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

percussion, experience call-and-response singing, and
Beyond the Score: learn a representative song. Following this practical ex-

Exploring Colombian Cumbia in Choral Spaces ploration, we will discuss the origins and transforma-
tions of cumbia and look at a classroom application
through a personal case study. Session participants will
Saturday 10:00 am - 10:50 am receive all pedagogical materials and a list of repertoire
by representative composers and arrangers.
First United Methodist Church
Upper Room (3rd Floor) Mariana Romero Serra, a versatile mu-
sic educator and choral conductor from
Caracas, Venezuela, brings a global per-
Through experiential learning and discussions spective with international experience in
around cultural understanding, this session aims to Colombia, Japan, and the United States.
examine the significance of Colombian cumbia and She has served as adjudicator and clinician at vocal and
proposes an exciting approach to music education that choral festivals worldwide, including Tokyo and Michi-
expands on Western European choral perspectives. gan. An active arranger, her work was featured at the
We will explore the Black and Indigenous rhythmic 2021 VMEA Conference. She was awarded a graduate
components of cumbia through movement and vocal assistantship at Michigan State University, where she

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