Events

Jan 31 - Feb 2 2025

George R. Boulden Honor Band Weekend features two fantastic bands and lots of opportunities to learn, grow, and share in a once-in-a-lifetime experience with giants of the wind band world and other band students.

Entrance into the Honors Concert Band is based on high school director recommendation and all names must be submitted by director and not by student.

Entrance into the Honors Wind Ensemble will be based on a personal…

Singletary Center
Audition/Nomination Required, $75 per selected performer
Sat, Feb 1 2025, 7:30 - 9:30pm

Dr. John Cody Birdwell, conductor

Dr. Frank Ticheli, guest conductor

Dr. Scott Wright, clarinet 

Singletary Concert Hall
$14 Adults / $7 Students (additional fees may apply online)
Sun, Feb 2 2025, 2pm
Singletary Concert Hall
Free
Sat, Feb 8 2025, 10am

The Singletary Center presents the inaugural Visual Music Festival in the SCFA Recital Hall.  Join us for a day of dynamic expressions of abstract art featuring a curated program of multimedia works from an international collection of contemporary artists. Experience the harmonies of light and sound as we explore what goes on in the mind while listening to music!

The Visual Music Festival program begins at 10:00am and will play…

Singletary Center
FREE ADMISSION
Sat, Feb 8 2025, 7pm

"Koyaanisqatsi" is a groundbreaking 1982 American non-narrative documentary film directed and produced by Godfrey Reggio, features a score composed by Philip Glass and cinematography by Ron Fricke.

The title, derived from the Hopi word meaning "life out of balance," encapsulates the film's central theme: the growing disconnect between humanity and the natural world. Through a powerful juxtaposition of breathtaking natural…

Singletary Recital Hall
FREE, but ticket required for entry
Fri, Feb 14 2025, 7:30 - 9pm
University of Kentucky Symphony Orchestra, John Nardolillo, conductorCaleb Weber, BA & BM’25, piano Pre-concert lecture presented by the UK School of Music on the Concert Hall stage at 7:00 PM

Lecturer, Mary Margaret Zrull

· Debussy: Prélude à “L’après-midi d’un faune”

· Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2

· Prokofiev: Suite from Cinderella

· R. Strauss: Suite from Der Rosenkavalier

Singletary Concert Hall
$20 Adults/ $10 Students
Sat, Feb 15 2025, 7:30pm

"Thirst" is a trailblazing live electronic performance that redefines the boundaries of audiovisual art. Utilizing multi-projection techniques, the show seamlessly merges the aesthetics of road movies, American iconography, and hyper-saturated 3D visuals to create a vibrant, immersive experience.

Exploring profound themes of desire, freedom, and societal transformation, "Thirst" invites viewers to reflect on the evolving nature…
Singletary Concert Hall
FREE for UK Students, $23 Adults/$10 Students
Thu, Feb 20 2025, 7:30 - 9pm
Singletary Recital Hall
Free
Sat, Feb 22 2025, 5pm
Singletary Concert Hall
Free
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, 4 - 5pm
Davis earned his BA from Bard College in 1991 and currently teaches there as Associate Professor of Photography. His work has been exhibited widely and his photographs are in the permanent collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Guggenheim Museum, and the Walker Art Center, to name a few. His art writing has appeared in publications including Aperture, Blind Spot, Bomb, and Cabinet. ohthattimdavis.com…
Singletary Recital Hall
Free