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2024 ACDA Southwestern Region Conference February 27 - March 2, 2024 Denver, Colorado

Leila Heil is associate professor at the Teaching Workshop
University of Colorado Boulder, where
she teaches courses in music education. Rehearsal flow and processes are demystified as
A former K-12 music teacher, she has participants actively explore strategies for increased
presented sessions at numerous national student engagement and success. This session serves to
and international conferences including the Midwest empower the conductor to develop a rehearsal toolbox
Clinic, the Society for Music Teacher Education Con- from which to draw within the choral classroom. Led
ference, NAfME Conference, ACDA National Confer- by O’Neil Jones and Elizabeth Swanson.
ence, and the Research in Music Education Confer-
ence. She has authored and co-authored articles for O’Neil Jones and Elizabeth Swanson will be the pre-
the Music Educators Journal, the Choral Journal, Visions in senters for this session.
Music Education Research, Contributions to Music Education,
and the Journal of Music, Technology and Education.

Literacy

Programming for the Ensemble You Have,

Not the One You Want This session engages ideas of literacy as critical to the
developing young musician. How, why, and when to
teach literacy are explored as participants are equipped
There are a plethora of resources available to new with tools for immediate success in the classroom. Led
teachers as they program for their ensembles. Together by O’Neil Jones and Micah Horton.
we will explore the limitless possibilities available to
conductors, regardless of the ensemble complement, O’Neil Jones and Micah Horton will be the presenters
providing access to curated repertoire resources for all for this session.
levels. Led by O’Neil Jones and Franco Basili.

Franco Basili is a DMA student in choral
conducting at the University of Houston. Why Can’t I Just Teach the Music?
Originally from Tandil, Argentina, Basili
is a choral director, pianist, and choral This session explores setting expectations within the
singer. He completed his MM in cho- classroom, concert logistics, and management. Partici-
ral pedagogy at Carthage College, and his bachelor’s pants are invited to evaluate the many extra-musical
degrees in choral conducting and piano pedagogy at tasks that a teacher must oversee as they build the pro-
the Conservatorio de Música “Isaías Orbe” (Tandil, gram they envision. Led by O’Neil Jones, Micah Hor-
Argentina). He is the director of the university chorus ton, and Franco Basili.
at the University of Houston, director of the chancel
choir at Grace Presbyterian Church in Houston, cho- O’Neil Jones, Micah Horton, and Franco Basili will be
ral intern at the Grammy-awarded Houston Chamber the presenters for this session.
Choir, and member of the multi-award-winning Uni-
versity of Houston Concert Chorale.

O’Neil Jones will be a presenter for this session.

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