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2025 ACDA National Conference                                                 March 18-22, 2025                                              Dallas, Texas


   Concert Events (Purple Track, Orange Track, Both Tracks)


                             Soloists                                   Michelle DeYoung,  mezzo-soprano, ap-
                                                                        pears  regularly  with the  world’s  most
                    Felicia Moore, soprano, is  recognized              prestigious orchestras, including the New
                    as a powerful and innovative artist, hav-           York  Philharmonic,  Boston  Symphony
                    ing made music in partnership with Alan             Orchestra,  Chicago  Symphony  Orches-
                    Gilbert, Susanna Mälkki, Yannick Nézet-  tra,  London  Symphony  Orchestra,  and  the  Vienna
                    Séguin, Rafael Payare, Sir Donald Run-  Philharmonic. She has also performed at the festivals
         nicles,  Speranza  Scappucci,  and  Alexander  Shelley,   of Ravinia, Tanglewood, Saito Kinen, Edinburgh, and
         among others. An  array  of leading  roles this  season   Lucerne. DeYoung has appeared with the Metropoli-
         at Deutsche Oper Berlin include Lady Macbeth in a   tan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Teatro alla Scala,
         new production of Macbeth; Ghita in Der Zwerg; and   Bayreuth  Festival,  Berliner  Staatsoper,  and  the  Paris
         Die  Kaiserin  (cover)  in  Die Frau  ohne  Schatten. North   Opera.  A  multi-Grammy  Award-winning  recording
         America concert appearances include Verdi’s Requiem   artist, her most recent recording, the Met Opera’s Ver-
         with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and Beethoven’s   di’s Requiem: The Met Remembers 9/11, was nominated for
         Ninth Symphony both with Xian Zhang and the New Jer-  a 2023 Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance.
         sey Symphony and with Tito Muñoz and the Phoenix
         Symphony.








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