Since 1978 CIYC has provided young singers unique performance opportunities and a choral music experience that emphasizes musical excellence.
The chorus has appeared with
- Lyric Theatre @ Illinois
- University of Illinois Symphony
- Champaign-Urbana Symphony Orchestra
- The Prairie Ensemble
- The American Boychoir
- The Baroque Artists of Champaign-Urbana
- Illinois (Springfield) Symphony
- The Really Useful Theatre Company
Works performed by the chorus include
- Bach’s St. Matthew Passion
- Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms
- Bernstein’s Mass
- Bizet’s Carmen
- Boito’s Prologue in the Heavens from Mephistopheles
- Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream
- Britten’s Ceremony of Carols
- Britten’s Noye’s Fludde
- Britten’s War Requiem
- Bruce's Hansel and Gretel
- Michael Haydn’s Magnificat
- Humperdink’s Hansel and Gretel
- Kapilow’s Chris Van Allsburg’s Polar Express
- Krasa's Brundibar
- Orff’s Carmina Burana
- Penderecki’s Credo
- Puccini’s La Bohème
- Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker
- Telemann’s Der Schulmeister
- Verdi’s Falstaff
- Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
- Weill’s Street Scene
Here are some other highlights:
Guest choir for mass at Holy Name Cathedral in Chicago
Hosting joint concerts with Jubilate Children’s Choir from Budapest, Hungary; The American Boychoir from Princeton, NJ; Ames Children’s Choir; Chicago Children’s Choir; and Tucson Arizona Boys Chorus
Hosting Share-in-the-Song festivals for children’s choruses in the Midwest, held at the University of Illinois Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, with clinicians Henry Leck, Angela Broeker, Malcolm Dalglish, and Mary Goetze
Participation in national and international choral festivals in Canada, Europe, DesMoines, and New Orleans
Singing tours in Illinois, Missouri, Ohio, Indiana, and Minnesota
