Welcome Guest Curator Francisco J. Núñez

Francisco J. Núñez, a MacArthur Fellow and Musical America’s 2018 Educator of the Year, is a composer, conductor, visionary, leading figure in music education, and the artistic director/founder of the Young People’s Chorus of New York City. Since he founded YPC in 1988, he has established an awareness of the ability of children to rise to unforeseen artistic heights, and now, through YPC National, he is expanding the YPC model to children’s choruses beyond New York City. READ MORE

In March, the Young People’s Chorus of New York City partnered with Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts to honor those lost to the pandemic in a memorial tribute performance of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s classic, “You’ll Never Walk Alone.” The video, filmed outdoors on Lincoln Center’s campus, was released on March 14, the official day of remembrance for New York City’s COVID-19 victims, which marked the one-year anniversary of the city’s first-reported virus-related death. I created this arrangement for piano and mixed chorus with my wife Elizabeth.

– Francisco J. Núñez, Artistic Director and Founder, Young People's Chorus of New York City