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Music Director of
One of America's Boldest Orchestras.
— Alex Ross, The New Yorker Magazine 

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NOW

2023–2024 Concert schedule

AUGUST 2023

The Crescendo Summer Institute 

Tokaj, Hungary 

Brahms  Symphony No. 1

 

OCTOBER 2023

The South Dakota Symphony Orchestra

Jessie Montgomery  Banner

Hailstork  Symphony No. 3

Beethoven  Symphony No. 5   

The South Dakota Symphony Orchestra

Ravel  Mother Goose Suite

Lou Harrison  Piano Concerto
        Emanuele Arciuli, piano
Rimsky-Korsakov  Scheherazade

DECEMBER 2023

The South Dakota Symphony Orchestra

Handel  Messiah

JANUARY 2024

The South Dakota Symphony Orchestra

Mozart  Symphony No. 29, A Major, K. 201

Vivaldi  Oboe Concerto in C Major, RV 450

         Jeffrey Paul, oboe 

Thomas Parente  World Premiere

Caroline Shaw  Entr’acte

Haydn  Symphony No. 59, A Major, “Fire Symphony”

February 2024

Punta Gorda Symphony 

Mozart  Symphony No. 29, A Major, K. 201

Mozart  Exaltate Jubilate       

        Hannah Celeste Lu, soprano

Mahler  Symphony No. 4

The South Dakota Symphony Orchestra

Schubert  Symphony No. 9, “The Great C Major”
Rachmaninoff  Piano Concerto No. 2

        Joyce Yang, piano

APRIL 2024

The South Dakota Symphony Orchestra

Yarbrough   World Premiere

Dorff  Clarinet Concerto  World Premiere
     Chris Hill, clarinet

Copland  Appalachian Spring Suite

Bernstein  Symphonic Dances from "West Side Story"

The South Dakota Symphony Orchestra

Mahler  Symphony No. 3

Concert Sched

“The model of an engaged conductor.”
—The New Yorker Magazine 

Video Performances 

 

Performances Videos
Visit  Delta David Gier's  YouTube Channel


 

LISTEN  First reading of John Luther Adams
An Atlas of Deep Time

LISTEN  SDSO Digital Library

 

LISTEN  MPR  Arvo Pärt Trisagion SDSO

LISTEN HERE
TV & Radio Interviews

 

Studio 1A 
More Than Music: Shostakovich in South Dakota

 

SDPB Maestro Gier on SDSO's 100 years:
Art helps us find our place in the world.

 

SDPB The Lakota Music Project as a
Musical Bridge for Cultural Understanding.

SDPB  SDSO Bush Award  2016

Polyphonic Org at Eastman
Discussing the SDSO with Greg Sandow

New York Philharmonic 
Young People's Concerts

Articles

CHRONICLE of PHILANTHROPY  2023 

 

THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR  2023 

Shostakovich in South Dakota
A manifesto for the future of American classical music

 

THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE  2022 

How the South Dakota Symphony
Became One of America’s Boldest Orchestras

THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE  2022 

Notable Performances and Recordings of 2022

NEH   2018  
by David Skinner
Can Orchestras Be Reinvented
as Humanities Institutions?   

 

Arts Journal 
by Delta David Gier

A Museum Culture of Symphony Orchestras?

Unanswered Question   2018 
by Joe Horowitz 

America's Most Exceptional Orchestra 

 

Unanswered Question  2016 
by Joe Horowitz

Dvorak on the Reservation
 

  

Voice of America  2010
Lakota Get Classica
l

 

New Music Box   2006

Making Inroads Through the Back Roads

New Music Box   2005
Builiding  an audience in South Dakota
. . . with Pulitzer Winners
 
 
 

2011 Pulitzer Prize Music Jury  chair

Headshots

Biography 

—an unprecedented programming innovation.

Delta David Gier . . . decided to perform a piece by a living
Pulitzer Prize-winning composer on each of the classical programs . . 
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—Terry Teachout, The Wall Street Journal

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