Madison Youth Choirs

media release: Madison's Youth Choirs' winter concert series, “In Other Words,” will feature hundreds of local young singers exploring the way composers use musical language to communicate ideas and emotions that transcend text alone. With guidance from our guest Teaching Artists-in-Residence, Tom Cabaniss and Asher Blank, MYC singers have discovered how composers turn feeling into sound and how they as interpreters can turn sound into story through the quietly powerful act of reflecting on another person’s perspective and experience.

MYC’s nine ensembles will perform in three distinct concerts over the weekend of December 13-14, 2025. Selections you’ll hear at the concerts include:

Keith Bissell's "When I Set Out for Lyonnesse," a musical setting of a Thomas Hardy poem that explores mystery, anticipation, and personal transformation. (Performed by Capriccio)

Gregor Aichinger's "Regina Coeli," a work of Renaissance polyphony, brought to life by the voices of Cantilena.

Eleanor Daley's "The Lake Isle of Innisfree," a musical setting of a poem by William Butler Yeats that speaks to the universal desire for peace and tranquility, and nature's ability to restore the human spirit. (Performed by Ragazzi)

Madison Youth Choirs' Winter Concert Series, “In Other Words”

Middleton Performing Arts Center, 2100 Bristol St., Middleton

Saturday, December 13, 2025, 7:00pm - Purcell, Britten, and Holst

Sunday, December 14, 2025, 3:00pm - Choraliers, Con Gioia, and Capriccio; 7:30pm - Cantilena, Cantabile, and Ragazzi

Tickets: $10/adults, $5/students under 19, free tickets available to music educators and MCC/MBC/MYC alumni

All seating is general admission

Purchase tickets online in advance at https://www.madisonyouthchoirs.org/tickets to skip the ticket line on concert day. Tickets will also be available for purchase by cash or check only at the door 30 minutes before each concert.

For those not able to make it to Middleton on concert day, all performances will also be streamed live on MYC's YouTube channel. MYC provides this professionally recorded livestream free to our audience members.

MYC’s winter concerts are generously endowed by the Diane Ballweg Performance Fund and supported by the Pleasant T. Rowland Foundation, the W. Jerome Frautschi Foundation, The Courtier Foundation, Inc., Dane Arts, Endres Manufacturing Company Foundation, Park Hotel, Wisconsin Arts Board, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

About Madison Youth Choirs (MYC):

Recognized as an innovator in youth choral music education, Madison Youth Choirs (MYC) welcomes singers of all ability levels, annually serving more than 1000 young people, ages 7-18, through a wide variety of choral programs in our community. Cultivating a comprehensive music education philosophy that inspires a spirit of inquiry, leading students to become "expert noticers," MYC creates accessible, meaningful opportunities for youth to thrive in the arts and beyond.