Editing Minnesota Orchestra (section)

===Post-lockout===
On January 14, 2014, the Musicians of the Minnesota Orchestra announced that they had reached a collective bargaining agreement with the Minnesota Orchestra Association to end the lockout on February 1, 2014.<ref name=settled>{{cite news | author=Euan Kerr and Jon Collins | title=Minnesota Orchestra labor dispute settled | url=http://www.mprnews.org/story/2014/01/14/minnesota-orchestra-settlement | work=Minnesota Public Radio | date=2014-01-14 | access-date=2017-07-12}}</ref> Concerts resumed at Orchestra Hall in February. On April 24, 2014, the orchestra announced Vänskä's return as music director effective with the 2014–15 and 2015–16 seasons.<ref>{{cite press release | url=http://www.minnesotaorchestra.org/about/learn-more/press-room/908-vanska-to-return | title=Osmo Vänskä to return as Minnesota Orchestra music director | publisher=Minnesota Orchestra | date=24 April 2014 | access-date=2017-07-12}}</ref> In July 2017, the orchestra announced the extension of Vänskä's contract as music director through the 2021–22 season.<ref>{{cite press release | url=http://www.minnesotaorchestra.org/about/learn-more/press-room/1696-music-director-osmo-vaenskae-extends-contract-with-minnesota-orchestra | title=Music Director Osmo Vänskä extends contract with Minnesota Orchestra | publisher=Minnesota Orchestra | date=10 July 2017 | access-date=2017-07-12}}</ref> In December 2018, the orchestra announced that Vänskä would conclude his tenure as music director at the close of the 2021-2022 season.<ref name = Kerr>{{cite news | url=https://www.mprnews.org/story/2018/12/05/osmo-vanska-to-step-down-minnesota-orchestra | title=Minnesota Orchestra's Osmo Vanska to step down in 2022 | work=MPR News (Minnesota Public Radio News) | author=Euan Kerr | date=2018-12-05 | accessdate=2022-01-17}}</ref> He is to take the title of conductor laureate.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.startribune.com/osmo-vanska-leaving-minnesota-orchestra-bis-records-minneapolis-classical-finnish-conductor-sibelius/600178202 | title='I have done my part' | work=Minneapolis Star-Tribune | author=Rob Hubbard | date=2022-06-03 | access-date=2022-08-08}}</ref>

In May 2015, the Minnesota Orchestra performed in [[Havana, Cuba]], as a result of the [[Cuban Thaw]], becoming the first professional U.S. orchestra to play in Cuba since the [[Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra]] in 1999.<ref>{{cite news | author=Euan Kerr | title=After Thaw, Minnesota Orchestra Returns To Cuba | url=https://www.npr.org/sections/deceptivecadence/2015/05/17/406993869/after-thaw-minnesota-orchestra-returns-to-cuba | work=National Public Radio | date=2015-05-17 | access-date=2017-07-12}}</ref> In August 2018, it became the first professional U.S. orchestra to perform in South Africa.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.startribune.com/minnesota-orchestra-will-tour-to-south-africa-to-play-nelson-mandela-tribute/469949233/|title=Another first for Minnesota Orchestra: A tour to South Africa|website=Star Tribune|access-date=2019-08-02}}</ref> In January 2022, the orchestra, Vänskä, and [[Elina Vähälä]] gave the North American premiere of the original 1904 version of [[Jean Sibelius]]'s [[Violin Concerto (Sibelius)|Violin Concerto]].<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.startribune.com/minnesota-orchestras-sibelius-festival-provides-a-star-turn-for-another-finn/600133871/ | title=Minnesota Orchestra's Sibelius Festival provides a star turn for another Finn | work=Minneapolis Star-Tribune | author=Rob Hubbard | date=2022-01-08 | accessdate=2022-01-17}}</ref> 

In December 2021, [[Thomas Søndergård]] first guest-conducted the orchestra. He returned for another guest-conducting engagement in April 2022. In July 2022, the orchestra announced Søndergård's appointment as its next music director, effective with the 2023-2024 season, with an initial contract of five seasons.<ref>{{cite press release | url=https://www.minnesotaorchestra.org/press-room/press-releases/d/ | title=Thomas Søndergård Appointed Minnesota Orchestra's 11th Music Director | publisher=Minnesota Orchestra | date=28 July 2022 | access-date=2022-08-08}}</ref>