Performance
On June 26 at 4pm, we presented Spring Sings, featuring uplifting offerings from our training divisions. Our prep, pre-teen, and teen singers performed a variety of songs that showed off their musicality, vocal skills, and personality while reflecting their hard work and dedication throughout this unusual virtual season.
Watch Soundscapes, our Spring concert featuring the Performing Ensembles
Watch the replay of SOUNDSCAPES, featuring singers from the Concert, Junior, and Bass Ensembles performing a mix of classic and contemporary songs that showcase the talent and versatility of our performing ensembles.
Training singers for Life.
Our proven vocal training and world-class performance opportunities turn students into citizen artists.
Astonishing, inspired performances.
From indie rock to opera to contemporary classical - the Grammy Award-winning ensembles of Brooklyn Youth Chorus are in-demand at the highest levels and lead the field in creating new works for young voices.
Healthy, skills-based voice training.
Students are trained using the Cross-Choral Training® method - designed by Founder & Artistic Director Dianne Berkun Menaker - a functional approach to voice training, based on voice science, health, and building sight-reading and music literacy skills across musical genres.
Music education with no barriers.
We offer financial aid for any student in need and are open to all students, grades 2-12, regardless of background. We strive to remove any barriers to participation. The only requirement to join the Chorus is commitment and a love for singing.
Watch | A Conversation with the Creators of She Is Called: Dear Stranger
In a discussion moderated by interdisciplinary performer and radio host Helga Davis, Brooklyn Youth Chorus Founder and Artistic Director Dianne Berkun Menaker joins director Charlotte Brathwaite, creative team members Sunder Ganglani and Tareke Ortiz and singers of the Brooklyn Youth Chorus to talk about the origins of the project, the development process and the creation of the She Is Called: Dear Stranger website experience.
Silent Voices at National Sawdust, 2018
Concert and Men's Ensembles at Brooklyn Museum, 2019
Silent Voices at National Sawdust, 2018
Silent Voices: Lovestate at New Victory Theatre, 2019
Men's Ensemble, Holiday Harmonies, 2018
Black Mountain Songs, BAM, 2017
Concert and Men's Ensembles at Brooklyn Museum, 2019
Song Fest, 2019
Holiday Harmonies, 2018
Silent Voices: Lovestate at New Victory Theatre, 2019
Song Fest, 2019
Spring Sings, 2019
Silent Voices: Lovestate at New Victory Theatre, 2019
Ecstatic Festival with Wye Oak, 2018
Black Mountain Songs, BAM, 2017
Silent Voices: Lovestate at New Victory Theatre, 2019
Men's Ensemble, Spring Sings 2019
Upcoming events.
From classes to performances, Brooklyn Youth Chorus students are active nearly every day of the week. Explore the calendar for important school dates, upcoming performances, and special events.
Featured recording.
No Horizon by Wye Oak
The latest release from acclaimed indie rock duo, Wye Oak, features the Chorus on all five tracks.
Last September, members of the Chorus gathered at National Sawdust to record a series of songs with Wye Oak. The results of that session were released on July 31, 2020.
What people are saying.
“A mammoth choir that lends a shot of instant grandiosity to everything they touch.”
— Pitchfork, on Wye Oak’s EP No Horizon
"Inspiration flashes again on “Faith,” a standout track from Bon Iver’s new album i,i. A distant beat propels the track with a train-like rhythm as it expands outward to include piano, synths, saxophones, strings, the Brooklyn Youth Chorus and a soaring serene ecstasy, in the spiritual sense.”
— Paste Magazine, on Bon Iver’s album i,i
“It was a really great collaboration from the beginning. I think they inspired me to write some of my best music.”
— Caroline Shaw, composer of “Its Motion Keeps”
“The National have recruited some of the best singers out, among them Lisa Hannigan, Mina Tindle, Kate Stables, Sharon Van Etten, and the Brooklyn Youth Chorus.”
— Pitchfork, on The National’s album I Am Easy to Find
