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Celebrating a decade of The UWI Arts Chorale, UWI Steel and UWI Percussion with TEN

For Release Upon Receipt - March 25, 2014

St. Augustine


ST. AUGUSTINE, Trinidad and Tobago – The  Department of Creative and Festival Arts (DCFA), The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, presents “TEN” at NAPA – three celebrations; three world-class ensembles; two nights; one great price! 2014 marks the tenth anniversary of Must Come See Productions (UWI Arts Chorale), the award winning UWI Steel, and UWI Percussion. 

On Saturday April 12, at 8pm, come see the UWI Arts Chorale, UWI Percussion and UWI Steel presenting Leonard Bernstein’s famous choral work Chichester Psalms with special guest Adam Corneal, countertenor. UWI Percussion will present diverse works including a special surprise piece while UWI Steel will perform a tribute to the Mighty Sparrow. Department Head, Jessel Murray, and Senior Lecturer, Jeanine Remy will conduct. 

For the second performance, Must Come See Productions will present Musicals in Retrospect in a special script designed by Kendra Sylvester Flores on Sunday April 13 from 6pm. Performances will feature the UWI Arts Chorale and voices such as Krisson Joseph, Kendra Sylvester Flores, Adafih Padmore, Justin Zephyrine, Vidia Harroo, Elliot Francois and Kyle Richardson, with special guest Tramaine Lamy (currently performing in Lion King in London). The performance will be co-directed by award-winning directors Debra Boucaud-Mason and Louis Mc Williams, with music directed by Jessel Murray; choreography by Cacique awardee Adele Bynoe; stage management by Donna-Marie Bertrand and Asha Stewart, and costuming by Lyana Brown. 

Tickets are $125 for a single night, and $200 for a weekend pass. Discounts are available for seniors, children under 12, and tertiary level students with valid ID.  

For more information, contact Michelle Wellington at 663-2141 or Michelle.Wellington@sta.uwi.edu, or Mr. Joseph Drayton at 645-1955, or the DCFA at 645-9672.         

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About The UWI 

Since its inception in 1948, The University of the West Indies (UWI) has evolved from a fledgling college in Jamaica with 33 students to a full-fledged, regional University with well over 50,000 students. Today, UWI is the largest, most longstanding Higher Education Institute (HEI) in the Commonwealth Caribbean, with four campuses in Barbados, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, and the Open Campus. The UWI has faculty and students from more than 40 countries and collaborative links with 160 universities globally; it offers undergraduate and postgraduate degree options in Food & Agriculture, Engineering, Humanities & Education, Law, Medical Sciences, Science and Technology and Social Sciences. UWI’s seven priority focal areas are linked closely to the priorities identified by CARICOM and take into account such over-arching areas of concern to the region as environmental issues, health and wellness, gender equity and the critical importance of innovation.  

(Please note that the proper name of the university is The University of the West Indies, inclusive of the “The”, hence The UWI.) 

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