LAM Event

Summer Symposium 2022

This years' Summer Symposium was a huge success!  Our program met capacity with over 650 students, teachers, and audience members reached with 4 performances and over 80 classes led by 10 faculty members and 14 local and national guests. 

We are so proud of all of our students and their incredible work over the 2 week camp. It’s amazing what they were able to accomplish!

 

Tune in & watch the 2022 Summer Symposium Showcase on our YouTube Channel!
9 student compositions were premiered by students and faculty and the audio was student produced!

WATCH NOW

Announcing the Ruth French Violin Competition! Deadline April 1st, 2022

We honor violinist Ruth French and the incredible impact she made, and continues to make, over the course of her 62 year teaching career. We will host the inaugural Ruth French Violin Competition 2022 on Saturday April 23rd to recognize and celebrate young violinists in our community.

Rules and registration can be found here: https://www.louisvilleacademyofmusic.org/ruthfrenchviolincompetition

Summer Symposium Showcase

Enjoy our showcase of our student’s who were part of LAM’s 2021 Summer Symposium. This showcase features student chamber groups playing historical works as well as premieres of student works in our composition program and the audio is produced by students in our audio production program! It was wonderful to see students and faculty play music together and collaborate in creating new music this summer. Bravo to all!

Clayton Stephenson joins LAM students for Chamber Music and a Masterclass

The Louisville Academy of Music is honored to host the Gheens Great Expectations artist Clayton Stephenson for a recital and masterclass with students from our school and around the community.

Named the 2017 U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts, Lang Lang Music Foundation Young Scholar Clayton Stephenson is prize winner of the 2015 Van Cliburn Junior International Competition and 2016 Cooper International Competition. He is also a proud recipient of the Jack Kent Cooke scholarship.

Highlights of Clayton’s burgeoning career include recitals at the Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris, the Kissinger Sommer Festival in Bad Kissinger, BeethovenFest in Bonn, Star and Rising Star in Munich, and at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall. Clayton’s orchestral performance includes Chicago Sinfonietta Season Opening Concert at Chicago’s Symphony Center, the Colour of Music Festival Gala Concert at Charleston Gaillard Center, the Midwest Young Artists Symphony at the Ravinia Festival and Chicago’s Millennium Park Pritzker Pavilion, and with the International Youth Orchestra at the United Nations General Assembly Hall on the 69th U.N. Day. Most recently, Clayton appeared at “Grammy Salute to Classical Music” Concert at Carnegie Stern Auditorium.

Clayton was admitted into the Juilliard Pre-College at age ten. Currently, He is studies at the Harvard/NEC Dual Degree program, pursuing a bachelor’s degree in Economics at Harvard University and Master Degree in piano performance at the New England Conservatory with Wha Kyung Byun.

Thank you to the The Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts and Jeff Jamner for this incredible opportunity.

LAM turns 65: Sunday July 28th

We are 65 years old!! Come celebrate our rich history and our bright future.

Sunday July 28th

2-5 pm 

Louisville Academy of Music

2740 Frankfort Avenue 

Louisville, KY 40206

We’ll celebrate with music by faculty and students plus history, crafts, and special guests! It will be a fanfare of fun for the whole family!

Free and open to the public. This event is part of the Cultural Pass.

Schedule for LAM’s Birthday Bash 

Sunday July 28th, 2-5 pm

Detailed Schedule:

2:00 Welcome

2:03 Sarah Cole, Nancy Staidle, and Sara Callaway play Haydn Trio

2:15 Wanda Wu: “Fountain in the Rain” by William Gillok

2:20 Gyuli Kambarova & Samir: “Tango”

2:30 Music Together Demo Class with Maria Whitley: All ages welcome!

2:50 Kaylynn Li, Lalo Symphonie Espagnole mvt. 2

2:55 Louisville Academy of Music Trivia

3:05 Jon Wysong: Arban Characteristic Study No.10 and a Dauverne fanfare 

3:15 1954 trivia

3:30 Meg Martin, Meditation by Thais

3:50 Tim Blunk solo guitar

4:00 Recognition of long term faculty, Ruth French, and a very special announcement!!

4:15 Emily Steinbach + Jeff Jamner third movement of the Mozart Sonata for 2 pianos4:30 4:25 Drop the Needle Trivia

4:40 Saxophone Quartet: Caleb Dries, Sowmyan Viswanathan, Jacob Pilling, and Derek Siebert

4:55 Raffle draw


+ Trumpet, Saxophone, Piano, Violin, and Computer Music demos/mini lessons, win music lessons/group class,  and enjoy a reception with cake and more!!