Upcoming MOSY Events

Preludes at the Pubs
Mar
11

Preludes at the Pubs

From strings to brass, percussion and more, enjoy talented chamber ensembles performing FREE at your favorite local pubs!

Preludes at the Pubs is a FREE community event. Show your appreciation for MOSY and our musicians by considering a donation upon entry.

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DEFYING GRAVITY: The Best of Broadway
May
2

DEFYING GRAVITY: The Best of Broadway

MOSY’s 25/26 season finale will be a musical theatre extravaganza, featuring Broadway veterans recreating their storied roles, in addition to everyone’s favorite tunes. Not to be missed are highlights from Wicked, Phantom of the Opera, Cats, and more. Not only can you expect top New York voices, but we are also recreating the golden age of Broadway, realizing the glory of their original orchestrations, only made possible with a full symphony orchestra on stage!

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Firefly Music Festival | Firefly Chamber Series: Spark
Jun
24

Firefly Music Festival | Firefly Chamber Series: Spark

Experience Firefly Music Festival in 2026 with the Missouri Symphony (MOSY) in Columbia, Missouri. Celebrate world-class music and community with MOSY—where artistry and tradition take center stage. Join Firefly Festival musicians for an intimate chamber concert with post-show reception. Enjoy inspired performances and personal insights from the artists.

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Preludes at the Pubs
Dec
10

Preludes at the Pubs

From strings to brass, percussion and more, enjoy talented chamber ensembles performing FREE at your favorite local pubs!

Preludes at the Pubs is a FREE community event. Show your appreciation for MOSY and our musicians by considering a donation upon entry.

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Holiday Home Tour
Dec
6
to Dec 7

Holiday Home Tour

Since 1984, The Missouri Symphony League has coordinated The Holiday Home Tour to bring holiday cheer to you and raise funds for The Missouri Symphony. Join us and visit four beautiful homes decked out for the season.

2025 Missouri Symphony League Holiday Home Tour Presented by Mercedes Benz of Columbia

Saturday, Dec. 6: 10am - 5 p.m. | Sunday, Dec. 7: 1-5pm

The Missouri Symphony League invites you to tour four beautiful Columbia homes decorated for the holidays.

Tickets also available for purchase at all Columbia Hy-Vee stores, D & H Drug on Broadway, and McAdams' Ltd.

Click here for more information on this year’s featured homes and past Holiday Home Tours.

Supporting Sponsors: EVORG Properties, LaBrunerie Financial, Restoration Eyecare

Travel to the Holiday Home Tour destinations in style with your friends! Donated by our Presenting Sponsor, Mercedes-Benz of Columbia, three vans will take three parties of up to 12 people each to all four destinations. Refreshments will be on board. This is a unique (and very fun!) way to see these marvelous homes!

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Young People’s Concert
Nov
13

Young People’s Concert

2025 Young People’s Concert

Thursday, November 13th, 2025 | 10am and 12pm

An event just for area students

MOSY’s Young People’s Concert is not open to the public, but we work directly with area school administrators to coordinate attendance for all area third-graders. If you are an administrator of a private school or home-school a third-grade student and would like to request attendance, please complete the form below. Registration will be open until November 1 or until all seats are filled.

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Preludes at the Pubs
Nov
12

Preludes at the Pubs

From strings to brass, percussion and more, enjoy talented chamber ensembles performing FREE at your favorite local pubs!

Preludes at the Pubs is a FREE community event. Show your appreciation for MOSY and our musicians by considering a donation upon entry.

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Sips for the Symphony presented by Boone Health
Oct
17

Sips for the Symphony presented by Boone Health

Raise a glass as we celebrate the Missouri Symphony! 

Please join us for the second annual Sips for the Symphony Cocktail Party, an evening celebrating music, community, and generosity. This fundraiser, hosted by The Missouri Symphony League, will be held on Friday, October 17, from 7-9 pm at Orr Street Studios. Join us for signature cocktails curated by our celebrity bartenders, a whiskey pull experience, and our exclusive designer purse auction. We will have several surprise elements as well! Enjoy live entertainment by The Five Pastelitos, a Latin and Jazz fusion ensemble. 

All proceeds benefit The Missouri Symphony and its mission to make symphonic music and symphonic music education more accessible in mid-Missouri.

Generous thanks to our Presenting Sponsor: Boone Health

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Preludes at the Pubs
Oct
9

Preludes at the Pubs

From strings to brass, percussion and more, enjoy talented chamber ensembles performing FREE at your favorite local pubs!

Preludes at the Pubs is a FREE community event. Show your appreciation for MOSY and our musicians by considering a donation upon entry.

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MSC Try Out Day - Fall 2025
Sep
15

MSC Try Out Day - Fall 2025

If you are interested in joining the Conservatory, but you would like to experience first-hand what the Conservatory is about, you can join us for our Try Out Day on September 15, at West Middle School. You will have a chance of experiencing what the conservatory is all about, and talk with our great students and staff members if you have any questions. We will have an introductory rehearsal, and get things started for an exciting year of making music. So, you just need to bring your instrument and yourself!

- 4:30-5:30pm: Overture Philharmonic Orchestra (grades 3-7)

- 5:45-7:00pm: Missouri Youth Symphony (grades 7-12)

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MOSY in Moberly
Jul
5

MOSY in Moberly

The performance will include patriotic selections as well as selections from popular movies such as Encanto, Back to the Future, and Jurasic Park. This will be the culmination of the City of Moberly 4th of July activities.

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MOSY at The Lake
Jul
1

MOSY at The Lake

Come hear a fun concert full of patriotic pieces as well as pop and film favorites from the incomparable John Williams on Sunday, July 7th, 2:00p.m. at the R.C. Worthan Auditorium, Camdenton High School.

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Schubert & Martinez: Pioneers of Greatness
Jun
28

Schubert & Martinez: Pioneers of Greatness

Marianna von Martinez, a fairly known composer of her time (and one time neighbor and friend of Joseph Haydn), is largely a forgotten name in the classical music scene until very recently. She is now recognized as among the first women to compose for the orchestra. In this concert, we will rediscover her inventive three movement suite of Overture in C major, as we pair up Schubert’s Rosamund Overture and the “Great” C major symphony, celebrating his achievements and artistry despite, at one point, also at risk of being forgotten. Both ahead of their time, the music of these two pioneers can only be described as timeless.

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Through the Branches: Joyce, Fauré, & Haydn
Jun
21

Through the Branches: Joyce, Fauré, & Haydn

Composer Molly Joyce composed a contemporary climate-aware response to Haydn’s Seven Last Words of Christ, confronting the slow yet looming crisis, alluding to the individual actions as missing the forest for the trees when systematic destruction is ignored. Fauré’s tragic love story Pelléas et Mélisande follows this journey into the woods, before handing off to Haydn’s Symphony No. 103 “Drumroll,” where a seemingly peaceful and pastoral E-flat major hides a warning of an ambiguous dies irae in its theme.

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Lights, Camera, America!
Jun
15

Lights, Camera, America!

A local favorite is headed to a new stage at Battle High School! Come dressed up as your favorite characters as the MOSY orchestra plays music from Encanto, Back to the Future, Harry Potter, Jurassic Park, and more! Alongside great American films and pops, Sousa’s marches and contemporary fanfares will help us celebrate July Fourth early and recognize all those who served and are serving in the US Armed Forces.

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Soulful New World
Jun
13

Soulful New World

Our festival opening concert features three pieces inspired by and portraying America from three different centuries. Florence Price’s 1939 Concert Overture No. 1 reworks a spiritual “Sinner, Please Don’t Let This Harvest Pass” where ever changing orchestral colors interpret many deeply emotional moments. Virtuoso composer Xavier Foley will then play his own Soul Bass concerto, recently finished in 2022, an all-American exposition, paying tribute to the diverse styles that weave into the colorful musical tapestry of today. The concert concludes with Dvořak’s famous New World Symphony, the first major symphonic success out of the New World.

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The Missouri Symphony Conservatory- 2025 Spring Concert
May
11

The Missouri Symphony Conservatory- 2025 Spring Concert

  • Black Box Theater at Locust Street Expressive Arts Elementary School (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Join us for a performance showcasing the musical talents of our Spring 2025 Conservatory students!
This concert will feature performances by Prelude Strings, Intermezzo Strings, and the Missouri Youth Symphony


SUNDAY, MAY 11
2:00 PM | Black Box Theatre
at Locust Street Expressive Arts Elementary School
Tickets: $15 | 17 & Under FREE

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The Music of Studio Ghibli
May
9

The Music of Studio Ghibli

This new spring pops concert will close our regular season and feature the works of Joe Hisaishi. Hisaishi is recognized as one of the greatest composers of his time. With genius filmmakers such as Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahashi from Studio Ghibli, the Japanese composer has explored all music genres to demonstrate the magnificence of his orchestral sensitivity. This concert will be a wonderful exploration of this genius of Japanese music, allowing the audience to experience the great pieces from the Studio Ghibli films.

Friday, May 9, 2025 | 7:00 p.m. | Missouri Theatre

Tickets are officially sold out for this concert.

Ticket Prices & Fees:

All concerts at the Missouri Theatre have three tiers of reserved seating.

Tier 1 Seating: $59, Tier 2 Seating: $49, Tier 3 Seating: $39 | Students & Children: $10

Processing & Facility Fees: The fees associated with ticket sales are a fixed $4 per ticket facility fee due to the University of Missouri for use of the Missouri Theatre, a $1 per ticket fee to our ticket sales platform, and a variable 3.2% credit card processing fee.

THE MUSIC OF STUDIO GHIBLI PROGRAM

Wilbur Lin, conductor

Eric Lancaster, narrator

Symphonic Variation “Merry Go Round + Cave of Mind” - HISAISHI
from Howl’s Moving Castle

Orchestra Stories: My Neighbor Totoro - HISAISHI

Intermission

A Town with an Ocean View from Kiki’s Delivery Service - HISAISHI, arr. HAMANO

Spirited Away Suite - HISAISHI

The performance will last approximately 1 hour and 35 minutes, with a 20 minute intermission

Eric Lancaster

Assistant Teaching Professor of Japanese at the University of Missouri-Columbia

Eric Lancaster is a scholar and educator specializing in the varieties of Japanese religious identities, with an emphasis on varieties of Buddhism, cross-cultural philosophy, and attitudes towards death. His research explores these themes through a variety of lenses, including Edo-period theater, martial arts, and contemporary cinema.

 

Professor Lancaster currently works as a lecturer at the University of Missouri in the School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures. He has teaching experience in the U.S., Italy, Japan, and China and has taught a wide range of courses ranging from primary school level to universities, specializing in language instruction, particularly: Japanese, Italian, Spanish, and English. His linguistic training also includes Mandarin and Sanskrit. Beginning in 2005 he has collaborated and trained with Imada Ningyo, a 300-year-old theatre located in Nagano, Japan. Since that time, he has done workshops and performances on Bunraku Traditional Theatre across Japan and the U.S. His work is featured in the short film Kaiju Bunraku (2017), a Japanese language film that premiered at Sundance. He also regularly trains and helps instruct courses in martial arts as a 3rd degree blackbelt under Master Jade Hockman and Joshua Edwards in Columbia, MO.

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MOSY in Bloom: An Afternoon Tea
Apr
27

MOSY in Bloom: An Afternoon Tea

Please join us for an elegant and relaxing afternoon at the inaugural "MOSY in Bloom: An Afternoon Tea", Sunday, April 27, 2-4pm. The ballroom at Old Hawthorne will be transformed into a charming tearoom with live music, a style show, a silent auction of specialty baskets, and great company! This fundraiser for the Missouri Symphony is appropriate for all age levels.

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MOSY + Ragtag Cinema Present: Kiki's Delivery Service
Apr
10

MOSY + Ragtag Cinema Present: Kiki's Delivery Service

MOSY is teaming up with Ragtag Cinema for a music + film experience on April 10. Join us for a screening of Kiki's Delivery Service with live music beforehand and a panel discussion after. Seating is limited, so get your tickets today!

This event is an exciting appetizer for the final concert of our 2024/2025 Season, "The Music of Studio Ghibli" happening on May 9.

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