DCINY produced its first concert on January 21, 2008, at Carnegie Hall. As of 2019, over 70,000 performers representing 47 countries and all 50 U.S. states have participated in a DCINY production. Since the inception of the company, DCINY has produced 17 world premieres and over 200 concerts. The company’s composer-in-residence program has commissioned and staged world premieres for a number of contemporary works including
Karl Jenkins: The Peacemakers,
Christopher Tin:
The Drop that Contained the Sea,
Eric Whitacre: Animal Crackers, Vol. II, Eric Whitacre: The City and The Sea,
Mark Hayes: The American Spirit,
Paul Mealor: Jubilate Deo, Mark Hayes: Requiem,
Cristian Grases: For Treble Voices, Daniel Elder: World Without End, Martín Palmeri: Tango Credo, Mortals & Angels: A Bluegrass Te Deum. The for-profit company is also responsible for bringing significant international choral works to the United States market, including Sir Karl Jenkins: Cantata Memoria, Karl Jenkins: Songs of the Earth, Karl Jenkins: Stabat Mater, Burge: Mass for Prisoners of Conscience. Other composers that DCINY has presented include
Stephen Schwartz,
Deke Sharon,
Ola Gjeilo,
Howard Goodall, Pepper Choplin,
Tim Seelig and
Morten Lauridsen, as well as traditional repertoire such as
Handel’s Messiah ==References==