{"id":2393485,"date":"2026-04-28T20:52:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T20:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2393485"},"modified":"2026-04-28T20:52:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T20:52:35","slug":"minnesota-orchestra-musicians-secure-new-two-year-contract-twin-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/minnesota-orchestra-musicians-secure-new-two-year-contract-twin-cities\/","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota Orchestra musicians secure new two-year contract \u2013 Twin Cities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The Minnesota Orchestra\u2019s governing body and its musicians have approved a new two-year collective bargaining agreement five months in advance of the current contract\u2019s expiration date.<\/p>\n<p>The new deal, which is effective from Sept. 1, 2026, through Aug. 31, 2028, was separately ratified by both the board of directors and the musicians, who are members of the Twin Cities Musicians\u2019 Union.<\/p>\n<p>The terms call for a 2.5 percent increase in musicians\u2019 weekly salary scale in each year of the contract and temporary changes in hiring practices in order to reduce costs by up to $2 million over two years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are thankful we were jointly able to reach a result that prioritizes the Minnesota Orchestra\u2019s artistry in our community and industry, while also helping to right the organization\u2019s finances,\u201d said Timothy Zavadil, clarinetist and bass clarinetist representing the musicians\u2019 negotiating committee, in a news release. \u201cWe have great confidence in (president and CEO) Isaac Thompson and our board leadership and we look forward to building on these relationships toward a bright artistic future.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"related left\"\/><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.twincities.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minnesota Orchestra\u2019s governing body and its musicians have approved a new two-year collective bargaining agreement five months in advance of the current contract\u2019s expiration date. The new deal, which is effective from Sept. 1, 2026, through Aug. 31, 2028, was separately ratified by both the board of directors and the musicians, who are members [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2393486,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[315602,385121,21800,308545,22482],"class_list":["post-2393485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-minneapolis","tag-minnesota-orchestra","tag-music","tag-music-and-concerts","tag-things-to-do"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Minnesota-Orchestra-musicians-secure-new-two-year-contract-\u2013-Twin-Cities.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2393485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2393485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2393485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2393487,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2393485\/revisions\/2393487"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2393486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2393485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2393485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2393485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}