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.
Directing volunteer choirs necessitates building choral sound, solving vocal problems, enhancing musicality, and motivating singers. But how should we get started? This session will introduce Michael Kemp’s new book, Innovative Warm-Ups for Volunteer Choirs, which provides a stimulating approach to building choral skills with volunteers, with twenty-two innovative warm-ups,each with useful presentation ideas for directors. […]
Salt Lake City, UT.As members of an equal voice ensemble, singers in women’s choruses have the potential to collectively create vibrant sonorities. While disparities between voice size and color can make a unified sound elusive, conformity to a single tonal model may produce a generic quality that sacrifices the vitality of individual voices. Varied musicianship skills, personality types, […]
Salt Lake City, UT.Because many students have no music teacher besides their choral director, their musical and vocal limitations are our responsibility. The vocal warm-up, in addition to helping singers meet the immediate demands of the repertoire for their next concert, should systematically build the vocal skill set of our singers over time.
Little Rock AR.Choir directors at all levels battle intonation problems at some point in the choral rehearsal. The focus of the session will be how a director might rehearse a choir in such a way as to avoid as many intonation pitfalls as possible. This will include standing formation within a section, choir formation, choral warm-ups,melodic vs. […]
Little Rock AR.Singing in the resonance of the voice makes possible all things choral: intonation, blend, dynamics, and tonal color. The coordination of two vital components produces resonant singing reliably: the appoggio breath posture and acoustical vowels. This interactive session teaches specific exercises that enable directors to train singers organically in rehearsal and presents underlying principles that […]
Des Moines IA.
