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Thursday 01.05.2025 at 3pm Kuopio Music Centre Concert Hall
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Thursday 08.05.2025 at 6pm Kuopio Music Centre Concert Hall
CHILDREN’S CONCERT: BIRD BLUE
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Saturday 10.05.2025 at 2pm Other
LIVE CLASSICAL MUSIC AT MATKUS
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Friday 16.05.2025 at 6pm Kuopio Music Centre Concert Hall
SEASON SERIES CONCERT 8: THE TAPESTRY OF LIFE
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Tuesday 20.05.2025 Other
KSO'S FREE CONCERT AT Main Library
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Thursday 29.05.2025 at 7pm Other
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Friday 30.05.2025 at 7pm Other
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Saturday 31.05.2025 at 6pm Other
JOONAS KOKKONEN: THE LAST TEMPTATIONS
 

TICKET SALES

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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.

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

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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.

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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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