ACDA Conference
2009 SUMMER CONFERENCE: JULY 12-15
Daily schedule coming soon!
CREDIT OPTIONS
- One (1) graduate credit OR
- 15 PDPs
- Minimum 15 contact hours and summary paper required for either option
MEALS AND LODGING
- Air-conditioned, apartment-style dorm rooms availabe
- Shared kitchen, living room and bath
- Double or single occupancy, same gender only
- Linens provided
- Roommate requests accepted
- Meals may be prepaid or purchased on a cash basis
- Request deadline: July 1
NON-CREDIT REGISTRATION FEES
Includes PDPs or participation only
| $230 | Registration received by May 31 |
| $250 | Registration received by June 15 |
| $270 | Registration received after June 15 |
GRADUATE CREDIT REGISTRATION FEES
| $200 | Graduate credit registration received by July 1 |
| $25 | Late fee (graduate registration received after July 1) |
SPECIAL REGISTRATION RATES
| $60 | Student rate (valid student ID required) |
| $80 | Per diem rate (any portion of a day incurs the full daily rate) |
ABOUT MASS ACDA
MassACDA is the Massachusetts Chapter of the American Choral Directors Association. Founded in 1959, the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) is a nonprofit music education organization the central purpose of which is to promote excellence in choral music. ACDA members teach choral music in public and private schools--kindergarten through senior high school--and at the college and university levels. They conduct a variety of choral groups including boys' choirs, children's choirs, men's and women's choruses, junior and senior high school choirs, college and university choruses, ethnic choirs, vocal jazz ensembles and symphony choruses. They also conduct choirs in their communities and in their places of worship. MassACDA welcomes all choral conductors to its summer conference at Gordon College.
2008 ACDA CLINICIANS
Carol Krueger is the associate director of choral studies at the University of South Carolina where she conducts the University Choir, teaches undergraduate and graduate conducting and methods courses, and supervises student teachers. Prior to her appointment at South Carolina, Dr. Krueger held positions at the University of Montevallo and at the University of Miami, and spent more than twenty years as a choral music educator in the public schools in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Florida. A native of Wisconsin, Krueger received her bachelor's degree in music education from the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh and both an M.A. and D.M.A. in choral conducting from the University of Miami.
An active clinician and guest conductor, Krueger has most recently conducted festivals and honor choirs at the collegiate, high school and middle school levels in Tennessee, Alabama, Florida, Washington, Georgia, South Carolina, Kansas, North Dakota and North Carolina. In December 2005, she conducted multiple performances of Epcot's Candlelight Processional and Massed Choir Program.
Widely recognized for her work with music literacy, Krueger has presented interest sessions at the American Choral Directors National Convention in New York, the ACDA Southern Division Convention in Nashville, and the OAKE (Kodály) National Convention in Charlotte. In addition she has presented interest sessions or workshops in Tennessee, North Dakota, Massachusetts, Maine, Virginia, Georgia, Kansas, Pennsylvania, Florida, Alabama and South Carolina. Her book Progressive Sight Singing is published by Oxford University Press.
David Rayl is in his fifth year as professor of music and director of choral programs at Michigan State University where he conducts the MSU Chorale and Choral Union and directs the master's and doctoral programs in choral conducting. Under Dr. Rayl's baton the MSU Chorale appeared in performances of Handel's Messiah (2002, 2003, 2005) and Mozart's Requiem (2003) with the Detroit Symphony, and has performed at numerous ACDA events including the national convention in March 2007. Rayl also serves as associate director for graduate studies in music at MSU.
Rayl has appeared as guest conductor, clinician, and adjudicator throughout the United States and internationally. Recent appearances include the national convention of the Associação Brasileira de Regentes de Coros in Goiania, Brazil; The Phenomenon of Singing, International Symposium V, in St. John's Newfoundland; the national convention of the National Association of Teachers of Singing in Minneapolis; the Missouri and Nebraska High School All-State Choirs; as well as honor choirs at the University of Iowa, Lawrence University, Chadron State College in Nebraska, and Central Missouri State University.
Prior to his MSU appointment, Rayl served for 12 years conducting the MU University Singers at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He is also the former music director of the Chamber Singers of Iowa City (1985-1990) and the Quad City Mozart Festival (1987-97) and has received particular notice for his performances of the choral, operatic, and orchestral repertoire of the 18th century, especially the works of Bach and Mozart. Several of his articles and reviews have appeared in the Choral Journal and The Journal of the Conductors' Guild, and his editions of Marc-Antoine Charpentier's Nine Settings of the Litany of the Blessed Virgin Mary were published by A-R Editions of Madison, Wisconsin.