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ACDA NATIONAL
2025 Saturday, March 22 Detailed Schedule

March 18-22 Dallas, TX

3 Shattering Barriers: conductors of color in the field. In 4 The Future of Choral Music:
Empowering Women of Color a landscape where traditional paths Performance, Literacy, and Pedagogy
in Choral Leadership to success often overlook diverse
perspectives, this session shines a National Shrine Cathedral of
National Shrine Cathedral of spotlight on the resilience, creativity, Our Lady of Guadalupe
Our Lady of Guadalupe and leadership of women who are Sanctuary
Grand Salon forging new paths in the choral world.
Developmental teaching in choral
Join us for an empowering session Erika Tazawa and B. E. Boykin, music is an approach that supports
dedicated to amplifying the voices by presenters successful rehearsal and performance
women conductors of color. Drawing by choirs diverse in talent, training,
upon academic research, real-world Chantae Pittman, presider singing experience, motivation—all
examples, and practical strategies, President-Elect, Georgia ACDA the challenges we can audition out
attendees will learn how to identify, if there are many available singers.
navigate, and challenge the systemic For those teachers without unlimited
barriers and biases that have hin- skilled singers, rehearsal and per-
dered the advancement of women formance becomes a different and

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