EVENTS | Middle School & High School Webinar – Region Conference Deadlines – State Conferences & Webinars

PUBLICATIONS | Choral Journal – ChorTeach – IJRCS – IFCM

NEWS & ANNOUNCEMENTS | New Video on COVID Mitigation Strategies for Choir – National R&R Chair Openings – Survey on R&R Boutique Conferences – IFCM Composition Competition – ACDA Award Applications – State Elections

PARTICIPATION OPPORTUNITIES | Third-Party Choral Research Surveys

MEMBER BENEFITS | Church Music Webinar – CMI Membership Discount – ACDA App

JOBS | Highlights of Current Listings in the ACDA Career Center

Tuesday, Jun. 8, 5:00 p.m. PT / 8:00 p.m. ET

Host: Jamila McWhirter, Chair, ACDA Education & Communication Committee. Panelists: Gretchen Grace Harrison, Chris Munce, and Vincent Oakes.

Members whose primary choir type is Jr. High/Middle School or Sr. High Choirs received an early invitation last week. Free registration is now open for all members! (Have your told us your choir and activity types? Sign in to the ACDA website and click on My Profile to check and update!)

Register for the Zoom session now, or watch the livestream on Facebook. Learn more.

Eastern Region (Feb. 9-12, Boston, MA)

Midwestern Region (Feb. 16-19, Chicago, IL)

Southern Region (Feb. 23-26, Raleigh, NC)

Southwestern Region (Feb. 28-Mar. 3, Little Rock, AR)

Western Region (Mar. 2-5, Long Beach, CA)

Application periods have closed.

Northwestern Region (Mar. 9-12, Spokane, WA)

Jun. 21-22 - Ohio Choral Directors Association's Summer Conference. Registration: $35 members; $20 retired & student members. Learn more and register.

Jun. 24-25 - Montana ACDA's Summer Institute. In Bozeman, MT, with hybrid options. Registration: $115. Learn more and register.

Limited time offer! Access all 2021 national conference sessions and performances - through December - by registering today. Click here to learn more & register.

Here is the complete Jun.-Jul. issue in PDF. This is a focus issue on music in worship. Following is a selection of the contents:

Practical Teaching Ideas for Today's Music Educator. Terry Barham, editor. The spring 2021 issue has just been published. Included:

The Scientific Research Journal of ACDA. Patrick K. Freer, editor. New articles have just been published in Volume 9.

The IFCM is conducting a survey on the bulletin in order to gather information on how readers wish the publication to develop over the next years. Click here to go to the survey.

The International Coalition of Performing Arts Organizations just released a short video entitled COVID-19 Mitigation Strategies for Choir, summarizing current research-based recommendations.

The written guidance, which includes an explanation of the CDC's new distancing recommendations, is available here.

The CDC released updated masking recommendations on Apr. 27! Fully vaccinated people are, among other activities, cleared to "sing in an indoor chorus" with other fully vaccinated people. Since the guidance is specifically about masks, it is still recommended that singers and conductors wear masks and follow accompanying protocols about distancing and properly ventilating the room to maintain safest conditions. As always, the CDC notes that people should consider local conditions and their own personal situation. Click here for the full, revised CDC masking guidance.

If you are interested in serving ACDA members and the community in one of these positions, please submit your resumé and a one-page vision statement to Gretchen Harrison, National Chairperson for Repertoire and Resources, at nationalrr@acda.org. Learn more about position expectations. Deadline: May 28.

R&R leadership would like to offer interested-based, genre-specific "boutique conferences" to reconnect with all our members. Please help assess interest in these by completing the survey.

With the aim of promoting new works in choral music and to encourage innovation in choral writing to fit the needs of a 21st-century choir, the IFCM is looking for compositions that combine originality, imagination, and creativity within the context of contemporary global themes. Learn more. Deadline: Jan. 15, 2022.

Raymond W. Brock Competition for Student Composers. Application period open. Learn more. Deadline: Jun. 1.

Julius Herford Dissertation Prize. Nomination period open. Learn more. Deadline: Jun. 15.

All voting eligible members (Active, Retired, Life, and Paying Life) receive a notification email on the morning the election opens, with a link to their eBallot and instructions for accessing candidate information.

Dr. Kerry Boyle of Canterbury Christ Church University in the United Kingdom invites your choir members to participate in a new international study that explores the reasons why people sing in choirs and singing groups. Responses will help them develop an understanding of the most important aspects of singing in choirs and groups for those involved, which could be used to enhance existing approaches to singing in groups. Please share the invitation and survey link with your choir members.

Researchers at the University of Illinois, and CREATe - the UK Copyright and Creative Economy Centre based at the University of Glasgow are seeking input from choral directors of all sorts - sacred and secular; men's, women's, children's, and mixed; renaissance, classical, world music, and/or pop. We seek information on actual directing and composing/arranging practices for the purpose of identifying shared norms of borrowing, attribution, and inter-cultural performance practices. Take the survey.

If you are a K-12 choir teacher, you can assist a choral researcher who was a former University of Arizona Ph.D. student, now based at Seoul National University, by completing a survey about the content and effectiveness of choral methods topics. Click here to participate.

Did you miss the webinar co-hosted by ACDA and CMI? Watch the recording and access the handouts on our National Webinars webpage.

Discount on Church Music Institute Membership

ACDA members receive a $35 discount on CMI membership (reg. $75; ACDA members $40). To access the discount, sign in at https://acda.org and click on "My Offers" in the upper right of the screen.

Look under Resources >> Music in Worship for the recording of the Church Music Re-Enters Worship webinar and to access the handouts. 📲 Click here to download the App!

ACDA CAREER CENTER

Where employers go to find choral professionals. A selection of current postings:

Mendelssohn Chorus of Philadelphia (Philadelphia, PA)

Northland Chorale (Northglenn, CO)

The Hewitt School (New York, NY)

Chicago Children's Choir (Chicago, IL)

Sacramento Gay Men's Chorus (Sacramento, CA)

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