Join us for our 39th Season!
2025 – 2026 Season concerts
We're in our exciting 39th KCCO Season!
Our 39th Season is full of amazing music and soloists, more Mozart as we continue our "Countdown to 40" and much more!​​​​​​
The Music of Love
Friday, February 13, 2026
6:00 p.m.
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art
4420 Warwick Blvd, Kansas City, MO
Carolyn Watson, Conductor​​
Or call 816-960-1324 to order tickets.
Warm up for Valentines with a magical evening of Dinner, Wine, Music and More!
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Let us serenade YOU at this magical Valentine celebration! A concert of gorgeous music by the KC Chamber Orchestra to warm your hearts at the beautiful Kemper Museum Atrium, preceded by a delicious three-course dinner and special entertainment. All followed by our signature Champagne Chocolate Celebration of desserts and chocolates and a chance to greet musicians! (Vegetarian menu option available.)
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All seats reserved, tables from 6 to 8 people, with a limited number of Sweetheart Tables for 2. Reservations will fill up fast. All tickets include three-course dinner, wine, desserts from Chef Shop Stark, and special entertainment and KCCO concert.
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Our special Sweetheart package includes all above and special wine pairings, and treats at tables for 2 (must purchase 2 tickets for private table), or you may enjoy the Sweetheart package upgrade at a group table with others. Season Ticket holder reservations are for current KCCO 2025/26 Season Ticket holders and/or you may upgrade to a Sweetheart level table (please let us know if you have a special request to add friends at your table).
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The KC Chamber Orchestra strings and winds will excite lovers and lovers of music with a romantic program featuring:
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Mozart Symphony No. 15 in G major
Beethoven Romance No. 1 for Violin and Orchestra
Beethoven Romance No. 2 for Violin and Orchestra
Violin soloist Anne Marie Brown
Haydn Symphony No. 6, "Le Matin"
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From Guest Conductor Carolyn Watson:
I am delighted to be returning to lead the KC Chamber Orchestra for this year's Valentine's Day event! I am particularly enthusiastic about leading the Beethoven Romances which I studied as a violinist, but never before as a conductor. They will be a KCCO premiere along with Mozart's youthful and exuberant Symphony No. 15. Rounding out the program is one of Haydn's earliest symphonies, No. 6—also known as 'Le Matin' or 'morning', another KCCO premiere!
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.
Past concerts this season
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​​​​
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 Magic
Tuesday, December 2, 2025
7:30 p.m.
Country Club Christian Church
6101 Ward Pkwy, Kansas City, MO
Bruce Sorrell, Conductor​​
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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