Kirt Mosier

Conductor, 2024 High School Honors Orchestra (Royal Festival Hall); 2023, 2019, and 2018 High School Honors Orchestra (Sydney Opera House); 2023 Honors Wind Ensemble (Carnegie Hall); 2022 High School Honors Symphony Orchestra (Carnegie Hall); 2019, 2018, 2017, and 2016 High School Honors String Orchestra (Carnegie Hall); 2018 High School Honors Band (Carnegie Hall); 2018, 201, 2016, and 2014 Middle School Junior Orchestra (Carnegie Hall)

Kirt Mosier is the conductor of the Lee’s Summit Symphony and has been the artistic director for the Kansas City Youth Symphony. Mosier also serves on the national board of Music for All. He was an adjunct professor for the University of Missouri Kansas City Conservatory where he taught orchestration and he also had a distinguished career as Director of Orchestras with the Raytown and Lee’s Summit School Districts in Missouri. Not only is he a sought-after composer, but also has twice won national composition awards. In 1993, his original work, Baltic Dance, won the National School Orchestra Association Composition Contest, and in 2004, American Reel won the 2004 Merle J. Isaac national composition contest. From 1990 to present, Mr. Mosier has conducted numerous orchestras throughout the United States and internationally. In addition, he has frequently served as keynote speaker at various conferences and events and also also writes annually for many publishers and fills commissions throughout the world. Mr. Mosier has been the past orchestra vice-president for the Missouri Music Educators Association, and president of the American String Teachers Association for the state of Missouri. Mr. Mosier was also a quarterfinalist for the 2016 Grammy Music Educator of the Year award.