YVC Highlights

YVC has traveled near and far!

In our 30-year history, the choirs of Young Voices of Colorado have been honored to perform at many notable local and regional events. Below are highlights of those memorable special performances.

Opening Day of Denver International Airport
Inauguration of Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper
Carnegie Hall in New York City
Tan Dun’s Symphony of Peace with Lamont Orchestra
Celebration of Peace with Up With People
National Anthem for Colorado Rockies and Colorado Rapids
Southwestern Division of American Choral Directors Association (SWACDA)
Organization of American Kodály Educators (OAKE)
American Orff-Schulwerk Assciation (AOSA)
2nd Annual ACDA National Children’s Choir Conductors’ Retreat in 2012, bringing 100 directors from across the nation to Denver
World premiere with the JACK Quartet of Payton MacDonald’s “Lifeboat No. 6” along with Gavin Bryars’ “The Sinking of the Titanic” on the one hundredth anniversary of that event (collaboration with Newman Presents, the Molly Brown House Museum and Historic Denver)

Local Festivals & Conferences

Host Choir for the Sing A Mile High International Children’s Choral Festival for the past 15 years
Performances at the Colorado Music Educators Association, Southwestern American Choral Directors Association Conference, National Orff Association and National Kodály Association Conferences
Music in the Parks

Domestic Tours

Southwestern American Choral Directors Association Conferences
Florida
Louisiana
New York (Carnegie Hall)
Hawaii
Arkansas
Oregon
Missouri

International Tours

England
Austria
Sweden
The Netherlands
Wales
Hungary
Belgium
Australia
New Zealand
Scotland

Collaborations

Albuquerque Boychoir
American Boychoir
American Guild of Organists
Arapahoe Philharmonic
Augustana Arts
Aukland Girls Choir (New Zealand)
Bel Canto Voices
Boulder Chorale
Brisban Grammar School (Austrailia)
Celtic Colorado
Centennial Children’s Chorus
Chamber Orchestra of the West
Charvil Girls Choir (England)
Cherry Creek Chorale
Colorado Ballet
Colorado Children’s Chorale
Colorado Chorale
Colorado Mormon Chorale
Colorado School of Ballet
Colorado Springs Children’s Chorale
Colorado Women’s Chorale
Cor Meibion Pontypridd (Wales)
Crystal Children’s Choir
Denver Brass
Denver Concert Band
Denver Philharmonic Orchestra
Denver Young Artists Orchestra
E. Mikaladze School (Republic of Georgia)
JACK Quartet
Jewel Tones (England)
Junior Jubilee Singers
Lamont School of Music
Lamont Symphony Orchestra
Littleton Chorale
Littleton Symphony Orchestra
Lonetree Symphony Orchestra
Longmont Children’s Chorale
Los Angeles Children’s Chorus
Matthew Flinders College (Australia)
Metropolitan State University of Denver Chorale
Mountainaires Barbershop Chorus
Musica Sacra Chamber Orchestra
Rotorura Primary School (New Zealand)
Parker Symphony Orchestra
Phoenix Boychoir
Saint John’s Boychoir(Minnesota)
Serinette Women’s Choir (England)
South Suburban Theater Company
Summer Choralfest
St. Kentigern College (Australia)
St. Mary’s Schola Cantorum
St. Patrick’s College (Australia)
Tapestry Ladies Choir (England)
The Spirituals Project
University of Colorado at Boulder Opera
Utah Children’s Chorale
Vivace Girls Choir (England)
Voices West (formerly Littleton Chorale)

Commissioned Works & World Premiers

Dr. David Brunner
Jabberwocky
If I Could Write A Song/A Song to End All War

Elaine Hagenerg
Sourwood Mountain

James Q. Mulholland
Diary of Dickinson
Will You Teach Me?

Paul Caldwell & Sean Ivory
Ain’t Gonna Study War No More
Up On the Mountain Shouting
“Hope” Is the Thing with Feathers

Graham Lack
A Sphere of Ether

Allan E. Naplan
Sim Shalom

Rich Campbell
We Will Shine Like the Sun – SAB version

Dr. Austin Lovelace
Come Sing in the Springtime
Psalm 150

Jim Papoulis
A World We Cannot See

Bob Chilcott
A Little Jazz Mass
Circles of Motion
The Truth Is Great

Payton MacDonald
Lifeboat Six

Alice Parker
Coo-Coo Bird

Eleanor Daley
A Celtic Blessing of Light

James Q. Mulholland
Diary of Dickinson
Will You Teach Me?

Sarah Quarles
I Remember – SAB version

Dr. Rollo Dilworth
The Colorado Trail
Great Camp Meeting
The Land of Beyond
One Mile
Every Time I Feel the Spirit
Climbing’ Up the Mountain, Children!
Stand Upon the Rock!

Dr. James McCray
American Reflections

Andrea Ramsey
But a Flint Holds Fire

Paul Smith
I Wonder As I Wander