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.
As artists in the creative field, we need to embrace the right mindset to make sure we’re always learning, growing, and being as effective as we can be with our work. Timothy C. Takach has co-founded the professional vocal group Cantus and the music publisher Graphite Publishing, and his work as a composer has risen […]
Minneapolis MN.Explore strategies for effective planning for church choirs of all shapes and sizes. Planning is the key to promoting musical growth, volunteer retention, and achieving long-term ensemble dreams. In this session, Joshua Taylor will share the planning process and ideas of church musicians from across the country and provide a rubric for music selection that […]
Minneapolis MN.This session aims to empower adolescent female singers and validate their voice change experiences at a very pivotal point in their lives; to reinforce that females, too, can persevere through this challenging developmental process; and to stress the importance of the choral teacher’s role in navigating this experience for female choristers. Discussion will include an […]
Minneapolis MN.Movement and activity have a well-documented positive effect on the sound of our choirs. West African Dance is a full-body, high-energy experience requiring both coordination and communication and control of the body and the mind. During this session we will examine how singers’ bodies transform during dance and how our thinking and attention are developed […]
Minneapolis MN.The wave of interest in singers in their Third Age (sixty years and over) has grown steadily over the last ten years, and research has shown that efforts to increase active aging among senior adults increases community participation and well-being. While voice scientists explain physiological changes to the body and voice, educators and conductors are […]
Minneapolis MN.Choir has been adopted as a medium for dissemination and preservation in the Arab world since the formation in Egypt of Firqatal-Musiqa al-Arabiyyah (The Arab Music Ensemble) in 1967. The notion that Arab music does not employ choir or that it only works with a solo vocalist is but one of the many misconceptions about […]
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