Kuopion Kaupunginorkesteri

Tapahtumakuva

Nekocon 19.-20.7.2025

Nekocon represents KSO's anime and game music concert.

Read moreBuy ticketsMore info on Nekocon (in Finnish)
Tapahtumakuva

KuopioRock 25.7.2025

Turmion Kätilöt featuring Kuopio Symphony Orchestra at KuopioRock Festival.

Buy ticketsMore info (in Finnish)
Tapahtumakuva

Autumn 2025

KSO represents a soulful Autumn Season - get your Season Series & Mini Series tickets now!

Read moreBuy ticketsBuy Season Series ticketBuy Mini Series 1Buy Mini Series 2
Tapahtumakuva

Rajaton Sings BeeGees & Beyond 4.-5.9.2025

Hottest hits of the disco generation with vocal ensemble Rajaton & lush symphonic arrangements.

Read moreBuy ticketsBuy 3 concert package
Tapahtumakuva

WELCOME WORLD! 26.9.2025

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

Read moreBuy ticketsBuy 3 concert package
Tapahtumakuva

AN EVENING WITH JUREK 7.11.2025

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

Read moreBuy ticketsBuy 3 concert package
Tapahtumakuva

Kuopio Video Postcard

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

See the Video
Tapahtumakuva

Chief Conductor

KSO Chief Conductor & Artistic Director Eugene Tzigane

Read moreWatch the Video Interview
Tapahtumakuva

KSO Audience Outreach

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

Read more
Tapahtumakuva

Your Symphony Orchestra

Get to know our orchestra.

Read more
 
 

Nekocon 19.-20.7.2025

Nekocon represents KSO's anime and game music concert.

Read moreBuy ticketsMore info on Nekocon (in Finnish)

Nekocon 19.-20.7.2025

Nekocon represents KSO's anime and game music concert.

Read moreBuy ticketsMore info on Nekocon (in Finnish)
0123456789

NEXT EVENTS

 
 

Saturday 19.07.2025 at 10am Kuopio Music Centre Concert Hall

NEKOCON 2025

Buy ticketsRead more
 
 
 

Friday 25.07.2025 KuopioRock Kuopio250 Stage (Stadium stage 1), Väinölänniemi

KUOPIO ROCK: TURMION KÄTILÖT FEAT. KUOPIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Buy ticketsRead more
 
 
 

Saturday 23.08.2025 at 6pm

MADE IN KUOPIO250 ANNIVERSARY CONCERT

Read more
 

Show more »

« June 2025 »
M T W T F S S
      1
23
Tuesday 03.06.2025 Other
KSO FREE MINI CONCERT
Tuesday 03.06.2025 at 11am Other
KSO FREE MINI CONCERT
4
Wednesday 04.06.2025 Other
KSO FREE MINI CONCERT
Wednesday 04.06.2025 at 10am Other
KSO FREE MINI CONCERT
5678
9101112131415
16171819202122
23242526272829
30
 

TICKET SALES

eTickets www.lippu.fi

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. During summer 2025 box office is closed between 7.6. – 3.8.2025.

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).

 

News

More news

 

Whole tapestry of life will be played by KSO and Oulu Sinfonia on May 16th

The KSO's Spring Season Concert Series will come to a grand end on the 16th of May with the sound of a great ensemble, as the KSO joins forces with the Oulu Sinfonia on the stage. In the concert, the songs from Gustav Mahler's Des Knaben Wunderhorn series will be interpreted by the baritone Johannes Held. The concert will end with Richard Strauss' symphonic poem Symphonia Domestica conducted by Eugene Tzigane.

09.05.2025

 

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

 

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.

Read more »

 

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.

Read more »

 

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.

Click here »

 

OUR PARTNERS
OP Kuopio