Youth Choir

The Canticum Novum Youth Choir

was founded in 2001 by its director, Edie Rosenbaum, primarily to collaborate with Harold Rosenbaum's choirs. It joined Westchester Oratorio Society in the spring of 2002 in a performance of J.S. Bach's formidable St. Matthew Passion and one year later, in the Society's performance of another Bach masterpiece, his St. John Passion. In 2004 the youth choir performed Handel's Esther with Westchester Oratorio Society and Verdi's Requiem in Carnegie Hall with all of Mr. Rosenbaum's choirs. Later that season the group joined The Canticum Novum Singers in its annual Christmas concerts in New York City and Westchester as well as Westchester Oratorio Society in a performance of Benjamin Britten's delightful Christmas cantata, St. Nicholas, and Vivaldi's Gloria. In spring of 2005 it performed Benjamin Britten's Voices for Today with The Canticum Novum Singers and the Mozart Requiem with Westchester Oratorio Society. Each season the choir is featured singing with the Canticum Novum Singers in a national broadcast of "The Mystery of the Nativity" on CBS TV.

Mrs. Rosenbaum's goal in founding the group was to help children learn to appreciate classical music by giving them the chance to sing masterworks on a professional level. Mrs. Rosenbaum has been conducting children's choirs since her teenage years; she is also a member of The Canticum Novum Singers and has been a member of the New York Virtuoso Singers.

Recently the youth choir joined with Mr. Rosenbaum's other choirs in a tribute to the legendary film composer Ennio Morricone at Radio City and in the General Assembly at the United Nations.

If your child would like to audition, please call Edie Rosenbaum at 914 763 6819.