My friends at MNKINO and I have been organizing a night of new short films with original scores. We teamed up filmmakers and composers from around the world to collaborate. The most exciting part is that we’ve assembled an orchestra to play these scores live at the film screening.

Here’s a teaser trailer for the event:

Hope you can join us!

Thursday, August 14

7pm

Landmark Center’s F.K. Weyerhaeuser Auditorium

75 5th St, St Paul, MN 55102

$5 suggested donation for the performers

Facebook Event

We’ll also be streaming the concert at composerquest.com (7pm Central Time).

Thanks to Minnesota Landmarks, Minnesota Music Coalition, and Wells Pianos for sponsoring!

The Orchestra

The Filmmaker and Composer Teams

Andrew Ranallo and John Brian Evans

Ann Thompson and Charlie McCarron

Beth Peloff and Jon Brantingham

Brenda Bell Brown and Darrell St.Blaine

David Koesters and Liam Moore

Jean-Marceau Sécheret and Brady Hearn

Jeffrey Schwinghammer and Nick Syman

John Akre and Marisa Carr

Joseph Hoenig III/Brandon Floyd Boyles and Oakley Lyon

Kab Kaniess and Will Robertson

Keith Braafladt and Michael Maiorana

Larry Wydra and Michael Chergosky

Mary Beth Huttlin

Matthew Magdefrau and Josh Mitchell

Nick Nelson and Joey Pettit

Oanh Vu and Daniel Bailey

Robert Masen and Bobby Ryden/Mike Wisneski

Theo Hoglund and J Wilson

More about the original challenge here, and on the MPR Classical Blog. Here’s the Pioneer Press writeup about it: