Following the concert, dinner was held in Rose Hall’s Allen Room, overlooking Central Park, where YPC presented its Humanitarian Award to founding board member Holcomb B. Noble and its Corporate Award to Toyota, a longtime supporter.

All proceeds from the March 15 gala will help provide for general operating expenses and scholarships for more than half of the members of the chorus, which numbers more than 1100 young people through its core after-school program and its satellite program in New York City schools.  This summer the Young People’s Chorus of New York City returns to Japan for its second tour of the country and will make its debut in Wales at the Llangollen International Music Festival.