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2018 ACDA Central & North Central Conference Hotels

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HOTEL UPDATE

The headquarter hotel for the 2018 ACDA Central and North Central Regional Conference is the Fairmont Chicago. The Fairmont will house the exhibit hall, interest sessions, and all but one reading session, and is the best option for those wanting to be in the center of activity. If you have not yet made your hotel reservation, we encourage you to do so in the near future.

Participants of the four honor choirs are housed at and will rehearse at the Swissotel Chicago, as will the Collegiate Repertoire Choir. The Swissotel is completely booked, consequently, ACDA has secured additional rooms at a reduced conference rate in the nearby Hyatt Regency and Radisson Blu Aqua hotels, each a five-minute walk from the Fairmont and Swissotel. Click on one of the links below to book your hotel accommodations now.

FAIRMONT CHICAGO: Fairmont Hotel 2018 ACDA
HYATT REGENCY: Hyatt Regency 2018 ACDA
RADISSON BLU AQUA:  Radisson Blu Aqua 2018 ACDA 

2018 ACDA Regional Conference Registration

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TAKE ADVANTAGE of early registration prices for the February 14 – 17, 2018 combined ACDA Central and North Central Regional Conference in Chicago, Illinois (see link below). Your choice of four choral music reading booklets is guaranteed only with early registration. One-day registration will be available onsite only.

EARLY REGISTRATION (ends at midnight CST on January 13, 2018)
Attendee – $240.00*
Retired – $175.00
Student – $90.00 (+$10 to participate in Collegiate Repertoire Choir)

REGISTER FOR 2018 CONFERENCE

REGULAR REGISTRATION (starts January 14, 2018)
Attendee – $300.00
Retired – $225.00
Student – $90.00

*The previously announced early registration price of $225 was incorrect. We apologize for this error and any inconvenience this may have caused.

Summary of the 2018 ACDA Central & North Central Conference Schedule

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The 2018 conference team has created a summary of the 2018 ACDA Central and North Central Conference schedule to help in your planning. If you need to print this summary please click on the link at the end of this article. We are moving away from hard-copy conference books and will be using the same electronic conference app that was used at the 2017 ACDA national conference.  A printed schedule summary will be included in registration packets for those who prefer a hard copy schedule.

Registration, exhibits, interest sessions and reading sessions will be located in the Fairmont Hotel. All concerts are in the Harris Theater. The Choral Evensong will be at the historic St. James Episcopal Cathedral in downtown Chicago (less than 1 mile from the Fairmont). The honor choir rehearsals and the Collegiate Repertoire Choir will take place at the Swissotel.

Wednesday, February 14, 2018
5:00 pm Registration Opens
7:30  Opening Reception (Harris Theater Lobby)
8:30  Opening Concert: Chicago a cappella

Thursday, February 15
8:00 am Registration Opens
8:30  Interest Sessions

  • Beyond the Benefit Concert: Activism through Community Collaboration
  • Phoning It In: Using Technology for Effective Assessment
  • Making Musical Theatre Musical
  • Discovering Talent: Strategies to Recruit New Students into the School Choral Program

10:00 Concert Session

  • Providence Academy Chamber Choir
  • Ball State University Women’s Chorus
  • Capital University Chapel Choir

12:00 Reading Sessions: College and Lifelong Repertoire & Resources Areas

  • College and University
  • Community
  • Music in Worship

1:30 Concert Session

  • Madison Choral Project
  • Limited Edition (Port Washington High School)
  • Eastern Michigan University Choir

3:30 Interest Sessions

  • Game of Tones: Creative Ways to Explore Choral Sound
  • Gospel Music and the Concert Stage: Understanding Style and Stage Presence When Performing Gospel Music
  • Warming Up Your Adolescent Voices: A “How-To”
  • Vocal Jazz Improvisation for New Improvisers
  • Pre-Evensong Conversation

4:45 Choral Evensong with Bella Voce (St. James Episcopal Cathedral, Chicago)
5:30 Dinner Break
7:30 Conference Welcome
7:45 Concert Session: University of Michigan Men’s Glee Club
8:30 Headliner Concert: Santa Fe Desert Chorale

Friday, February 16
8:30 am Interest Sessions

  • Sing On, Chicago: Panel Discussion with Chicago Conductors and High School Administrators on Urban Choral Challenges
  • What Is My Larynx Doing? Developing Vocal Technique Awareness in Young Boys
  • Intonation and Language Skills in Chinese Choral Works
  • Good News from Haiti: The Choral Music of Emile Desamours and Sydney Guillaume

10:00 Concert Session

  • Iowa City West Singers
  • The St. John’s Boys’ Choir
  • Millikin University Choir

12:00 Poster Session
12:00 Reading Sessions: Youth Repertoire & Resources Areas

  • Children and Community Youth
  • Junior High/Middle School
  • Senior High School

12:00 Collegiate Repertoire Choir Session I (Swissotel Zurich Ballroom)
1:30 Concert Session

  • Michael-Albertville High School Concert Choir
  • Cantala (Lawrence University Women’s Choir)
  • Iowa State Singers

3:30 Interest Sessions

  • Enhancing the Choral Art through Dalcroze Eurhythmics
  • Uniting in Song through the Lens of Diversity
  • Contemporary Folk Chinese Choral Repertoire
  • The Engaging Choral Classroom: Capitalizing on Adolescents’ Enthusiasm in Middle School Ensembles
  • ICEP: Visiting International Conductors Meet and Greet

3:30  Collegiate Repertoire Choir Session II (Swissotel Zurich Ballroom)
4:30  Dinner Break
7:30  Weston H. Noble & Stace N. Stegman Award Presentations
8:00  Special Event: Chicago High School Honors Chorus, Stacey Gibbs, composer & conductor
8:20  State of ACDA Presentation: Tim Sharp, ACDA Executive Director
8:30  Headliner Concert: Shenzhen Golden Bell Youth Choir from China

Saturday, February 17
9:00   Concert Session

  • Columbus International Children’s Choir
  • Audivi
  • Miami University Men’s Glee Club

10:30  Interest & Reading Sessions

  • Central/North Central Division Composers Reading Session I: Easy to Medium
  • Composition in the Choral Music Classroom: Lessons from a Composer-in-Residence Songwriting Workshop for Elementary Choristers
  • Knowing the Score: Where Pedagogy Becomes Classroom Management
  • When Your Choir Is Too Tired to Phonate and You Need to Rehearse

11:30  Reading Sessions: Repertoire Specific R & R Areas

  • Central & North Central Division Composers Reading Session II: Difficult to Advanced
  • Ethnic
  • Vocal Jazz/Contemporary Commercial

12:30 Reading Sessions: Repertoire Specific R & R Areas

  • Men’s Chorus
  • Women’s Chorus

1:30  Honor Choir Concert Session I

  • Elementary Honor Choir
  • High School Honor Choir

3:00  Honor Choir Concert Session II

  • Mid-Level Changed & Changing Voice Honor Choir
  • Mid-Level Treble Voice Honor Choir

2018 ACDA Conference Schedule

2018 Honor Choir Results Are In!

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Rosters for each of the 2018 ACDA Central & North Central Division honor choirs are now available and may be accessed by clicking on the links below. Students selected to be in an honor choir must complete a registration and payment form and a health form. To access the required forms please click on the links  below. Be sure to look at the schedule overview, as well!

2018 Elementary Honor Choir Roster

2018 Mid-Level Changed & Changing Honor Choir Roster

2018 Mid-Level Treble Honor Choir Roster

2018 High School Honor Choir Roster

Registration and Payment Form

Medical Form

Honor Choir Schedule Overview

AUDITIONS ARE OPEN: 2018 Division Honor Choirs

Children's & Community Youth Choirs, Junior High/Middle School Choirs, Senior High School Choirs, Serve. Connect. Celebrate., Teaching, Youth

Prepare your students to audition for the 2018 ACDA Central and North Central Division Honor Choirs.  The application deadline is Friday, September 29 (11:59 pm).

APPLICATION FORM
Audition Application Form

AUDITION INFORMATION
Elementary Honor Choir (Unchanged, gr. 5-6)
Mid-Level Treble Honor Choir (SA, gr. 7-9)
Mid-Level Changed/Changing Honor Choir (TB, gr. 7-9)
High School Honor Choir (SATB, gr. 10-12)

QUESTIONS?
Send an email to the coordinator or a chair by clicking on a name (below):

Stephanie Trump – Honor Choir Coordinator
Melanie Kjellberg – High School Honor Choir Chair
Marissa McLean – Mid-Level Treble Honor Choir Chair
Tony Rangel – Mid-Level Changed/Changing Honor Choir Chair
Susan McAllister – Elementary Honor Choir Chair

Wanted: North Central Advertising Chair

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Have you ever considered volunteering for ACDA?  North Central ACDA is currently seeking an advertising chair who would be responsible for selling advertising on NCACDA’s website and on the 2018 Central and North Central Division Conference program app. The 2018 conference is six months away, so we are looking for someone to jump in as soon as possible. If you’d like to get involved in your professional organization, are detail-oriented and a good communicator, please send Mary Kay Geston, NCACDA President, a message on NCACDA’s Facebook page for more information.