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ACDA NATIONAL Application Guidelines for Insight Choirs
2025 2025 ACDA National Conference
Dallas, TX
March 18-22 Dallas, TX
March 18-22, 2025

The 2025 National Conference Committee is pleased to continue Insight Choirs, a new initiative launched at the 2023
National Conference in Cincinnati. Insight choirs support missions that are social or community related and use choral
music as a tool to reach these goals. Insight Choir sessions support and inspire the membership by providing engaging
research, pedagogies, practices, and repertoire. We seek proposals for a 50-minute session that will actively engage
conference participants and contribute to the professional development of our diverse membership. ACDA members in
all repertoire & resource areas are welcome to apply.

The 2025 National Conference theme is Celebrating the Choral Art: Past, Present, and Future. All topics are welcomed,
but the conference committee is particularly interested in sessions that celebrate our choral heritage, embody strong
pedagogical ideas, feature scholarly content, and are relevant to our choral community. Insight Choir sessions could include
but are not limited to:

• Working with singers with special needs

• Working with aging voices in the community and religious settings

• Living composer-conductor collaborations

• Working with students in a Title-1 school

• Multi-generational singing

• Non-auditioned choirs that operate and rehearse in alternative ways to meet the needs of their membership and
community at large

I. Eligibility

Conductors/presenters must hold life, paying life, retired, active, or student ACDA membership. Please note that all accepted
conductors/presenters are expected to meet ALL posted dates and deadlines. No choir or conductor may perform on
successive national conferences as a performing choir, demonstration choir, or insight choir.

II. Registration and Travel Info

It is understood that ACDA will not assume financial responsibility for registration, travel, food, or lodging for presenters
or participants. Completing the online application implies that the conductor and the ensemble will obtain the necessary
funds to travel and present at the conference if accepted.

III. Session Conductor/Ensemble Expectations
The conductor and ensemble will arrive 15 minutes prior to the session to establish standing positions and ensure all audio-
visual equipment is working properly. Insight Choirs will not have a dress rehearsal prior to their session. Ensembles must
be under 75 singers and may include a pianist and six additional instrumentalists. It is the responsibility of the ensemble
to set up the chairs and music stands for the instrumentalists as per the submitted application materials.

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