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 focuses on the elements of quality music for middle school mixed, treble, and tenor bass choirs and guides the director in choosing music, adapting music for changing voices, composing for your own choir, and guidelines for submitting to a publisher. The session will be presented by Emily Crocker, successful composer for this age […]
Kansas City MO.Have you penned the next epic choral work and need to know howto get it published? Patti Drennan will share from her 30+ years experience in writing for school and church choirs and will offer advice regarding the music writing process, original vs. public domain music and texts, song formatting and organizational ideas, publisher protocol […]
Oklahoma City OK.Who wins when we look outside the choral community for composers, collaborators, and audiences? We all do! Join us for an immersive experience as several experimental musicians, an arts education non-profit, and a choir director discuss a unique collaborative project model. Since 2015, the Camas High School Choir has been collaborating with indie rockers and […]
Portland OR.Composers Andrea Ramsey and Tom Shelton share the “ins and outs” of their favorite commissioning projects, addressing the following topics: what conductors can expect in the process; parameters for a commission; special considerations for the commissioning organization; commissioning fees; instrumentation; poetry considerations; and other factors that are of importance for both parties. Each composer will […]
Louisville KY.For the past fifteen years, choral composer Jim Papoulis has traveled biennially to the Chicagoland area to engage the North Shore Country Day School Lower School Chorus in three-day songwriting workshops. Based on ethnographic research conducted during the 2017 Songwriting Workshop, this session will explore the process of collective songwriting in the choral music classroom […]
Chicago IL.This is a mentoring program of Vocal-Essence designed to discover emerging composers and songwriters and create innovative works in a wide range of styles through one-on-one mentorship.
Minneapolis MN.
PO Box 1705
Oklahoma City, OK 73101-1705
(405)232-8161
