Massachusetts ACDA

Serving Massachusetts choral directors with workshops and clinics, festivals, conferences, publications, repertoire lists, networking opportunities, and advocacy to promote excellence in choral music throughout the Commonwealth.

MassACDA 2024 Summer Conference

THANK YOU for joining us for a four-day professional development conference for choral musicians!

THANK YOU to ALL OF OUR COLLABORATORS for a fabulous conference!

Our headliner Ben Parry, Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient Nick Page, Village Harmony and their leaders: Sinead O’Mahoney, Bongani Magatyana and Polina Shepherd, the One Voice Youth Festival staff: Pamela Mindell, Kevin Neel and Regan Paras, ACDA members who presented interested sessions: Destiny Cooper, Andrew Clark, Jason Ianuzzi, Daniel Parsley, Stephen Spinelli, Gilbert Wermeling, Colin Britt, Anne Watson Born, Elitsa Stoyneva, and Hana Cai. 

Click here to read detailed descriptions of the sessions.

 One Voice! Summer Youth Choral Festival!

Thank you Pamela Mindell, Kevin Neel, and Reagan Paras! 

We are grateful to all the choral directors whose support made the One Voice Summer Youth Choral Festival possible!

We appreciate all the caregivers whose support made it possible for young singers to participate in the One Voice Summer Youth Choral Festival!

Do you have questions about the ONE VOICE! Youth Choral Consortium?

Please contact Pam Mindell (Artistic Director, Worcester Children’s Chorus) and Chris Wychorski (Executive Director, Worcester Children’s Chorus) at info@worcesterchildrenschorus.org.

The MassACDA board would like to congratulate Matthew Cunningham, who has been elected to serve as our next President for the 2025-2027 term. Matthew is the Director of the Choirs at Brockton High School, in Brockton, MA.  He conducts five choirs, teaches piano classes, and is the musical director for their spring musical.   His choirs have performed at the 2016 ACDA Easter Region as well as for three national NAfME conferences.  Matthew will immediately begin his term as President-Elect on the current board.  

In addition, the board would like to take this time to thank both of our talented candidates, including Jonathan Richter, who volunteered to run for president.   

Congratulations again Matthew!

Sincerely,

Felicia Barber

Massachusetts ACDA Past President

 

The Massachusetts American Choral Directors Association is committed to several initiatives in regards to diversity, equity, and inclusion as it pertains to the following areas of our organization:

  • Membership: We are committed to increasing our membership to include more teachers, conductors and singers of color and from areas of our state less represented in our organization to date. 

  • Mentorship/networking: We are committed to creating a network of teachers, conductors, and singers willing to volunteer their time to serve as mentors for new teachers and collegiate students.

  • Events: We are committed to re-imagining our regular events while also encouraging participation from more teachers, conductors, and singers of color leading us to learn about and hear various experiences and perspectives. 

  • Resources: We are committed to providing resources for our membership regarding diversity, equity and inclusion comprising of: 

    • Repertoire lists including a number of works from composers of diverse backgrounds and works beyond those of the Western classical idiom.

    • Databases to explore music of composers of diverse backgrounds.

    • Media such as articles, blogs, podcasts, interviews, books, and virtual events on the subject of diversity in the choral realm.