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2025-2026 Season

  • September 4 6PM Family Meeting
  • September 4 Concert Choir and Chamber Choir rehearsals begin
  • September 7 Youth Chorale rehearsals begin
  • September 8 Music Makers rehearsals begin
  • December 6 3PM CIYC Winter Concert, Faith United Methodist Church
  • December 8 and 9 Krannert rehearsals
  • December 10 7:30PM with Champaign Urbana Symphony Orchestra, Krannert
  • January 22, 2026 Spring Semester begins
  • April 25, 2026 3PM CIYC Spring Concert

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

Preschool Singalongs are BACK!

Join us at our free drop-in preschool singalongs for children 5 and younger and their caregivers!

  • Sunday, Sept. 14, 3:30PM - 4:00PM - Robeson Pavilion Room C
  • Saturday, Sept. 27, 10:30AM - 11:00AM - Douglass Branch Library
  • Sunday, Oct. 12, 4:30PM - 5:00PM - Robeson Pavilion Room A
  • Sunday, Oct. 26, 1:30PM - 2:00PM - Robeson Pavilion Room C
  • Saturday, Nov. 1, 10:00AM - 10:30AM - Robeson Pavilion Room A
  • Saturday, Nov. 22, 10:30AM - 11:00AM - Douglass Branch Library
  • Saturday, Dec. 20, 10:30AM - 11:00AM - Douglass Branch Library

Singalongs are located at the Champaign Library.

  • Robeson Pavilion Rooms are located at the Main Branch: 200 W. Green St.
  • Douglass Branch: 504 E. Grove St.

2024-2025 Season Highlights:

  • December 7, 2024 CIYC Winter Concert, Faith United Methodist Church
  • December 11, 2024 Concert with Champaign Urbana Symphony Orchestra, Krannert
  • March 4, 2025 Carnaval! with Lyric Theatre @Illinois
  • May 4, 2025  CIYC Spring Concert

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.”

CIYC acknowledges support from the Illinois Arts Council.