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Thursday 12.02.2026 Kuopio Music Centre & Lumit – Kuopio Senior High School of Art

KUOPIO MUSIC CENTRE OPEN HOUSE 2026

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Thursday 12.02.2026 at 1pm Kuopio Music Centre Concert Hall

KUOPIO MUSIC CENTRE OPEN HOUSE: KUOPIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA'S OPEN REHEARSAL

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Thursday 12.02.2026 at 6pm Kuopio Music Centre Concert Hall

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TICKET SALES

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Kuopio Music Centre Box Office is open as follows:
Tue-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.
Tel. 0600 96100 (1,98 €/min. + local network fee). Address Kuopionlahdenkatu 23.

Kulttuurikulma (Lippupiste ticket outlet) / Shopping Center Apaja, Kauppakatu 45. Open Tue-Fri from 11 am until 5.30 pm, Sat from 10 am until 3 pm.

Lippupiste ticket outlets around the country tel. 0600 900 900 (1,98 €/min. + local network fee).

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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5th February concert takes Pietari Inkinen Back to the Roots

On Thursday, 5th of February, Pietari Inkinen returns to Kuopio to conduct the Back to the Roots season concert. The evening’s programme reflects milestones and composers of great significance to Inkinen. The concert will feature overtures by Richard Wagner and Antonín Dvořák, as well as Jean Sibelius’s Symphonies No. 6 and 7.

30.01.2026

 

Siblings and Soul Mates concert on 29th of January brings together four voices of Romantic era

The KSO’s season concert on the 29th of January combines music of four composers of the Romantic era. The Kuopio Music Centre Concert Hall will resonate with works by Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn, Robert Schumann and Johannes Brahms. Ukrainian violinist Aleksey Semenenko performs Felix Mendelssohn’s beloved Violin Concerto in E minor. The orchestra will be conducted by the French Chloé Dufresne.

22.01.2026

 

KSO’s year 2026 begins on January 9th with Two Musical Monuments

The Kuopio Symphony Orchestra’s spring season opens impressively with the Two Musical Monuments season concert on Friday, January 9th at 6 pm at the Kuopio Music Centre Concert Hall. Making her first appearance in Kuopio, Saskia Giorgini will perform Johannes Brahms’ intense Piano Concerto No. 2. The concert concludes under the baton of Estonian conductor Risto Joost with Franz Schubert’s Symphony No. 9, “The Great”.

02.01.2026

 

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.

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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.

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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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