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Lyra's Significant Achievements
Spring, 1985: Lyra's inaugural performance, a collaboration with the Twin Cities Chapter of the American Guild of Organists in a program of Handel organ concertos.
Summer, 1985: The Lyra Concert is incorporated as the Upper Midwest's baroque historical instrument orchestra.
1987: McKnight Excellence in the Arts Award. Lyra was the youngest organization to have received this award.
1988: Operatic debut with Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, Kenneth Slowik, musical director at The Smithsonian, directing.
1990, 1991: Major matching grant from the Mellon Foundation.
1991: Performance for convention of the National Flute Association
1990: Co-production with the Bach Society of Minnesota of J.S. Bach's Christmas Oratorio, with support from the McKnight Arts Partnership Program.
1992: Boston debut
1992: Worcester International Artists Series.
1993: Co-production with Ex Machina of Handel's opera Alcina.
1995: Co-production with the Gregorian Singers of Monteverdi's Marion Vespers.
1998: Cathedral of St. Cloud Arts Festival performance.
1999: Performance with Cathedral of St Mark of Bach's Passion According to St. John.
2000: First orchestra to appear at the Shrine to Music of Vermillion, South Dakota — Haydn symphonies Morning, Noon, and Night with Steven Alltop, conducting.
2000: Appointment of David Douglass and Jacques Ogg as Artistic Directors.
2003: Lyra adopts a new name: The Lyra Baroque Orchestra
December, 2003: Lyra goes to Spain. Lyra is invited to present the special Christmas concert for the prestigious Los Siglos de Oro series in Madrid. Jacques Ogg leads Lyra and a group of musicians from Spain, Portugal, and Holland to Spain in a collaboration with the boys' and mens' choirs of the royal montastery of El Escorial in performances of five Villancicos by 18th century Spanish monk Antonio Soler. Performance at the royal palace El Pardo is recorded by Spanish National Radio, and the program is recorded at El Escorial by Glossa Recordings.
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