The Center for Old Music in the New World and Musick’s Company present Joyeux Noel, Monday Dec 18th at 7:30 pm at our NEW location – Crestwood Christian Church. Join us for a celebration of sacred and secular holiday music from the 12th through the 17th century including...
Join the Central Kentucky Youth Orchestras as they open their 76th Season at Singletary Center for the Arts on Sunday, November 5th at 5pm. Come hear over 250 talented 2nd thru 12th grade musicians perform familiar melodies and symphonic favorites. Performing will be the CKYO...
The Central Kentucky Youth Orchestras will present the annual Teen Arts Festival at Singletary Center for the Arts on Sunday, February 18, 2024. Three concerts will be presented featuring students in all the audition-based ensembles and featuring student soloists. The 3:00pm concert features the Concert and...
Join us for CKYO’s 75th Anniversary Season Finale Celebration Performance on May 21st! This concert will feature performances by our flagship performing ensemble, the Symphony Orchestra, conducted by CKYO Music Director Marcello Cormio, as well as performances by students in our community music initiative, Friends...
Join CKYO for a day of music by ALL of our ensembles and programs! Three concerts will take place throughout the day featuring over 350 youth musicians on the stages of the Singletary Center for the Arts. The 3pm concert has performances by our Concert and...
How does a composer learn to write for string quartet? Discover the origins of this popular ensemble, and hear how generations of composers have learned from each other. Featuring a Mozart "Haydn" quartet and Robert Schumann's third, one of his earliest explorations of chamber music....
Take a nocturnal journey from Mozart's light-hearted Eine kleine Nachtmusik to Jonathan Crosmer's towering sextet, Constellation. The latter work is an odyssey exploring the complexity of love and truth through a range of styles and influences, from Baroque to blues, jazz, and rock. Free admission;...
From the lost & found bin of classical music: Ralph Vaughan Williams's passionate piano quintet and Debussy's youthful piano trio, both dormant for most of the twentieth century. Rediscover these late Romantic pieces with us. Free admission; donations welcome!...
Sometimes, we just need a little nudge. Brahms had retired from composing, until he heard Richard Mühlfeld play clarinet; then he came roaring back with an amazing clarinet quintet. Within a few years, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor heard Brahms's quintet and was inspired to write his own....
