Where Every Voice Matters
The mission of Every Voice Choirs is to help young people discover their voices and share them with pride. We are music educators who empower children by teaching them to share their voices confidently through their singing and throughout their lives.
Based at Columbia University Teachers College, EVC is unique among independent children's choirs for making the highest level of choral training accessible to ALL children. Everyone ages 7-16 who commits to full participation is welcome in EVC's core choirs - Kids Choir and Youth Choir - without audition. All of EVC's singers are taught by Columbia faculty who are leaders in choral education, and all of EVC's singers perform at premiere NYC venues including Merkin Hall, Miller Theater, and more.
Recognizing how deeply personal the voice is, EVC builds on students' experience, ability, and interests, helping them set goals for their vocal, musical, and personal development, and giving them specific strategies and training to work toward those goals. Students are nurtured as musical thinkers and leaders who create their own songs, improvise freely with their voices and their bodies, and share their voices and their ideas throughout the process of learning and performing.
For EVC singers who seek additional, rigorous choral training, the Concert Choir provides the opportunity to perform challenging works, including world premieres, often in collaboration with adult choir and orchestra. The Concert Choir's fourth Carnegie Hall performance will take place in May 2020.
Based at Columbia University Teachers College, EVC is unique among independent children's choirs for making the highest level of choral training accessible to ALL children. Everyone ages 7-16 who commits to full participation is welcome in EVC's core choirs - Kids Choir and Youth Choir - without audition. All of EVC's singers are taught by Columbia faculty who are leaders in choral education, and all of EVC's singers perform at premiere NYC venues including Merkin Hall, Miller Theater, and more.
Recognizing how deeply personal the voice is, EVC builds on students' experience, ability, and interests, helping them set goals for their vocal, musical, and personal development, and giving them specific strategies and training to work toward those goals. Students are nurtured as musical thinkers and leaders who create their own songs, improvise freely with their voices and their bodies, and share their voices and their ideas throughout the process of learning and performing.
For EVC singers who seek additional, rigorous choral training, the Concert Choir provides the opportunity to perform challenging works, including world premieres, often in collaboration with adult choir and orchestra. The Concert Choir's fourth Carnegie Hall performance will take place in May 2020.
RECENT EVENTS
EVC performs at Sing For Hope at Port Authority April 10
Serenading commuters at the Sing for Hope stage at Port Authority.
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Serenading commuters at the Sing for Hope stage at Port Authority.
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EVC Peace Seekers VII: I Dream a World
January 26
A diverse, intergenerational community of people who find joy in singing together, in working toward a common goal, acknowledging how interconnected we are, how much we depend on each other, and how much beauty we can make when we work together. Read more...
January 26
A diverse, intergenerational community of people who find joy in singing together, in working toward a common goal, acknowledging how interconnected we are, how much we depend on each other, and how much beauty we can make when we work together. Read more...
Community Concert Honoring
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. January 21
Every Voice Choirs performed a free community concert at Broadway Presbyterian Church with special guests The Teachers College Choir and Singers Workshops at TC. Read more...
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. January 21
Every Voice Choirs performed a free community concert at Broadway Presbyterian Church with special guests The Teachers College Choir and Singers Workshops at TC. Read more...
Concert Choir & Teachers College Choir December 18
EVC's Concert Choir performed as special young artist guests with The Teachers College Choir in their winter concert, Wanting Memories, at Columbia University's Milbank Chapel. Read more...
EVC's Concert Choir performed as special young artist guests with The Teachers College Choir in their winter concert, Wanting Memories, at Columbia University's Milbank Chapel. Read more...
Riverbank Skating Celebration December 8
EVC's Concert Choir sang in the Skating Celebration and Tree Lighting produced by Ice Theater of New York at Riverbank State Park on Saturday, December 8. After amazing performances by skaters from around New York, the choir sang Sleigh Bells and counted down to light the tree. Read more...
EVC's Concert Choir sang in the Skating Celebration and Tree Lighting produced by Ice Theater of New York at Riverbank State Park on Saturday, December 8. After amazing performances by skaters from around New York, the choir sang Sleigh Bells and counted down to light the tree. Read more...
West Harlem Development Holiday Celebration Dec 1
On December 1, EVC's Kids and Youth Choirs opened the show for The West Harlem Development Corporation's Holiday Celebration and Toy Giveaway at The Riverside Church. See more...
On December 1, EVC's Kids and Youth Choirs opened the show for The West Harlem Development Corporation's Holiday Celebration and Toy Giveaway at The Riverside Church. See more...
Benefit for St. Mary's Children's Hospital November 29
EVC's Concert Choir joined singer Suzanne O'Davis singing songs of Carole King's for a gala to benefit St. Mary's Children's Hospital at the beautiful Gotham Hall.
EVC's Concert Choir joined singer Suzanne O'Davis singing songs of Carole King's for a gala to benefit St. Mary's Children's Hospital at the beautiful Gotham Hall.
Children's Village at Harlem Holiday Lights Nov 19
On November 19th, EVC's Kids and Youth Choirs performed in Emerald City at the Harlem Commonwealth Center as part of Community Board 9 Arts & Culture Committee's Children's Village. The children sang songs from Black musicals from The Wiz to The Color Purple. Read More...
On November 19th, EVC's Kids and Youth Choirs performed in Emerald City at the Harlem Commonwealth Center as part of Community Board 9 Arts & Culture Committee's Children's Village. The children sang songs from Black musicals from The Wiz to The Color Purple. Read More...
EVC Concert Choir - ChoralFest USA at Symphony Space June 2
On June 2 EVC showcased their songs in a celebration of the diversity of choral music in America Symphony Space. Thank you to our singers, and to the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and New York State Council on the Arts for this great opportunity to hear and mingle with many other choristers and musicians from around the state!
On June 2 EVC showcased their songs in a celebration of the diversity of choral music in America Symphony Space. Thank you to our singers, and to the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and New York State Council on the Arts for this great opportunity to hear and mingle with many other choristers and musicians from around the state!
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Songs of Earth and the Youth Choir's latest world premiere
Thank you to the almost 100 performers and the enthusiastic audience for a wonderful evening at Spring Concert - Songs of Earth and Sky! Congratulations to the Youth Choir for their incredible original opus, Song of the Ocean... |
EVC Opens the NHL Winter Classic
EVC children braved the cold to sing the national anthem for the 2018 NHL Winter Classic at Citi Field in NYC See the video
EVC children braved the cold to sing the national anthem for the 2018 NHL Winter Classic at Citi Field in NYC See the video
EVC in Press
Read Dr. Nicole Becker and Dr. Jeanne Goffi-Fynn's article "Discovering Voices: Expanding Students' Music and Vocal Ideals in an Urban Community Children's Choir", featured in the Choral Journal.
Read Dr. Nicole Becker and Dr. Jeanne Goffi-Fynn's article "Discovering Voices: Expanding Students' Music and Vocal Ideals in an Urban Community Children's Choir", featured in the Choral Journal.
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EVC performing at Madison Square Garden in the pre-game show for the NY Liberty June 2015