VOICES WITHOUT BORDERS INC

The Great Lakes Youth & Treble Choirs were formed by Voices Without Borders to serve as the host choir for its Children of the World in Harmony Festivals. VWB’s year-round, community-based Great Lakes Youth and Treble Choirs serve the needs of young singers from throughout Antrim, Charlevoix, Cheboygan, Emmet, Otsego and Grand Traverse Counties and include public, charter, and home-schooled students. The choirs offer a well-established music education and performance program tuition-free to singers ages 6-20 years.

Throughout the years, the Youth Choir has been honored to perform with the Northern Michigan Chorale, the Great Lakes Chamber Orchestra and Chorus and the Little Traverse Choral Society. The choir was honored to perform at the Great Lakes Center for the Arts Community Open House. The choir has also performed with Franc D’Ambrosio, Broadway’s longest running Phantom of the Opera, and with Emmy, Tony and Golden Globe-nominated star, Matthew Morrison, and his five-piece band. The Youth Choir & Treble Choirs are currently under the direction of Monica Pavel-Kissinger and pianist, Cynda Coleman. The Treble Choir performs at a variety of local events. Currently, rehearsals are virtual for the safety of the singers due to COVID-19 precautions. This has allowed singers to participate from a greater distance than would normally be possible and this semesters singers includes youth from northern MI including Sault Ste. Marie, the Midwest, Canada and Romania!

The International Touring Program presents GLYC on tour. Past tours include four in Michigan and a ten-day tour to New York State, Ontario and Quebec. During June, 2018, the choir performed at the Dublin Choral Festival and Trim, Ireland, then traveled to Edinburgh, Sterling & Glasgow for the American Celebration of Music in Scotland. In 2020, the Great Lakes Youth Choir had accepted an invitation to perform at Carnegie Hall in June 2020, but unfortunately the performance was cancelled due to COVID-19.