Live the Music!

The Kansas City Civic Orchestra is a community-based orchestra in the Kansas City metropolitan area. For 65 years, our mission has been to bring high-quality, free concerts to the local community. Our all-volunteer orchestra is comprised of amateur and professional musicians with one thing in common – a love for music!


2024/2025 Season Auditions — Register by August 16


2024/2025 Season Preview

Bold, Beautiful, and Brass
Sunday, October 13, 2024, 3:30pm at Yardley Hall Brianna Volkmann, guest soloist (horn)

Red, White & Rhapsody in Blue
Friday, November 15, 2024, 7:30pm at Atonement Lutheran Church
Saturday, November 16, 2024, 1pm – 2pm, Barber Family Day, 2:00pm, abbreviated concert

Sounds of the Season
Friday, December 13, 7:30pm – Atonement Lutheran Church
Saturday, December 14, 2:00pm – Atonement Lutheran Church

Tchaikovsky Live! / Tchaikovsky Five!
Saturday, March 8, 2025, 7:30pm at Atonement Lutheran Church Raffaele Cipriano, guest conductor

Civic Season Finale; Pipe Organ Features
Sunday, April 27, 2025, 3:30pm at Helzberg Hall, Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts
Featuring Rosi Kaufman on the Julia Irene Kauffman Casavant Organ

We’re fortunate in Kansas City to have amateurs-who-could-be-professionals in spades. Stupendous talent this December popped out of … the Kansas City Civic Orchestra and other volunteer ensembles.Diane Stafford, KC Star