Nathan Link joined Centre's faculty in 2006 as assistant professor of music. He was named a Centre Scholar in 2009, received a Stodghill Fellowship for the 2009-10 year, and is serving as a Mellon Global Fellow from 2010-2012, contributing to the development of an African and African-American Studies program at Centre.

He was formerly an instructor at Yale University. He specializes in eighteenth-century opera, with strong secondary interests in nineteenth-century music and aesthetics, the theory of opera, African music, and country and popular music. He currently teaches courses in music history, humanities, and Kentucky music, and leads Centre's Kentucky Ensemble. His publications have appeared in Oxford University Press's Opera Quarterly, the Journal of the American Library Association, the Göttinger Händel Beiträge, and Opera Today, and he is currently working on two books, one on Handel's operas and another on country music.

The Kentucky Music Ensemble began under Link's direction in 2007 and has grown in size and talent every year since, appealing to individuals of all majors and skills.

To reserve a catered box lunch ($10), make your reservation online by 5p.m. Monday, February 14, by clicking here or call to order: (859) 236-4054. Participants also may bring their own lunch with $5 admission at the door.

 
Every third Wednesday of the month, the Arts Center will present a featured artist who will present and demonstrate his or her work, with time available for discussion with the artist. The monthly arts series will feature everything from literary arts to performing, theatrical and visual arts. For the months of February and March 2011 our series will take place at different, special locations, not at the Arts Center.