ACDA News

ACDA is pleased to announce that new appointments have been made to two of its national standing committees. Dr. Nicolás Dosman is now a member of the International Activities Committee, and Dr. Joni Jensen has joined the Composition Initiatives Committee. ACDA’s standing committee are made up of member volunteers who have specific expertise and experience […]

ACDA has made new appointments to two of its national standing committees: the Committee on Choral Repertoire and Resources (R & R), chaired by Gretchen Harrison, and the Advocacy and Collaboration Committee, chaired by Dr. Emily Williams Burch. Six new appointments have been made to the R & R committee: Kelsey Burkett, Contemporary/Commercial Choirs Co-chair […]

ACDA region leadership changed over on July 1. Welcome to our new region presidents! Christopher Kiver, Eastern Region President. Dr. Kiver is Director of Choral Activities at Penn State. There, he conducts the Concert Choir and Glee Club, oversees the graduate choral conducting program, and teaches classes in choral conducting and choral literature. He is Director of […]

Lift Every Voice is a new column in Choral Journal concerning issues of access, diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging, and restorative practice (ADEIBR) in choral music. ACDA hopes that this column can provide a space to incubate ideas about inclusive practices and provide mentorship for choral practitioners. Logistics: 1,000-word minimum; 3,500-word maximum Shorter pieces on similar […]

ACDA is issuing a call to publishers (including self-publishers) to submit pieces for the ACDA Repertoire & Resources (R & R) reading sessions at the 2023 national conference in Cincinnati, OH. The deadline to submit pieces to ACDA is August 1, 2022, and publishers should use this link to submit PDF scores and audio recordings. While all […]

ACDA has maintained an ongoing commitment to choral composition for more than five decades. It has just expanded this support to choral composition and composers in order to have a positive impact on choral music through the creation of new works and support of new voices. Award amounts for the Brock Prizes for Professional Composers […]

ACDA member Kira Rugen was named one of three winners of Chicago a cappella‘s 2022 HerVoice competition and mentoring program for emerging women composers. In its second year, the HerVoice competition received 59 submissions from composers on four continents. Along with winners Brittney Benton and Inna Onofrei, Rugen will receive personal mentoring from one of […]

Nominations are being accepted for the next Julius Herford Prize, which will be awarded for a dissertation by a student earning their degree in 2021. This award recognizes an outstanding doctoral terminal research project in choral music. Projects are eligible if they comprise the principal research component of the degree requirements, whether the institution defines […]

Editorial Board and Associate Editor/Editor Openings Deadline: September 15, 2022 For questions and to submit, contact Patrick Freer at Do you know someone who has contributions to make to choral research and to ACDA publications? See below for how you can formally nominate them . . . or you can simply request that we […]

The documentary The Choir and Conductor by Oscar winner Freida Lee Mock, is out Tuesday, April 12 on VOD platforms. The film tells the story of visionary conductor Anne Tomlinson and her extraordinary impact on children through the world-renowned Los Angeles Children’s Chorus (LACC). Billie Eilish, who appears in the film as an alumnus of the LACC, learned to sing starting at age eight when she, like thousands of […]