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.
James Jordan has written two landmark books regarding vocal pedagogy and the choral warm-up,the first being coauthored with the legendary Frauke Haasemann. This session will detail specific techniques that have grown out of the advances in voice science and music learning that need to be incorporated into choral warm-ups for all ages and experience levels […]
Pittsburgh PA.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.Rehearsal time is a precious commodity, and conductors must make difficult choices about what occupies space on a rehearsal agenda. The pressing demands of learning repertoire for performance often win out over the conductor’s need or desire to also be a music educator and a vocal pedagogue. This session explores ways to meet the musical […]
Pittsburgh PA.This session bridges the fields of speech-language pathology and choral conducting to introduce participants to manual mimicry, a tool that links the spatio-temporal parameters of hand gestures to vocal articulations. Manual mimicry offers choral conductors a new approach to facilitating the production, unification, and expressivity of vocal sounds for singing. Join speech-language pathologist and educator […]
Pittsburgh PA.Developing a freely produced, well-supported head voice is the greatest factor toward achieving good intonation and blend in the high school choral ensemble. This presentation demonstrates techniques for developing a buoyant and lyric head tone in both female and male singers during the choral rehearsal. Recordings of four high school choirs will present examples of […]
Pittsburgh PA.For many voice users, an overactive stress response in performance situations, or even general anxiety and/or depression, leads to unwanted muscle tension, which can significantly contribute to vocal difficulty. In order to maximize vocal potential, choral directors and singers must become more aware of how the whole body, including the autonomic nervous system, impacts vocal […]
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