The Kings Symphony Orchestra celebrates it’s 61st year of bringing music to the valley! Our 2024-2025 season features four exciting concerts in addition to our annual Young Artist Competition. Our symphony musicians are eager to return to the stage for the opportunity to perform, entertain, inspire, and enrich our local music scene. Through the support of our neighbors, friends, and sponsors, we are delighted to present the upcoming season and we hope to see you at our concerts! 

Kings Symphony Orchestra Board

President • Michael Porter
Vice President • Bill Wilkinson
Secretary • Margaret Blanken
Treasurer • Jackie Giacomazzi
Board Member • Devri Lindstrand 
Board Member • Nicole Quinn
Board Member • Cathy Porter
Board Member • Hugh Munro Neely
Board Member • Patricia Bettencourt Scialo
Board Member • Bill Blanken
Board Member • Debra Garske
Board Member • Jennifer Mizote
Consultant • Ann Helgerman
President Emeritus • Phyllis Gaines

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• David Green •

Music Director & Conductor

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History of the KSO

The Kings Symphony Orchestra was initiated by Mr. Van Lowe, a Hanford businessman with a love for classical music. One day while he was cleaning one of his businesses, a laundromat, he overheard two ladies speaking with a British accent. He discovered that the ladies were originally from England and that the husband of one of them, Mr. Hutchinson, had been a bandmaster in England. Through contacts in the Kings County Office of Education and the City of Hanford, the orchestra was formed and then incorporated in 1963.

The orchestra has grown in size and includes musicians from Kings, Tulare, Merced and Kern counties. Over the years the orchestra has developed a high level of musicianship due to the skills of the orchestra members and the guest soloists under the guidance of talented conductors such as Dr. Colleen Snyder, Leonard Ingrande, Tom Fritz, & Jeff Fritz.