“Phenomenal” was the word most repeated by the 72 young singers from Centreville High School in Clifton, Virginia, who participated in a choral workshop given on April 17 by Francisco J. Núñez, the artistic director and founder of the Young People’s Chorus of New York City.
Read MoreEach season, the Pensacola Children’s Chorus presents a concert that shows off its members’ vocal prowess in performing a variety of choral music. This year’s concert is titled “One World, Many Voices,” and will feature all of the organization’s more than 300 singers, ages 8-18, as they take the audience on a musical journey around the globe.
Read MoreOct. 10, 2014 - 6:55 - Alicia Acuna profiles the director of the Young People's Chorus of New York City
Read MoreJo Reed: That is the Young People's Chorus of New York singing “Every Stop on the F Train.” YPC Founder and Artistic Director Francisco Nunez is conducting. And this is Art Works, the weekly podcast produced by the National Endowment for the Arts. I'm Josephine Reed.
Read MoreWhile the Los Angeles Philharmonic gets the lion’s share of attention for its progressive programming, its co-resident in Walt Disney Concert Hall, the Los Angeles Master Chorale, has been mirroring that trait all along. Under Grant Gershon, its enthusiastic, boyish-looking music director, the Master Chorale has kept one foot planted in the usual choral tradition and the other foot eagerly stepping out of the mold.
Read MoreThe Los Angeles Master Chorale ended its 50th season Sunday night at Walt Disney Concert Hall with the premiere of three new works commissioned for the occasion and two other recent Chorale commissions. That's news. But so too is the way that this chorus operates.
Read MoreBoth the "tomorrow" and the "beyond" perspectives of our program are the focus of the new commission Es Tu Tiempo by Francisco J. Núñez.
Read Moreon September 20, 2011, Francisco J. Núñez was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship as choral conductor and composer. Núñez's award is the first for a Kodaly-inspired music educator in the history of MacArthur Fellowships.
Read More7. Artists in the making: youth and children's choirs can be as good as professionals, given inspiring leadership and top-quality music, claims Francisco J. Núñez.
Read More“It’s not just about the best music curriculum in the world. The school system needs teachers like Francisco to make the curriculum work.” — Joan Tower
Read MoreFrancisco J. Núñez knows a thing or two about directing children’s choirs.
Read MoreMuch has been made in the contemporary music world of the recent push toward so-called “alt-classical” – creative approaches to showcase, perform, and commission new works of music that utilize new instrumentation, new venues, and new composers.
Read MoreFrancisco Núñez wears his MacArthur Award lightly. The 46-year-old composer-conductor who founded the Young People's Chorus of New York City—a group that embodies both the pinnacle of musical achievement and its ability to foster social renewal—proudly displays the gifts that friends showered on him when the "genius" grant was announced: a Rubik's Cube and the games Cranium and Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?
Read MoreNUEVA YORK, (AP).- Desde que Francisco J. Núñez fundó el Coro de Jóvenes de la Ciudad de Nueva York en 1988, con el fin de combatir la pobreza uniendo a personas de distintos estratos sociales, nacionalidades y religiones, el compositor y director artístico nacido en esta ciudad soñó con llevar su programa a la República Dominicana de sus padres.
Read MoreCoro de Jovenes de N.Y. promueve un programa en R.D.
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Durante más de dos décadas, Francisco Núñez ha estado inspirando a jóvenes en la ciudad de Nueva York a soñar en grande a través de la música.
Read MoreThe MacArthur Foundation has never attached the word “genius” to its annual grants to exemplary scientists, scholars, researchers, writers, artists, composers and other creative Americans
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Francisco Núñez, artistic director and founder of the Young People’s Chorus of New York discusses receiving 2011 MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship.
Read MoreLast week, the latest round of MacArthur fellows were announced. Francisco Nunez, a conductor, a composer and pianist, was on that list.
Read MoreA Chicago skyscraper architect, a New York City children's choir founder and a North Carolina scientist who studies how to prevent sports-related concussions are among the latest 22 recipients of the no-strings-attached MacArthur Foundation "genius grants."
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