Soundscapes 2013 Photo by Janine Menlove
Brooklyn Magazine Photo: Axel Dupeux
Photo by Gus Powell for The New Yorker
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Ovations at MusicNOW FestivalBYC performed to thunderous ovations at the MusicNOW Festival premiering works by Aleksandra Vrebalov, Richard Reed Parry & Bryce Dessner, and joining singer Glen Hansard. "Their music was thought-provoking and innovative in form and sound"-... |
PHOTO CONTEST: Share Your Best Bang on a Can Photos With Us!Use #bychorus on Twitter or Instagram to tag your best photos. We will announce a winner on Wednesday, June 19. |
BYC Shines with Kronos Quartet on the Eve of the Academy's 21st AnniversaryOn May 7, the Brooklyn Youth Chorus performed live with the world-renowned Kronos Quartet to celebrate BYCA's 21 years of music and education... |
BYC Continues to Impress at This Year's Crossing Brooklyn FerryOn Saturday, April 27, the Brooklyn Youth Chorus took the stage at BAM as the opening artists for the closing-day of the Crossing Brooklyn Ferry Festival... |
Ovations at MusicNOW FestivalBYC performed to thunderous ovations at the MusicNOW Festival premiering works by Aleksandra Vrebalov, Richard Reed Parry & Bryce Dessner, and joining singer Glen Hansard. "Their music was thought-provoking and innovative in form and sound"- Cincinnati.com |
PHOTO CONTEST: Share Your Best Bang on a Can Photos With Us!Use #bychorus on Twitter or Instagram to tag your best photos. We will announce a winner on Wednesday, June 19. |
LISTEN
The Hard Nut "Robert Cole, conducting the MMDG Music Ensemble and Brooklyn Youth Chorus, elicited a whole spectrum of delicacy, rapture and sonic excitement in the familiar score." The New York Times | BYC Benefit Concert with Kronos Quartet "No one who has heard the Brooklyn Youth Chorus will need any convincing about the ensemble’s quality…at ease performing alongside world-class orchestras, pop stars..." Steve Smith | The Brooklyn Rail "The B.Y.C. is as fine as it gets, in demand with the greatest orchestras and the most important composers." George Grella | Soundscapes "It can be hard to think of this group as anything but a polished ensemble of miniature professionals." Steve Smith | Tell the Way "The Brooklyn Youth Chorus, a superb ensemble of bright singers, consistently demonstrates a polish and commitment well beyond its years..." Steve Smith | 2013 Benefit Concert featuring Kronos Quartet "It was hard to believe the performers producing this difficult, mature-sounding music were so young..." Rebecca Lentjes | John Adams's El Nino "The Brooklyn Youth Chorus sung a finale which was so hypnotic, solemn and so in tune with the final Spanish word–”Poesia”, Poem–that one could cry." The Classical Music Network | Wally Cardona's Really Real "Kline draped the Brooklyn Youth Chorus in spiraling hymns that at some junctures stole the dancers' thunder." The Village Voice | Elton John at Madison Square Garden "The Brooklyn Youth Chorus managed to bring a sense of uplift, along with some raw power" Nat Chinen | Kronos Quartet at BAM "Particularly striking was a version of Aulis Sallinen's "Winter Was Hard" (1969), in which the quartet was joined by the warm-toned, wonderfully unified Brooklyn Youth Chorus." Allan Kozinn | Mahler Symphony No. 8 "As for the Brooklyn Youth Chorus Academy, it seems they produce the best, no matter what the demands." -- The Classical Music Network | Brooklyn Village "One never knows where to start when talking about the BYC since their overall musicianship is remarkable (solid pitch, diction, sense of shape and textures.)" Thomas Deneuville | The Hard Nut "Robert Cole, conducting the MMDG Music Ensemble and Brooklyn Youth Chorus, elicited a whole spectrum of delicacy, rapture and sonic excitement in the familiar score." The New York Times | BYC Benefit Concert with Kronos Quartet "No one who has heard the Brooklyn Youth Chorus will need any convincing about the ensemble’s quality…at ease performing alongside world-class orchestras, pop stars..." Steve Smith |
It all begins with a love of singing.
At BYCA, we know how to nurture young voices. Our expertise has earned us dates at legendary venues, a Grammy® and performances with pop superstars to classical music icons. Thanks to the vision of founder Dianne Berkun, BYCA turns the young who love to sing into the accomplished who form the heart and soul of a world-class ensemble.
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