Timeline

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. […]

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. […]

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, a member of the YPC Board of Trustees since 2007, is elected Board Chairman. […]

YPC is the first American youth chorus invited to take part in the Polyfollia international choral music showcase in Normandy, France. […]

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 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]