Upcoming Concerts

Holiday Open House Sunday - Grand Opening of the Decor with Live Music in the House all Day.
December 8, 2024 from 1 to 5 pm
Live Music In The East Room All Day
Schedule:
  • 1:00 pm The Troy Tones - The dynamic and exciting Troy High School A Capella Choir
  • 1:30 pm The Buckeye Road Show - A very Americana Christmas. Welcoming Shari Wolf back for Hayner Holidays!
  • 2:00 pm Luke Lindeman - Our Own Troy, Ohio Firefighter shares his favorite songs and hymns.
  • 2:30 pm Jay Cullis - Folky, pop originals and favorite covers.
  • 3:00 pm  Jayla Leland - This young vocalist will share her Country Christmas favorites.
  • 3:30 pm Flutes Etc. - Carolyn Rowland presents a flute quartet with  holiday favorites.
  • 4:00 pm Crossroads Saxophone Quartet - Your favorite hymns and holiday favorites as you have never heard them.
  • 4:30 pm Trojan City Music students of Chris Aldridge - Zinnia Barsotti and Owen Poppelman will help to fill your heart with music.
Holiday Open House is a signature event for the Troy-Hayner Cultural Center. The event begins with a Children’s Day on Saturday, December 7. Children’s Day is a loud and happy day with refreshments and activities throughout the house.

Sunday, December 8 is the Grand Opening of the Holiday Décor with refreshments and music in the East Room all day. The theme of the décor this year is, “Vintage Christmas.”  The Hayner welcomes families and friends to tour all the latest holiday décor installations. Every room of the house has been adopted by a local designer and transformed into a holiday wonderland.

Holiday Open House is a great way to experience the Troy-Hayner Cultural Center. You are sure to meet your neighbors and chums touring the rooms and taking in this Holiday experience. This holiday event weekend is without cost to you, due to the magic of Santa, the holiday miracles of our 25+ decorators, the community of our 35+ musicians, the generosity of the tax-paying people of Troy, our loyal sponsors and our Friends of Hayner members. Learn more about Hayner’s cultural events and the good folks who support them at www.TroyHayner.org .

Holiday Concert with David Wion and Friends
Sunday, December 15 at 3:00 pm
Holiday Concert with David Wion and Friends
David Wion on piano and vocalists Rachael Boezi, Justin Williams, Gregory Ashe and Drew Alan Gale.

Mountain Dulcimer Society of Dayton Concert
January 17, 2025 at 7:30 pm with Mandy and Jon Tyner
This concert will feature mountain dulcimer artist Mandy Tyner and her husband Jon. Mandy and Jon live in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in North Georgia where they run a very successful YouTube channel called Banjo Lemonade. Mandy teaches dulcimer and other stringed instruments both in person and to a larger online audience. She is an endorsed Folkcraft Instruments artist and teaches and plays at festivals throughout the South.

Mandy and Jon will be in Miami County, Ohio for a weekend long Dulcimer event with the Mountain Dulcimer Society of Dayton. On Friday, January 17, 2025 at 7:30 pm she will be the featured performer for a free concert at the Troy-Hayner Cultural Center.  On Saturday, January 18, 2025 she will host a dulcimer workshop with the MDSD. The workshops will take place at the West Charleston Church of the Brethren in Tipp City, Ohio at 4817 South State Route 202. The first class will begin at 9 am and continue throughout the day. For more info and registration paperwork, visit www.daytondulcimers.com
Drawing Room Chamber Concert with UD Faculty Jazz Trio
Tuesday, January 28, 2025 at 7:30 pm
 The University of Dayton Jazz Quartet will perform on Tuesday, January 28 at 7:30 pm for Hayner’s Drawing Room Chamber Concert. The quartet includes Jim Leslie on drums, Chris Berg on upright bass, Phil Burkhead on piano and Nick Fryer on guitar. All are educators and all are active professional musicians, promoting and keeping jazz alive in our Miami Valley.

Jim Leslie performs with the legendary Blue Wisp Big Band and is a member of the Cincinnati Contemporary Jazz Orchestra. Chris Berg has a 40-year career performing live, in films, on radio and for television. Phillip Burkhead has performed with The Blue Wisp Big Band, The Dayton Jazz Orchestra, The Louisville Stage Band, Little Anthony and the Imperials and The Shirelles. Nick Fryer is a multi-instrumentalist, composer and educator. He performs regularly in the Cincinnati area and has performed throughout the United States, Canada and South America.
The Drawing Room Chamber Concert Series takes place on the last Tuesday of most months in the school year. This season the series will be hosted by Eric Knorr. Eric is an accomplished soloist, a collaborative musician and an educator. He is currently Senior Lecturer in Trumpet in the Department of Music at the University of Dayton.
Drawing Room Chamber Concert with Pianist Ji Hyang Gwak
Tuesday, February 25, 2025 at 7:30 pm
Hayner’s Drawing Room Chamber concert on Tuesday, February 25 will feature a gifted pianist from Korea, Dr. Ji Hyang Gwak. Dr. Gwak has performed throughout the world including Czechoslovakia, England, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Japan and Korea. She holds a Bachelor of Music in piano performance, summa cum laude, from Seoul National University and a Master of Music from Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York. She received her Doctor of Musical Arts in piano performance from the University of Michigan. She has won many awards for her technical mastery including the Olga Kern, the Sicily, the Franz Liszt, the Concours Musical and the Lyon International competitions.
Drawing Room Chamber Concert with Vocalist Devlan Taylor
Tuesday, March 25, 2025 at 7:30 pm
Devlan Taylor is a 2017 graduate from Wright State University with a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance. During his time at WSU, Devlan performed in over 7 operas, toured Italy with the Collegiate Choral, traveled and performed in over 50 concerts with Ethos—Wright State’s premier a cappella group—and participated in band and other choirs. Since graduating, he has performed as a member of the Dayton Opera Chorus in various operas at the Schuster Center in Dayton, Ohio, and as a featured soloist for Musica, a professional choir. Devlan obtained his Master of Music in Vocal Performance at the University of North Dakota in 2021. During his time at UND, he performed with the Greater Grand Forks Symphony Orchestra, the Grand Forks Chorales, and the University of North Dakota’s Opera Program. Currently, Devlan is an adjunct voice professor at the University of Dayton, where he teaches private voice lessons, Aural Skills, and Beginner Voice Class. He also works at Stivers School for the Arts as an adjunct voice instructor and is heavily involved with the Children Performing Arts of Miamisburg. 

Pianist Emily McConkie, a native of Illinois, began her over 30-year journey as a pianist by begging her parents for piano lessons at age 5. She discovered collaborative piano at age 15 accompanying her high school and church choirs in Arizona. Emily earned a Bachelor of Music Education from Brigham Young University where she continued collaborative work for student recitals, NATS competitors, church choirs, and a local voice studio. In 2012, she returned to Arizona with her own young family and became a collaborative pianist for her alma mater choral program and Mesa Community College. Since relocating to Ohio in 2018, she has enjoyed collaborative work with the University of Dayton Chorale and vocal studios as well as various school and community music groups. Performances have taken her coast-to-coast in the US and Puerto Rico.
Drawing Room Chamber Concert with Vocalist Dvlan Taylor
Tuesday, April 29, 2025 at 7:30 pm
Jim is a pillar in the community of music in our region. To understand Jim McCutcheon and the impact that he has had, one first needs to understand how many musical pots he stirs. Jim is the owner of McCutcheon Music which is a 30 + year old, Centerville-based, music store providing lessons, rentals and repairs. Since 1978 he has taught at the University of Dayton. He is now their Senior Lecturer in guitar. He is also an adjunct professor at Wright State University School of Fine and Performing Arts and he teaches guitar at Miami University.
 
He produces a weekly radio program on Discover Classical Radio called, “The Intimate Guitar” because, he says, “It is the instrument held closest to the heart.”
 
He has produced five solo recordings and in his 50 + year career. He has performed countless television, radio and live concert appearances, including many times at the Troy-Hayner Cultural Center. 
 
He is and has always been active in teaching music to young people through lessons, school assembly programs, residencies and arts integration programs such as Muse Machine and Montgomery County Culture Works. He has written several method books for guitar instruction which specialize in teaching guitar to young children for which he was awarded the 2017 Ohio Governor’s Award for the Arts in Arts Education.
 
Jim McCutcheon has been given many distinguished awards and honors over the years. He was awarded a University of Dayton “Outstanding Contributions” award. He was the first recipient of the WSU Music Department Distinguished Alumni Award for his achievements as a musician, music teacher, and arts advocate. He also received the 1992 WSU School of Graduate Studies Outstanding Alumni Award. He received a Parents’ Choice Foundation Silver Award for his CD “A Day with the Guitar Man,” and he received the Muse Machine’s Prism Award.

Jim will be the featured artist for Hayner’s April 29 Drawing Room Chamber Concert. “We are so proud to have Jim with us this year,” says Terrilynn Meece of the Troy-Hayner Cultural Center. “In his classical guitar you will hear the many decades of service and devotion to music that he built his life on. You will hear his 'intimate guitar' and experience his deep understanding of the mysteries of music. This concert will be a very special way to end the season.”