Trinity Youth Chorus: Over Two Decades of Music Education

Currently entering its 22nd season, the Trinity Youth Chorus brings together talented young people ages 5 to 18 from the five boroughs of New York City and surrounding areas. Choristers receive individual and group training in vocal technique, music theory, sight-reading, and performance skills from Trinity’s music education team.

About the Ensemble

This Grammy-nominated ensemble provides musical leadership for various worship services and offer concerts throughout the season, often performing with Trinity’s professional ensembles, including Trinity Choir, NOVUS, and Trinity Baroque Orchestra. In 2023–24, Trinity Youth Chorus was featured in two world-premiere performances: Luna Pearl Woolf’s Number Our Days at the Perelman Performing Arts Center and Benedict Sheehan’s oratorio Akathist, which was recorded alongside Trinity Choir, Artefact Ensemble, Downtown Voices, and NOVUS, and nominated for a 2025 Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance. Recent highlights include a main-stage performance for the Perelman Performing Arts Center’s Refuge series, Kim André Arnesen’s Tuvayhun, Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana, Leonard Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms, a fully staged production of Benjamin Britten’s Noye’sFludde, Ellen Reid’s Winter’s Child at the PROTOTYPE Festival, Alberto Ginastera’s Turbae ad Passionem Gregorianam and Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 at Carnegie Hall, and Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem with the Queens College Choral Society. Recording projects include Benedict Sheehan’s Akathist, Philip Glass: Symphony No. 5, and Lisa Bielawa’s My Outstretched Hand with the San Francisco Girls Chorus and The Knights.   

Trinity Youth Chorus is featured in the films Love Is Strange and Doubt, as well as in Bielawa’s made-for-TV opera, Vireo; has sung backup for Josh Groban, the Rolling Stones, and Bobby McFerrin; and has been heard on Public Radio International and CBS’s The Early Show. 

Join the Chorus

The Trinity Youth Chorus welcomes all young people regardless of their background or musical experience. Students in grades K–12 are eligible to audition for the Trinity Youth Chorus.

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