Dr. Cara Tasher has served as Director of Choral Studies at the University of North Florida since 2006. There, she conducts the Chorale and Chamber Singers, teaches the conducting curriculum including the Summer UNF Conductor’s Studio and Choral Artists, and oversees the choral department and its leadership team. At UNF, she was awarded the 2010 Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award, the 2016 Outstanding International Leadership Award, and in 2019, received a faculty scholarship grant for her work with the Jacksonville SINGS! Refugee Chorus and inclusion training. In addition to her work at UNF, she collaborates frequently as Director Huesped with the Opera de Bellas Artes in Mexico City. She has performed and recorded with conductors Claudio Abbado, Daniel Barenboim, Christoph Eschenbach, James Levine, Robert Shaw and Sir Georg Solti. Tasher has been professionally associated with the Atlanta Symphony Chorus, Chicago Symphony Chorus, Conspirare, Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra, Portugal’s Vocalizze Festival, Trinity Choir-Wall Street, Xavier University, and the Young People’s Chorus of New York City. Her training took place in the Glen Ellyn Children’s Chorus, at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, University of Texas at Austin, Paris IV-La Sorbonne, and Northwestern University. Dr. Tasher is highly active within the American Choral Directors Association, International Federation of Choral Music, and the National Collegiate Choral Organization in various leadership capacities. Proficient in several languages, Tasher’s engagements as singer, conductor, master teacher, and adjudicator, have brought her to over ten states and over twenty countries for concerts, competitions, festivals, and workshops. Global and cultural competency is a focal point of Tasher’s teaching, and she tours internationally with her choral ensembles on a regular basis. In addition, Cara enjoys frequenting the beach with her daughter Mia Emeline and cellist-husband, Nick Curry.

Treble Choir Literature

Title	Composer	Voicing	Instrumentation	Publisher	Number
Sih'r Khalaq	Papoulis	SSAA	Piano, Bass, Percussion	Boosey & Hawkes, Inc	48023011
Beati quorum via	Stanford (arr. Robinson)	SSA Double Choir	a cappella	Alfred	LG 35826
Snow by Morning	Joshua Shank	SSA	Piano	Santa Barbara	SBMP445
Marta	Eduardo Jordão	SSA	Piano, Cello	Editions AVA	https://editions-ava.com/en/marta
God Will Give Orders/Sweet Child	Sarah Quartel	SSAA	Piano, Cello, Djembe	Oxford University Press	9780193512023
I'm Going Up a-Yonder	Walter Hawkins / arr. Martin Sirvatka	SSAA	Piano, Bass, Set (Spiritual)	Boosey & Hawkes, Inc	48004224

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