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	1	2	3 Thursday 03.04.2025 at 12 noon Kuopio Music Centre Concert Hall KUOPIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA'S OPEN REHEARSAL Thursday 03.04.2025 at 6pm Kuopio Music Centre Concert Hall SEASON SERIES CONCERT 6: NEW REALITIES	4	5	6
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14	15 Tuesday 15.04.2025 Other KSO'S FREE CONCERT AT Main Library	16 Wednesday 16.04.2025 at 6pm Kuopio Music Centre Concert Hall SEASON SERIES CONCERT 7: FROM CHAOS TO CLARITY	17	18	19	20
21	22	23	24	25 Friday 25.04.2025 at 7pm Other BODØ, NORWAY: RITE OF SPRING	26	27
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Kuopio Music Centre Box Office is open Mon-Fri from 1 pm to 5 pm or until the beginning of the performance and on weekends 1 hour before the beginning of the performance. Closed on Fri 18.4. and Mon 21.4.2025. Tel. 0600 96100 (1,98 €/min. + local network fee).

Lippupiste ticket outlets around the country tel. 0600 900 900 (1,98 €/min. + local network fee). (ATT! Lippupiste ticket outlet at the Sokos Kuopio Department Store’s Sokos Kiosk has been closed for good on 30.12.2023.)

Kuopio City Theatre Box Office open hours – see www.kuopionkaupunginteatteri.fi (site in Finnish), tel. 0600 413143 (1,98 €/min. + local network fee).

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Splendor of Baroque and charm of Viennese classicism at KSO's season concert on April 16th

The KSO's season series concert on the 16th of April will offer the audience Baroque dance forms and charming early Viennese classicism. The orchestra will be conducted by the early music specialist Reinhard Goebel. The composers of the evening include the French Jean-Féry Rebel, Jean-Philippe Rameau and Pierre Montan Berton as well as the Austrian Joseph Haydn and the German Johann Christian Bach.

11.04.2025

Music of season concert on 3rd of April shows new realities of post-World War II world

The KSO's concert on the 3rd of April offers a glimpse into the contradictory realities of the post-World War II world. The concert will open with Bohuslav Martinů's Overture, which reflects a new optimism. Senja Rummukainen, familiar to the Kuopio audience, will perform Mieczysław Weinberg's melodic Cello Concerto. The concert will end with Dimitri Shostakovich's satirical 9th Symphony conducted by Eugene Tzigane.

27.03.2025

In Paradisum concert on 27th of March features peaceful works

The KSO's concert on the 27th of March will take the audience to music full of peace. The concert will feature Maurice Ravel's Pavane and Couperin's Tomb, as well as Arvo Pärt's Cantus in memoriam of Benjamin Britten. The evening will conclude with Gabriel Fauré's Requiem, conducted by Ruut Kiiski, in which soprano Mari Palo, baritone Petteri Salomaa and the Sibelius Academy choirs will perform with the KSO.

20.03.2025

MEET THE ORCHESTRA

Meet the Musicians

The Kuopio Symphony Orchestra consists of 44 musicians. The KSO musicians represent well over 10 different nationalities and therefore the orchestra’s working language is English. The Chief Conductor of the KSO is Jaakko Kuusisto. Atso Almila acts as the Second Conductor. In 2010 professor and maestro Jorma Panula was appointed as the orchestra’s Honorary Conductor.

Audience Outreach

The Kuopio Symphony Orchestra wants to introduce various audience groups to the world of music by organizing diverse concerts and special events. The main point is to give artistic experiences, to increase public awareness and knowledge of orchestral music and other forms of art music and also to develop people’s cultural competence.

Our Youtube Concerts

Enjoy our concerts in YouTube. The orchestra's YouTube Channel introduces concerts by the KSO chamber music ensembles and individual musicians as well as the whole Kuopio Symphohy Orchestra. The concerts have been either recorded or livestreamed from Restaurant Maxim in Kuopio or at the orchestra’s home, ie. at the Kuopio Music Centre.

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Kuopion Kaupunginorkesteri

KSO Autumn Program now published - tickets, Season Series & Mini Series tickets available.

We are looking for Principal Clarinet Substitute - applications by 2.5.

Enjoy our May 1st show with Jukka Perko and KSO playing jazz & big band classics!

A Musical Postcard from Kuopio with Atso Almila's Kuopio250 Fanfare

Enjoy the sounds of zarzuela, tango, Senegalese rhythms and fado intersecting with Karelian tradition.

The greatest contemporary pop hits and captivating stories by a Finnish music scene guru.

KSO celebrates Kuopio 250th anniversary with programmes for children & youth, a wish concert, premieres.

KSO Chief Conductor & Artistic Director Eugene Tzigane

Experiences, knowledge, inspiration, cultural competence - for audiences of different ages and special needs.

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KSO Autumn Program now published - tickets, Season Series & Mini Series tickets available.

KSO Autumn Program now published - tickets, Season Series & Mini Series tickets available.

NEXT EVENTS

BODØ, NORWAY: RITE OF SPRING

MAY 1st @ KUOPIO MUSIC CENTRE

CHILDREN’S CONCERT: BIRD BLUE

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TICKET SALES

News

Splendor of Baroque and charm of Viennese classicism at KSO's season concert on April 16th

Music of season concert on 3rd of April shows new realities of post-World War II world

In Paradisum concert on 27th of March features peaceful works

MEET THE ORCHESTRA

Meet the Musicians

Audience Outreach

Our Youtube Concerts