Past Events

The Young People’s Chorus of New York City culminates the third season of Vocal Resolutions: Shaping Perceptions through Music -  an initiative that uses singing as a catalyst for cultural exploration and mutual understanding -  with a concert, centering on this year’s theme of “balance.” 

The energy and talents of the children who participate in the School Choruses music education program of the Young People’s Chorus of New York City will be on display at its 16th annual School Choruses celebration concert on Monday, May 13.

Over 100 excited young artists from the two community choruses of the Young People’s Chorus of New York City in Washington Heights and at Goddard Riverside Community Center, will join together for a buoyant program of music beloved by the singers and sure to delight their spring concert audience on May 11.

Young People’s Chorus of New York City and Artistic Director/Founder Francisco J. Núñez will be the guest artists of Arturo O’Farrill and the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra for a Symphony Space performance as part of the annual celebration of Cinco de Mayo in a performance entitled “An Evening of Fandango & Afro Latin Jazz.” 

The Young People's Chorus of New York City is pleased to announce its debut in the Toronto Children's Chorus annual Junior Treble Festival. In addition to workshops and rehearsals with other singers from choruses throughout the Lake Ontario area, YPC will sing individually and also with the entire group in the festival’s closing concert.

Young People's Chorus of New York City is pleased to return to the First United Methodist Church Schenectady for the presentation of their 41st concert series on Sunday, March 24 at 3:00 p.m.

Young People's Chorus of New York City is pleased to announce its debut at Our Lady of Lourdes Church.  YPC’s award-winning choristers will weave together a program of music and show-stopping choreography in this “don’t miss” concert.

YPC performs an excerpt from Julia Wolfe's “Fire in My Mouth" with members of the NY Philharmonic. This Sunday afternoon performance is part of a weekend-long series of events and discussions on March 16 and 17 at the Fashion Institute of Technology to create a permanent memorial to this catastrophic event, which claimed 146 young lives.

Young Men of the Young People’s Chorus of New York City will head out to Georgia, where on February 7 and 8 they will be the Chorus-in-Residence of Savannah Sings 2019, Savannah’s Sixth Invitational Choir Festival, under the direction of Artist-in-Residence Francisco J. Núñez and hosted by Festival Director John Tisbert.

Over 100 female singers from the Young People’s Chorus of New York City will join The Crossing and the New York Philharmonic conducted by Jaap van Zweden in three world premiere, multimedia performances of Julia Wolfe’s Fire in My Mouth at David Geffen Hall January 24, 25, and 26.

Young People’s Chorus of New York City will be featured in the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s production of the “The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses,” based on the enchanting tale of a Native American girl with a mystical connection to wild horses by Paul Goble.

The Young People’s Chorus of New York City returns to St. Patrick’s Cathedral, where they will join the Glen Cove High School Select Chorale directed by Edward Norris, the Cathedral Choir under the direction of St. Patrick’s Director of Music Dr. Jennifer Pascual, the Cathedral Organs, and the New York Symphonic Brass in this cherished and much-anticipated celebration of Christmas.

Young People’s Chorus of New York City culminates its 30th anniversary year with a return to the grandeur of Carnegie Hall for a very special Winter Holiday concert.

The Young People’s Chorus of New York City and Associate Artistic Director Elizabeth Núñez celebrate the holidays in the splendor of the Metropolitan Museum of Art with a program of two joyous works for all who treasure the glorious music of the season: Samuel Adler’s The Flames of Freedom, and Benjamin Britten’s A Ceremony of Carols.

The Young People’s Chorus of New York City conducted by Artistic Director Francisco J. Núñez, join soprano and program curator Julia Bullock and a roster of acclaimed artists at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This event features a program of music set to the poems of Langston Hughes, the American poet, novelist, playwright, and major contributor to the Harlem Renaissance.

The Young People’s Chorus of New York City and YPC Assistant Conductor Maria Peña, together with folk icon Arlo Guthrie, The Guthrie Family, and WABC-TV will launch Winter's Eve at Lincoln Center at the festival’s traditional tree-lighting ceremony hosted by the famed singer/songwriter Judy Collins.

On November 3 at Merkin Hall, YPC will introduce Vocal Currents, a new program that builds upon YPC’s groundbreaking Transient Glory and Radio Radiance commissioning series, to reimagine and create the music of tomorrow. This performance introduces eight Vocal Currents commissions for a new catalogue of music that YPC will make available to young people in choruses in communities and schools across the country and around the world.

Join YPC Artistic Director Francisco J. Núñez, Associate Artistic Director Elizabeth Núñez, and special guests Rollo Dilworth, Mark Shapiro, and Sesame Street’s Bob McGrath, in the first-ever YPC Big Sing!

Don’t miss this rare opportunity to raise your voice in shared harmony with hundreds of other fellow New Yorkers, as guest conductors guide and lead you in a program of songs everyone knows and loves like Sing from Sesame Street, This Little Light of Mine, La Bamba, and Finiculi, Finicula.

Young People’s Chorus of New York City returns to Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival this summer as featured artists in the New York production premiere of Leonard Bernstein’s MASS: a theater piece for singers, players, and dancers.

At 7 p.m. on Thursday, July 12, the Young People’s Chorus of New York City under the direction of YPC Associate Artistic Director Elizabeth Núñez will give a pre-curtain concert prior to the Classical Theatre of Harlem’s Antigone at Marcus Garvey Park.

In its fifth visit to Japan, YPC choristers, under the direction of YPC Artistic Director/Founder Francisco J. Núñez, will embark on a country-wide, month-long tour of Japan from July 9 to August 10. The tour of concerts and exchange programs in 15 cities will cover more than 1100 miles from Shunan in the south of Japan to Sapporo in the north.

From July 1 to 9, more than 40 choristers from the Young People’s Chorus of New York City led by YPC Associate Artistic Director Elizabeth Núñez will take part in International Choral Kathaumixw, a renowned choral festival that takes place every two years in Powell River, a beautiful city 80 air miles north of Vancouver on the “Sunshine Coast” of British Columbia in Canada. 

Choristers from the Young People’s Chorus of New York City will be joined by young singers from 15 other youth choruses from China, Finland, Ireland, and six U.S. states for a DCINY 10th anniversary concert at Carnegie Hall.  The concert will be highlighted by world premiere works composed and conducted by Francisco J. Núñez, artistic director/founder of the Young People’s Chorus of New York City, and Venezuelan composer/conductor Cristian Grases.

Young People’s Chorus of New York City and Yale Choral Artists come together on Monday, June 18 at 7:30 p.m. for a compelling concert at Kaufman Music Center's Merkin Concert Hall. The program is highlighted by the world premiere of Borderless, a YPC commission from six-time, Grammy-winning Latin jazz composer Arturo O’Farrill featuring the Haven String Quartet, and New York premiere of The Glass Box, a YPC-Yale Choral Artists co-commission from the visionary composer/impresario Paola Prestini and Pulitzer Prize-winning librettist Royce Vavrek, set to dramatic visuals by Kevork Mourad.

YPC and Yale Choral Artists perform the world premiere of The Glass Box on Saturday, June 16 in New Haven, CT. This concert is part of the Yale International Choral Festival, within the International Festival of Arts & Ideas.

In an extraordinarily memorable 30th anniversary event, the Young People’s Chorus of New York City will celebrate the coming of summer with its debut in The Cathedral of St. John the Divine. For more than 425 YPC singers, the largest cathedral in the world will provide a spectacular setting for a program of music and exciting choreography that spans the musical gamut—from the most challenging commissioned compositions to music from the Broadway, spiritual, folk, and popular genres.

Join YPC’s community choruses—YPC at Washington Heights conducted by Maria C. Pena and YPC at Goddard Riverside conducted by Amber Salladin— at the Church of the Intercession in Manhattan for this delightful “Sounds of Spring” performance. Donations will be accepted at the door.

YPC presents its 15th Annual School Choruses Concert on Thursday, May 17, in Harlem’s world-renowned Apollo Theater. More than 1,000 children from the New York City schools in YPC’s School Choruses program join with special guests in a vibrant concert that combines song, dance and stories from many of the cultures that embrace the New York City.

Young People's Chorus of New York City conducted by Artistic Director Francisco Nunez performs "An Afternoon of Choral Artistry," presented by Shandelee Music Festival in collaboration with Bethel Woods Center for the Arts.

On its first tour of the year, a treble chorus of 42 Young People’s Chorus of New York City singers, conducted by YPC Associate Artistic Director Elizabeth Núñez – a Lee University Distinguished Alumni Awardee - will make its Tennessee debut at Lee University’s Pangle Hall on Friday, April 13 at 7:30 p.m. in a distinctive, two-hour YPC program of music and show-stopping choreography that has won YPC renown on four continents.

Young People's Chorus of New York City is featured as a special guest for Cellular Songs on March 14-18 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

Cellular Songs is the newest in a series of music theater pieces created by Meredith Monk that explore our interdependent relationship with nature while seeking to evoke the ineffable. Following the celebrated On Behalf of Nature, which offered a liminal space questioning the precarious state of our global ecology, Cellular Songs turns attention inward to the very fabric of life itself.

The Young People’s Chorus of New York City and Francisco J. Núñez join the Brooklyn Interdenominational Choir, the St. Patrick’s Cathedral Choir, the Cathedral Organs, and the New York Symphonic Brass in this joyful celebration of Christmas in the majesty of St. Patrick’s Cathedral.

The Young People’s Chorus of New York City makes the holiday season even brighter with a festive concert that celebrates the many ways New York City families commemorate the holidays. Led by YPC Artistic Director/Founder Francisco J. Nunez and Associate Artistic Director Elizabeth Nunez, YPC’s award-winning choristers will be joined by Metropolitan Opera star Ailyn Pérez in program of holiday favorites, international gems, and some very special surprises. This fun-filled concert for the whole family will take place in Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium.

Young People’s Chorus of New York City featured in the New York premiere of “Odyssey-A Youth Opera.” Tickets for children are $1.00.

Young People’s Chorus of New York City collaborates with internationally renowned composer Meredith Monk in this U.S. premiere of her multidimensional, multiperceptual work.

In their Mostly Mozart debut, the Young People’s Chorus of New York City conducted by Artistic Director Francisco J. Núñez will be featured in the festival’s opening concert: an exuberant evening of symphony and song, under Mostly Mozart Music Director Louis Langrée.

In July the Young People’s Chorus of New York City and Artistic Director/Founder Francisco J. Núñez return to Spain for their second tour, beginning with a concert in Catalana followed by a festival of competitions and performances in Vic.

the Young People’s Chorus of New York City conducted by YPC Associate Artistic Director Elizabeth Núñez will sing a choral work-in-progress composed by Jad Abumrad, the MacArthur Award-winning host of Radio Lab, in collaboration with Grammy-winning composer Eric Whitacre at National Sawdust.

One of our most eagerly anticipated events of the year, the YPC Spring Concert showcases all 400 chorus members in a program that celebrates the coming of summer and honors graduating seniors. Performances at 2:00 P.M. and 5:30 P.M.

Young People’s Chorus of New York City, under the direction of Artistic Director/Founder Francisco J. Núñez, has been invited to represent the Americas in the renowned Songbridge program of the Tampere Vocal Music Festival.

Join YPC’s community choruses—YPC at Washington Heights conducted by Maria C. Pena and YPC at Goddard Riverside conducted by Amber Salladin, accompanied pianist Lee Steiner and percussionist Steve Picataggio— at the Church of the Intercession in Manhattan for this delightful “Songs for Spring.” performance. Donations will be accepted at the door.

YPC presents the 14th Annual School Chorus Concert on Monday, May 15th at the world-renowned Apollo Theater. Our presentation of “The Tales We Tell” will be in collaboration with our special guests, the Classical Theatre of Harlem, and will combine song, dance and dramatic storytelling.

Young People’s Chorus of New York City conducted by Maria Peña join choruses from Japan and the U.S. in a program of international songs. This free concert is being presented to benefit victims of the 2011 Japanese earthquake and tsunami and local and international communities in need.

Young People’s Chorus of New York City conducted by Associate Artistic Director Elizabeth Núñez performs a free showcase of high energy music from many genres and countries, complete with show-stopping choreography by Jacquie Bird.

YPC reprises Joan La Barbara’s “A Murmuration for Chibok,” (a YPC commission) at Bang on a Can’s 30th anniversary marathon at the Brooklyn Museum. YPC and Artistic Director/Founder Francisco J. Núñez join some of the most innovative musicians of our time side-by-side with some of today’s most pioneering young artists in this incomparable, eight-hour super-mix of boundary-busting music from around the corner and around the world.

Young People’s Chorus of New York City will open the 2017 OAKE Conference with a public concert. This conference is an annual, countrywide gathering of Kodály educators, students, and guests. YPC Associate Artistic Director Elizabeth Núñez will conduct.

Join acclaimed baritone Lester Lynch and the Young People’s Chorus of New York City conducted by Founder and Artistic Director Francisco J. Núñez in a Black History Month concert of spirituals and hymns.

The Young People's Chorus of New York City and Francisco J. Núñez return to celebrate the holiday season at the storied St. Patrick’s Cathedral for its 37th annual “A City Singing at Christmas,” also featuring the St. Patrick’s Cathedral Choir, the Cathedral Organ, and New York Symphonic Brass.

An exciting annual celebration of holiday music and traditions representing the many ways New York City families commemorate the season. Performances at 2 P.M. and 5:30 P.M.

An exciting annual celebration of holiday music and traditions representing the many ways New York City families commemorate the season. Performances at 2 P.M. and 5:30 P.M.

Transient Glory, the groundbreaking new music commissioning series created in 2001 by Artistic Director Francisco J. Núñez for the Young People’s Chorus of New York City, returns with six world premieres, representing a wide range of perspectives and styles from composers Mason Bates, Michael Gordon, Joan La Barbara, Jessie Montgomery, Robert Xavier Rodriguez, and Charles Wuorinen.

Transient Glory, the groundbreaking new music commissioning series created in 2001 by Artistic Director Francisco J. Núñez for the Young People’s Chorus of New York City, returns with six world premieres, representing a wide range of perspectives and styles from composers Mason Bates, Michael Gordon, Joan La Barbara, Jessie Montgomery, Robert Xavier Rodriguez, and Charles Wuorinen.

The festival's annual Community Concert showcases YPC and also features the Napa Regional Dance Company, making its Festival Napa Valley debut this summer.

The soaring voices of the Young People's Chorus of New York City and the acclaimed operatic baritone Lester Lynch will fill the beautiful Mission-style chapel of the Christian Brothers' historic Mont La Salle as part of Festival Napa Valley.

The first concert of our summer tour program, preceding the Classical Theater of Harlem’s Macbeth at the Richard Rodgers Amphitheater at Marcus Garvey Park (Enter the park at 124th Street & Fifth Avenue, and walk south to the venue).

Matinee performances at 92nd Street Y

Free concert featuring children from all 13 YPC Satellite Schools

Principal conductor Francisco J. Núñez conducts 8,000 choristers from the tri-state area, including YPC community choruses in Washington Heights and at Goddard Riverside Community Center.

On Sunday, January 10, the Young People’s Chorus of New York City gives its first performance of 2016 in the Viscusi Gallery of the New York Hall of Science in Flushing Meadow, Queens, as part of Carnegie Hall’s series of Neighborhood Concerts.

The Young People’s Chorus of New York City at Washington Heights (YPCWH) performed a musical prelude to the annual holiday candlelight reading of Clement Clarke Moore’s "Twas the Night Before Christmas (A Visit from Saint Nicholas).”

The Young People’s Chorus of New York City and Francisco J. Núñez joined the Queens College Choir, the St. Patrick’s Cathedral Choir, the Cathedral Organ, and New York Symphonic Brass in this joyful celebration of Christmas with a program of traditional and contemporary Christmas hymns and carols in the majesty of St. Patrick’s Cathedral.

YPC held its 28th holiday program in two completely sold-out concerts at the 92nd Street on Sunday, December 13.

The Young People’s Chorus of New York City at Washington Heights (YPCWH), the first after-school community program of the Young People's Chorus of New York City, is excited to sing a special free holiday concert for all of its families and friends in the Washington Heights-Inwood community.