Charlotte House Series is another fantastic Kansas City-based nonprofit that is bringing intimate, salon-style concerts into homes throughout the region. These events highlight some of the best artists that Kansas City, as well as the United States, have to offer. 

In 2023, KCBC and Charlotte House Series will be partnering to bring the joy of Baroque music into accessible spaces aimed at deepening our connection with our audience. We think CHS says it best: 

“Through attending concerts in local living rooms and intimate spaces we hope you enjoy a new way of experiencing music, the old way.”

Our performances with the region's finest choral ensembles and presenting organizations have been, and continues to be one of our most meaningful collaborative endeavors.

Since forming in 2009, KC Baroque has participated in over 40 collaborative performances with area ensembles including William Jewell Choirs and Cardinalis with Anthony Maglione, UMKC Choirs with Robert Bode, and Musica Vocale with Arnold Epley. Some of our most memorable performances have been those with Te Deum Chamber Ensemble under the direction of Matthew Shepard.

Highlights of our collaborations include our most recent performance together in March of 2021 of J.S. Bach's Cantata 182 Himmelskӧnig, sei willkommen (King of Heaven, Welcome), as well as, Dietrich Buxtehude’s Membra Jesu Nostri (2019), the thrilling performances with Te Deum and Village Choirs under the direction of the late Mark Ball, of Bach's B minor Mass at Helzberg Hall, and the memorable St. John Passion in 2017.

The Kansas City Baroque Consortium frequently performs for the annual Messiah Sing-Along at Grace and Holy Trinity Cathedral in Kansas City, MO.

Kansas City Baroque has collaborated with the soprano Victoria Botero on The Cecilia Series, most recently on the January 2020 concert entitled The Cult of the Soprano.

“In sixteenth-century Italy, a young duchess was bored … and so begins the tale of the moment when new music written for sopranos to entertain the unhappy duchess ‘revolutionized for all time Western attitudes towards the voice.’ The Cult of the Soprano traces the journey the female voice took from the sensual to the lethal. It begins with the luscious Italian trios of the late sixteenth century, to the irony-laden solo cantatas of seventeenth-century Venetian composer Barbara Strozzi. The program culminates with opera arias by Handel, Mozart, and Donizetti, who gave their sopranos not just super-human music to sing, but unleashed dark and powerful female characters onto the stage.

Featuring sopranos Victoria Botero, Kayleigh Aytes, and Sarah Tannehill Anderson, with Zachary Cope (countertenor), Trilla Ray-Carter (cello), and Nicholas Good (harpsichord).”

KCBC has performed on the Kansas City Public Library’s concert series. These concerts take place at the Central Library in Downtown Kansas City. Our most recent concert was held on February 2, 2020 in Kirk Hall, where we presented a selection from our summer 2019 season, Women of Note.

“Celebrating the 400th anniversary of the Baroque era’s most recognized female composer, Barbara Strozzi, KCBC has created a program featuring works by female composers of the Baroque era whose music has remained hidden under a veil of obscurity for centuries and is rarely performed. Works by Barbara Strozzi, Isabella Leonarda, Mademoiselle Duval, and Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre will be performed, featuring soprano Victoria Botero.

The program also features the world premiere of Ingrid Stölzel’s But a Day, a setting of the poem “Larghetto” by Mary Elizabeth Coleridge. This new work for old instruments commissioned by KCBC is part of a special composer’s initiative that encourages composers, performers, and listeners to seek connections between old and new through the unique historical sound of period instruments and contemporary musical language.”

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