42nd Annual Concert Season: 2018-2019
All public concerts are held in the Boutell Memorial Concert Hall of the Music Building at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb. See map of location
Program notes for the Fall Concert, the Montzka Memorial Concert, and the Spring Concert will be available here.
Most of the Kishwaukee Symphony Orchestra concerts will be available as radio broadcasts on WNIU after the concert dates.
Romantic Legends
Saturday, October 13, 2018, 7:30 p.m.
Location: NIU Boutell Memorial Concert Hall
There will be a free pre-concert talk by the Music Director, in the Recital Hall at 6:30 p.m.
Halloween Concert
Tuesday, October 30, 2018, 5:30 p.m. & 7:30 p.m.
Location: NIU Boutell Memorial Concert Hall
The KSO will present its annual free concert of music with a theme appropriate for children and adults. The 5:30 concert will be repeated at 7:30, and there will be trick-or-treating in the building a half hour before the 5:30 concert.
Children’s Concert
Thursday, November 15, 10:00 a.m.
Location: Egyptian Theatre, DeKalb
Each year, the KSO presents a concert, not open to the general public, that is specifically for students and their teachers invited from elementary schools and middle schools in our region.
This concert is supported in part by the Farny R. Wurlitzer Foundation.
Winter Wonderland
Friday, December 7, 2018
Saturday, December 8, 2018
The ticket for this concert may be used on either of these two dates.
Location: NIU Boutell Memorial Concert Hall
The KSO will warm your heart with music of the holiday season. Many holiday favorites are part of this traditional family concert.
Arthur D. Montzka Young Artists Concerto Competition
Saturday, January 5, 2019, 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Location: NIU Boutell Memorial Concert Hall
This is a live annual competition for instrumentalists up to the age of 18 years. It open to the public at no admission charge. Each performer, with a piano accompanist, will play one or more movements of a solo concerto, or an appropriate one-movement composition, that is written for orchestral accompaniment, the performance time not to exceed 15 minutes. Audience members may arrive and leave during any of the brief breaks between the 15-minute performances. The competition winner, as determined by a panel of judges, will receive a cash award and perform as soloist with the Kishwaukee Symphony Orchestra in its concert at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, February 23, 2019.
Arthur D. Montzka Memorial Concert
Saturday, February 23, 2019, 7:30 p.m.
Location: NIU Boutell Memorial Concert Hall
There will be a free pre-concert talk by the Music Director, in the Recital Hall at 6:30 p.m.
Spring Pops Concert
Saturday, March 9, 2019, 7:30 p.m.
Location: NIU Boutell Memorial Concert Hall
Aaron Copland: An American Music Icon
Saturday, May 4, 2019, 7:30 p.m.
Location: NIU Boutell Memorial Concert Hall
There will be a free pre-concert talk by the Music Director, in the Recital Hall at 6:30 p.m.
Note: Changes in programs, dates, times, and location of concerts will be posted at this website.
