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 session proposes to offer some creative rehearsal strategies based upon the concept that composers often leave “musical clues” in their scores for us to discover and help bring the music to life. These clues—found in text-settings, melodic shapes, harmonies, rhythms, and even the printed expressive markings (dynamics, articulations etc.)—can be the sources that inform […]
Dallas, TXThis panel session will explore many aspects of the art of female leadership of an all-male ensemble. Noted and established choral professionals will share experiences and ideas from the female perspective about rehearsal technique, the male psyche, successful repertoire, concert programming, uniforms, recruiting, retention, vocal technique, professionalism, auditions, and student leadership duties and structures. The […]
Dallas, TXThis session will explore methods for incorporating critical thinking skills into the choral rehearsal. Many choral directors feel intense performance pressures and assessing students in a meaningful way is not often a priority. Often, choral directors simply do not have sufficient strategies for how to make critical thinking a seamless integration into their instruction. In […]
Dallas, TXThis session will be of interest to conductors of high school, collegiate, and adult women’s choirs and fits the themes of Advocate and Teach. The session will feature a panel of conductor/authors who have contributed chapters to a newly published book: Conducting Women’s Choirs: Strategies for Success, Debra Spurgeon, editor, GIA Publications. Each author will […]
Dallas, TXThe presenters have a passion for performing music of non-Western cultures with choirs trained in the Bel Canto style of singing. While many are afraid that exploring the timbres produced in these pieces can harm our singers voices, we believe the opposite to be true. Our singers, time and time again, have found that they […]
Dallas, TX
