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.
The Collegiate Repertoire Chorale will expose singers to new repertoire and techniques within a collaborative context with other collegiate choristers. The clinician will lead the choir through a range of musics exploring a variety of choral sonorities. The sessions will experiment with techniques suitable to the creation of these sounds. The format allows for an […]
Fort Wayne IN.Vocal skills to safely minimize vibrato. This style can bring stunning results, but if singers have no idea how to minimize vibrato it can cause fatigue or damage. A set of ideas will be presented to instruct singers on this style. Understanding the urge to over sing. The Lombard effect, and the protective reflex in […]
Dallas, TXToday’s performers imagine that modern ideas about how to perform Romantic music correspond with what the composers themselves would have heard. But in recent years, restoration of many early recordings and research into various written sources have revealed a very different picture. A lost tradition of nineteenth-century interpretation is currently being re-discovered by a number […]
Winston-Salem, NCMaking music with singers who have intellectual and physical disabilities offers great rewards and significant challenges. As the core of the ACDA Eastern Division’s Building Communities Festival Choir, Joyful Noise’s singers will share their passion for music with the singers and music therapists joining them in conference rehearsals and this interest session led by Allison […]
Providence, RIThrough demonstrations by the Mansfield University Concert Choir and with audience participation, Peggy Dettwiler will show how to teach and expand the vocal techniques of choirs so that they can produce different choral colors and sing repertoire in a wide variety of styles and from contrasting world cultures.
Providence, RI
