Join us for Quarter Time!
New music, 5 world premieres, and two ensembles celebrating 25 years of championing young composers and making choral magic
Join us for Quarter Time, the spring concert of Young New Yorkers' Chorus's landmark 25th anniversary season.
Both the Mixed and Treble Ensembles take the stage for an evening of music about time, growth, and what it means to find your voice. The program features works almost exclusively by living composers — including three world premieres by the finalists of YNYC's Daniel Thompson Memorial Competition for Young Composers, one of the longest-running composer development programs of its kind in the country, with over 55 commissions since 2005. This season's finalists — PJ Mooney, Shane Scott Cook, and Matthew Marcus — have each worked directly with YNYC singers and conductor Alex Canovas throughout the rehearsal process, making these premieres as much collaboration as commission.
Highlights from the program include Caroline Shaw's its motion keeps, a new arrangement of Stephen Sondheim's Being Alive by our Arranger-in-Residence, Ben Bram, and Even When He Is Silent — alongside new works that round out an evening equal parts intimate and expansive.
Please note: only Saturday evening's performance will be live streamed.
Matthew Lyon Hazzard is an award-winning Filipino-American composer, conductor, singer, and educator.
Praised for his “exquisite text-setting” and for creating “stunning landscapes of sound,” his music is frequently performed by choirs around the world. His music has won many awards, including the 2021 CCDA George Heussenstamm Competition, the 2017 ACDA Raymond W. Brock Student Competition, and the inaugural True Concord’s Stephen Paulus Emerging Composers Competition, and many others.
Hazzard received his D.M.A. in Choral Conducting from the University of Houston, and his M.M. in Choral Conducting at the Bob Cole Conservatory. He currently teaches choir and continues to write for voices at his home in Long Beach, California.
Ben Bram (he/him) is a 2x Grammy and Emmy Award-winning vocal arranger, producer, engineer, and educator based in Brooklyn, NY and Los Angeles, CA. As a co-creator of renowned pop a cappella group Pentatonix, R&B ensemble Citizen Queen, children’s music brand Acapop! KIDS, and the summer vocal program A Cappella Academy, Ben has left a lasting impact on the vocal music world. He has had the privilege to work with many artists including the Backstreet Boys, Sabrina Carpenter, Jacob Collier, Tori Kelly, Trousdale, and The King’s Singers. Ben’s work has also extended to film and TV, where he has contributed to NBC’s The Sing-Off, Glee, and the Pitch Perfect films. His vocal arrangements can also be heard in commercials for major brands such as Super Bowl LVII, Honda, CoverGirl, and Lifetime. Driven by a deep passion for vocal and harmonic excellence, Ben continues to create emotion-driven, memorable arrangements and create community through music
2026-2027 Season
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Summer Community Sing!
Come learn a few choral favorites with YNYC while getting to know singers from across the city of all ages!
Late July/Early August
7:00pm
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Holiday Modulations
Our annual holiday extravaganza, featuring exciting contemporary music and choral favorites!
Friday, December 11th, 2026
Saturday, December 12th, 20268:00 PM
The Church of St. Mary the Virgin
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Sensing
The Mixed Ensemble explored 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
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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)