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.
Middle school is a crossroads of music education for today’s students. It is at this stage of education that we can hook them into a musical path or lose them. The ability to recruit singers is the lifeline of any choral program. Learn from master teachers on how they have utilized classic and new recruitment […]
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.The Renaissance era provided us with many works that are both wonderful teaching pieces and beautiful works of art. What can we do to make this repertoire more available to young choral musicians? This session will demonstrate how early music can be more accessible for children’s, middle, and high school choirs with the use of […]
Kansas City MO.The basics of making a paradigm shift in how we do music in worship are most fascinating. With a philosophical shift in the traditional understanding of working with you that church, in music/arts, one can have a successful music/arts program with as many students as a facility can handle. Recruiting (students and teachers), budget preparation, […]
Kansas City MO.It is incredibly beneficial to expose young singers to the masterworks of the choral cannon. Utilizing the works of J. S. Bach in the context of sight-reading and performance provides students with knowledge and understanding of the preeminent composer of the Baroque era. Brian Murray will explore strategies for selecting and teaching appropriate repertoire by […]
Kansas City MO.What type of repertoire do we teach? How can we create excitement around singing and learning music? As choir directors, these questions are essential to our preparation before west and in front of our choirs. We must choose repertoire that will develop our students’ music skills in addition to creating excitement about music making and […]
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