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.
To teach sight-singing successfully, teachers must place their pedagogical skills in an appropriate order, identify the necessary tools, and isolate the sequential strategies. Using a movable tonic format, the clinician will help participants discover the steps and techniques required to teach pitch development skills and notation reading skills. Echo-sing, hand signs, audiation, modified staff, dictation, […]
Seattle WA.This workshop is meant to share a strategy that has worked well for the two clinicians. Terry Annalora developed a series of warm-ups which were incredibly effective for him in building mature, full, energized tone. He employed this series of exercises daily and held students accountable for doing them well. His former student, Wilkerson, experimented […]
Seattle WA.This session will offer conductors some of the key techniques for studying and marking scores including phrasing, breathing schemes, dynamics, tempos changes, and rubato considerations etc. These techniques will lead to expressive interpretation based on the elements of music and text, resulting in precise and expressive conducting techniques and a more rewarding performance for ensemble […]
Seattle WA.With Kirk Marcy, the National R&S Jazz Choir Chair, Frank De-Miero the NW R&S Jazz Choir Chair and a state R&S Jazz Choir folks, four topics to be discussed include: What is a Jazz Choir Chart, The Balanced Choral Program, Improvisation/Scatting in The Classroom, the Rhythm Section and Why I Am Scared That I Will […]
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