Events

Mon, Feb 24 2025, 7:30 - 9:30pm
UK Symphony Band 
Dr. Shayna Stahl, Conductor
Singletary Concert Hall
$14 Adults / $7 Students (additional fees may apply online)
Sat, Mar 1 2025, 3pm
Singletary Recital Hall
Free
Sat, Mar 1 2025, 7:30pm

This program of all French music will encapsulate and translate the beauty and grace of the French impressionist painters to a sonic landscape depicted by the orchestra and choir.  

Louise Farrenc’s Overture No. 2 followed by Claude Debussy’s La mer, meaning The Sea. Preferring painted seascapes, The Great Wave off Kanagawa by Katsushika Hokusai is featured on the Debussy first edition. Following intermission, LexPhil and Music…

Singletary Concert Hall
$28-$78 adults; $11 youth & students
Mon, Mar 3 2025, 7:30 - 9:30pm

Dr. John Cody Birdwell, Conductor

Luis Serrano Alarcon, Guest Composer and Conductor

Miles Osland, Alto Saxophone

Singletary Concert Hall
$14 Adults / $7 Students (additional fees may apply online)
Tue, Mar 4 2025, 7:30pm
Let your soul dance to the rhythm of life! Celebrating more than 40 years, Kodo returns to North America with One Earth Tour 2025: Warabe, a thrilling performance that revisits the ensemble’s early repertoire – blending simple forms of taiko expression that highlight its unique sound, resonance, and physicality. With Warabe, Kodo explores the desire to play the drums with the simple heart of a child. These highly athletic drummers, bearers of a…
Singletary Concert Hall
$18 Students with valid ID, $55 / $41 / $29 by location
Fri, Mar 7 2025, 7:30 - 9:30pm

University of Kentucky Opera Theatre presents

SANCTUARY ROAD by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and librettist Paul Moravec and Mark Campbell, following the writings of the real life “Father of the Underground Railroad”, William Still. 

This stunningly beautiful and emotional opera relives the telling of enslaved peoples’ journeys to freedom, as they recount their tales to Still, who documented their stories and helped them…

Lexington Opera House
$18-$58+ ticketing fees
Sat, Mar 8 2025, 7:30 - 9:30pm

University of Kentucky Opera Theatre presents

SANCTUARY ROAD by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and librettist Paul Moravec and Mark Campbell, following the writings of the real life “Father of the Underground Railroad”, William Still. 

This stunningly beautiful and emotional opera relives the telling of enslaved peoples’ journeys to freedom, as they recount their tales to Still, who documented their stories and helped them…

Lexington Opera House
$18-$58+ ticketing fees
Sun, Mar 9 2025, 2 - 4pm

University of Kentucky Opera Theatre presents

SANCTUARY ROAD by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and librettist Paul Moravec and Mark Campbell, following the writings of the real life “Father of the Underground Railroad”, William Still. 

This stunningly beautiful and emotional opera relives the telling of enslaved peoples’ journeys to freedom, as they recount their tales to Still, who documented their stories and helped them…

Lexington Opera House
$18-$58+ ticketing fees
Tue, Mar 11 2025, 7:30pm
Singletary Concert Hall
Free
Tue, Mar 11 2025, 7:30 - 9pm

UK Chorale and the Lafayette High School Madrigals

Singletary Recital Hall
Ticketed
Thu, Mar 13 2025, 7 - 9pm

By Paul Moravec and Mark Campbell, premiered in 2022, this oratorio follows the experiences of immigrants arriving at Ellis Island on a single day in 1921.

Singletary Recital Hall
Free
Fri, Mar 21 2025, 7pm
Experience the world’s most in-demand ballet, “Swan Lake,” presented by Classical Arts Entertainment and performed by the State Ballet Theatre of Ukraine. A full-scale production features Tchaikovsky’s legendary score and the exquisite Artistic Direction by Andrei Litvinov, bringing the masterpiece choreography by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov to life. Be spellbound by the iconic variation of Little Swans, Odile’s 32 fouettés, and the graceful…
Singletary Concert Hall
$29 - $82 by location, $132 VIP Packages
Fri, Mar 28 2025, 7:30 - 9pm
University of Kentucky Symphony Orchestra
John Nardolillo, conductor
Nicoletta Moss, graduate conductor Pre-concert lecture presented by the UK School of Music on the Concert Hall stage at 7:00 PM 

Lecturer, Jonathan McIntyre

Lina Tonia: Butterfly EffectConcerto Competition WinnerMahler: Symphony No. 5
Singletary Concert Hall
$20 Adults/ $10 Students
Sat, Mar 29 2025, 3 - 5pm

UK Choristers presents "Heroes and Villains" in the Singletary Center Recital Hall. 

Singletary Recital Hall
$34 Adult/$17 Student
Sat, Mar 29 2025, 7:30 - 9:30pm

UK Choristers presents "Heroes and Villains" in the Singletary Center Recital Hall. 

Singletary Recital Hall
$34 Adult/$17 Student