15 Years of the Mississauga Festival Youth Choir
The Mississauga Festival Youth Choir is an inclusive, multi-cultural music education and performance program open to all youth in the community, striving to embody and reflect our community’s diversity and musical practices. We take pride in our diverse repertoire drawn from many cultures around the world and in our ability to have fun as we learn.
The MFYC was founded in 1997 by Deborah Bradley in answer to Mississauga’s need for choral music education opportunities for young people of all ages and backgrounds. The choir is open to young people ages 7 to 19 and is divided into three instructional levels. MFYC welcomes boys with changing voices as well as treble voices.
MFYC has performed at many prestigious events. We have sung for the Mississauga Arts Council Awards Gala Dinner, for her Worship, Mayor Hazel McCallion in honour of Mississauga Youth Week, for the Mayor’s Levee on New Year’s Day, at the Grand Opening of Mississauga Celebration Square and for many other special community events. The Senior Choir tours each year, and has sung in New York City, Ottawa, Montreal, Santiago de Cuba, Niagara Falls, and in Washington, D.C. In 2009 MFYC was a finalist for the MARTY awards, and we have received many honours at festivals over the years. Planning is underway for an exciting Spring 2012 tour to Ottawa, Ontario, to work with West African drumming specialist Kathy Armstrong and Baobab Youth Performers.
The Mississauga Festival Youth Choir is a registered not-for-profit charitable organization. MFYC is a member of the Mississauga Arts Council, Choirs Ontario, and is an affiliate of the City of Mississauga. We gratefully acknowledge financial support of the City of Mississauga Office of Arts and Culture.
