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2023-2024 Season

• December 2, 2023 3PM CIYC Winter Concert, Faith United Methodist Church
• December 6, 2023 7:30PM with Champaign Urbana Symphony Orchestra, Krannert
• April 21, 2024 3PM Concert with University of Illinois Bands & Choirs, Krannert
• April 27, 2024 3PM CIYC Spring Concert

Upcoming FREE Champaign Library preschool drop-in singalongs!

• Sun. Dec. 10, 4PM | Main Library Robeson Pavilion Room A
• Sat. Dec. 16, 10AM | Main Library Robeson Pavilion Room C
• Sun. Jan. 7, 2:30PM | Main Library Robeson Pavilion Room C
• Sat. Jan. 20, 10AM | Main Library Robeson Pavilion Room A
• Sat. Feb. 3, 3:30PM | Main Library Robeson Pavilion Room C
• Sun. Feb. 11, 3:30PM | Main Library Robeson Pavilion Room C
• Sat. Mar. 2, 10:00AM | Main Library Robeson Pavilion Room C
• Sat. Mar. 23, 3:30PM | Main Library Robeson Pavilion Room C
• Sat. Apr. 6, 10:00AM | Main Library Robeson Pavilion Room C
• Sat. Apr. 13, 10:30AM | Douglass Branch Meeting Room
• Sun. May 5, 3:30PM | Main Library Robeson Pavilion Room C
• Sat. May 18, 10:00AM | Main Library Robeson Pavilion Room C

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

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

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.

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