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2026 ACDA Southern Region Conference March 4-7, 2026 Memphis, Tennessee

Willis Rosenfeld is the choir director and I Sing! You Sing!
fine arts department chair at Loudoun We All Sing with Solfège Harmonization
County High School in Leesburg, VA.
His choirs have earned superior ratings at There are many ways to access musical language
festivals in Chicago, Orlando, New York, beyond the visual method of sight-reading. Sole focus
and Williamsburg. He also serves as director of music on visual aptitude of sight-reading may isolate singers
ministries at Sterling United Methodist Church, where who excel at aural skills or struggle with visual process-
his teams have led music for Virginia state and district ing of music notation. Utilizing her method of solfège
Methodist events. Rosenfeld has worked as a music di- harmonization, Michelle Folta will demonstrate ways
rector, actor, and technician in numerous productions that singers can analyze music, predict harmonic struc-
and is active as a collaborative pianist across northern ture, and create unique arrangements. Session attend-
Virginia. He earned his DMA in choral conducting ees will perform a solfège harmonization exercise be-
from George Mason University, where his research fore learning how to create one. In collaboration with
focused on pedagogical repertoire selection. He also colleagues, attendees will design their own exercise by
holds a BM from George Mason and degrees from identifying chords, creating a roadmap, and making ar-
Messiah University and Regent University. tistic choices. We discuss practical uses of the solfège
harmonization method in differentiating instruction,

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