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Young People's Chorus
of New York City |
The Young People’s Chorus of New York City (YPC)—the resident choir of both the 92nd Street Y and WNYC, New York public radio—is an award-winning, internationally acclaimed youth ensemble that performs more than 70 concerts, operas, and workshops annually in New York and beyond. Their engagements have taken them from Carnegie Hall and the White House to cities in Austria, Canada, the Czech Republic, England, Germany, Japan, and Spain where they have sung in such illustrious venues as Smetana Hall in Prague and St. Martin in the Fields in London, as well as with professional symphony orchestras and distinguished artists. This past summer they performed at the Asa- Minami Ward Cultural Center Hall in Hiroshima and were honored to represent the U.S. at the Seventh World Symposium on Choral Music in Kyoto, Japan. Most recently, they appeared on national television from Rockefeller Center on NBC-TV’s Today Show and opened the internationally renowned Rockefeller Center Treelighting festivities singing on the ice beneath the great Norway spruce.
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Francisco J. Núñez |
Born in New York City of Dominican descent, Francisco J. Núñez is a composer, conductor, a leading figure in music education, and a visionary, whose strongly held ideas have resulted in the critical and popular success of the award-winning Young People’s Chorus of New York City, a chorus of 250 young people from 8 through 18 of all ethnic, economic, and religious backgrounds. One of today’s most sought-after youth choirs with celebrated performances on three continents, YPC is the resident chorus of both the 92nd Street Y and WNYC, New York Public Radio, the first and only resident radio choir of any New York City radio station. In addition, together with the New York City Department of Education, Mr. Núñez is bringing the YPC choral program to an additional 400+ children as part of the chorus’s Satellite Schools program in five New York City schools. Mr. Núñez is often contacted by cities around the country for help in replicating the YPC success. |
