FREE preschool drop-in singalongs!

• Sat. Sept. 2, 10AM | Champaign Main Library Robeson Pavilion Room C
• Sat. Sept. 16, 10AM | Champaign Main Library Robeson Pavilion Room A
• Sun. Oct. 1, 3:30PM | Champaign Main Library Robeson Pavilion Room C
• Sat. Oct. 7, 10:30AM | Douglass Branch Meeting Room
• More dates TBA!

2022-2023 Season Highlights:

November 5, 2022 Cellular Songs Collaboration with Meredith Monk

December 3, 2022 3PM CIYC Winter Concert, Faith United Methodist Church

December 7, 2022 7:30PM with Champaign Urbana Symphony Orchestra, Krannert

April 23, 2023 1:30PM Concert at Champaign Public Library

April 29, 2023 3PM CIYC Spring Concert

April 30, 2023 3PM Chichester Psalms with UI Symphony Orchestra

May 2, 2023 7:30PM Lyric Theatre@ Illinois Opera Scenes

Let us share the gift of song with you this season!

2021-2022 Season Highlights:

December 4, 2021 CIYC Winter Concert, Faith United Methodist Church

December 9, 2021 Performance with Champaign Urbana Symphony Orchestra, Krannert

April 10, 2022 Performance with Illinois Wesleyan University

May 7, 2022 CIYC Spring Concert, Faith United Methodist Church

Other Recent Highlights:

CIYC embraced pandemic singing with a combination of virtual and in-person activities meeting best practice safety standards.  In collaboration with other choirs across the country, CIYC premiered After the Rain and Reunion, written by female composers Sarah Quartel and Karen Siegel.

Recent collaborations with the Champaign-Urbana Symphony Orchestra included:

• Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana (October 2019)
• Joys of the Season (December 12, 2019)
• Works by Gabriel Fauré (April 18, 2020, cancelled)

John Frayne of the News-Gazette wrote of our Carmina  Burana collaboration with CUSO, “It was the most successful concert of this ensemble in my memory.”