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2026 ACDA Southwestern Region Conference March 4-7, 2026 Albuquerque, New Mexico

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grown into a successful nonprofit community music shaw, Pavane, and Walton. She has presented at Eu-
organization comprising five choirs with singers from ropean Center for Jewish Music (Germany), College
kindergarten age through college. Choirs and classes Music Society, NCCO, North American Jewish Choral
are led by a staff of university faculty, area school mu- Festival, NAfME, and ACDA. She is vice president of
sic and movement specialists, professional singers, and NCCO and recently was NWACDA president-elect.
Texas Tech University undergraduate and graduate She earned degrees from University of Southern Cal-
music education interns. In addition to the choral en- ifornia (DMA), University of Miami (MM), and Uni-
semble, singers meet in small groups for Kodály musi- versity of Michigan (Juris Doctor/BMA/BA).
cianship training. The philosophy of The West Texas
Children’s Chorus emphasizes the joy of singing for
its own sake and the development of the whole child University of Colorado-Boulder
through diverse musical experiences of the highest cal- Chamber Singers
iber.

Coreen Duffy Interest Session

Sh’ma:
Global Jewish Choral Music

The University of Colorado Boulder Chamber Sing-
ers, under the direction of Coreen Duffy, will perform
Jewish repertoire in a hybrid concert/interest session
designed to invigorate directors’ programming consid-
erations of music with Jewish connection. Selections
will embrace musics from the Sephardic, Ashkenazic, The CU Boulder Chamber Singers commit to un-
and Mizrahi traditions, including historic and contem- derrepresented composers in every program, perform-
porary diasporic literature. The session will focus on ing the historic canon while promoting ethically sourced
how to program quality music from the Jewish liturgy contemporary and previously overlooked repertoire.
and culture while avoiding appropriation, tokenization, This year, our ensemble includes undergraduate and
and caricature. Attendees will receive an expansive rep- graduate students from a wide variety of disciplines
ertoire list, including literature suitable for all voicings, across campus, including atmospheric and oceanic sci-
occasions, and levels, including K–12, collegiate, com- ences, psychology, astrophysical and planetary sciences,
munity, and music-in-worship choirs. business, and aerospace engineering sciences, as well as
majors within the College of Music. By aspiring to our
Coreen Duffy is director of choral ac- highest level of performance—technically, artistically,
tivities at CU Boulder, where she con- and emotionally—we create a shared musical experi-
ducts Chamber Singers and oversees the ence through which we seek a better understanding of
choral program. She is artistic director our humanity and capacity for empathy.
of Seicento Baroque Ensemble, which
champions period-instrument performances. Duffy is
an active clinician/composer published by ECS, Hin-

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