explore OUR 2025-2026 season
LexPhil’s 2025-2026 Season, led by Music Director Mélisse Brunet, is a year-long celebration of music featuring orchestral favorites, world premieres—including a piece by Saykaly Garbulinska Composer-in-Residence Brittany J. Green—and much more.
Ticket Pricing: Unless noted, tickets to most LexPhil concerts range from $25 to $85 per person and are subject to a $5 processing fee. Tickets for students with valid ID and youth (11-17) are $11 and are not subject to fees. Avoid all fees and more by becoming a LexPhil subscriber. Learn more at lexphil.org/subscribe.
Important Dates: Current subscribers may renew over the phone or by mail now through August 1. Single tickets and new subscriptions go on sale July 1.
lexington patriotic concert
Thursday, July 3, 2025
Transylvania University at Gratz Park
7:30PM
Celebrate July 4th early with the Lexington Philharmonic! This free community concert features repertoire that celebrates the richness of American music and our independence! Bring your blankets, lawn chairs, and a picnic or enjoy dinner from a variety of food trucks.
Presented by the City of Lexington. Learn more at lexingtonky.gov/fourthofjuly
picnic with the pops: back to the 80s
Saturday, August 9, 2025
The Meadow at Keeneland
Concert at Dusk
All ticketing is through the Central Bank Center. Learn more at lexpops.com.
250Lex: concert for lexington
Sunday, September 7, 2025
Singletary Center for the Arts
3PM
250Lex: Concert for Lexington celebrates the city’s 250th anniversary with Lexington artists Ben Sollee, Joslyn & The Sweet Compression, Julia Perry, Central Kentucky Youth Orchestra, and a world premiere by Shawn E. Okpebholo.
The concert is free but registration is required. Registration opens July 1 at lexphil.org.
symphonic stroll
Saturday, September 20, 2025
Josephine Sculpture Park
4PM - 8PM
opening night: the witching hour
Saturday, October 11, 2025
Singletary Center for the Arts
7:30PM
Anna Clyne - This Midnight Hour
Franz Liszt - Totentanz (Dance of Death)
Spencer Myer, piano
Hector Berlioz - Symphonie Fantastique
heartsong: mendelssohn, guo, & rachmaninoff
Saturday, November 22, 2025
Singletary Center for the Arts
7:30PM
Moni Jasmine Guo - the sound of where i came from (乡音 Xiāng Yīn)
Virginia B. Toulmin Commission Kentucky Premiere
Felix Mendelssohn - Violin Concerto
Tai Murray, violin
Sergei Rachmaninoff - Symphony No. 2
andrea bocelli live in concert with the lexington philharmonic
Saturday, December 6, 2025
Rupp Arena
8PM
All ticketing is through Rupp Arena at the Central Bank Center.
cathedral christmas
Friday, December 12 & Saturday, December 13, 2025
Cathedral of Christ the King with The Lexington Singers
8PM
Twist & shout:
The music of the beatles
a symphonic experience
Friday, January 23, 2026
Singletary Center for the Arts
7:30PM
Twist & Shout celebrates The Beatles in America, beginning with their first appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show on February 9, 1964, and following their journey through the USA including highlights from their Shea Stadium and Hollywood Bowl appearances that brought Beatlemania and the British invasion into the hearts of Americans everywhere. Twist N’ Shout includes such early #1 hits as Love Me Do, She Loves You, I Want to Hold Your Hand, Can’t Buy Me Love, A Hard Day’s Night, Eight Days a Week, Ticket to Ride, Help!, Yesterday, and many more! Accompanied by hundreds of rare and unseen photos of The Beatles in the USA from the exclusive Beatles Photo Book Archives, Twist N’ Shout is the most authentic and unique concert project celebrating the early years of The Beatles in the USA.
All music under license from Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC and Harrisongs LTD. All photos under license from The Beatles Book Photo Library. The show is not endorsed by or connected to Apple Corps or The Beatles.
jubilee & joy: green & beethoven
Saturday, February 21, 2026
Singletary Center for the Arts
7:30PM
Brittany J. Green - TESTIFY!
Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony No. 9
with The Lexington Singers
Dejah Watts, soprano
Hannah Shea, mezzo-soprano
Matthew Pearce, tenor
Sunghoon Han, bass
season finale: american stories
Saturday, April 18, 2026
Singletary Center for the Arts
7:30PM
Joan Tower - Made in America
Aaron Copland - Lincoln Portrait
Silas House, narrator
Brittany J. Green - World Premiere
Leonard Bernstein - Symphonic Dances from West Side Story