YPC Opens National September 11 Memorial & Museum
YPC is a continuing presence at the 9/11 Memorial and Museum, as its “Give Us Hope” recording is heard as visitors leave the building.
YPC Turns 25
Opera legend Renée Fleming helps celebrate YPC’s 25th Anniversary by hosting and performing with the choristers in YPC’s Gala Concert at Carnegie Hall.
YPC Establishes Its Community Choruses Program
In order to bring YPC’s award-winning music curriculum directly to children in their own neighborhoods, YPC creates its first Community Choruses program in Washington Heights.
Adam D. Chinn is Elected Chairman
Adam D. Chinn, a member of the YPC Board of Trustees since 2007, is elected Board Chairman.
The First American Youth Chorus at Polyfollia
YPC is the first American youth chorus invited to take part in the Polyfollia international choral music showcase in Normandy, France.
YPC Receives Nation’s Highest Award for Youth Programs
First Lady Michelle presents Francisco J. Núñez and YPC chorister Stephan Douglas Allen with a National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award.
Francisco J. Núñez recognized with a MacArthur Fellowship
Francisco J. Núñez is named a 2011 MacArthur Fellow (known as the “genius grant”) by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation for “shaping the future of choral singing for children.”
YPC Featured in Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade
The choristers appear in the 84th Annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, singing the television premiere performance of “Yes Virginia, There’s a Santa Claus” with Tony nominee Ann Hampton Calloway.
Min-On Concert Association Sponsors Back-to-Back YPC Tours of Japan
In two remarkable tours of Japan in the summers of 2009 and 2010, the Young People’s Chorus of New York City performed for thousands of enthusiastic Japanese audience members in 32 major…and some minor…cities in Japan.
Carnegie Hall: Historic Performance of Terry Riley’s “In C”
YPC joins top names in new music—from the Kronos Quartet to Joan La Barbara—for the historic Carnegie Hall performance of Terry Riley’s “In C,” the seminal 1964 work that launched music’s minimalist movement.