Voices Rising Youth Choir to perform with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for Welcome, Yule Holiday Concerts!

Since 2006, the Midwest Young Artists (MYA) youth choral ensemble Voices Rising has celebrated the Holiday Season with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus at Symphony Center. With eight performances of Welcome, Yule! in December, the chorus is able to impart a wealth of holiday cheer on lucky concert goers.

MYA welcomes new Voices Rising director Stevi Marks to the talented faculty of the award-winning youth music school. Stevi is herself a former Chicago Symphony Choir member and now current director of the Grammy Signature School award winning Glenbrook South choral program in Glenview, Illinois.

The Voices Rising choral ensemble comprises students from 5th - 10th grade that hail from all over the Chicago area and meet on Sundays to rehearse at the MYA center in Highwood. Enrollment is currently open for voices rising, so if your singer is interested in performing on the Symphony Center stage this December, please visit www.mya.org and register online today.

Make Welcome, Yule! an annual family tradition with eight performances from which to choose:

Friday, December 14, 3:00pm

Saturday, December 15, 1:30 and 5:30pm

Sunday, December 20, 7:00pm

Friday, December 21, 3:00pm

Saturday, December 22, 1:30 and 5:30pm

Sunday, December 23, 3:00pm

All performances are held in beautiful Orchestra Hall, Symphony Center, 220 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL. Tickets are available online at www.cso.org. For more information on Voices Rising and how to join, please contact MYA Choral Coordinator, Matthew Jenetopolus at matthew@mya.org or call 847-926-9898

MEDIA           Carl Jasieniecki, Midwest Young Artists

CONTACT:    Carl@mya.org
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About MYA: Midwest Young Artists is the top rated youth music ensemble programs in the Midwest and represents some of the best young musicians in the country. The program offers exceptional training in jazz, choral, chamber and orchestral instruction. MYA currently reaches more than 1,000 students from 74 communities in the metropolitan Chicago area with eight youth orchestras, more than 65 chamber music ensembles, three choral groups, an all-inclusive jazz program, rock program, early childhood education, and classes in music theory and history. Students have the opportunity to travel abroad and to perform in major venues throughout Chicago and around the world. MYA graduates are accepted at the most selective conservatories, universities and colleges in the country.

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