Outreach Concerts and Community Projects are an inspiring part of KC Baroque’s service to Kansas City. Our members collaborate with area ensembles and with students in local districts, offering historically-informed performances, in-school demonstrations and community workshops.

RECENT community project:

GET H.I.P. 2025
June 2 - 6, Gloria Dei Lutheran Church

The Second Annual Workshop Intensive in Historically Informed Performance for Advanced High School & College String Players was fantastic! A remarkable group of brilliant young performers came together with members of KC Baroque for a deep dive into history in this five-day workshop held at Gloria Dei Lutheran Church. These young performers then joined KC Baroque Players at the August 2025 Summer Series performance Bach at the Café Zimmerman: Coffee, Pipe, & Drink: Vice, Virtue & Redemption.

Thank you to our KC Baroque Coaches:
Monty Carter, Rob Patterson, Eric Williams, and Trilla Ray-Carter

The workshop and performance was presented free of charge and was made possible by generous donors like you,and by grants from the following:
Missouri Arts Council
Village Church Arts Alliance
Muriel McBrien Kauffman Family Foundation
Richard J Stern Foundation for the Arts, Commerce Bank Trustee
Martha Lee Cain Tranby Music Enrichment Fund

We are grateful for your support!!

Past Get H.I.P. Workshops

In 2024, KCBC offered the Baroque Music Intensive, an opportunity for advanced string students to participate in side-by-side rehearsals and a performance with our professional members. Audience members at the August 2024 concert heard our featured students, the Fang Brothers Trio. They also joined the full ensemble for the program finale of Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 4.

REcent Outreach ConcerTS

Sunday, May 4, 2025 at 2:00 p.m. - Bachathon XLVI (Village Presbyterian Church)

KC Baroque is thrilled to join the Kansas City AGO chapter for its signature annual event, Bachathon. Our players will help kick-off this wonderful annual celebration of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach with a performance at 2:00 p.m. with Village Presbyterian choir, followed by a presentation of the Bach Harpsichord Concerto No. 5 in F minor, BWV 1056, featuring Harpsichordist Nicholas Good.

Sunday, May 11, 2025 at 3:00 p.m. - J.S. Bach and Company (KC Library Central Location, Kirk Hall)

Add this treasured annual community concert to your Mother’s Day plans! KC Baroque returns to Kirk Hall at the KC Central Library for a FREE community concert, “J.S. Bach and Company”. The 2024 concert was standing room only!

Previous Education & Outreach Events

KC Baroque wins Outreach Grants from Early Music America and the Martha Lee Cain Tranby Fund

In 2019, the Kansas City Baroque Consortium was one of eight ensembles nationwide awarded an Early Music America mini-grant to present special outreach projects during “Early Music Month” in March.

With the additional support of the Martha Lee Cain Tranby Foundation, KCBC presented “Swirls, Twirls, Stomps, and Curls: The Ins and Outs of Baroque Style” to young music students at Harmony Project KC and Blue Valley Middle School.

KCBC presented a mini-concert and workshop for these young musicians exploring core elements of music expression, and we offered an up close look at how string instruments and the harpsichord are made.

For more information about our outreach projects, or to inquire about an outreach visit from members of KCBC, please contact us at kcbaroque@gmail.com.

KC Baroque musician Trevor Stewart showcasing the chalumeau at a post concert reception in June of 2022. The instrument was featured as part of KCBC’s Summer Series in a program entitled, “The Fashionable Chalumeau”