NATCHITOCHES – The Northwestern State University Chamber Choir will be joined by the choir from Indian Springs School near Birmingham, Alabama, in a concert on Friday, Feb. 17 at 7:30 p.m. in Magale Recital Hall. Admission is free and open to the public. A live stream will be available at capa.nsula.edu/livestream.
The Chamber Choir, conducted by Director of Choral Activities Dr. Nicholaus Cummins, will perform a brief program and the Indian Springs Choir will present a 30-minute program. The two choirs will also combine for one piece.
Indian Springs School is a private day and boarding school serving 325 students in grades 8-12 located on a 350-acre campus south of Birmingham, Alabama.
The Northwestern Chamber Choir, founded in 1987, is the flagship choral ensemble at Northwestern State. The Northwestern Chamber Choir is comprised of 34 undergraduates encompassing a variety of different majors throughout the university. The choir frequently collaborates with composers and conductors for projects including “For a Breath of Ecstasy,” commissioned from Michael Trotta and “The Falling Stars” commissioned from Richard Burchard. The Northwestern Chamber Choir was the featured choir at the 2017 Louisiana Music Educators Association conference and was selected to perform at the 2019 Eighth National Collegiate Choral Conference National Conference in Maryland. In 2021, they placed in the top four of the Leonardo da Vinci Choral Competition in Florence, Italy. The Chamber Choir has also placed second in the Laurea Mundi Budapest in Budapest, Hungary, and Second and Best Interpretation in the AVE VERUM ICC in Baden, Austria. Cummins and the Northwestern Chamber Choir have been invited to premiere the “Stabat Mater” by composer Richard Burchard in London, England, at the Southwark Cathedral in June.
