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In only its 44th season, the Kansas City Symphony has become one of America’s most vibrant major orchestras and has gained international recognition. At its orchestral home of Helzberg Hall at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, the Symphony serves the Kansas City metropolitan region of more than 2.2 million people. The Symphony’s 80 full-time musicians present a diverse and dynamic range of orchestral and chamber music performances each season under the artistic leadership of music director Matthias Pintscher, an internationally acclaimed conductor and composer who regularly conducts the world’s leading orchestras and opera companies. In addition to concerts in Helzberg Hall, Symphony musicians perform throughout the region on an innovative portable stage, the Mobile Music Box. The Symphony also serves as the orchestra for the Kansas City Ballet and the Lyric Opera of Kansas City, adding to the rich cultural experiences that these organizations offer to the community.

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EXCITING CHAPTER AHEAD

New Music Venue

EXCITING CHAPTER AHEAD

New Music Venue

We’re developing plans for a new indoor live music venue in the South Plaza district. This is a space built for big, amplified productions and concerts which will expand and diversify our current programming.

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We serve ALL of Kansas City

Music is for Everyone

We serve ALL of Kansas City

Music is for Everyone

We aspire for our entire community to feel a sense of ownership and pride in the Kansas City Symphony as cultural and civic asset for all.

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KCS for All

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

KCS for All

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

We are working with purpose to assess and develop ways that we can become even more inclusive in how we invite, serve, engage and affirm. We are working also to develop new means of equity so that we might give additional lift to communities who want to engage with our music and are empowered to do so.

Innovating our Future

We are Growing the Audience for Orchestral Music

Innovating our Future

We are Growing the Audience for Orchestral Music

We aim to increase the desirability of classical music throughout the community by taking an experiential approach to concerts. Join us in our 2024/25 Season, as we present new ways to engage with the exhilarating music of your KC Symphony.

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The Mobile Music Box

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The Mobile Music Box

Our orchestra regularly presents free, traveling chamber performances on the Mobile Music Box. Conceived at the start of the coronavirus pandemic, this self-contained portable stage has been in regular operation since September 2020 and is part of our larger effort to make high-quality music accessible for all.

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