UWF Singers present Collaborations

The annual Collaborations concert features the UWF Singers, Concert Choir, and Tate High School Vocal Ensemble. This tradition began eight years ago as a way to showcase material prepared by multiple choirs.  

Each year, the UWF Singers welcome a group to campus to participate in a joint potpourri concert. This year we welcome the Niceville Singers of Niceville High School under the direction of Catherine Feazell. This award-winning ensemble will present a setting of “America the Beautiful” by jazz composer Darmon Meader, and a new setting of the traditional spiritual, “Music in the Air.” The UWF Concert Choir opens the concert with a short work by Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel. They also present a breathtaking new setting of “Shenandoah” and one of the gazals by Hâfiz of Shiraz. The UWF Singers bring works by Bobby McFerrin, Maddalena Casulana and José Maurício Nunes Garcia, alongside a working performance of “A Silence Haunts Me,” the 2018 ACDA Brock Commission winner by Jake Runestad and poet Todd Boss. The evening will conclude with a combined performance of Richard Smallwood’s “Total Praise,” a standard of modern gospel.

This event is free and open to the public, but tickets are required. For tickets or more information, visit uwf.edu/cfpa or call the CFPA box office at 850.857.6285.