Join us for Holiday Modulations

Every December, the Young New Yorkers' Chorus gathers to celebrate the season in a way that's all our own. Holiday Modulations is a program of choral music, curated to envelop you in sound, grandeur, and nostalgia without leaning on the usual holiday tropes. It's a chance to find warmth and wonder in the season through music that feels both familiar and surprising.

Choral nerds and music lovers of all kinds will enjoy a program full of beautiful, rousing, and profound works almost exclusively by living composers. Whatever the season means to you, there's a seat for you here.

PROGRAM

Mixed Ensemble
and the swallow - Caroline Shaw
Eternity - Alvin Trotman
Hail, gladdening Light - Charles Wood
Night - William Blake
Snow - Ben Parry
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening - Eric Whitacre
Three Mystical Choruses: En Kelohenu - Steven Sametz

Treble Ensemble
Shining Light - Joanne Metcalf
Sabat Mater - Sulpitia Cesis ed. Meredith Bowen
Stars in Your Bones - Joan Szymko
Totari - Laura Jekabsone
Winter Stars - Jake Runestad
Ave Generosa - Ola Gjeilo
Ave Maria - Franz Biebl

All
Closing Prayer - Alex Berko

Please note: only Saturday evening's performance will be live streamed.

2026-2027 Season

  • Summer Community Sings!

    Come learn a few choral favorites with YNYC while getting to know singers from across the city of all ages!

    Wednesday, July 29th

    Tuesday, August 4th

    7:00 PM

    St. Paul’s Episcopal Church (Carroll Gardens)

  • Holiday Modulations

    Our annual holiday extravaganza, featuring exciting contemporary music and choral favorites!

    Friday, December 11th, 2026
    Saturday, December 12th, 2026

    8:00 PM

    The Church of St. Mary the Virgin
    (Times Square)

  • Sensing

    The Mixed Ensemble explores choral music’s relationship with all five senses, featuring Jake Runestad’s “A Silence Haunts Me”.

    Saturday, April 24th, 2027

    7:30 PM

    The Church of St. Mary the Virgin
    (Times Square)

  • Fifteen

    Join the Treble Ensemble to celebrate the fifteenth anniversary of their founding

    Saturday, May 1st, 2027

    7:30 PM

    The Church of St. Mary the Virgin
    (Times Square)