ROME IS FALLING

Ariadne Greif, praised for her “luminous, expressive voice,” “searing top notes,” and “dusky depths,” (NYTimes), enjoyed a casual child career as a “boy” soprano at the LA Opera, eventually making an adult debut singing Lutoslawski’s Chantefleurs et Chantefables with the American Symphony Orchestra. She starred in operas ranging from Donizetti’s Elixir of Love with The Orlando Philharmonic, to Poulenc’s Les Mamelles de Tirésias at the Aldeburgh Festival, and Atthis, by G.F. Haas, which the NY Times called “”one of the most searingly painful and revealing operatic performances in recent times.” 

Recent projects included performances with William Kentridge in the Oslo Opera House, The Luxembourg Philharmonic, Berkeley Cal Performances, and Performa in New York of the Dada masterpiece Ursonate, two projects of her own called Bird Party and Eleven Wild Geese commissioned by The Ultima Festival in Norway, a film of Table Manners, by Sheree Clement, and a film of We Need To Talk, a new monodrama by Caroline Shaw and Anne Carson for Opera Philadelphia. She sang concerts, recitals, and chamber music across the US, in Canada, Europe, Australia, and the Middle East with collaborators including JACK Quartet, PUBLIQuartet, Brooklyn Rider, The Orlando Philharmonic, American Composers Orchestra, Gabe Kahane, Pekka Kuusisto, The Knights, including over three hundred concerts on tour with Ensemble Mélange. She sang at venues including The Ojai Festival, Zurich Tonhalle, Park Avenue Armory, Carnegie Hall, Sydney Chamber Opera, The Sarasota Opera House, Little Island, and The Meidän Festival in Helsinki. 

Recent highlights include Alyssa Weinberg’s monodrama Isola with Long Beach Opera, singing and dancing as Miss Adelaide in Guys and Dolls with Opera Saratoga, Nick Brooke’s Ten Transcendental Etudes at Mass MoCA, and a series of concerts in North America, Europe, and Australia with Brooklyn Rider, performing Schoenberg String Quartet No. 2 and Colin Jacobsen’s Chalk and Soot. In 2025 she appears on a new album with Raven Chacon and Present Music, as well as Kate Soper’s The Romance of the Rose, released in 2024.

Ariadne has premiered upwards of thirty new operas and more than 150 new chamber works.

Bret Easterling is a queer dance artist, educator, director and producer based in Los Angeles, California. After receiving his BFA from The Juilliard School, Easterling was a formative member of Gallim Dance and a recognizable performer and contributor to Ohad Naharin’s internationally acclaimed Batsheva Dance Company.

Easterling is on faculty at the USC Glorya Kaufman School of Dance and a certified Gaga teacher who stages Naharin’s works at dance programs and companies around the world. He has built and presented his own choreographic works through spaces including Jacob’s Pillow, REDCAT, The 92nd Street Y, LA Dance Project, AMOC*, Whim W’Him, Backhausdance, b12, Dance on Camera Festival, and Hauser & Wirth and in collaboration with music artists including Anthony Roth Costanzo, Ai Bendr, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, and Jurassic Spine.

As the Founder and Artistic Director of BEMOVING, an LGBTQ+ led nonprofit that builds nurturing environments for the research, development, and dissemination of dance works and movement practices, Bret invests in the Los Angeles cultural ecosystem which includes creating programs like the GHOST LIGHT RESIDENCY which awards choreographers from historically marginalized groups time, space, and honorariums to further their own creative practice inside of proscenium theaters of the greater Los Angeles area.

Praised for his “iridescent countertenor” (The New York Times), “liquid elegance” (Seen and Heard International), and “intense stage presence” (Classical Voice North America), Chuanyuan Liu is a rising force among the new generation of countertenors. His deep passion for storytelling inspires him to connect with audiences through empathy, authenticity, and creativity

In the 2024–25 season, Chuanyuan appears as the alto soloist in Messiah with the Kansas City Symphony and makes his role debut as Tolomeo in Giulio Cesare at Hudson Hall. He reprises the roles of Priest/Medium in In a Grove at both the Prototype Festival and Opera Saratoga, where he also performs Madame de Quinper-Karadec in La Vie Parisienne. Additional highlights include covering The Painter in The Seasons at Boston Lyric Opera, guest soloist in Christmas at the Paramount with the Oratorio Society of Virginia, and presenting in two recitals: Call Me by My Name with pianist Tongyao Li, and Memoirs of a Gaysian with ChamberQUEER and Wear Yellow Proudly. As an apprentice artist at Chautauqua Opera, he sings Elise Traynor in Lincoln in the Bardo, Parpignol in La bohème, and Max in Sitcom.

Originally from China and now based in the U.S., Chuanyuan centers his work on Asian representation. Notable projects include the title role in the world premiere of Monkey (White Snake Projects), covering Song Liling in M. Butterfly (Santa Fe Opera), directing and starring in That Night With the Green Sky for AAPI Heritage Month, and curating neither here nor there, a recital on the Asian/-American experience.

Other notable engagements include the world premiere of In a Grove, at Pittsburgh Opera, followed by a return as Polinesso in Ariodante; a Philadelphia Orchestra debut in the world premiere of The Hours under Yannick Nézet-Séguin; his Carnegie Hall debut in Renée Fleming’s SongStudio; alto soloist in Messiah with Toledo Symphony Orchestra; and countertenor soloist in Bernstein’s The Lark with New York Choral Society. Chuanyuan was a Fleming Fellowship Artist at the 2023 Aspen Music Festival, where he performed the role of César in Jimmy Lopez and Nilo Cruz’s Bel Canto and appeared in numerous opera, art song, and chamber music concerts. He is a Troupe member of Victory Hall Opera, where he performed in Orpheus and Erica: a deaf opera, and was one of the 5 artists featured in their most recent documentary, YAPs.

Chuanyuan is a 2024 Sullivan Foundation Award winner and a two-time National Semifinalist in the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition. He also received prizes from Cedar Rapids Opera, Pasadena Vocal Competition, Opera Index, the Gerda Lissner Foundation, and others. He holds an Artist Diploma from University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, a Master’s from Bard Conservatory’s Graduate Vocal Arts Program, and a BA from the University of Virginia.

Clay Zeller-Townson is the founder and Artistic Director of the baroque band Ruckus. He is based between Vermont and New York City. He plays with the leading period instrument ensembles in North America including: Tafelmusik, The Handel and Haydn Society, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Boston Baroque and Trinity Baroque Orchestra. He has produced and premiered many new works for early instruments. He is a visiting instructor of Baroque Bassoon at New England Conservatory.  He has given coachings on performance practice, masterclasses and lessons at UCLA, The Colburn School, The University of Missouri and The Eastman School of Music.  

Clay was born in Nova Scotia, raised in eastern North Carolina, and found his way to the baroque bassoon by way of the tenor saxophone. He holds a Bachelor’s degree and Performer’s Certificate from The Eastman School of Music, a Master’s degree from The Juilliard School and the Advanced Certificate in Music Education from CUNY-Brooklyn College.

Passionate about rural arts education, Clay has taught K-8 general music in the Stamford and Readsboro, Vermont public schools. From 2011-2016 he taught at The North Carolina Governor’s School as Instrumental Music Faculty.

Cellist and performer Coleman Itzkoff stands at the intersection of baroque/classical/new music, contemporary dance, and experimental theater. Whether premiering works by living composers and performing baroque music on historical instruments in the same concert, delivering enigmatic monologues in a piece of avant-garde dance theater, composing, arranging, and recording music for the Amazon film Le Bal des Folles, or simply playing solo Bach for hospital patients in the time of COVID, Coleman continues to push the boundaries of what it means to be a musician of the 21st century.  

As a soloist, he has been featured soloist with many great orchestras, including recent appearances with the Houston, San Diego, and Cincinnati Symphonies. He is a dedicated member of the early music ensembles Ruckus and Twelfth Night, and is a founding member of AMOC. Coleman holds a Bachelors in Music from Rice University, a Masters in Music from USC, and an Artist Diploma from The Juilliard School.

Doug Balliett is a composer, instrumentalist, and poet based in New York City. The New York Times described his compositions as “brainily bubble gum and lovable shaggy,” his poetry as “brilliant and witty,” and his bass playing as “elegant.” Doug is a professor of baroque bass and violone at The Juilliard School, and he leads the Theotokos ensemble every Sunday at St. Mary’s Church. He plays regularly with Les Arts Florissants, Jupiter Ensemble, ACRONYM, Ruckus, BEMF, Alarm Will Sound, and other ensembles. In 2021, five of his Ovid Cantatas were filmed for Qwest TV with William Christie, Lea Desandre, and Nick Scott. 

For three years he and his twin brother hosted a weekly show dedicated to living composers on WQXR’s new music channel Q2. Upcoming performances of his work include Beast Fights at Tanglewood with the Boston Symphony bass section, and the annual New Year’s Eve performance of his opera Gawain and the Green Knight.

Elliot Figg is a keyboardist, conductor and composer who lives in New York. He is a graduate of the Historical Performance Program at The Juilliard School where he studied harpsichord with Kenneth Weiss. He also studied with Arthur Haas at the Yale School of Music. Elliot is an active member of ACRONYM, Ruckus, and House of Time. Previous engagements include: Five Boroughs Music Festival, Through the Warping Lens, a concert featuring his own music; Conductor and harpsichordist for Haydn’s Jupiter’s Journey to Earth, Monteverdi’s Combattimento, Hasse’s Piramo e Tisbe, and St.-Georges’ L’Amant Anonyme, all with Little Opera Theatre of New York; Conductor and harpsichordist for Death of Classical’s productions of Dido and Aeneas and Hot Dogs, Hooch, & Handel in and around the catacombs of Green-Wood Cemetery; Deputy Music Director and harpsichordist for Farinelli and the King on Broadway.

A 2023 recipient of the Avery Fisher Career Grant, Emi Ferguson can be heard live in concerts and festivals with groups including AMOC*, Ruckus, the Handel and Haydn Society, the New York New Music Ensemble, the Manhattan Chamber Players, and as the music director of Camerata Pacifica Baroque. Her recordings celebrate her fascination with reinvigorating music and instruments of the past for the present. Her debut album, Amour Cruel, an indie-pop song cycle inspired by the music of the 17th-century French court, was released by Arezzo Music in September 2017, spending four weeks on the classical, classical crossover, and world music Billboard charts. Her 2019 album Fly the Coop: Bach Sonatas and Preludes, a collaboration with continuo band Ruckus, debuted at #1 on the iTunes classical charts and #2 on the Billboard classical charts, and was called “blindingly impressive … a fizzing, daring display of personality and imagination” by The New York Times.

Emi has been a featured performer at the Marlboro, Lucerne, Ojai, Lake Champlain, Bach Virtuosi, and June in Buffalo festivals, often premiering new works by composers of our time. Emi was a featured performer alongside Yo-Yo Ma, Paul Simon, and James Taylor at the 10th Anniversary Memorial Ceremony of 9/11 at Ground Zero, where her performance of Amazing Grace was televised worldwide. Her performance that day is now part of the permanent collection at the 911 Museum. Emi has spoken and performed at several TEDx events and has been featured on media outlets including the Discovery Channel, Amazon Prime, WQXR, and Vox talking about how music relates to our world today. As a radio host and programmer, Emi first started working with New York’s WQXR as a member of their Artist Propulsion Lab where she developed the podcast series “This Composer Is Sick” with Max Fine, exploring the impact of Syphilis on composers Franz Schubert, Bedřich Smetana, and Scott Joplin. She one of four new hosts for WQXR’s Young Artists Showcase and the host of Once Upon A Composer, sharing musical stories with the youngest radio listeners. Her book Iconic Composers, co-written with Nicholas Csicsko alongside illustrations by David Lee Csicsko, introduces music lovers of all ages to 50 incredible Western Classical composers from the past 1000 years. Born in Japan and raised in London and Boston, she now resides in New York.

Jonny Allen is a Grammy-nominated percussionist whose contagious passion for music has been described as “a demonstration of raw power, virtuosity and feeling” by The New York Times. Jonny has won prizes at both the International Chamber Music Competition and the International Marimba Competition in Salzburg, giving respective performances at Carnegie Hall and Schloss Hoch in Flachau, Austria. He has also performed as a drum set soloist with Ghana’s National Symphony Orchestra at the National Theatre in Accra. Jonny performs regularly with his percussion quartet, Sandbox, and is a founding Core Member of the American Modern Opera Company (AMOC). He is also a committed educator on percussion faculty at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, The New School in Manhattan, and the Peabody Institute in Baltimore. Jonny holds a Bachelor’s degree and Performer’s Certificate from the Eastman School of Music, as well as a Masters degree and Artist Diploma from the Yale School of Music.

Jordon Dodson, described by Performance Today as “one of the top young guitarists of his generation,” is an in-demand musician and educator. An advocate of contemporary music, Dodson has given the premiere of hundreds of new works. In 2013 he was the first guitarist to graduate from the Curtis Institute of Music’s new guitar program. In the same year he won Astral Artists’ National Auditions and was selected to be Young Artist in Residence on American Public Media. He has appeared on several commercially available recordings including Jason Eckardt’s Subject and Elliot Cole’s Nightflower and Journals, vol. 1. Originally from Columbus, Ohio, Dodson is on faculty at EzraGuitar and The Smith School in New York City. He has given masterclasses and lectures internationally and holds degrees from the Curtis Institute of Music, the Manhattan School of Music, and the University of Cincinnati, and his teachers have included Clare Callahan, David Starobin, and Jason Vieaux. Jordan is endorsed by Oasis strings and plays a Gary Lee guitar.

Baritone Jorell Williams, known for having “a solid vocal core and easy, natural production” (Opera News), and  “a deliciously resonant baritone voice” (Broadway World) has been heralded as “a rock solid singer with a keen  understanding of his own expressive depths” (The Washington Post), is gracing the world’s most prominent concert and opera stages. The 2024/25 season for Jorell Williams includes headlining Kentucky Opera’s seasonopening Fannie Lou Hamer Tribute Concert, followed by the New York Festival of Song (NYFOS) in “My Brother’s Keeper”. Jorell  debuts with Manitoba Opera as Belcore in L’elisir d’amore, and stars in the title role of Le nozze di Figaro with Opera Columbus.  Additional highlights include performances with the National Philharmonic in Handel’s Messiah, and the Omaha Symphony in Mendelssohn’s Elijah. Jorell also debuts with Montreal’s Choeur StLaurent in Walton’s Belshazzar’s Feast.  Jorell is widely recognized for his concert work, having performed as a soloist in Bach’s Magnificat, Handel’s Messiah, Orff’s Carmina Burana, as well as Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem, Vaughan Williams’ Dona Nobis Pacem, and Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. Jorell has appeared with South Dakota Symphony, Greek National Opera, Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, Amadeus Choir, Elmer Iseler Singers, and Juneau Symphony.  Jorell has won awards from the Jensen Foundation, The Gerda Lissner International Competition, The Schuyler Foundation for Career Bridges, The Licia Albanese Puccini Foundation, The National Association of Negro Musicians, The Adams Art Song Competition and the Rochester Classical Idol XII Prize. He is an advocate for artist rights and serves as Chair of the Artistic Arts Council of Finger Lakes Opera, is a member of the Artistic Council for the Denyce Graves Foundation, OnSite Opera and is currently on the New Music board for the Brooklyn Art Song Society, using his experience to consult with arts organizations on their Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiatives.

Julia Eichten is a graduate of the Juilliard School, where they received the Hector Zaraspe Award in recognition of their choreography in 2011. Eichten was a founding member of L.A. Dance Project and is a current member of AMOC* (American Modern Opera Company). Julia moves between Opera, Theater and Dance as a Director, Choreographer, Educator and Performer. In 2024, Julia choreographed and had their debut performance with Long Beach Opera in, “ISOLA.” Curated an evening, “Art is Gay” with Eichterling (Bret Easterling & Eichten) alongside Anthony Roth Costanzo in NYC at Art Bath. They created a new work on Ballet Florida and performed in  Carolyn Chen’s “How to Fall Apart,” at L.A. Dance Project with AMOC* presented by Monday Evening Concerts. “True Love Will Find You In The End” a film, directed by Bret Easterling, choreographed and starring by Easterling & Eichten was shown at Hauser & Wirth, NYC as a part of Screening Room: ‘Performance on Film’ Series. Most recently, Eichten performed in Joan Jonas’ iconic Mirror Piece I & II at The Getty Museum, which inspired hat company, PAY DANCERS. Most recently she had performances at CRAWLSPACE LA with partner, Juniper XR in their ongoing work, “Untitled Xirl,” and at MOCA Geffen with WILD UP as a part of their Democracy Series, in “The Democracy Bardo.”

Keir GoGwilt is a violinist, composer, and musicologist who was born in Edinburgh and grew up in New York City. His work combines historical research and collaborative experimentation across a range of musical styles and genres. He has soloed with groups including the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Chinese National Symphony, Orquesta Filarmonica de Santiago, and the Boston Modern Orchestra Project. This year he is creating and performing a new stage role for Marie & Pierre by Bobbi Jene Smith and Celeste Oram with the Basel Sinfonieorchester and Ballet, composing for the JACK Quartet as artist-in-residence, performing his speculative-historical project Zarabanda Variations with AMOC, and publishing an article for the Bach Journal. 

GoGwilt earned his PhD in Music from UC San Diego in 2022 and was awarded the Chancellor’s Dissertation Medal. As an undergraduate at Harvard he studied Literature, and was awarded the Louis Sudler Prize in the Arts. 

Kyle Scheurich was born in 1992 in New York. In 2010 he graduated from Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School for Music & Art and the Performing Arts. During his time at LaGuardia High School he also studied at Manhattan Youth Ballet under the direction of Francois Perron. He graduated from The Juilliard School under the direction of Larry Rhodes, and joined Batsheva – the young Ensemble in 2014.  Kyle joined Batsheva Dance Company in 2016-2021, with Ohad Nahirin acting as both artistic director and house choreographer.  Kyle has performed with AMOC (American Modern Opera Company) for the stage premiere of Bobbi Jene Smith’s & Or Schreiber’s ‘Broken Theatre’.

Currently Kyle performs in various works, under the direction of choreographer Marlene Monteiro Freitas, co-founder of P.OR.K (Portugal).  Kyle is a teacher of Gaga movement language and works as a stager/rehearsal director for Ohad Nahirin at universities and dance companies around the world.  Kyle is also an Ilan Lev Method practitioner & DJ.

Matthew Aucoin is an American composer, conductor, and writer, and a 2018 MacArthur Fellow. He is a co-founder of the pathbreaking American Modern Opera Company (AMOC*), was the Los Angeles Opera’s Artist in Residence from 2016 to 2020, and currently serves as an Arnhold Creative Associate at The Juilliard School.

Aucoin’s orchestral and chamber music has been performed, commissioned, and recorded by such leading artists and ensembles as Yo-Yo Ma, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony, Zurich’s Tonhalle Orchestra, the BBC Scottish Symphony, the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, and the Brentano Quartet. In the summer of 2023, the MET Orchestra, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, featured Aucoin’s orchestral work “Heath” on its first European tour in several decades.

Aucoin is also well-known for his operas, which include Eurydice, Crossing, and Second Nature. These works have been produced at the Metropolitan Opera, the Los Angeles Opera, Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), Boston Lyric Opera, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, and the Canadian Opera Company, among others. The Metropolitan Opera’s recording of Eurydice was nominated for a Grammy in 2023.

Aucoin’s other recent conducting engagements include appearances with the Los Angeles Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Boston Lyric Opera, San Diego Symphony, Salzburg’s Mozarteum Orchestra, Ojai Music Festival, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Rome Opera Orchestra, and many other ensembles. Aucoin’s book about opera, The Impossible Art: Adventures in Opera, was published in 2021 by Farrar, Straus, & Giroux. He has taught at Harvard University, and his essays regularly appear in leading publications such as The New York Review of Books and The Atlantic.

Admired for his interpretive depth, vocal strength, and range of expressivity, tenor Paul Appleby is one of the most sought-after voices of his generation. He graces the stages of the world’s most distinguished concert halls and opera houses and collaborates with leading orchestras, instrumentalists, and conductors. Opera Newswrites, “[Paul’s] tenor is limpid and focused, but with a range of color unusual in an instrument so essentially lyric… His singing is scrupulous and musical; the voice moves fluidly and accurately.”

Appleby’s concert calendar for the 2024–25 season includes the title role of Berlioz’ La damnation de Faust with Hannu Lintu leading the Gulbenkian Orchestra and Choir, Haydn’s The Creation with Martin Pearlman and Boston Baroque, concert performances of Puccini’s La Rondine with Sir Antonio Pappano and the London Symphony Orchestra, John Corigliano’s captivating Poem in October, inspired by a rich and imaginative poem by Dylan Thomas, with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and Evangelist in Bach’s Matthäus-Passion with Kent Tritle at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. The tenor returns to the stage of the Metropolitan Opera for the company premiere of John Adams’ Antony and Cleopatra, reprising the role of Caesar which was written for him, in a staging by groundbreaking director Elkhanah Pulitzer.

Respected as a consummate recital artist, Appleby has presented solo appearances at the Wigmore Hall with Malcolm Martineau, toured North America extensively with pianists Natalia Katyukova, Ken Noda, and Conor Hanick, and has given his Tanglewood debut in a performance of Janáček’s The Diary of One Who Vanished with Emanuel Ax.  With pianist Wu Han, he has sung Schubert’s masterpiece, Winterreise, under the auspices of The Schubert Club. Paul Appleby’s recording catalogue includes Nico Muhly’s opera Two Boys, recorded live by the Metropolitan Opera and released by Nonesuch; DVDs of Glyndebourne’s acclaimed presentation of Handel’s Saul and Berlioz’s Béatrice et Bénédict released commercially by Opus Arte; Dear Theo, the first album dedicated solely to works by American composer Ben Moore released by Delos; and Songs and Structures, a portrait album of recent vocal and chamber works by composer Harold Meltzer released on Bridge Records, in addition to other recordings by Virgin Classics, and EMI’s Juilliard Sessions. Appleby is a founding core member of the American Modern Opera Company (AMOC*).

Paul Holmes Morton is native to the state of Pennsylvania, where he had his first music lessons on his father’s banjo. His studies with the virtuoso classical guitarist Ernesto Tamayo gifted him a technical tour through musical theories and history. Later Morton picked up the lute, and found it lying at the crossroads between the classics and the living folk traditions. His explorations of performance practice carry him to Handel operas, old time tunes, new compositions, and all there is between.

Perpetually inspired by music as a vehicle to transport oneself across time and culture, Paul Holmes can be found in a variety of venues from cathedrals and concert halls to smoky bars and country barns, anywhere that allows performance to lend harmony to the present noise.

As a lutenist, guitarist, banjo player, composer, and arranger Morton performs across North America and beyond with Ruckus, The Chivalrous Crickets, and the Baroque Chamber Orchestra of Colorado. An active recording artist, his musicianship can be found on albums by The Chivalrous Crickets, Makaris, Emi Ferguson, Tiny Glass Tavern, and Paul Simon.

YPC is an internationally acclaimed choral ensemble, praised for its virtuosity and brilliant sound by The New York Times. Under the leadership of Founder and Artistic Director Francisco J. Núñez, a MacArthur Fellow, and Creative Director Elizabeth Núñez, the non – profit organization uplifts over 2,000 young people annually, representing every neighborhood of New York City, empowering children of all backgrounds with a unique program of music education and choral performance that unlocks pathways to success through the arts. 

Renowned for its expansive repertoire, YPC (Young People’s Chorus of New York City) has commissioned hundreds of works from  emerging and established composers. Their exceptional performances have been heard in five continents, where they performed with leading orchestras at world famous venues like Tokyo’s Bunkyo Civic Hall, Czech Republic’s Smetana Hall, Beijing’s Opera House, and New York City’s Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall. YPC regularly performs on national radio and television programs including CBS Sunday Morning and has been featured on NBC, ABC, BBC, CCTV, FOX, NHK, PBS, and more..

Among YPC’s many honors are a National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award from the White House, an honor from First Lady Laura Bush, and performances before prime ministers, Pope Francis and Pope John Paul.

YPC has competed in international competitions and most recently won 10 gold medals and four world championships during the World Choir Games in Korea 2023 and New Zealand 2024. Their holiday film special Topsy Turvy New York won a 66th Annual New York Emmy® Award. Its documentary This Time Round,  earned “Best Producer” at the Toronto Indie Filmmakers Festival and “Best Soundtrack” at the New York International Film Awards.