Welcome to MOSY’s 2024

Summer Music Festival

The Missouri Symphony welcomes you to the Firefly Music Festival, a reimagined summer festival experience led by MOSY Music Director, Wilbur Lin.

Why Firefly?

“You know you’re in Missouri when fireflies light up the evening sky!”

Since the founding of our Hot Summer Nights Music Festival in 2004, MOSY has welcomed musicians and guest artists from all around the world to perform with the MSO each summer. Following our Summer of Conductors in 2022, we entered a new phase and asked our musicians what helps them feel at home when visiting Missouri. The answer was unanimous: fireflies! After that, MOSY had no doubt what the next iteration of our summer festival would be called. 

We are excited to be sharing the second year of this new look with you and can’t wait to have you join us for the Missouri Symphony Orchestra's summer festival experience!

    • Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 in C major, Op. 21

      • Marie Nau Hunter

    • Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125

      • Bob & Ellen Roper

    • Coleridge-Taylor: The Song of Hiawatha: Overture, Op. 30 No. 3

      • Christine Seitz

    • Sibelius: Finlandia, Op. 26

      • Anonymous

    • Busch: Minnehaha’s Vision

      • Christine Seitz

    • Sibelius: Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47

      • Casey Twidwell (in honor of her birthday) 

    • Joplin: Treemonisha Overture

      • Annabelle Simmons (in memory of Blind Boone)

      • Audra Sergel (in honor of Gertrude & Deanna Sergel)

      • Richard & Marylou Ferrieri

    • Sousa: The Stars and Stripes Forever

      • The Brown Family (in memory of Gordon D. Brown)

      • Bob & Ellen Roper

    • Elgar: Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85

      • Marie Nau Hunter

      • Dr. Richard Barohn

      • Richard and Marylou Ferrieri

    • Elgar: Variations on an Original Theme, Op. 36, “Enigma Variations”

      • Anonymous

      • Dr. Richard Barohn


  • Get the most out of MOSY's Firefly Music Festival with one of our new Festival Passes. There are three options to choose from: Premier, Plus, and Basic

    Festival Passes will be on sale for a limited time, while supplies last. Pass sales will end June 01, 2024.

    Click here to learn more and purchase festival passes.

  • All tickets are non-refundable. All sales are final. Performances, schedules, programs, and artists are subject to change. You may exchange your tickets for another performance within the current season (subject to availability). Ticket exchange requests must be made at least 48 hours before the performance. We cannot handle exchanges involving tickets for past concerts or on concert evenings.

    There is no charge for ticket exchanges to MOSY Serenade-level donors and above. There will be a $5.00 exchange fee for all others, including single-ticket buyers. You will be charged the price difference if any exchange results in a seat of greater value. Refunds are not available for exchanges to seats of lesser value.

    Can’t use or exchange your ticket? Donate the ticket before the performance! Your seats will be released, and a tax donation receipt will be mailed when donated tickets are received before a concert. Donation requests may be submitted up to 3 hours before the ticketed performance. Once you donate a ticket, your donation is final, and the ticket is immediately made available for resale.

    There are no refunds for unused tickets.

    If a concert is canceled, postponed, or rescheduled, MOSY staff will contact ticket holders as soon as possible with the options available.

    Please note that ticket service fees cover the cost of selling a ticket and are non-refundable in any situation.

  • 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.