Purchase Sponsorships & Tickets Box Office Tickets 2025 Gala Highlights

Michael Fraccaro | Board Chair
Francisco J. Núñez | Founder & Artistic Director
Elizabeth Núñez | Creative Director

Purchase Sponsorships & Tickets Box Office Tickets 2025 Gala Highlights

Michael Fraccaro | Board Chair
Francisco J. Núñez | Founder & Artistic Director
Elizabeth Núñez | Creative Director

Experience an Incredible Evening of Music and Inspiration at YPC's Annual Gala Benefit

Proceeds from the 2026 Gala Concert and Benefit Dinner directly fuel programs that transform lives.

  • • Scholarships that ensure financial circumstances are never a barrier to joining YPC
  • • Our College Bound program, helping choristers of all ages excel through homework help, subject tutoring, college prep, and audition guidance—empowering 100% of YPC graduates to pursue higher education
  • • Cultural exchanges and concert tours that take choristers around the world to perform and form connections with the young people they meet, broadening their world beyond their neighborhoods
  • • School and Community Choruses throughout Manhattan, the Bronx, Queens, and Brooklyn, bringing YPC closer to home for more children and opening pathways to participation

Your support makes it all possible.

Our annual Gala is our most important fundraising event of the year, raising one-third of YPC’s annual budget, supporting:

• Scholarship funds for children from underserved communities from underserved communities

• Choral education in NYC public schools

• Programs that prepare young people for success on stage, in the classroom, and beyond

Support Access to the Arts

If you are unable to attend YPC's Annual Gala and Concert, you can make a fully tax-deductible contribution. Donors will be recognized in season Playbills and help us continue to serve over 2,000 children each year.

DONATE

For further information, please contact us at 212-465-3415 or by emailing ypc@blbnyc.com.

 

*The non-deductible portion of each concert ticket is $75.
*The non-deductible portion of each dinner and concert ticket is $350.
*The remainder is tax-deductible as a charitable gift (Tax ID# 11-3372980).

We are unable to accept payment for charitable event tickets and tables from a donor-advised fund. We regret that YPC Gala donations and Gala benefit tickets and tables are non-refundable and cannot be exchanged.

Table Sponsorships

Presidential Sponsor
$100,000

Table Package Includes:

  • 12 VIP Concert and Dinner Tickets
  • Presidential Sponsor recognition on all printed materials, signage, event website, and listing in the program for the upcoming season
  • Special mention in event email blasts and social media campaigns
  • Presidential Full-screen ad in Digital Gala Journal shown at Gala Dinner and our website
  • 10 Complimentary tickets for YPC’s 2026 Spring and Winter concerts
  • Exclusive YPC performance at your company's event

Maestro Sponsor
$50,000

Table Package Includes:

  • 10 Premium Concert and Dinner Tickets
  • Maestro Sponsor recognition on all printed materials, signage, event website, and listing in the program for the upcoming season
  • Special mention in event email blasts and social media campaigns
  • Maestro Full-screen ad in Digital Gala Journal shown at Gala Dinner and our website
  • 6 Complimentary tickets for YPC’s 2026 Spring and Winter concerts

Conductor Sponsor
$30,000

Table Package Includes:

  • 10 Select Concert and Dinner Tickets
  • Conductor Sponsor recognition on all printed materials, signage, event website, and listing in the program for the upcoming season
  • Special mention in event email blasts and social media campaigns
  • Conductor Half-screen ad in Digital Gala Journal shown at Gala Dinner and our website

Director Sponsor
$15,000

Table Package Includes:

  • 10 Concert and Dinner Tickets
  • Director Sponsor recognition on all printed materials, event website, and listing in the program for the upcoming season
  • Director Half-screen ad in Digital Gala Journal shown at Gala Dinner and our website

Underwrite Table for Artists and Conductors
$10,000

  • Support creativity by sponsoring a table for the talented artists and conductors who generously donate their time to YPC and the Gala. Your sponsorship will cover their participation costs, ensuring they feel appreciated and valued. This contribution reserves a dinner table for these special guests, with recognition in the program for the upcoming season.

Donations

I am unable to attend the Gala this year but would like to make a fully-tax deductible contribution.
Donate

Gifts can also be made by check, wire, or stock. For more information, please contact our Gala Office at 212-465-3213 or by emailing ypc@blbnyc.com.

The non-deductible portion of each concert ticket is $75.
The non-deductible portion of each dinner ticket is $350.
The remainder is tax-deductible as a charitable gift
(Tax ID# 11-3372980).


Kindly note that donor-advised funds cannot be used for the non-deductible portion of Gala tickets or tables. We appreciate your understanding that all YPC Gala donations, tickets, and tables are final and non-refundable.

Benefit Tickets

Dinner and Concert Ticket
$1,500

Includes preferred concert hall seating and
post-performance seated dinner

Concert Ticket Only
$1,250

Includes preferred concert hall seating

Digital Ads

Full-Screen Ad
$2,500

Half-Screen Ad
$1,000



The Digital Journal will be shown throughout the Gala Dinner
and will be featured on our website.

YPC Honors

Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry of New York, Inc.

J.C.C. Fund President
Tomonori Wada
President & CEO, Sumitomo Corporation of Americas

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JCCI President
Tetsuo Kawate
President & CEO, Mitsubishi Corporation (Americas)

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2026 ARTISTIC HONOREE

Joyce DiDonato

YPC is honored to welcome multiple Grammy-winner, opera singer and recitalist Joyce DiDonato to the stage during our 2026 Gala Concert. A world-renowned coloratura mezzo-soprano, she has performed operas and concert works spanning from the 19th-century Romantic era to those by Handel and Mozart. Joyce is an incomparable talent who will grace the stage with our YPC choristers to perform “do we know what they are singing?” as well as an unforgettable solo performance.

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Thank You To Our Sponsors

PRESIDENTIAL SPONSOR

Gordon P. Getty

Maestro Sponsors

Linda and Adam D. Chinn
Carolina Esquenazi-Shaio and Jared Friedberg
Cynthia Colin Green
Beatrice Liu and Philip Lovett
Anya Ziourova and Cosmo Roe

Conductor Sponsors

The Beatrice Snyder Foundation
Lindsay Forbes and Ali Dibadj
Deborah McManus, DJ McManus Foundation
Chandrika K. Tandon

Director Sponsors

Photeine Anagnostopoulos and James Stynes
Nandita and Vikram Atal
Elaine and Royce Chen
Mary and Ryan Giuliani
Katy Lederer and Benjamin Statz
Merrill and Christopher Mahan
Michele and Steve Mestman

Mira Mircheva and Bradley Bennett
Jane Moss and Ravenel Curry
Sonya and Robert Neis, Palmer’s/E.T. Browne Drug Co.
Hiroko Onoyama and Ken Sugawara

Yesim & Dusty Philip
Sean Ramalho, Travelers

Ariel Shapiro and Evan Trost
Claire and Jody Steinglass
Angela Sun and Avery Sun-Atema
Hope and Pierre-Alain Sur
Alexa Davidson Suskin and Marc Suskin
Adam Zirkin

Artist & Conductor Sponsor