NORTHFIELD YOUTH CHOIRS INC

About NYC: The Northfield Youth Choirs is a great place to sing and a great place to grow up. Since 1986, hundreds of young people have found their voices – and lifelong friends – by singing with these extraordinary choirs.

Singers in grades 2 through 12 enjoy weekly rehearsals with nationally renowned conductors and music educators, twice yearly retreats, area performances and tours appropriate to their ages and developing voices. New this season, Poco: A Music Experience is a non-performing six week workshop offered to singers in grades K-1. The NYC organization’s philosophy can be summed up by the words of Victor Hugo: "Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.” The NYC believes that the poet Rabelais had it right as well: “A child is a fire to be lit, not a vase to be filled.” Singers benefit for the rest of their lives from the skills, disciplines and friendships they acquire in the NYC...and from the fires kindled from within.

Our History: The Northfield Youth Choirs was founded in 1986 as a single choir for middle schoolers. Now in its 24th season , the NYC presently serves more than 150 children annually in grades K - 12 with five choirs during the school year and additional summer programming.

Highlights for the group include:

• Performing on A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor
• Performing a piece commissioned by the NYC at both the Northfield Sesquicentennial Governors Ball and the 2006 Opening Session of the Minnesota House of Representatives
• Performing in prestigious venues, such as Rockefeller Chapel and the Basilica of St. Mary in Minneapolis, and annually at a Minnesota Twins game
• Performing a piece jointly commissioned with the Northfield Arts Guild at the NAG's 50th Anniversary Beaux's Arts Ball.