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2024 ACDA Eastern Region Conference February 28 - March 2, 2024 Providence, Rhode Island

Heritage Chorale. Collaborations include the PEW Renaissance and Baroque Choral Music
Foundation, Bucks County Choral Society, “Christmas
in a Time of Isolation” 2020 PBS broadcast, Chorus The repertoire of Renaissance and Baroque music is
America and WXPN’s “Gospel Roots of Rock and the wellspring of our choral art. Using selected exam-
Soul.” He debuted at Carnegie Hall (2001) with N.Y. ples from the late-fifteenth to the mid-eighteenth cen-
Pops and maestro Skitch Henderson, and prepared turies, participants will have the opportunity to directly
choruses for Kathleen Battle’s The Underground Railroad; experience ideas and methods for bringing this music
Denyce Graves’s Breaking the Rules; Philadelphia Orches- to life for both singers and listeners. Issues of interpre-
tra with Andrea Bocelli, Aretha Franklin, Julius Rudel, tation, notation, pitch and intonation, text declama-
Florence Quivar, Hannibal Lokumbe premieres Yan- tion and diction, rhythm and phrasing, performance
nick Nézet-Séguin, conductor; Can You Hear God Crying practice, editorial practices, and vocal pedagogy will
on Naxos ArkivMusic. be addressed through specific rehearsal techniques and
group vocal techniques. Examples of both a cappella
and concerted music will be used as well as examples
from both secular and sacred repertoires. Program-
Latin American Music ming suggestions and resources for further study will
be included.
Explore choral literature inspired by the folk mu-
sic and rhythms of Latin America. While singing and Edward Maclary is professor emeritus
rehearsing together, participants will learn about per- of music at the University of Mary-
formance practice, rehearsal techniques, cultural un- land. During his tenure he led the UMD
derstanding, and the context in which the pieces were Chamber Singers to international ac-
created. claim, and the UMD Concert Choir be-
came the chorus of choice for the National Symphony
Diana V. Sáez is the director of choral Orchestra and Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Alum-
activities at Towson University. A leading ni of UMD’s graduate conducting program hold pro-
specialist in Latin American music, Sáez fessional and academic conducting positions around
is a frequent guest conductor, adjudica- the country, and UMD choral alumni populate many
tor, and lecturer in the United States and top professional ensembles and all our nation’s military
abroad. In the past five years, she has presented at na- choirs. Known for his advocacy and performance of
tional and regional ACDA conferences, American uni- early music, from 2014 through 2017 he was the direc-
versities, and various other engagements in North and tor of the conducting masterclass for the Oregon Bach
South America. Prior to that, she served for twenty-five Festival. He has prepared choral ensembles for Robert
years as artistic director of Cantigas, the award-win- Shaw and Helmuth Rilling and dozens of other inter-
ning chamber choir of Latin American and Spanish nationally renowned conductors.
music. Her compositions are published by Hal Leon-
ard, Boosey and Hawkes, La Voz Music Publishing,
and the Roger Dean Publishing Company.
Vocal Jazz

Vocal jazz ensemble/jazz choir literature is often in-
timidating and avoided due to its use of dissonance,
multiple styles within the idiom, scat singing, and how
standard notation transforms into a different interpreta-
tion. Through group rehearsal and strategic examples,

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