Seraphic Fire Youth Initiative Update

SERAPHIC FIRE YOUTH INITIATIVE

WORKSHOPS EDUCATION CONCERTS

The Seraphic Fire education quartet visited eight public schools in Miami-Dade County in November to share an educational workshop on American music. Students learned new songs, sang along with our education quartet, and learned more about African American spirituals, Harriet Tubman, and composer Undine Smith Moore. In December, Seraphic Fire singers presented two education concerts to a total of 700 students and teachers. Concerts included excerpts from A Seraphic Fire Christmas. A highlight of these concerts were students from our two Choral Education Residency programs —Fulford Elementary and Dr. E. L. Whigham Elementary— joining Seraphic Fire to sing Still, Still, Still. Each school also presented a musical selection that they prepared throughout the fall semester for an audience of their peers.

Students sing a round with Seraphic Fire’s education quartet. Seraphic Fire sings with Fulford Elementary Choral Education Residency students.

November education quartet: Alexandra Colaizzi, alto; Kimberly Leeds, soprano; Matthew Nielsen, bass; and James Reese, tenor. Choral Education Residency Teacher, Marilia Kamil, leads Dr. E.L. Whigham Elementary students in a performance of Dormi, Dormi.

Seraphic Fire’s Youth Initiative is endowed in perpetuity by The Clinton Family Fund with generous additional support from The Hutson-Wiley Echevarria Foundation. Seraphic Fire’s education programs are made possible in part by our generous sponsors:

The Choral Education Residency is funded in part by The Children’s Trust. The Children’s Trust is a dedicated source of revenue established by voter referendum to improve the lives of children and families in Miami-Dade County.