MYC, ESTABLISHED 2003

Check out our current staff and the year they started with MYC – some have been with us from the very beginning!

Ian Disjardin (2013)
Carrie Enstad (2018)
Eliav Goldman (2018)
Lynn Hembel (2010)
Calli Ingebritsen (2015)
Margaret Jenks (2005)
Lisa Kjentvet (2003)*
Marie McManama (2018)
David Olson (2019)
Michael Ross (2003)*
Nicole Sparacino (2013)
Maggie Stansfield (2015)
Randal Swiggum (2005)*

*Also a member of the MCC or MBC staff

SOME HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE LAST 20 YEARS:

  • 2003

     

    MYC is formed

    MBC and MCC merge to become MYC

  • 2007

     

    La Boheme

    MYC singers with Madison Opera (also performed in 2015)

  • 2008

     

    Greek to Me

    our incredible choral concert/story/play/myth/puppet extravaganza!

  • 2009

     

    Carmen

    MYC singers with Madison Opera (also performed in 2018)

  • 2009

     

    first Madison Boychoir Festival

  • 2009

     

    MYC choirs perform for the Dalai Lama

  • 2010

     

    MYC’s community and in-school choirs begin

    Lincoln choir in 2010; additional choirs at Chavez, Nuestro Mundo, Leopold along with programs at Lussier Community Center and the Hmong summer enrichment program follow.

  • 2010

     

    Christmas Cheery with Shakhashiri

    Our first of many collaborations with Professor Shakhashiri

  • 2012

     

    To Be Certain of the Dawn

    MYC choirs are part of the performing forces for Stephen Paulus’ monumental work

  • 2013

     

    Tosca

    MYC singers with Madison Opera

  • 2014

     

    Dead Man Walking

    MYC singers with Madison Opera

  • 2014

     

    Our first visit to Scotland

    Members of our boychoirs attend the Aberdeen International Youth Festival.

  • 2014

    Jitro choir visits

    And of course, the MANY other choirs that have visited/performed with us in Madison over the past 20 years!

  • 2015

     

    Momentum

    Our season focused on connections between music and movement culminates in a semester of work with the incredible Diana Popowycz and a collaborative performance with Madison Ballet.

  • 2016

     

    A return to Scotland

    Members of our girlchoirs attend the Aberdeen International Youth Festival

  • 2019

     

    Mahler 8 with Madison Symphony Orchestra

    MYC choirs are part of this incredible piece for the 2nd time in our history

  • 2018

     

    Scotland, third visit!

    Our boychoirs return to Aberdeen the newly-formed Aberdeen Festival of Youth Arts

  • 2020-2021

     

    Our Zoom season

  • 2021

     

    MYArts opens

    our new home is born!

CHOIRS WE’VE HOSTED OR COLLABORATED/PERFORMED WITH: 

  • Appleton Boychoir
  • Milwaukee Children’s Choir
  • Maryland State Boychoir (twice)
  • St. John’s Boychoir (twice)
  • Heartland Youth Choir
  • Jitro (twice)
  • Tucson’s Girls Chorus
  • Tucson Boychoir
  • Wheaton College Glee Club
  • Tallinn Boychoir (Estonia)
  • Graz Boychoir (Austria)
  • Chicago Children’s Choir (neighborhood choir)
  • Niadros Cathedral Girls Choir (Norway)
  • Sollerod Pigekor (Denmark)

PICTURES FROM THE LAST 20 YEARS: