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 will consider a synthesis of three ideas: 1. self-understanding and realization, 2. issues of ownership, 3. shepherding and vulnerability. We will explore whether these ideas can be used in tandem to redefine our ensemble paradigm, what it means to be a conductor in the day-to-day grind of rehearsals, and whether there are ways […]
Minneapolis MN.Singers learn more effectively and perform more musically when choral warm-ups relate to the music being rehearsed. When conductors identify the important musical problems in the repertoire, they are able to design musical solutions to teach in the form of warm-ups—before their singers ever encounter them in the score. The clinicians will use choruses from […]
Minneapolis MN.Directors often have a wealth of resources and warm-up books to develop singers’ vocal ability, yet still we struggle with concepts like intonation, tone, and ensemble balance and quality. Attendees will learn group and individual exercises to help develop singers’ ability to audiate music and build their harmonic, melodic, and tonal vocabulary to increase musical […]
Kansas City MO.This will be a very practical session for conductors who want to learn more about working with strings. We will discuss string basics such as bowing, articulation, special bowing effects, and string playing as it relates to style. We will look at methods to achieve appropriate eighteenth-century style for the music of Bach, Handel, Haydn, […]
Kansas City MO.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.Research shows that in as little as three minutes, people form a set of core beliefs about an experience that rarely wanes as time progresses. This interactive session focuses on structuring initial rehearsal and repertoire priorities so that students are engaged and invested at such a meaningful level that their thinking and music-making is changed. […]
Kansas City MO.
PO Box 1705
Oklahoma City, OK 73101-1705
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