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ACDA NATIONAL Dallas, Texas
Alphabetical Listing of Interest Sessions
2025 2025 ACDA National Conference March 18-22, 2025
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R&R Forums and Deep Dives (Open to Both Tracks)
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March 18-22 Dallas, TX
minute that you spend not dozing in your conference
Deep Dive hotel room will be worth its weight in gold! Aspiring
educators and conductors will be granted coveted 1:1
access with some of today’s most intrepid conductors
Saturday 8:00 am - 8:50 am and mentors during an informal pre-panel coffee hour
National Shrine Cathedral of Our Lady of Guadalupe We will meet at 7:30am for coffee, pastries and conver-
Sanctuary sations at Starbucks*. Starting at 8:00am, we will make
our way to Moody Performance Hall for the 8:30am
“Student Panel Session.”
Changing the Narrative The eighty-minute panel (8:30-9:50am) will offer
advice for maximizing your short window of time as an
Explore several pieces of repertoire for treble choir undergraduate student, unpacking topics such as ideas
in depth—listen, sing, and discuss rehearsal strategies. for how to create conducting opportunities as an under-
All pieces included in this session will challenge or defy graduate student, advice on how to seek out a mentor
treble literature stereotypes in some form. We will look at and how to be a good mentee, pro tips for developing
pieces that utilize under-explored emotions and themes video footage for graduate school and/or conducting
like rage, fear, violence, grief, loss, and power (among masterclass applications, advice for developing your
others). We will explore different approaches to sound own leadership skills and style, secrets to networking
production and movement in the context of diverse in this profession, and how to leverage opportunities
repertoire, along with strategies for approaching the through your institution’s student ACDA chapter.
rehearsal and performance of rare or dead languages.
* The purchase of coffee/pastries is not mandatory; you
Presenter: Erin Plisco may attend the 7:30am meeting simply for the oppor-
tunity to connect with other leaders in our profession.

Presenters:
Student Activities Elizabeth Swanson and Ryan Beeken

Forum Panelists:
Kevin Fenton
Professor of Choral Conducting and Ensembles
Thursday 7:30 am - 8:00 am Florida State University
Starbucks -2200 Ross Ave Isiah Maxey

Thursday 8:30 am - 9:50 am PhD Student, Choral Music Education
Moody Performance Hall Florida State University

Seaira Anderson
Undergraduate Student, Choral Music Education
Aspiring Conductor-Educators: Florida State University
Maximizing Your Undergraduate Years
Sharon Paul
Department Head of Music Performance and
Today’s alarm will need to go off early, but every Director of Choral Activities;

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