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KSO welcomes final Music Director Candidate, Julian Kuerti, to podium for KSO Season Finale concert - Beethoven and Prokofiev - May 19, Miller Auditorium

5/2/2018

Kalamazoo, MI May 2, 2018 - The Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra, with guest conductor Julian Kuerti, close the 2017-18 symphonic season with the music of Beethoven and Prokofiev. The Eroica Trio, the most sought-after trio in the world, perform Beethoven's Triple Concerto. After intermission, Maestro Kuerti conducts Prokofiev's thrilling Symphony No. 5. The American premiere of this symphony was so popular, a portrait of Prokofiev was featured on the cover of Timemagazine in November 1945.

Tags: Beethoven, Concerto, Eroica Trio, Julian Kuerti, Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra, kalsym, Miller Auditorium, Music Director Candidate, Prokofiev, season finale

KSO offers free tickets to Veterans for Nov. 11th concert “Brahms & Rachmaninoff,” featuring Music Director Candidate, Edwin Outwater and pianist, Anna Vinnitskaya

10/27/2017

Kalamazoo, MI October 27, 2017 – The Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra, with guest conductor & Music Director Candidate, Edwin Outwater, presents a program of symphonic masterpieces by Brahms and Rachmaninoff. Anna Vinnitskaya, winner of the 2007 Queen Elisabeth Contest, solos with Rachmaninoff’s brilliant Piano Concerto No. 3—a piece ideally suited to her interpretive gifts. Maestro Outwater rounds out the program with Brahms pastoral Symphony No. 2.

Tags: Anna Vinnitskaya, Brahms & Rachmaninoff, edwin outwater, Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra, kso, Miller Auditorium, Piano Concerto, Symphonic Series, Wiser Financial Prelude

KSO opens Season 97 September 16th with program featuring Sibelius & Tchaikovsky

8/31/2017

Kalamazoo, MI August 31, 2017 – The Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Resident Conductor/Interim Music Director, Daniel Brier, will open their 97th season with a program featuring Walker, Sibelius, and Tchaikovsky.

Tags: Daniel Brier, Embrace, George Walker, Jennifer Frautschi, Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra, Miller Auditorium, Season 97, season opener, Sibelius, symphonic, Tchaikovsky

KSO Presents Disney & Pixar's Ratatouille in Concert

Ratatouille
2/24/2017

Kalamazoo, MI February 24, 2017– The Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra is proud to present the second concert in their three-year exclusive partnership with Disney - Disney-Pixar’s Ratatouille in concert. Families are invited to join the KSO as they present this Academy Award Winning film in high-definition on the big screen while the beloved score, by composer Michael Giacchino, is performed live by symphony musicians under the direction of Maestro Raymond Harvey.

Tags: disney and pixar, Disney in Concert, kalsym, kso, KSO@The Movies!, Maestro Raymond Harvey, Miller Auditorium, ratatouille

The Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra presents Bronfman Plays Tchaikovsky 2

Bronfman
9/7/2016

Kalamazoo, MI September 7, 2016 – The Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of its Music Director Raymond Harvey, will open their 96th season with a program featuring Schelle, Hindemith and Tchaikovsky.
 
Internationally renowned, and Grammy Award-winning, pianist Yefim Bronfman will be performing Tchaikovsky’s 2nd Piano Concerto. Bronfman is recognized as one of today’s most acclaimed pianists; his commanding technique, power, and exceptional lyrical gifts will be on full display in Tchaikovsky’s second piano concerto. Mr. Bronfman was also a guest artist for the 2016 Gilmore Keyboard Festival.

Tags: Hindemith, Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra, kalsym, make waves, Miller Auditorium, Raymond Harvey, Schelle, season opener, Steinway & Sons, Symphonic Series, Tchaikovsky, yefim bronfman

Pascal Rogé to join KSO for Saint-Saëns & Shostakovich concert November 20, 2015 at Miller Auditorium

Pascal Rogé
10/29/2015

Kalamazoo, MI October 29, 2015 – For their third concert of the 2015-2016 Symphonic Series, The Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra presents Saint-Saëns and Shostakovich. Internationally revered French pianist, Pascal Rogé will perform Saint-Saëns' Piano Concerto No. 5 and Maestro Raymond Harvey will conduct Shostakovich's popular Symphony No. 5. 

Tags: Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra, kso, Miller Auditorium, Pascal Roge, piano, Raymond Harvey, Saint-Saens, Shostakovich

KSO opens 2015-2016 Season with Brahms and Tchaikovsky, September 18 at 8pm

Lana Trotovšek
8/31/2015

Kalamazoo, MI August 31, 2015 – For their opening concert of the 2015-2016 Symphonic Series, the Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra presents Brahms & Tchaikovsky. Lana Trotovšek will make her U.S. symphonic debut with Brahms' virtuosic Violin Concerto and Raymond Harvey will conduct Tchaikovsky's blazing Symphony No. 4. 

Tags: Brahms, Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra, KSO Season 95, Lana Trotovsek, Miller Auditorium, season opener, Stay Tuned, Symphony No.4, Tchaikovsky, Violin Concerto