The Collegium Singers — a group of UNT student vocalists specially trained in singing music of the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries — performed at the Early Music America's Young Performers Festival, part of the Berkeley Early Music Festival in June in Berkeley, Calif.

The group was one of only four college early music ensembles from across the nation selected to perform, by a blind audition, and received a $1,000 grant toward travel costs. The group performed Tomas Luis de Victoria's Officium defunctorum.

"This gave us the opportunity to let people in the early music world know that an extraordinarily high quality of work is done at UNT," says Richard Sparks, professor of music and chair of conducting and ensembles.