The Louisville Youth Choir has found it important for the organization and the individual singers to plan performance tours on a rotating annual basis. Louisville Youth Choir tours are an important way for our singers to share their talents with communities abroad. While preparing for travel and while on tour, choir members learn the importance of teamwork, commitment and discipline. As ambassadors of music, LYC singers share their gifts with people around the world. They learn to appreciate diverse cultures and they reap the benefits of a job well done.
LYC choirs have been heard throughout Europe and North America, including performances in the Dom in Salzburg (2006), Votivkirche in Vienna (2006), Carnegie Hall in New York City (2003, 2009), Santuario de Guadalupe in Santa Fe (2003), Chicago (2004), Colorado Springs, CO (2003) and Windsor and Toronto, Ontario (2002). At home, the choir has performed for Ky. Music Educators In-Service conferences; partnered with Kentucky Opera in premieres of three operas based on the lives of Kentuckians Muhammad Ali, Helen Thomas, and Dian Fosse; and premiered commissioned works by composers David J. Elliott, Bill Stevens, Paul Nahay, Frederick Speck, Frank Richmond, Patsy Ford Simms, Daniel Gilliam and Carol McClure.
A cultural partner of the Greater Louisville Fund for the Arts, LYC has had numerous opportunities to perform with the area’s finest arts organizations. The choir has performed Mendelssohn’s Elijah with the Louisville Orchestra, Puccini’s Tosca with the Kentucky Opera, Orff’s Carmina Burana with the Louisville Ballet, and the Beethoven Choral Fantasy with the Louisville Youth Orchestra. The choir has also partnered with the Louisville Bach Society and the Broadway Series.