Commissions Premieres

Since the 1990s, the Young People’s Chorus of New York City has been at the forefront of commissioning the most distinguished and original composers of the day to write music for the distinctive quality of children’s voices. With well over 100 commissions to date, YPC is not only expanding and invigorating the repertoire for young voices, but continues to play a dynamic role in the ever-evolving fabric of music in the 21st century. Premieres and commissions include:

2021-2022

Canons Project, featuring AloneTogether Installation and “This Time Round” film

In Any Time of Great Distress

Music and text by Samuel Adler

For Every Atom

Music by Paola Prestini, text by Walt Whitman

The Definition of Crisis

Music and text by Ted Hearne

Dear Future

Music and text by Yuka C. Honda

Cabin Fever

Music and text by Derek Bermel

Thank You Friends!

Music by Paquito D’Rivera, text by Alexis Romay

I Sing to Use the Waiting

Music by Gordon Getty, text by Emily Dickinson

Heaven Is

Music and text by Tom Cabaniss

when this all ends

Music and text by David Lang

A New Well

Music by Michael Harrison, text by Marina Harrison

Como Estoy En Casa

Music and text by Michael Gordon

My Rainbow in the Window

Music and text by Elizabeth Núñez

Where Do We Go From Here

Music and text by Jim Papoulis

Power to the People

Music and text by Aneesa Folds

Come Home

Music and text by Francisco J. Núñez

de la boca

Julia Wolfe


2020-2021

Fearless Angel

Nate Sabat

Just Songs

Grown

Jordan Reynoso

Just Songs

A Matter of Time

Nia Drummond

Just Songs

Less Different Than We Believe

Monica Soyemi

Just Songs

We Are the Colors

Nia Soyemi

Just Songs

Love Everywhere

Blaize Adam

Just Songs

Light to Be Found

Caroline Khun

Just Songs


2019-2020

No More Bad Dreams

Bruce Adolphe

YPC National

 

Whispers

Jim Papoulis

YPC National

 


2018-2019

What You Can Do for the World

Douglas J. Cuomo

Vocal Currents

Whispers

Jim Papoulis

YPC National

Every Time, Every Tide

Yuka Honda

Vocal Currents

Liminality

Francisco J. Núñez

Vocal Currents 

Menasherie

Robert Xavier Rodriguez

Vocal Currents

I Don’t Need No Man

Tim Sharp

Vocal Currents

So Much on My Soul

Ellen Reid

Vocal Resolutions


2017-2018

 ** The Glass Box

Paola Prestini

Vocal Resolutions

** Co-commission with Yale Choral Artists

No One is an Island

Nils Vigeland

Spring Concert

Ah! Vous Dirai-Je, Maman

Francisco J. Núñez

Mostly Mozart


2016-2017

Sirens

Mason Bates

Transient Glory

Great Trees of New York City

Michael Gordon

Transient Glory

A Murmuration for Chibok

Joan La Barbara

Transient Glory

 

Danse Africaine

Jessie Montgomery

Transient Glory

A Surfeit of Similes

Robert Xavier Rodriguez

Transient Glory

Exsultet

Charles Wuorinen

Transient Glory

To Sing

Michael Gordon

Vocal Resolutions


2015-2016

Epiphany

Paola Prestini

Transient Glory

Intermezzo

Netsayi Chigwendere

Transient Glory

Ouroboros

Sarah Kirkland Snider

Transient Glory

 


2014-2015

Fable of Fables

Samuel Adler

Radio Radiance

 

We Will Find Each Other

Ryan Lott

Radio Radiance

 

Search

Caroline Mallonée

Radio Radiance

 

Love Games

Frank J. Oteri

Radio Radiance

 

Mysteries of Nothing

Aaron Siegel

Radio Radiance

Dream on

Robben Delfeayo Marsalis

YPC Gala


2012-2013

New New York Songs

Missy Mazzoli

Transient Glory

 

Celestial Fire

Thomas Cabaniss

Radio Radiance

 

The City

Susie Ibarra

Radio Radiance

 

Colors

Kevin James

Radio Radiance

 

WICBM

Toby Twining

Radio Radiance

Gnothi Safton

Jim Papoulis

YPC Winter Concert

I Wish

Francisco J. Núñez

Share the Joy (Holiday)

 


2011-2012

YPChant

Derek Bermel

Transient Glory

 

Julia’s Clothes

John Corigliano

Transient Glory

 

How to Survive in the Woods

Douglas J. Cuomo

Transient Glory

 

Credo Fugue

David Del Tredici

Transient Glory

 

Thirty-Mile Village

Bright Sheng

Transient Glory

Descent

Joan Tower

Transient Glory

Cinnamon

Michael Gordon

Transient Glory

 

Un Minuto

Paquito D’Rivera

Transient Glory

Miracle

Victoria Bond

Hanukkah Children’s Opera

What is Christmas Made Of

Francisco J. Núñez/Jim Papoulis

Share the Joy (Holiday)


2010-2011

Hijaz

Michael Harrison

Transient Glory

 

Exalted

Michael Gordon

Radio Radiance

 

*Another Secret eQuation

Terry Riley

Radio Radiance

** “Buy the World a Coke”

Francisco J. Núñez

Coca Cola

** New arrangement premiered by YPC at Coke’s 125th anniversary celebration

Life is a Journey

Francisco J. Núñez/Jim Papoulis

Louis Vuitton

“Share the Joy”

Francisco J. Núñez/Jim Papoulis

Share the Joy (Holiday)

2010-2011

Hijaz

Michael Harrison

Transient Glory

 

Exalted

Michael Gordon

Radio Radiance

 

*Another Secret eQuation

Terry Riley

Radio Radiance

** “Buy the World a Coke”

Francisco J. Núñez

Coca Cola

** New arrangement premiered by YPC at Coke’s 125th anniversary celebration

Life is a Journey

Francisco J. Núñez/Jim Papoulis

Louis Vuitton

“Share the Joy”

Francisco J. Núñez/Jim Papoulis

Share the Joy (Holiday)

 


2009-2010

Tembandumba

Paquito D’Rivera

Transient Glory

 

Building Bridges

Francisco J. Núñez/Jim Papoulis

JCC

 

We Will Lift You Up

Francisco J. Núñez/Jim Papoulis

Haiti Relief

How Many Christmases?

Francisco J. Núñez/Jim Papoulis

 

Share the Joy (Holiday)

 

2008-2009

Hope

Toshiko Akiyoshi

Transient Glory

 

Two Mountain Songs

Gabriela Lena Frank

JCC

 

Three Heavens and Hells

(Movement 5)

Meredith Monk

Transient Glory

Liement de deport

Eve Beglarian

Radio Radiance

 

Crosstoswn M42

Robert Kapilow/Fred Newman

Radio Radiance

 

NYC Shout-Out

Jamie Bernstein

Honor Chorus Festival

Where Are My Angels?

Jim Papoulis/Caryl Martine Papoulis

Coolside of Yuletide CD

 

Home

Jim Papoulis/Caryl Martine Papoulis

Coolside of Yuletide CD

 


2006-2007

Fortune

Douglas J. Cuomo

Transient Glory

The Song I Sing

Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens

Transient Glory

Warabe-Uta

Ko Matsushita

Transient Glory

Can I

Joan Tower

Transient Glory

 

Semaphore Conductus

Semaphore Conductus

Transient Glory

 

Every Stop on the F Train

(Music/Video Collaboration)

Michael Gordon/Bill Morrison

Transient Glory

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Judith Shatin

Honor Chorus Festival

 


2005-2006

Garland

Mark Adamo

Transient Glory

A Child’s War

Derek Bermel

Transient Glory

Going North

Thea Musgrave

Transient Glory

One Sweet Morning

John Corigliano

Transient Glory

 

My First and Greatest Love Affair

Bobby Previte

Transient Glory

 

Mutability

David Sawer

Transient Glory

Bloom

Rufus Wainwright

Transient Glory

 

The Open Door

Theodore Wiprud

Honor Chorus Festival

 

Oh Christmas Tree

(new arrangement)

Francisco J. Núñez/Jim Papoulis

Rockefeller Center Treelighting


2004-2005

Bric-a-Brac

Samuel Adler

Transient Glory

Vocalise

Benjamin Lees

Transient Glory

Soundpainting 81301

Walter Thompson

Transient Glory

Invocation

Nils Vigeland

Transient Glory

 

Only Believe

Thomas Cabaniss

Honor Chorus Festival

 

Horobi No Naka Kara

Kevin James

World Choral Symposium (Kyoto)

2003-2004

Songs of the Season

Samuel Adler

Transient Glory

The Ballad of Sweet William

Richard Rodney Bennett

Transient Glory

The Nervous Family

Benjamin Lees

Transient Glory

I Dreamt a Dream

Tod Machover

Transient Glory

 

Panta Rhei

Jim Papoulis

Transient Glory

 

The Boatmen’s Song

Bright Sheng

Transient Glory

Little Tree

Judith Weir

Transient Glory

 

Sing for Peace

Francisco J. Núñez/Jim Papoulis

Lincoln Center Treelighting

 


2002-2003

The Smiling Eyes

Jenny Johnson

Transient Glory

Four Heartfelt Anthems

David Del Tredici

Transient Glory

NYC Playground

Kevin James

Transient Glory

A Child’s View of Colour

Michael Nyman

Transient Glory

 

Miracles

Nils Vigeland

Transient Glory

 

Beauty in a Moment

Elizabeth Ziman

Transient Glory

TreeShirtless Stephen and the Children’s Crusade

Geoffrey Burgon

Transient Glory

 


2001-2002

The Smiling Eyes

Jenny Johnson

Transient Glory

The Attic Which is Desire

Stephen Mackey

Transient Glory

Libertatum

Jim Papoulis

Transient Glory

Colors

Walter Thompson

Transient Glory

 


2000-2001

Un-Labelled

Elena Kats-Chernin

Transient Glory

Two Songs From e.e. cummings

Nora Kroll-Rosenbaum

Transient Glory

Song of Ezekiel

Michael Torke

Transient Glory

Glory to God for This Transient Life

John Tavener

Transient Glory