Michael Stern
Kansas City Symphony announced Music Director Michael Stern (56) has renewed his contract through the 2019-2020 season. Stern, whose current contract continues through the 2015-2016 season, will have served as Kansas City Symphony music director for 15 years when the new contract expires.
This announcement follows the release last month of the Kansas City Symphony’s outstanding 2015 fiscal year (July 1, 2014 to June 30) results, showcasing the organization as a highly successful symphony orchestra. It has balanced its budget or posted a surplus in 18 of the past 19 years. For fiscal year 2015, the Symphony posted a modest 2 percent surplus that will be used to build the organization’s undersized operating reserve.
Michael Stern, son of violinist Isaac Stern, was permanent guest conductor of the Orchestre National de Lyon in Lyon, and in 1996 he become chief conductor of the Saarbrücken Radio Symphony Orchestra.
