BERLIN, N.H. — St. Kieran Community Center for the Arts will host a performance by LYRA and introduce its newest art exhibit on Saturday, Oct. 22.

Ed Solar will introduce his creations and open a discussion about his works, training and interest in creating the pieces that adorn the center’s main hall. His presentation is at 5:30 p.m., and the concert begins at 6 p.m.

Tickets are $15 for adults, and $10 for those younger than 18. They’re available at the arts center office or at www.stkieranarts.org.

LYRA is a community of professional musicians, most of whom are graduates of the St. Petersburg Conservatory and sing in churches and musical theaters of Russia and Belarus. Though members of LYRA represent different musical professions, such as choral conductors, opera singers, instrumentalists and music teachers, it’s their passion for ensemble singing that unites them.

LYRA includes 20 people, but due to the logistics of international touring, they perform in smaller groups of soloists. The fall 2016 tour will bring Anna Makarenko (soprano), Olga Turkina (mezzo-soprano), Denis Patsiuk (tenor), Sergey Tupitsyn (baritone) and Alexander Kudriashov (bass) to eight states throughout New England and the mid-Atlantic, where they will perform over 40 concerts in September and October.

LYRA’s main goal is exploring and popularizing Russian choral music from ancient sacred songs to works of little-known composers of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. Well-known masters Bortniansky, Tchesnokov, Gretchaninov and Tchaikovsky are well represented. Folk songs of lyric, dancing and ritual nature are performed not only in the composer’s original arrangements, but those of LYRA’s as well. Secular songs of Russian classical composers Taneev, Tchaikovsky and Rakhmaninov represent another side of LYRA’s creative activity.

In 2001 LYRA was awarded the Montreux (Switzerland) International Choral Festival diploma. In 2005 the group was also a winner of Coleraine International Choral Festival (Northern Ireland). In addition to stage performances, LYRA has recorded several CDs, which will be for sale after the performance for cash only.

FMI: 603-752-1028, www.stkieranarts.org, www.facebook.com/stkieranarts.