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 begin with case studies of several singers, including an elderly singer with tremor, a youth singer who belts, one who frequently employs the falsetto voice, an adolescent experiencing a voice change and a singer put on vocal rest due to a vocal fold lesion. All case studies will first begin with observing […]
Dallas, TXThis session will be a demonstration/presentation with the University of Kentucky Women’s Choir with assistance from our vocal technician Beth Arnold (UK Voice Faculty). Topics to be addressed and demonstrated by the ensemble will include the following: Warm-ups—specifically for the adult female voice—addressing issues such as placement and resonance (with demonstration from voice faculty member), […]
Dallas, TXIn this session, we will demonstrate several specific approaches to vocal training and to rehearsing that we have developed as the director and voice specialist of the Teachers College Youth Choir. Our methods involve creating structures which grant our students autonomy and call for critical thinking and musical decision-making. As our students claim this autonomy, […]
Dallas, TXThis panel session will explore many aspects of the art of female leadership of an all-male ensemble. Noted and established choral professionals will share experiences and ideas from the female perspective about rehearsal technique, the male psyche, successful repertoire, concert programming, uniforms, recruiting, retention, vocal technique, professionalism, auditions, and student leadership duties and structures. The […]
Dallas, TXThe presenters have a passion for performing music of non-Western cultures with choirs trained in the Bel Canto style of singing. While many are afraid that exploring the timbres produced in these pieces can harm our singers voices, we believe the opposite to be true. Our singers, time and time again, have found that they […]
Dallas, TXParticipants will explore how we “learn’” music through hearing and imitating patterns before reading and writing. The TAKADIMI rhythm-pedagogy system and techniques for developing rhythm reading readiness, literacy, audiation, musical memory, dictation, and elementary composition will be addressed.
Providence, RI
