Las Vegas Sinfonietta opens its 2026–2027 season at 3 p.m. Sunday, September 20, 2026, at the Clark County Library Theater. The 80-minute season-opening concert launches another year of professional classical music in Las Vegas. The new season includes chamber music, Handel’s Giulio Cesare, Holiday Classics: Night in Vienna, Mostly Mozart, Mostly Bach, and a Made in the USA season finale.…
Chic Compass Magazine has featured the Las Vegas Sinfonietta in “A New Classical Baton in Town,” a profile of the professional chamber orchestra’s growth and artistic direction. The feature highlights the ensemble’s performances across the Las Vegas Valley, collaborations with regional arts organizations, roster of accomplished musicians, and Music Director Taras Krysa’s vision for educational outreach, adventurous crossover programming, and…
Music Director Taras Krysa joined 8 News Now’s Nate Tannenbaum for an extended 8 In The Community conversation about the Las Vegas Sinfonietta and its work in Southern Nevada. Watch the full interview on YouTube.
The College of Southern Nevada highlighted Dr. Richard Kravchak, Dean of the School of Arts and Letters and an internationally recognized oboist, in connection with the Las Vegas Sinfonietta’s Mostly Mozart concert. Kravchak performed Mozart’s Oboe Concerto in C Major, K. 314, under Music Director Taras Krysa at the Clark County Library Theater. The January 2025 program also included Mozart’s…
A KLAS-TV 8 News Now video featured the Las Vegas Sinfonietta’s 2024–2025 season-opening concert, Violins of Hope. The September 22 performance at Clark County Library Theater honored the resilience and spirit of Holocaust survivors through historic instruments from the Violins of Hope collection. Watch the 8 News Now video on YouTube.
LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) – It has been more than six months now since the war in Ukraine began. Following it from the beginning, Taras Krysa, the Director of Orchestras at UNLV. FOX5 spoke to the professor and conductor the day Russian troops pushed into Ukraine while he was still in disbelief it actually happened. After traveling to the country,…
LAS VEGAS (KSNV) — A benefit concert in support of Ukraine was put on by the Las Vegas Sinfonietta, Sunday afternoon at the Clark County Library Theater. This is another show of support for the people of Ukraine here in the Las Vegas community. The benefit concert began at 3 pm. About 340 people were in attendance for the concert. A…
The Las Vegas Sinfonietta, which is conducted by Ukrainian-born Taras Krysa, is hosting a benefit concert at 4 p.m. tonight at the Clark County Library Theater, 1401 E Flamingo Road. Tickets are $28. Krysa, associate professor and director of orchestras at UNLV, was born in Ukraine and as a child lived in the former Soviet Union. He was the conductor…
Las Vegas Sinfonietta had been planning to celebrate Mozart in its next performance, originally set to coincide with the composer’s birthday in January before it was postponed due to COVID. And then, after it was rescheduled for March 13, something far more significant happened, artistic director Taras Krysa explains. “It is important, for me personally, to acknowledge the events that…
LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — Ukrainian-born, American conductor Taras Krysa has made a name for himself here in Las Vegas, throughout the United States and in Europe. He currently serves as the director of orchestras at UNLV and is the artistic director and conductor of the Las Vegas Sinfonietta. Krysa actively promotes new music and has made three critically acclaimed recordings for the Brilliant Classics label;…