Join us for our 39th Season!
2025 – 2026 Season concerts
An exciting KCCO Season is coming!
Our 39th Season will be full of amazing music and soloists, more Mozart as we continue our "Countdown to 40" and much more!​​​​​​
Music in the Garden
Community free outdoor concert!
Sunday, September 7, 2025
6:00 p.m.
6115 Wornall Rd, Kansas City, MO
Carolyn Watson, Conductor​​
Autumn Romance for Strings
Friday, September 26, 2025
7:30 p.m.
Grace & Holy Trinity Cathedral
415 W 13th St, Kansas City, MO
Bruce Sorrell, Conductor​​​​
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All of the works on this concert pay homage to great predecessors. Heitor Villa-Lobos’s set of Bachianas Brasileiras is a tribute to Bach, transformed through the lens of his South American roots. The lush and evocative Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5 has become famous for its beautiful, swoon-worthy melody and echoes the famous "Air" from Bach’s Orchestral Suite No. 3.
Edvard Grieg was honoring the 200th anniversary of the birth of Dano-Norwegian humanist playwright Ludvig Holberg in his composition From Holberg's Time, subtitled "Suite in olden style." Copying the structure of a dance suite from the 18th-century Baroque, even the movement titles evoke that era: Praeludium, Sarabande, Gavotte, and Rigaudon. The emotional heart of the music is in the Air, marked Andante religioso (slow and spiritual).
Benjamin Britten’s Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge is a landmark of writing for strings. Britten uses a melody by his revered teacher, Frank Bridge, and through the set of variations creates a character portrait of him, much like the Enigma Variations portrays Elgar’s friends. This is the work that catapulted Britten into international fame when he composed it for the Salzburg Festival in 1937.
Program
Villa-Lobos Bachianas Brasileiras No. 9
Villa-Lobos Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5
Victoria Botero, soprano soloist
Grieg Holberg Suite
Britten Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge
Holiday Concert
Tuesday, December 2, 2025
7:30 p.m.
Country Club Christian Church
6101 Ward Pkwy, Kansas City, MO
Bruce Sorrell, Conductor​​
Continuing the theme of paying homage to a great predecessor, the Holiday concert features concertos by one of the most famous Baroque masters, Antonio Vivaldi. On the second half, we feature Argentinian composer Astor Piazzolla’s Four Seasons of Buenos Aires. Vivaldi’s Four Seasons for solo violin is one of the most famous pieces of music ever composed, and Piazzolla pays tribute in his own set of violin works depicting the seasons in his native land. Piazzolla’s music has exploded in popularity over the past decade, evoking the great Tango traditions of Argentina and Uruguay in his compositions.
Program
Vivaldi Concerto for Oboe in D Minor, RV 454
Vivaldi Concerto for Two Cellos in G Minor, RV 531
Vivaldi Concerto for Flute in C Minor, RV 441
Piazzolla Four Seasons of Buenos Aires
For the Love of Music
Saturday, February 14, 2026
6:00 p.m.
The Magnolia at Brookside
624 E 63rd St, Kansas City, MO
Carolyn Watson, Conductor​​
What better way to warm up on a wintry night than with dinner and beautiful chamber music! Long a tradition with the KC Chamber Orchestra, our valentine to the city will feature gorgeous music for lovers and lovers of music.
Spring Concert
Thursday, April 30, 2026
7:30 p.m.
Venue TBA
Bruce Sorrell, Conductor​​
A spring celebration of music, the season culminates with Mozart’s Symphony No. 39 to mark the end of the KCCO’s 39th season. Mozart’s last three symphonies, numbered 39, 40, and 41, were completed in record time in a great burst of creativity over the summer of 1788. They are considered among the great masterpieces of classical music.