2025-2026
144th Season - Sound Tapestry
Thursday, October 9, 7:30 p.m. - McCain Auditorium
Join the K-State Symphony Orchestra as they open their season celebrating the connections found in music and the community. On Thursday, October 9 the KSUSO will perform works by composers who shared common threads in their connections to each other and their music. Featured works include Beethoven's Symphony No. 8, Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis by Ralph Vaughan Williams, and the Academic Overture by Johannes Brahms. The concert will include a collaboration with guest musicians from the Manhattan High School Chamber Orchestra! Held in the McCain Auditorium at 7:30 p.m., the concert is free to the public.
Thursday, December 4, 7:30 p.m. - McCain Auditorium
Join the K-State Symphony Orchestra as they perform works focusing on the human experience of unraveling. Celebrating works by Khachaturian, Tchaikovsky, and Prokoviev, this concert features the orchestra as story teller. Guest musicians from the Liberty North High School Chamber Orchestra will join the KSUSO in a side-by-side performance. The concert will be held Thursday, December 4 at 7:30 p.m. in the McCain Auditorium, and is free and open to the public.
Thursday-Sunday, February 19-22 - McCain Auditorium
In collaboration with the KSU Opera Theatre, join the musicians of the KSUSO as they perform the comic opera The Merry Wives of Windsor by Otto Nicolai. Performance dates and times to be announced.
Thursday, March 12, 7:30 p.m. - McCain Auditorium
Featuring the K-State String Ensembles, Patchwork celebrates music for the string orchestra. The KSUSO will also welcome K-State student concerto soloists to the stage. Patchwork will be held at 7:30 p.m. in the McCain Auditorium and the performance free and open to the public.
Friday, April 30, 7:30 p.m. - McCain Auditorium
In the ensemble's final performance of the season, the KSUSO will perform the powerful and emotionally complex Symphony No. 5 by Dimitri Shostakovich. Join the KSUSO for this special performance on Thursday, April 30 at 7:30 p.m. in the McCain Auditorium. This concert is free and open to the public.