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.
If you work in a church or synagogue, one of your primary responsibilities is to spiritually nurture your congregation through music. One of the primary ways we do that is through choosing and leading congregational song. This session will introduce all of the programs and resources available through the newly opened Center for Congregational Song. […]
Louisville KY.Have you ever wished you could improvise or teach your singers to improvise? Does improvising in front of others or the thought of teaching singers to improvise scare you? This session includes a set of strategies and ideas that Sharri VanAlstinehas learned, used, and developed in the last six years to understand and vocal jazz […]
Chicago IL.In order to allow our choristers to progress musically, we need to have a clear understanding of what they know and what they can do. This session will offer practical, technology-based solutions for individual and group assessment of sight-singing, repertoire, and music theory knowledge that can be used by any choir director during or following […]
Chicago IL.How do composers get their music in the hands of performers in a cloud-based world? A discussion of how traditional and new models address publication and marketing in a time of Spotify, YouTube, and the Next Big Thing you’ve never heard of before.
Minneapolis MN.This interactive session is designed to transform the musically mundane to the musically miraculous through the use of technology integration. It will demonstrate the use of free online resources designed to captivate students’ attention and rejuvenate the educational aspect of rehearsal. Many of these tools allow teachers to quickly and easily assess large classes and […]
Minneapolis MN.In this session, the clinicians will share an overview of the Giving Voice Tool Kit, which describes the execution of the Giving Voice Chorus program’s design, development, implementation, funding, research, evaluation, sustainability, and impact. The demonstration chorus is fifty singers from Giving Voice who will perform four musical examples representing basic content and structure within […]
Minneapolis MN.
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