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Osmo Vänskä announces engagement

The Minnesota Orchestra conductor and the concertmaster are making it official.

By Neal Justin

January 2, 2015 at 11:52PM

(The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Erin Keefe/ photo by Bre McGee

Minnesota Orchestra conductor Osmo Vänskä and concertmaster Erin Keefe have announced via Facebook that they are engaged. The relationship between the two was addressed in a New York Times article this past April and Vänskä answered questions about it to the Orchestra Board before agreeing to return to his duties earlier this year.

Keefe divorced in 2013; Vänskä divorced in 2009.

Keefe, a violinist, has been concertmaster since 2011.

No further details were available.

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Neal Justin

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Neal Justin is the pop-culture critic, covering how Minnesotans spend their entertainment time. He also reviews stand-up comedy. Justin previously served as TV and music critic for the paper. He is the co-founder of JCamp, a non-profit program for high-school journalists, and works on many fronts to further diversity in newsrooms.