American Choral Directors Association
The mission of ACDA is to inspire excellence and nurture lifelong involvement in choral music for everyone through education, performance, composition and advocacy.
This clinic is for undergraduates preparing for student teaching in a choral setting, but is useful to teachers of choral methods courses. It introduces a fresh approach for engaging in critical listening skills of choral singing, and explores the development of quality choral performance stemming from rigorous and comprehensive rehearsals.
Providence, RIThis panel/repertoire session is presented by five conductors with experience in church, youth, collegiate, community, and symphonic choirs. All panelists share a penchant for new music and evolving the choral art. In this session, discussion will include the entire choral commissioning process from beginning to end and provide illustrated examples from professional, collegiate, community, and […]
Providence, RIThis workshop has a twofold purpose: to discuss how choirs can reach out to or be created in marginalized populations; and to help choral musicians develop ideas, strategies, knowledge, and repertoire for socially-responsible outreach in prisons, shelters, hospitals, and the bedsides of the dying.
Providence, RIHow can middle and high school and college choral conductors interact with independent and academic voice teachers in their area to develop a successful team? Is the voice teacher/choral conductor conflict in higher education fantasy or fact? Exploring answers to these questions, we will delve into commonly used mis-instructions and their implications.
Providence, RIThis is a workshop celebrating the artistic intersections of choir and organ, proposing performance solutions for selected choral repertoire with organ, and answering some questions frequently voiced both by conductors and organists. Repertoire to be addressed: Handel’s Messiah, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Fauré’s Requiem, Parry’s I Was Glad, and Phillips’ Antiphon.
Providence, RI
