NEWS & EVENTS INDEX

January 29, 2010
YPC performs as part of Carnegie Hall’s Neighborhood Concert Series at Lehman College on February 3, 2010! For more information, click here...

January 19, 2010
On Wednesday, January 20, at 8:30 p.m. the Young People’s Chorus of New York City™will open the first of four concerts at the City Winery (155 Varick Street) to benefit the relief efforts in Haiti. Tickets are available at the door or online. For more information, click here...

 

 

January 5, 2010
Mark your calendars for the Gala Concert and Dinner benefiting YPC on Monday, March 15, 2010 at Frederick P. Rose Hall, home of Jazz at Lincoln Center, Broadway at 60th Street. Read more ...

 

January 4, 2010
YPC will present our annual Transient Glory® concert, a virtuosic evening of exciting premieres of new commissions from Paquito D’Rivera, Michael Harrison, Tania León and Meredith Monk on April 24, 2010. Read more ...

 

November 25, 2009
YPC is featured on two new Dora the Explorer holiday releases - Dora's Christmas Carol Adventure" DVD and "Dora's Christmas" CD. Check out the video of the behind-the-scenes footage from the recording session! Read more ...

October 30, 2009
The first week of December, YPC will join the Geneva Chamber Orchestra conducted by Tania Leon in opening the Swiss government’s United Nations ceremonies at Geneva Cathedral followed by a holiday performance at Victoria Hall on December 10, which will be taped for a Christmas Eve broadcast on Swiss radio. Tickets are available for the December 11th concert. Read more ...

October 29, 2009
Don't miss YPC's annual Winter Concert, Songs of the Season. Tickets are available now at the 92nd Street Y box office so be sure to get yours today. You can purchase directly by calling the box office at 212-415-5500.
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September 16, 2009
Read all about YPC's month-long tour of Japan this past summer. Hear stories directly from the choristers, read anecdotes about the trip, learn where YPC performed over the 25-day tour, and much much more.
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September 11, 2009
YPC's new radio and internet program, Radio Radiance™, an NEA-funded project in collaboration with WNYC New York Public Radio and American Public Media (APM), will begin airing on Friday, September 11 on APM's "Performance Today." Read more ...

August 26, 2009
YPC was the feature of a wonderful article in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle last week about the Japan Tour. The newspaper interviewed several of the Brooklyn choristers who participated in the tour and even included quotes directly from the YPC blog!
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August 13, 2009
YPC announces highlights of the 2009/2010 concert season. The chorus will perform everywhere from St. Patrick's Cathedral to Carnegie Hall and even make a return trip to Japan for a 15-city tour in Summer 2010! Read more ...

 

August 10, 2009
YPC has returned from a month-long tour across Japan! 35 YPC choristers traveled to such places as Aomori, Nagoya, Kobe, Hiroshima, Tokyo, Yokohama, Nagasaki, and to their final concert in Kumamoto. Read more ...

July 22, 2009
YPC has been awarded a $50,000 stimulus grant as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 through the National Endowment for the Arts. As part of President Obama's stimulus package, the NEA has awarded grants to fun arts projects and activities that preserve jobs in the nonprofit arts sector. Read more ...

July 14, 2009
On July 12, 35 YPC members and staff set-off on an 18-city, 25-day tour across Japan! The tour will take them from the northernmost tip of the country in Aomori to such cities as Nagoya, Kobe, Hiroshima, Tokyo, Yokohama, and Nagasaki, to their final concert in Kumamoto in the south on August 8. Read more ...

June 29, 2009
On June 29 & 30, WNYC's Evening Music will preview music from Radio Radiance™, the innovative radio/internet program created by the Young People’s Chorus of New York City™ under the artistic direction of Francisco J. Núñez. Read more ...


June 24, 2009
The concert on Saturday, June 20th was truly an event to remember. All five chorus divisions performed to a sold-out crowd at the beautiful Kaufmann Concert Hall at the 92nd Street Y.
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June 9, 2009
On July 12 Francisco J. Núñez and 35 members of the YPC are leaving New York City for a 25-day, 18-city tour of Japan!
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May 28, 2009
May 28, 2009…Radio Radiance™, an innovative radio/internet program created by YPC will be launched on Tuesday, June 2, 2009 at 5:30 p.m.
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May 1, 2009
YPC’s founder and artistic director Francisco J. Núñez was chosen as the recipient for the ASCAP Concert Music Award.
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May 1, 2009
6th Annual Satellite Schools Concert
YPC will shine the spotlight on the children who participate in the chorus’s Satellite Schools program in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens.
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April 23, 2009
YPC joins the Stephen Petronio Company at the Joyce Theater to perform in the premiere of Nico Muhly's “I Drink the Air Before Me.”
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April 23, 2009
Rob Kapilow's Family Musik, "Jabberwocky" (from Louis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There)
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April 21, 2009
YPC will perform in Terry Riley’s “In C” at Carnegie Hall on April 24 at 8 p.m. Experience the work that changed the course of music history and influenced countless artists from John Adams to The Who.
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April 2, 2009
From YPC, thank you to everyone who supported our 11th Anniversary Gala - our success could not have been possible without you!
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April 1, 2009
The Young People’s Chorus of New York City™ and the San Francisco Girls Chorus in Concert Monday, April 13 at at 7:30 p.m. at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center. 
Purchase tickets online or call 212-721-6500
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March 26, 2009
Jamie Bernstein, daughter of the late Leonard Bernstein, composed “NYC Shout-Out,” a song commissioned exclusively for the YPC Honor Chorus Festival. The story was recently picked up the the Associated Press...
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March 19, 2009
Watch the video of composer Robert Kapilow and sound effects artist Fred Newman discussing the creative process behind the YPC-commissioned piece “Crosstown M42”
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March 16, 2009
At YPC's 8th Annual Honor Chorus Festival on Saturday, March 28, 2009, students ages 12 to 18 will join with leading choirs and conductors to learn new music, make new friends and perform a concert – all in
one day!
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March 13, 2009
Two of America’s top children’s choirs, the Young People’s Chorus of New York City™ and the San Francisco Girls Chorus, will come together for a blending of East and West Coast voices on Monday, April 13 at 7:30 p.m. at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center. 
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March 4, 2009
As part of YPC’s Gala fund raising efforts, an online auction on CharityBuzz.com is now open. Bid on a large selection of items in YPC’s online auction from March 4 through March 19.
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March 2, 2009
Actor Lawrence Saint-Victor from the CBS daytime drama “Guiding Light” will host YPC’s fund raising gala, A Celebration of Song: YPC Shaping Lives Through Music on Wednesday, March 11, 2009.
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January 22, 2009
Select choristers from YPC's Prelude and Intermezzo divisions will perform a new piece, “Listen to the Wind,” by Victoria Bond at the book launching of Listen to the Wind: The Story of Dr. Greg & Three Cups of Tea on January 22, 7:30 p.m. at Barnes & Noble, Lincoln Center.
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January 07, 2009
YPC, the Boston Children's Chorus (BCC) and Academy Award winning actor Louis Gossett, Jr. will perform in a nationally televised tapestry of words and music honoring the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on Monday, January 19, 2009.
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December 15, 2008
The extraordinary Young People’s Chorus of New York City™ is no stranger to rave reviews. In December, the chorus and their debut holiday CD, CoolSide of Yuletide, were featured in several publications.
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November 17, 2008
YPC expands beyond the city’s borders with its first affiliate – Young People’s Chorus of Erie, in residence at The Behrend College of Penn State Erie’s School of Humanities and Social Sciences.
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October 15, 2008
YPC has begun a new relationship with Jazz at Lincoln Center as its first chorus in residence at its home, Frederick P. Rose Hall, located at Broadway at 60th Street, New York City.
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October 10, 2008
The chorus will release its debut holiday CD, CoolSide of Yuletide, in November. The album features unique, urban twists on classic carols as well as original songs with vocals from singer/songwriter Rosanne Cash and American Idol Finalist Phil Stacey.
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September 27, 2008
In 2007, as part of Transient Glory, YPC premiered Michael Gordon’s “Every Stop on the F Train.” It returned in 2008 in a new format — a music and film collaboration by Michael Gordon and Bill Morrison.
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September 19, 2008
YPC was featured in the New York premiere of Oresteia, the only opera of Iannis Xenakis, in three performances at the Miller Theater — September 13, 16, and 17.
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