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.
The Collegiate Repertoire Chorale will expose singers to new repertoire and techniques within a collaborative context with other collegiate choristers. The clinician will lead the choir through a range of musics exploring a variety of choral sonorities. The sessions will experiment with techniques suitable to the creation of these sounds. The format allows for an […]
Fort Wayne IN.Recognizing the ever-increasing pressures on choral music education—time in the school day, focus on standardized testing, funding—Chorus America has created an advocacy guide designed for K–12 choir teachers. “Making the Case for Your School Choir” provides evidence that choral singing is an integral component of a complete and competitive education, that choral singing builds community, […]
Fort Wayne IN.This session will present hands-on strategies for teaching beginning improvisation in the vocal jazz ensemble. The practical and enjoyable strategies are based on 20 years of research into the development of vocal improvisation skill that has been successfully applied to secondary and collegiate vocal jazz ensembles and vocal jazz methods courses. These proven strategies are […]
Fort Wayne IN.This session will help teachers to establish or develop a choir in the elementary school and will answer the following questions. What age or grade level is best to start choral singing? What is the best range for students at this age? How can you fit a choir into a general music program or the […]
Fort Wayne IN.The choral experiences, training programs, rehearsals, and performances we are building today will mold the lives of our next generation of choral leaders. Are we grounded in a set of core values and creating relevant pedagogies and programs for twenty-first century realities, or are we nostalgically re-living only what had meaning to us in a […]
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