December 20, 2025
Mosaic Youth Chorus Receives Creative Sector Flex Fund Grant
Mosaic Youth Chorus (MYC) is thrilled to receive a generous award from the Creative Sector Flex Fund, administered by the Lehigh Valley Community Foundation (LVCF). MYC is one of 23 regional organizations to receive this award supporting nonprofit arts and cultural organizations across Carbon, Monroe, Lehigh, and Northampton Counties. The Creative Sector Flex Fund is a program of Pennsylvania Creative Industries, powered by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the National Endowment for the Arts, and administered in this region by the state’s PPA Partner, Lehigh Valley Community Foundation for Region 5.
MYC Receives Presser Foundation Grant
October 22, 2025
Mosaic Youth Chorus is proud to announce that it has been selected to receive $10,500 in funding through The Presser Foundation’s Special Projects grantmaking area. The Presser Foundation supports Special Projects of music organizations working in a broad range of traditions, genres, and styles. Mosaic Youth Chorus (MYC) was one of only three organizations out of 26 to be awarded both General Operating and Resilience Grants in the Special Projects grantmaking area.
Artistic Director Joy Hirokawa emphasized the importance of the Special Projects Grant: “Mosaic Youth Chorus is thrilled to receive this generous grant for operations and program expansion. The support of a prestigious organization like The Presser Foundation demonstrates the strength of our program, and provides us the funding to grow and expand our offerings into the future.”
MYC Receives National Award from Chorus America
May 14, 2025
Dr. Hirokawa was honored to accept the 2025 Chorus America award for Education and Community Engagement for the transformative experience MYC provides its singers and the commitment to collaborations with community partners such as the Nurture Nature Center and the Lehigh Valley Chorale. Read more about this prestigious award!
MYC Performs at Youth Climate Summit
Saturday April 26, 2025
Nurture Nature Center, 518 Northampton St., Easton, PA
Every year starting in 2020 the Nurture Nature Center hosts a Youth Climate Summit (YCS) for middle and high school students in the Lehigh Valley and surrounding areas.
Over 50 middle and high school students and their teachers kicked things off with a Science on a Sphere presentation introducing the “Global to Local” theme along with some of the basics of climate science.
To set the stage for the rest of the day, Mosaic Youth Chorus (MYC) performed in front of the Science on a Sphere. MYC gives an outlet to youth in the Lehigh Valley, aged 11 through 18, who want to make a difference in their community through their singing. Their spring concert this year focuses on the theme “Life is Written in Water,” exploring our relationship to our planet. They performed selections from their repertoire alongside datasets on the Science on a Sphere including views of Earth at night from space, drought risk, real-time precipitation, wildfires, projected temperature increases, and more. In the words of one Mosaic performer, “I think music has a way to touch people and their emotions in a way that facts and evidence often can’t.” Another adds, “music brings everyone together, some way, somehow.”
After the choir performance, students joined Megan McBride, director of Buy Fresh Buy Local of the Greater Lehigh Valley, to explore the connections between local food and climate. Students learned about some of the ways our global industrial food system affects the environment as well as human health. Moving back to the local level, they focused on the wealth of local farms and producers we have in the Lehigh Valley and how we can support them.