Broadway's duChateaus Conduct Children's Choir at UN Today

New York--Husband and wife conductors Charles duChateau (Spiderman: Turn Off the Dark, South Pacific) and Annbritt duChateau (Aladdin, Mary Poppins) will lead a diverse group of young performers to sing at the 25th Anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child at the United Nations (UN) today, November 20.

In 2013, Charles and Annbritt began asking their friends from Broadway stages to help raise scholarship funds for the Westchester County-based Young at Arts (YAA) after-school arts program, where a large percentage of children attend on full scholarship. On Mondays, Annbritt coaches these young students. Charles, on the other hand, came on board as music director for YAA last summer. He teaches more than 300 children each week, either at YAA or its satellite campus, the Amani Public Charter School, in Mount Vernon.

Additionally, Charles is a board member of San Francisco World Music (sfworldmusic.org) whose current project titled "The War Project" is a global initiative to create engagement among the world's greatest musicians, social justice leaders, and various communities.

The 25th Anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child will be broadcast live on UN's Web TV, webtv.un.org, today at 11 a.m.

More About YAA

YAA is a nonprofit outreach program founded by Sharyn Pirtle and Michael A. Bird, rector of Christ Church Bronxville, where YAA makes its home. YAA's mission is to provide an outstanding music and theater education to a diverse group of young people from Southern Westchester County. In some of these areas, more than 50 percent of children live in poverty; arts education in the schools is virtually non-existent or has been greatly reduced due to budget cuts.

Since its establishment in 2005, YAA has made a demonstrably positive impact in the lives of hundreds of young people. YAA students have performed throughout the metropolitan area, at such venues as Lincoln Center, the UN, and the Yale Club; and for audiences that have included Mayor Michael Bloomberg, soprano Renee Fleming, 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner Dr. Muhammad Yunus, media magnate Martha Stewart, and singing legend Tony Bennett. For more information, visit youngatartsny.org.