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Brooklyn Youth Chorus, Dianne Berkun Menaker, director

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Biography

Brooklyn Youth Chorus, led by founder and artistic director Dianne Berkun Menaker, is one of the most highly regarded ensembles in the country, and has stretched the artistic boundaries of the youth chorus. The chorus made its New York Philharmonic debut in 2002, in the World Premiere of John Adams’s On the Transmigration of Souls, the recording of which won three Grammy Awards. Brooklyn Youth Chorus has performed with acclaimed conductors including Jaap van Zweden, Alan Gilbert, Marin Alsop, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Gustavo Dudamel, Joe Hisaishi, Reinbert de Leeuw, and Lorin Maazel. The chorus has collaborated with an impressive range of organizations and artists including the London Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Kronos Quartet, International Contemporary Ensemble, David Byrne, The National, Arcade Fire, Elton John, and Barbra Streisand. Brooklyn Youth Chorus has developed an active commissioning program and collaborated with some of the most important composers of our time, including Caroline Shaw, Tania León, David Lang, John Adams, Julia Wolfe, Nico Muhly, Angélica Negrón, Bryce Dessner, Richard Reed Parry, Paola Prestini, Nathalie Joachin, Paul Moravec, Toshi Reagon, Alev Lenz, Anna Clyne, Aleksandra Vrebalov, and William Brittelle. Founded in 1992, Brooklyn Youth Chorus has served more than 10,000 students through its core after-school and public-school outreach programs. The chorus’s professional faculty teach a wide range of repertoire and styles using founding artistic director Dianne Berkun Menaker’s proven Cross-Choral Training method, emphasizing healthy and versatile vocal technique, music theory, sight-singing, and ear training. 

Dianne Berkun Menaker is the founder and artistic director of the Brooklyn Youth Chorus and the creator of the Cross-Choral Training program, an experiential approach to functional voice and musicianship pedagogy. She prepared the chorus for its New York Philharmonic debut in the 2022 World Premiere of John Adams’s On the Transmigration of Souls, the recording of which won three Grammy Awards. With Brooklyn Youth Chorus, she has developed an active commissioning program and has collaborated with some of the most important composers of our time. Berkun Menaker is a choral clinician and teaching artist for such organizations as the New York Philharmonic and The Weill Music Institute at Carnegie Hall, and has presented workshops and master classes for New York University, New York State School Music Association, the American Choral Directors Association, and the New York City Department of Education.

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