New York Metro Vocal Arts Ensemble

New York Metro Vocal Arts Ensemble (NYMVAE) has a passion for music and people. NYMVAE, a nonprofit organization, is dedicated to providing performance opportunities to singers in a supportive atmosphere, and to bringing music to under-served populations in the New York City area. NYMVAE performs concert-version and staged operatic works in public theatres, as well as abridged versions for community outreach to schools, hospitals and senior centers throughout the New York Metropolitan area.

Since its founding in the spring of 2000, NYMVAE has collaborated with, among others, the national non-profit organization LIFEBeat:The Music Industry Fights AIDS, Baruch Performing Arts Center, Long Island's Friends of the Arts and the International Organization for Adolescents' Girls Talk!. NYMVAE has performed 39 works for more than 5,000 audience members, produced outreach programs for area community centers, given seminars on the vocal arts to inner-city students and created performing opportunities for more than 150 singers.