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.
One of the most challenging aspects of choral teaching is the hard work it takes to improve the skills of our beginning and intermediate choristers. While it is often easy to find advanced repertoire, it is difficult to find quality repertoire for a choir of developing singers. However, repertoire alone will not automatically build the […]
Pittsburgh PA.Selecting pieces of music from different cultures will enrich your students’ life. However, it is challenging to choose pieces if you are not familiar with the languages. Japanese pronunciation is just like Latin and is easy to learn and teach. In this session, native Japanese choral conductor Mihoko Tsutsumi will share examples of Japanese choral […]
Pittsburgh PA.This session aims to provide participants with an overview of the music of the Mexican cathedrals; educate participants about the choral music of colonial Mexico with particular respect to Antonio Juan as; and offer resources for locating performing editions of music from the cathedrals of Mexico. Until recently, scholarship on the music of the cathedrals […]
Pittsburgh PA.Choral music educators can invert the practice of “arts integration” by purposefully integrating humanities studies into their music curriculum. By choosing repertoire that is thematically linked, each concert cycle becomes a curricular unit in which singers explore more deeply some aspect of what it means to be human. Choral music educators can transform their thinking: […]
Pittsburgh PA.Contemporary a cappella is exploding all over the globe. This workshop will explore all aspects of contemporary a cappella, including custom and stock arrangements, where to get them and how to begin to write them; vocal percussion, solo instruction, creating a rock star without hurting their voice; sound, live and recorded; choreography, no, this is […]
Pittsburgh PA.This session will explore ways to create effective concert programs that move beyond the period-based, style-based, or straightforward thematic approaches. Examples of the types of programming we will explore: ensemble selected, narratives, arch form, arbitrary restriction, progressive venue, outside text-based, and audience participation. There will be time for sharing of effective programming approaches and philosophies, […]
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