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American Choral Directors Association

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.

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Matt Falker

Matt Falker

Matt Falker is a jazz and gospel pianist, vocalist, arranger, and clinician. Falker distributes his vocal jazz arrangements through his publishing company, Anchor Music Publications (formerly Sound Music Publications founded by Frank DeMiero in 1988), as well as the music of dozens of other vocal jazz arrangers and composers. He is also the executive director of the Vocal Jazz Academy, a nonprofit organization dedicated to training and supporting vocal jazz educators primarily through a series of one-day jazz workshops for teachers and students. As a full-time piano and vocal jazz professor at MiraCosta College, Falker directs the Downbeat Award-winning Frequency vocal jazz program and hosts the Oceanside Jazz Festival. He also directed the Jazz Immersion Choir at the 2023 ACDA National Conference and served as a clinician for the 2026 Generations In Jazz Festival in Mount Gambier, South Australia.

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This content was published on: August 23, 2022

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