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| | "New Horizons" - Garibaldi Trio
January 31, 2025 I 7:00 PM I 1900 Building
NEW HORIZONS is a new FMCKC initiative to explore and promote Chamber Music of living composers in the hands of today’s foremost artists. | Buy Tickets |
| | Nikolai Lugansky, Master Pianist
February 11, 2025 I 7:00 PM I Folly Theater
The master pianist Nikolai Lugansky “is clearly one of those chosen few. [He] possesses one of the most complete and remarkable keyboard arsenals of our day.” — Chicago Classical Review. Mr. Lugansky makes his FCMKC debut in a magnificent tour through the music of Felix Mendelssohn, Robert Schumann, and his own transcriptions of Richard Wagner. | Buy Tickets |
| | The Gesualdo Six
February 21, 2025 I 7:00 PM I Village Presbyterian
In their Kansas City debut, The Gesualdo Six present a program full of ‘jewels in the crown’ of the Italian Renaissance entitled “Josquin’s Legacy” by tracing themes of pedagogy and patronage in northern Italy over 150 years, featuring works by Brumel, Josquin, Mouton and L'Héritier. They will bring “undefinable excitement that comes from a group of musicians working absolutely as one.” – Gramophone | Buy Tickets |
| | Thomas Dunford in Recital
March 21, 2025 I 7:00 PM I Grace & Holy Trinity Cathedral
Dubbed by BBC Early Music Magazine “the Eric Clapton of the lute,” Thomas Dunford makes his Kansas City debut in a captivating program taking us on a voyage from the depths of the Early Baroque to the music of Erik Satie, passing through the likes of Marin Marais and J. S. Bach.
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| | Leonkoro String Quartet
March 28, 2025 I 7:00 PM I 1900 Building
The winners of the Wigmore Hall Quartet Competition, Leonkoro String Quartet, in their Kansas City debut, offer a multifaceted program with music by Haydn, Berg, Shaw, and Mendelssohn. The group “possesses an extraordinary stage presence, glows for the music, embraces full artistic risk, and astounds through their profound sensitivity towards the unique sonority of each piece “ – Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung | Buy Tickets |
| | "Voyage de passion"
April 25, 2025 I 7:00 PM I 1900 Building
A phenomenal concert celebrating the riveting abandon of francophone passion. Featuring works by Maurice Ravel, Joseph Jongen, and Gabriel Fauré, the FCMKC Artistic Directors Dmitri Atapine and Hyeyeon Park will be joined on stage by violinist Martin Beaver (formerly the first violin of the famed Tokyo Quartet) and acclaimed violist Ettore Causa of Yale University. | Buy Tickets |
| | Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Master Pianist
May 9, 2025 I 7:00 PM I Folly Theater
In a monumental feat of artistry and endurance, the master pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet will bring the 49th Season of the Friends to a magnificent close by performing the complete piano works of Maurice Ravel in one single evening in celebration of the composer’s 150th anniversary of birth. “He makes you listen to music as if you are discovering it Eureka!-style: yes, that’s what the composer must have meant.” — Financial Times | Buy Tickets |