/

The Northfield Arts Guild Presents the Cannon Valley Regional Orchestra

In Memoriam Conducted by Paul Niemisto

Honoring the Life of Clark Ohnesorge

Featuring Violin Soloist Paul Huppert

Saturday 15 November at 3PM

St. John’s Lutheran Church, 500 West 3rd St, Northfield

Tickets: $15 at the door

Sunday, November 16th at 3PM

Cathedral of Our Merciful Saviour, 515 Second Ave NW, Faribault

Tickets: $15 at the door
Paul Huppert serves as Concertmaster-St. Louis Civic Orchestra, Principal Second Violin with the Illinois Symphony Orchestra, Concertmaster-St. Louis Chamber Orchestra, Associate Concertmaster-Bach at the Seminary Series. He is a regular contributor with the Fox Theater in St. Louis and also performs with the Union Avenue Opera.
Paul Niemisto, CVRO founder and conductor, retired from the St. Olaf College music faculty in 2016. In spring 2017 he was a Fulbright scholar in Finland studying the historical brass band music of Finland’s independence in 1917. Since 1991 he has directed a Finnish-American brass ensemble Boys of America which has traveled widely and made recordings in the U.S. and Scandinavia. In summer 2006, he began the Vintage Band Festival held in Northfield.