C4: The Choral Composer/Conductor Collective is thrilled to announce an extraordinary collaboration with the Brooklyn Youth Chorus this March! 

Featuring three new pieces by C4 members Karen Siegel, Lila Meretzky and Jamie Klenetsky-Fay, save the date for this unforgettable evening!

• Friday 14th March at Redeemer Presbyterian Church West Side, 150 W 83rd St, New York

• Saturday 15th March at St. Paul's Carroll Gardens, 199 Carroll Street, Brooklyn

C4: The Choral Composer/Conductor Collective is thrilled to announce an extraordinary collaboration with the Brooklyn Youth Chorus this March! 

Featuring three new pieces by C4 members Karen Siegel, Lila Meretzky and Jamie Klenetsky-Fay, save the date for this unforgettable evening!

• Friday 14th March at W83 Ministry Center, 150 W 83rd St, New York

• Saturday 15th March at St. Paul's Carroll Gardens, 199 Carroll Street, Brooklyn

Johann Sebastian Bach | St. Matthew Passion, BVW 244

Brian Giebler, Tenor, Evangelist
Sidney Outlaw, Baritone, Jesus
Sarah Frei, Soprano
Lucia Bradford, Mezzo-Soprano
Jacob Perry, Tenor
Cody Quattlebaum, Bass

featuring
Brooklyn Youth Chorus
Dianne Berkun Menaker, Artistic Director

*Please note the earlier start time for this event*

The St. Matthew Passion is one of Bach's most profound and enduring works. More than a sacred oratorio, this masterpiece grapples with timeless human struggles—betrayal, suffering, forgiveness, and redemption—questions that remain ever-present and deeply relevant.

The St. Matthew Passion is perhaps the most beloved in Bach’s tremendous canon of works for chorus and orchestra. Across a full riveting evening, the piece unfolds using two orchestras, two choruses, a youth chorus, dramatic characters, narration, and exquisite baroque aria performances.

Brooklyn Youth Chorus returns to Radio City to perform the live soundtrack to film for the final climactic chapter of The Lord of the Rings, The Return of the King. Each character theme, each cultural style, every motif associated with the precepts of Tolkien’s work must reach the destination set before it in the previous two scores.

Brooklyn Youth Chorus returns to Radio City to perform the live soundtrack to film for the final climactic chapter of The Lord of the Rings, The Return of the King. Each character theme, each cultural style, every motif associated with the precepts of Tolkien’s work must reach the destination set before it in the previous two scores.

Brooklyn Youth Chorus returns to Radio City to perform the live soundtrack to film for the final climactic chapter of The Lord of the Rings, The Return of the King. Each character theme, each cultural style, every motif associated with the precepts of Tolkien’s work must reach the destination set before it in the previous two scores.

Brooklyn Youth Chorus returns to Radio City to perform the live soundtrack to film for the final climactic chapter of The Lord of the Rings, The Return of the King. Each character theme, each cultural style, every motif associated with the precepts of Tolkien’s work must reach the destination set before it in the previous two scores.

Brooklyn Youth Chorus returns to Radio City to perform the live soundtrack to film for the final climactic chapter of The Lord of the Rings, The Return of the King. Each character theme, each cultural style, every motif associated with the precepts of Tolkien’s work must reach the destination set before it in the previous two scores.

Grammy Award–winning singer-songwriter Aoife O’Donovan once again joins The Knights to perform America, Come, with Brooklyn Youth Chorus.

As part of events to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day, Brooklyn Youth Chorus will take part in a performance of Bernstein’s Symphony No.3 “Kaddish” with the text written by Samuel Pisar, who was one of the youngest survivors of Auschwitz. The work will be conducted by James Conlon, with the Orchestra of St Lukes, soprano Diana Newman, and Judith and Leah Pisar narrating the text.

Cobble Hill Holiday Gather and Sing

**New Rain Location for Tonight's Gather and Sing Event**

It may be beautiful out now, but the weather report won't budge on predicting rain for tonight's Cobble Hill Holiday Gather & Sing event. But we won't let it dampen our fun. Instead, we are moving the festivities inside to:

Christ Church
326 Clinton Street
(Clinton & Kane)
(map)

So please brave the weather and come join us from 5:30 to 7:30pm for community, cookies, cocoa, and cider. Singing led by Brooklyn Youth Chorus will be from 6-6:30. 

And don't forget to bring your Men's Winter Coats for donation to the Gowanus Mutual Aid Coat Drive! 

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Come one, come all to the Cobble Hill Holiday Gather and Sing, a community event co-sponsored by the Cobble Hill Association and the Brooklyn Youth Chorus. Embrace the holiday spirit in the heart of Cobble Hill Park, surrounded by the warmth of community and the enchanting melodies of the season.

Head over to the park starting at 5:30pm for some refreshments and background music to get you in the spirit. From 6pm-6:30pm, Brooklyn Youth Chorus will lead us all in a sing-a-long of classic holiday tunes and festive songs. No singing experience or skill required!

Don't miss this wonderful opportunity to celebrate the holidays, create lasting memories, and enjoy the magic of Cobble Hill Park with your community.

RSVP to help us plan. We hope you can join us for an evening of fun at the Cobble Hill Holiday Gather and Sing!

Join us December 13-14 for a series of three heartwarming and breathtaking winter concerts featuring our Training Divisions and Performing Ensembles.

Join us December 13-14 for a series of three heartwarming and breathtaking winter concerts featuring our Training Divisions and Performing Ensembles.

Join us December 13-14 for a series of three heartwarming and breathtaking winter concerts featuring our Training Divisions and Performing Ensembles.

The Junior and Bass Ensembles of Brooklyn Youth Chorus delight residents and friends of The Watermark at Brooklyn Heights with an evening of festive music to ring in the holiday season.

By invitation.

Brooklyn Youth Chorus joins the Philip Glass Ensemble at The Town Hall to perform a live scoring of Godfrey Reggio’s film "Powaqqatsi," the second film in The Qatsi Trilogy.

Brooklyn Youth Chorus joins Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic as they reunite with four-time Grammy winner and 17-time Latin Grammy winner Natalia Lafourcade. This internationally beloved singer-songwriter’s Carnegie Hall debut in 2022—which had a sold-out audience up and dancing—featured the premiere of music from her album De Todas las Flores, which earned her Record of the Year at the 2023 Latin Grammy Awards.

Once-in-a-generation, the United Nations gathers world leaders for its Summit of the Future. During this landmark event, global leaders will convene to explore and define a path toward a brighter present and a more promising future.

This year, Brooklyn Youth Chorus, along with representatives from Member States, civil society, the private sector, academia, local and regional authorities, youth, and many others, will participate in this wide-ranging engagement.

Joe Hisaishi Symphonic Concert: Music from the Studio Ghibli Films of Hayao Miyazaki will return to New York City this time at Madison Square Garden on July 11, 2024. The event celebrates the esteemed partnership between revered composer Joe Hisaishi (Departures, Spirited Away) and beloved filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki (Spirited Away). Long standing friends and collaborators, Hisaishi and Miyazaki have worked together for over thirty years, combining their musical and storytelling talents on eleven films for the renowned production house Studio Ghibli. Hisaishi’s illustrious scores - including those from Princess Mononoke, My Neighbor Totoro and the Oscar-winning Spirited Away – will be performed by the American Symphony Orchestra, the Brooklyn Youth Chorus and MasterVoices conducted by Hisaishi. The music will accompany montages from Miyazaki’s films, breathing new life into their timeless work.

Joe Hisaishi Symphonic Concert: Music from the Studio Ghibli Films of Hayao Miyazaki will return to New York City this time at Madison Square Garden on July 11, 2024. The event celebrates the esteemed partnership between revered composer Joe Hisaishi (Departures, Spirited Away) and beloved filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki (Spirited Away). Long standing friends and collaborators, Hisaishi and Miyazaki have worked together for over thirty years, combining their musical and storytelling talents on eleven films for the renowned production house Studio Ghibli. Hisaishi’s illustrious scores - including those from Princess Mononoke, My Neighbor Totoro and the Oscar-winning Spirited Away – will be performed by the American Symphony Orchestra, the Brooklyn Youth Chorus and MasterVoices conducted by Hisaishi. The music will accompany montages from Miyazaki’s films, breathing new life into their timeless work.

Joe Hisaishi Symphonic Concert: Music from the Studio Ghibli Films of Hayao Miyazaki will return to New York City this time at Madison Square Garden on July 11, 2024. The event celebrates the esteemed partnership between revered composer Joe Hisaishi (Departures, Spirited Away) and beloved filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki (Spirited Away). Long standing friends and collaborators, Hisaishi and Miyazaki have worked together for over thirty years, combining their musical and storytelling talents on eleven films for the renowned production house Studio Ghibli. Hisaishi’s illustrious scores - including those from Princess Mononoke, My Neighbor Totoro and the Oscar-winning Spirited Away – will be performed by the American Symphony Orchestra, the Brooklyn Youth Chorus and MasterVoices conducted by Hisaishi. The music will accompany montages from Miyazaki’s films, breathing new life into their timeless work.

You are cordially invited to the Brooklyn Youth Chorus

Rescheduled from 2020, this US Premiere of Olga Neuwirth’s Project 19 commission “Keyframes for a Hippogriff” features Brooklyn Youth Chorus and sets texts by Ariosto, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Friedrich Nietzsche, graffiti artists, and others, including Neuwirth herself.

Rescheduled from 2020, this US Premiere of Olga Neuwirth’s Project 19 commission “Keyframes for a Hippogriff” features Brooklyn Youth Chorus and sets texts by Ariosto, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Friedrich Nietzsche, graffiti artists, and others, including Neuwirth herself.

Rescheduled from 2020, this US Premiere of Olga Neuwirth’s Project 19 commission “Keyframes for a Hippogriff” features Brooklyn Youth Chorus and sets texts by Ariosto, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Friedrich Nietzsche, graffiti artists, and others, including Neuwirth herself.