M E D I A A D V I S O R Y
SINGLE TICKETS NOW ON SALE FOR LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA’S
2025-2026 NIGHTLITES SERIES CONCERTS AT IU SOUTHEAST’S OGLE CENTER
Contact:
Randy Blevins | 502-897-0649
WHAT:
The Louisville Orchestra is excited to announce that individual tickets for the highly anticipated 2025–2026 NightLites Series at Indiana University Southeast’s Ogle Center are now available for purchase.
This popular Friday evening concert series, led by Music Director Teddy Abrams and presented in partnership with IU Southeast, offers fresh, illuminating takes on classical masterworks—perfect for longtime fans and new listeners alike.
Audiences can now secure seats for any of the four upcoming NightLites performances:
- Beethoven & Brahms
- Handel’s Messiah
- Mozart & Haydn
- Bruch & Bruckner
Each concert highlights masterful pairings of iconic works in a bold, accessible format, presented in the intimate setting of the Ogle Center in New Albany, Indiana.
WHO:
The Louisville Orchestra and IU Southeast
WHEN:
Single tickets for each concert of the series go on sale on Wednesday, July 16 at 10:00 a.m. EST.
The concerts:
- Beethoven & Brahms – Friday, October 17, 2025 @ 7:30 p.m. EST
- Handel’s Messiah – Friday, December 5, 2025 @ 7:30 p.m. EST
- Mozart & Haydn – Friday, January 9, 2026 @ 7:30 p.m. EST
- Bruch & Bruckner – Friday, February 6, 2026 @ 7:30 p.m. EST
WHERE:
IU Southeast Ogle Center
4201 Grant Line Rd, New Albany, IN 47150
DETAILS:
Designed to illuminate iconic works by history’s greatest composers through unexpected pairings, NightLites offers both classical music connoisseurs and curious newcomers an accessible, invigorating musical experience in our neighboring Southern Indiana community. Led by Music Director Teddy Abrams, the 2025–2026 NightLites series features four dynamic concerts, each a unique exploration of orchestral brilliance.
For additional info on the series or to schedule interviews or coverage, visit https://www.louisvilleorchestra.org.
About Louisville Orchestra
The Louisville Orchestra was created in 1937 and sprang up in a time of need, just after the Ohio River Great Flood and in the wake of the Great Depression. Robert Whitney was invited to conduct the newly established orchestra, then known as the Louisville Philharmonic, and arrived from Chicago that same year. With its formation, the goal was to create a new model for the American symphony orchestra, as it was conceived through an ambitious effort that emphasized innovation through the commissioning, performance, and recording of new works by contemporary composers. The Louisville Orchestra garnered international critical acclaim, became the first orchestra to establish a record label, and cemented a place in history for its contributions to contemporary classical music. In its first two decades, the Louisville Orchestra commissioned/recorded up to 52 new works annually and ultimately created 150 vinyl recordings (LPs) of more than 450 works. The Louisville Orchestra continues to be recognized as a cornerstone of the Louisville performing arts community. Music Director Teddy Abrams has helmed the Louisville Orchestra since 2014, and the Louisville Orchestra has returned to its origins of commissioning new music and recording, having released two albums under the
prestigious Decca Gold label, and recently winning a 2024 Grammy Award for “Best Classical Instrumental Solo” for The American Project on Deutsche Grammophon, featuring the conductor’s own Piano Concerto with its dedicatee and Abrams’s longtime friend and collaborator, Yuja Wang, as soloist. A wide variety of immersive and innovative concert performances and educational programming continue to receive national attention, including the Louisville Orchestra Creators Corps, a trailblazing initiative that provides a fully funded annual residency for three composers who receive local housing, a salary, health benefits and dedicated workspaces; the “In Harmony” tour, a multi-season community-building project on a giant scale funded by the Commonwealth of Kentucky – which has currently allocated $4.3 million through 2026 – that takes the orchestra to every corner of the state for concerts and special community events; and the performance of Abrams’s composition Mammoth, an immersive theater work inspired by and performed in Kentucky’s Mammoth Cave National Park in 2023 with cellist Yo-Yo Ma, bass-baritone Davóne Tines, and a cast of local musicians.
Recent press coverage includes a feature story on PBS NewsHour and articles and mentions in the New Yorker, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Rolling Stone, Pitchfork, and on CBS Sunday Morning. Accolades include three invitations to perform at Carnegie Hall; the Leonard Bernstein Award for Excellence in Educational Programming; the League of American Orchestras 2019 Ford Musician Awards for Excellence in Community Service; and 19 American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) awards for adventurous programming in use of contemporary music.
