Thomas Søndergård will become the next music director of the Minnesota Orchestra. Here are the orchestra's music directors through the years:
- Emil Oberhoffer, 1903-22
- Henri Verbrugghen, 1923-31
- Eugene Ormandy, 1931-36
- Dimitri Mitropoulos, 1937-49
- Antal Dorati, 1949-60
- Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, 1960-79
- Neville Marriner, 1979-86
- Edo de Waart, 1986-95
- Eiji Oue, 1995-02
- Osmo Vänskä, 2003-22
