When Festival Napa Valley, California Wine Country’s flagship music festival, made the decision to postpone its 15th Anniversary Season to 2021, its artists refused to be silenced. Led by two alumni of the Festival’s Blackburn Music Academy – conductor Zach Salsburg-Frank and violinist Sienna Peck – 126 past and present Festival Napa Valley musicians joined forces to create an extraordinary virtual performance of the famous “Va, pensiero” chorus from the opera Nabucco by Giuseppe Verdi.

On May 2, 2020, Young People's Chorus of New York City performed in "The Call to Unite," a 24-hour global livestream event celebrating our collective humanity. YPC joined with more than 200 world leaders, artists, musicians, front-line workers, including Oprah Winfrey, Julia Roberts, Quincy Jones, Yo-Yo Ma, Deepak Chopra, and Mandy Moore.