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WKU Music Department: Guest Artist Recital: Dr. Sarah Schouten, horn
2026-02-16 19:30 - 20:30 (America/Chicago) | WKU Ivan Wilson Fine Arts Center Recital Hall, Colonnade Drive, Bowling Green, Kentucky, 42101, United States
Guest Artist Recital: Dr. Sarah Schouten, horn

Date:Monday, February 16th, 2026
Time:7:30pm – 8:30pm
Location:Fine Arts Center Room 189 – Recital Hall

Description:
About Dr. Schouten

Sarah Schouten serves as Assistant Professor of Music (Horn) at The Pennsylvania State University. Sarah is a member of the Pennsylvania Quintet and serves as the director of the Honors Music Institute at Penn State. In addition to her university duties, she is an active free-lance artist, clinician, and teacher throughout Pennsylvania. Sarah maintains a private studio and performs with the Pennsylvania Chamber Orchestra, the Penns Woods Music Festival, the Altoona Symphony, Fuse Productions, and is a sub for the Williamsport Symphony Orchestra and the Erie Philharmonic. Her orchestral experience also includes the Ocala Symphony, the Arcadia Festival Orchestra, the Pennsylvania Centre Orchestra, the Nittany Valley Symphony, the Rome Festival Orchestra, the Northwest Florida Symphony Orchestra, Sinfonia Gulf Coast, Blue Lake Festival Orchestra, and the Elmhurst Symphony Orchestra.
As an active lecturer and performer, Sarah has presented at numerous conferences, workshops, and festivals including: the Southeast Horn Workshop, the Northeast Horn Workshop, the International Horn Symposium, the Academic Festival (Edinboro University), the Stander Symposium (University of Dayton), the Music at Penn’s Woods Festival, the International Festival of Composers, Conductors, and Collaborators (IFC3), and at Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp. In January of 2015, she co-hosted the Northeast Horn Workshop (at The Pennsylvania State University) with Lisa Bontrager. The article they co-authored, “Favorite Solo Pieces, op. 2,” was published in the February 2015 issue of The Horn Call, the Journal of the International Horn Society.

Contact: emily.britton@wku.edu

Drama in Bowling Green: Steele Magnolias: Ramsey Theater Company at SKYPAC: Feb. 21 and 22
2026-02-21 07:30 - 22:00 | The SKYPAC: Southern Kentucky Performing Arts Center in Bowling Green, Kentucky, 601 College Street, Bowling Green, KY, 42101, United States
Ramsey Theater Company presents

Steel Magnolias

February 21: 7:30 p.m.
February 22: 3:00 p.m.

Tickets: https://www.theskypac.com/tickets/

Steel Magnolias – Cast & Creative Team

Catherine Mary Stewart (M’Lynn Eatenton)

Kirsti Carnahan (Ouiser Boudreaux)

Abby Apple Boes (Clairee Belcher)

Mckenna Ogrodnik (Shelby Eatenton-Latcherie)

Ashlee Wilson Quinn (Truvy Jones)

Abby Luckett (Annelle Dupuy-Desoto)

Aubin Jefferson (Understudy – Shelby & Annelle)

Lacey Steele (Understudy – M’Lynn, Truvy & Clairee)

Tim Altmeyer (Director)

Preview: WKU Symphony: The First Concert of the Spring Semester: Obscure Classics
2026-03-06 19:30 - 21:00 | Van Meter Auditorium, Hilltop Drive, Bowling Green, KY, 42101, United States
Obscure Classics
Friday, March 6, 20267:30 PM
Van Meter Auditorium Bowling Green, KY

Dr. Brian St. John, Conductor

Dr. Jessie Welsh, piano
Sibelius: Finlandia
Price: Piano Concerto in D Minor
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No, 5 in E Minor
Special Guest: Dr. Jessie Welsh, Pianist

http://www.wku.edu/music/index.php

Contact: brian.stjohn@wku.edu

Preview: Carousel in Concert | Orchestra Kentucky & Ramsey Theatre Company Saturday, April 25, 2026: 7:30 PM
2026-04-25 19:30 - 22:00 | The SKYPAC: Southern Kentucky Performing Arts Center in Bowling Green, Kentucky, 601 College Street, Bowling Green, KY, 42101, United States
Carousel in Concert | Orchestra Kentucky & Ramsey Theatre Company
Saturday, April 25, 2026: 7:30 PM
Orchestra Kentucky and Ramsey Theatre Company come together for Carousel in Concert, celebrating the timeless music of Rodgers & Hammerstein. Featuring beloved songs like If I Loved You, June Is Bustin’ Out All Over, and You’ll Never Walk Alone, this special performance highlights two of SKYPAC’s resident companies in an evening of powerful storytelling through music.
Guest conductor Joseph Trafton, a Bowling Green native with an international conducting career, returns home to lead the performance.
The concert stars Broadway performers Jeremy Stolle and Elizabeth Welch as Billy and Julie, joined by Bowling Green native Andy Stahl as the Starkeeper, along with a talented supporting cast of regional and emerging artists.
A meaningful evening of music, community, and collaboration in the heart of Bowling Green.
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Choral Masterworks: WKU Symphony and WKU Choirs and Southern Kentucky Choral Society
2026-05-01 19:30 - 21:30 | Van Meter Auditorium, Hilltop Drive, Bowling Green, KY, 42101, United States
Dr. Brian St. John and Dr. Paul Hondorp, conductors
WKU Symphony joined by WKU choirs and Southern Kentucky Choral Society
Special Guests: Bowling Green Youth Orchestra
Patrick O’Rourke, director
Prokofiev: Montagues and Capulets from “Romeo and Juliet”
Debussy: La Mer
Faure: Requiem
May 1, 2026
Van Meter Auditorium
Friday at 7:30 P.M. CST
Tickets: $15
No Reserved Seating
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Student discounts available at checkout.
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Orchestra Kentucky: Songbird- Karine Hannah Sings Barbra Streisand
2026-06-05 19:30 - 22:00 | The SKYPAC: Southern Kentucky Performing Arts Center in Bowling Green, Kentucky, 601 College Street, Bowling Green, KY, 42101, United States
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Karine Hannah, hailed by Jim Steinman as “the best voice I’ve worked with since Céline Dion” and personally invited to sing at Céline Dion’s wedding, brings her powerhouse vocals to Orchestra Kentucky in a celebration of Barbra Streisand’s greatest hits. Evergreen, You Don’t Bring Me Flowers, The Way We Were, and more.
1. SOMEWHERE
2. SING/HAPPY DAYS ARE HERE AGAIN
Medley:
3. NO MORE TEARS
4. STONEY END
5. MY HEART BELONGS TO ME
6. WOMAN IN LOVE
7. HE TOUCHED ME
Duets (with John James):
8. GUILTY
9. WHAT KIND OF FOOL
10. PAPA CAN YOU HEAR ME
11. YOU DON’T BRING ME FLOWERS
Acoustic section:
12. LOVE COMES FROM THE MOST UNEXPECTED PLACES
13. SONGBIRD
14. EVERGREEN
15. DON’T RAIN ON MY PARADE
16. PEOPLE
