About
Mission:
“Inspiring Excellence Through Music”:
Highbridge Voices provides intensive music education, academic enrichment, and social development programs that empower youth to learn, collaborate, and build essential life skills as they prepare for college and professional careers. As members of a world-class vocal ensemble, students receive comprehensive and progressive musical training, learn interpersonal skills, gain high-level performance experiences, and present excellence through exceptional music with the community and beyond.
Highbridge Voices offers free, high-quality choral and instrumental music instruction to children in the local community and surrounding schools, ensuring access to excellence in music education for all.
The Highbridge Voices Performance Choir represents the highest level of artistic achievement within the organization, delivering elite performances throughout New York City and beyond. Composed of the program’s most advanced and dedicated students, the Performance Choir proudly continues Highbridge Voices’ legacy of artistic excellence as the program continues to grow.
BACKGROUND:
For over 25 years, Highbridge Voices has successfully achieved its mission of fostering hope and opportunity to a challenged community by way of an after-school program featuring choral music.
Highbridge is in the Congressional District with the lowest median income in the United States.
As a result of the pandemic and digital isolation, children are at higher risk than ever of irreversible social, academic, and personal harm; spending upwards of six hours a day on devices (or more in low-income communities).
According to research, children and adolescents now use technology to combat loneliness and alienation as they grow up in this hyper-competitive world. Social interaction has now been replaced with online interaction, cyberbullying, exploitation, alienation, and psychological manipulation. In addition, excessive screen time is bad for children both physically and mentally and can lead to obesity and reduce students’ focus and decision-making skills. Highbridge Voices has seen this impact on its own membership and participation.
As a result, we are creating new relationships within both public and private schools in the neighborhood and fostering a collaborative effort to “Save our youth”. In addition, to our current outreach and enrollment of 170 public school students, we are actively building a relationship with Sacred Heart School and Sacred Heart Church where we believe lies the best opportunity for success through a secure and value-based environment within our challenged community.
Mission Report
To view the Highbridge Voices Mission Report, please click the link below.
A Path to Success PowerPoint – 2024
Past Reports