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Conference Printed Materials
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Conference Program Booklet
Opening Concert Program
Opening Concert Additional Details (bios, texts, translations)
Choir for All Honor Choir Program
Conference Program Booklet
Opening Concert Program
Opening Concert Additional Details (bios, texts, translations)
Choir for All Honor Choir Program
Post-Conference Online Forms
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Conference Evaluation Survey
Act 48 Credit Hours Survey
Conference Evaluation Survey
Act 48 Credit Hours Survey
Conference Highlights:
- Featured guest clinicians Elaine Hagenberg & Marques L.A. Garrett (bios below)
- Featured concert by Chanticleer & the Susquehanna Chorale (bios below) with Chanticleer talkback afterward
- Performance by the "Choir for All" Honor Choir
- World premiere performances of the 2020 and 2022 winning selections from the ACDA-PA Choral Composition Competition
- Undergraduate Conducting Masterclass
- Reading sessions for all repertoire & resources areas
- Interest sessions
- Full group sing of a major work
- Recognition of ACDA-PA award winners at the banquet
- ACDA "After Hours" social events
- Discounted on-campus housing at Messiah University
Costs:
Cost includes: meals (Sunday BBQ Dinner, Monday Banquet Dinner, Monday/Tuesday Lunch; note: breakfast is included for those staying on campus), all reading session music, sessions and keynotes with Elaine Hagenberg & Marques Garrett, and 1 ticket to Chanticleer concert. (Additional Chanticleer tickets are available here!)
2022 REGISTRATION RATES
EARLY BIRD:
$200 Active Member / $190 Retired Member / $180 Member Spouse / $100 Student
"EARLY BIRD" REGISTRATION RATES END JULY 1
REGULAR:
$225 Active Member / $215 Retired Member / $205 Member Spouse / $125 Student
ON-SITE:
$250 Active Member / $240 Retired Member / $230 Member Spouse / $150 Student
SINGLE DAY:
$125
2022 REGISTRATION RATES
EARLY BIRD:
$200 Active Member / $190 Retired Member / $180 Member Spouse / $100 Student
"EARLY BIRD" REGISTRATION RATES END JULY 1
REGULAR:
$225 Active Member / $215 Retired Member / $205 Member Spouse / $125 Student
ON-SITE:
$250 Active Member / $240 Retired Member / $230 Member Spouse / $150 Student
SINGLE DAY:
$125
Housing:
Messiah University has graciously offered discounted on-campus housing options for Summer Conference attendees and Honor Choir participants. ACDA-PA will provide college students to serve as dorm counselors for high school singers participating in the Honor Choir.
On-campus housing options:
(sheets, towels and breakfast included, per night rate shown)
Dorm Single - $45.85
Dorm Double - $30.55
Apartment Single - $56.75
Apartment Double - $37.75
Hotels near campus (ask for a Messiah discount):
https://campustravel.com/university/messiah-university/
On-campus housing options:
(sheets, towels and breakfast included, per night rate shown)
Dorm Single - $45.85
Dorm Double - $30.55
Apartment Single - $56.75
Apartment Double - $37.75
Hotels near campus (ask for a Messiah discount):
https://campustravel.com/university/messiah-university/
Featured Guest Clinicians:
Elaine Hagenberg & Marques L.A. Garrett
Elaine HagenbergElaine Hagenberg’s music “soars with eloquence and ingenuity” (ACDA Choral Journal). Her award-winning compositions are performed worldwide and frequently featured at American Choral Directors Association conferences, All-State festivals, Carnegie Hall, and other distinguished international concert halls from Australia to South America and throughout Europe.
In addition to composing full-time, Elaine actively engages in bringing her music to life as the guest artist and featured clinician for professional conferences and festivals both in the U.S. and abroad as a composer, conductor, and accompanist of her work. With over fifty commissioned works, she has composed new music for the American Choral Directors Association, professional choirs, colleges and universities, community choirs, high schools, and churches. “I Am the Wind” was named the winner of the 2020 ACDA Brock Competition for Professional Composers. Elaine has music in print with various publishers including Oxford University Press, G. Schirmer, Hinshaw Music, and Beckenhorst Press. Currently, she publishes her concert music independently through Elaine Hagenberg Music which is distributed through GIA. |
Marques L.A. GarrettA Virginia native, Marques L. A. Garrett (he/him/his) is an Assistant Professor of Music in Choral Activities at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln in the Glenn Korff School of Music. He earned his PhD in Music Education (Choral Conducting) at Florida State University.
An active conductor, Dr. Garrett has served as a guest conductor or clinician with several school, church, community, and festival/honor choirs throughout the country. In addition to his conducting classes at UNL, he leads conducting workshops at other universities and conferences. A versatile voice that performs both as a baritone and countertenor, Dr. Garrett has sung with several community, church, and university groups as both a chorister and soloist. He was the countertenor soloist in the European premiere of Dan Forrest’s Jubilate Deo in Limerick, Ireland. Currently, he sings with First-Plymouth Congregational Church, Festival Singers of Florida, and the Jason Max Ferdinand Singers. Dr. Garrett is an avid composer of choral and solo-vocal music whose compositions have been performed to acclaim by high school all-state, collegiate, and professional choirs including Seraphic Fire and the Oakwood University Aeolians. GIA Publications, Walton Music, Santa Barbara Music Publishing, and others have published several of his compositions. |
Featuring Performances by
Chanticleer & The Susquehanna Chorale
The GRAMMY® Award-winning vocal ensemble Chanticleer has been hailed as “the world’s reigning male chorus” by The New Yorker, and is known around the world as “an orchestra of voices” for its wide-ranging repertoire and dazzling virtuosity. Founded in San Francisco in 1978 by singer and musicologist Louis Botto, Chanticleer quickly took its place as one of the most prolific recording and touring ensembles in the world, selling over one million recordings and performing thousands of live concerts to audiences around the world.
Chanticleer’s repertoire is rooted in the renaissance, and has continued to expand to include a wide range of classical, gospel, jazz, popular music, and a deep commitment to the commissioning of new compositions and arrangements. The ensemble has committed much of its vast recording catalogue to these commissions, garnering GRAMMY® Awards for its recording of Sir John Tavener’s “Lamentations & Praises”, and the ambitious collection of commissioned works entitled “Colors of Love”. Chanticleer is the recipient of the Dale Warland/Chorus America Commissioning Award and the ASCAP/Chorus America Award for Adventurous Programming, and its Music Director Emeritus Joseph H. Jennings received the Brazeal Wayne Dennard Award for his contribution to the African-American choral tradition during his tenure with Chanticleer. Named for the “clear-singing” rooster in Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, Chanticleer continues to maintain ambitious programming in its hometown of San Francisco, including a large education and outreach program that recently reached over 8,000 people, and an annual concert series that includes its legendary holiday tradition “A Chanticleer Christmas”. |
The Susquehanna Chorale, founded in 1981 by Artistic Director Linda L. Tedford, is widely recognized as one of the premier vocal ensembles in the mid-Atlantic region and beyond. Presenting programs of varied repertoire from many styles and time periods, the Chorale is noted for its velvet blend, passionate expression, and artistic excellence. The choir has performed world premieres of works from today’s finest composers, has been featured on the nationally broadcast First Art radio program, and was the first volunteer choir to receive the prestigious Margaret Hillis Achievement Award for Choral Excellence. Driven by its mission of “Enriching lives through song,” the Chorale’s dedication to the highest standards of the choral art creates an extraordinary musical experience for the listener, both in the concert hall and through its numerous recordings, four of which were formally considered for Grammy® nominations.
The 36-voice auditioned choir has performed throughout the East Coast including engagements at the Washington National Cathedral, the Chautauqua Institution in New York, and conventions of the American Choral Directors Association. The Chorale regularly performs larger choral works with the Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra. In addition, the choir has toured Great Britain, Switzerland, Austria, and Germany and is planning a 2021 overseas tour to commemorate the 40th anniversary of its founding. |
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