[1] The orchestra is the resident performing group for the Louisville Ballet and the Kentucky Opera, and presents several concerts across the Kentucky/Indiana area.

The orchestra performs its concerts at Whitney Hall (named for its founder) in the Kentucky Center for the Arts[1] and The Brown Theatre.

Around 1999, the Louisville Orchestra was awarded grants from the Aaron Copland Fund for Music and the National Endowment for the Arts, both for the purpose of digitizing all of their master tapes and restoring the music scores for archiving the orchestra's historic first edition Records recordings.

[5] The Louisville Orchestra has earned nineteen ASCAP awards for Adventurous Programming of Contemporary Music.

The history of commissioned works project is detailed in the documentary film Music Makes a City.