Special 'Concert For Tyler' Will Honor Ridgewood Teen Who Committed Suicide

Saturday a special “Concert for Tyler” will be held at the West Side Presbyterian Church, the hometown of the chorla piece’s namesake.

It will be the first time the choral work will be performed in New Jersey, NorthJersey.com reports. The New York City Gay Men’s Chorus will perform the piece.

“I think it’s time,” Jane Clementi, Tyler’s mother, a Ridgewood resident who assisted the creators of the 2014 work, told the website.

Jason Cannon, the interim executive director for the Big Apple Performing Arts, the managing organization for the chorus, said the group performed the piece at the BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center June 13 and, at times, ”you could hear a pin drop,” he told the website.

“There were many tears in the house,” Cannon said.

Clementi, an 18-year-old Rutgers student, jumped to his death from the George Washington Bridge Sept. 22, 2010, a suicide attributed to cyber-bullying. His college roommate spied on him with a webcam and images of Clementi kissing another man were posted on the Internet.

The concert will be held at 7:30 p.m. Saturday. Tickets cost $20, $10 for students.

(Pictured: Tyler Clementi/Patch file photo)