Massachusetts ACDA

2022 Eastern Division ACDA Conference
2022-02-09 - 2022-02-12 | Boston, MA

2022 MassACDA Summer Conference
2022-07-10 16:30 - 2022-07-13 12:30 (America/New_York) | Assumption College, 500 Salisbury Street, Worcester, MA, 01609, United States
The MassACDA Summer Conference will be held at Assumption University (Worcester, MA) from Sunday, July 10 to Wednesday, July 13, 2022. Our featured clinicians this year will be Dr. Andre Thomas and Dr. Judy Bowers who are both Professors Emeriti at The Florida State University. The in-person conference will open with a community sing through Dr. Thomas’s new Mass: A Celebration of Love and Joy, and will feature sessions and concerts on various topics including conducting, repertoire, developmental choirs, and the adolescent voice. Along with traditional in-person attendance, for the first time we are offering one-day, in-person attendance as well as a virtual attendance option. MassACDA will provide participants with the opportunity to receive PDP hours for the conference or graduate credit available through Westfield State University.
Registration Information
Early Bird $250 After June 15, 2022, $290 Members
Early Bird $290 After June 15, 2022, $340 Non-Members
Early Bird $75 After June 15, 2022, $100 Student Member
Early Bird $75 After June 15, 2022, $100 One Day or Virtual
Overnight accommodations available onsite for $60 a night, or $180 for the entire conference
1 Graduate Credit, $150
2 Graduate Credits, $250
Up to 25 hours of PDPs will be offered at no additional charge
Registration includes access to all sessions; Sunday night dinner, lunch on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, and snacks; and all sheet music for those singing in the conference chorus. Those staying overnight will have breakfast provided. Everyone will be responsible for dinner on Monday and Tuesday on their own.
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2022 New England Collegiate Choral Festival
2022-09-17 10:00 - 15:00 | UMass Lowell (Durgin Hall), 35 Wilder St., Lowell, MA, 01854, United States
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Featuring workshops and interactive experiences with the vocal ensemble Windborne (www.windbornesingers.com), an interest session with youth choir specialist Sarah Prickel-Kane, and an undergraduate conducting masterclass with Erica Washburn from New England Conservatory, this conference is tailored to suit the needs of college students in music education, conducting, and vocal performance. This event is co-sponsored by MassACDA and NH ACDA and will be held at UMass Lowell’s Durgin Hall on Saturday, September 17, 2022, from 10:00 am – 3:00 pm. The cost of registration for the conference is $20 for ACDA members and $40 for non-members. Lunch will be available on campus for an additional $12 or students may get lunch on their own downtown.
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If you have questions about the event or would like more information, please contact Jonathan Richter, MassACDA Collegiate R & R Chair, at jonathan_richter@ulm.edu.

2023 MassACDA Summer Conference
2023-07-09 16:30 - 2023-07-12 12:30 | Assumption College, 500 Salisbury Street, Worcester, MA, 01609, United States
The MassACDA Summer Conference will be held at Assumption University (Worcester, MA) from Sunday, July 9 to Wednesday, July 12, 2023. This year, our distinguished clinicians will be Dr. Jeffrey Douma, the Marshall Bartholomew Professor in the Practice of Choral Music at Yale University, in New Haven, CT, and Dr. Lesley Maxwell Mann, Associate Professor of Music a Belmont University, in Nashville, TN. Along with traditional in-person attendance, we are once again offering one-day, in-person attendance as well as a virtual attendance option. MassACDA will provide participants with the opportunity to receive PDP hours for the conference or graduate credit available through Westfield State University.
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Registration Information
ACDA Members: Early Bird $295 ($350 after June 15, 2023)
Non-Members: Early Bird $315 ($370 after June 15, 2023)
Full-Time Student Members: Early Bird $125 ($150 after June 15, 2023)
One Day Attendance: Early Bird $125 ($150 after June 15, 2023)
Virtual Attendance: Early Bird $150 ($200 after June 15, 2023)
Overnight accommodations available on campus in dormitories, and at Hampton Inn, which is five minutes away from campus. The dormitory accomodations will be an air conditioned suite with private rooms with XL twin beds. The Hampton Inn rooms will have two queen beds. The cost for a shared campus suite or hotel room is $80 per night, or $240 for all three nights. The cost for a private suite or hotel room is $160 per night, or $480 for all three nights.
Graduate credit is available through Westfield State University:
1 Graduate Credit, $150
2 Graduate Credits, $250
Up to 25 hours of PDPs will be offered at no additional charge
Registration includes access to all sessions; Sunday night dinner, lunch on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, and snacks; and all sheet music for those singing in the conference chorus. Those staying overnight will have breakfast provided. Everyone will be responsible for dinner on Monday and Tuesday on their own.
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Collegiate Big Sing 2024
2024-02-10 12:00 - 20:00 | Endicott College, 406 Hale St., Beverly, MA, 01915, United States

2024 MassACDA Summer Conference
2024-07-14 - 2024-07-17 | Assumption College, 500 Salisbury Street, Worcester, MA, 01609, United States
The 2024 Massachusetts ACDA Conference will be held July 14th-17th on the Assumption University campus in Worcester, MA. The conference will feature the fantastically versatile British conductor, composer, singer and producer Ben Parry. Other highlights include a special appearance by Village Harmony, and a celebration of Alice Parker lead by the legendary Nick Page.
The conference will also include engaging one-hour interest sessions featuring topics of research and expertise by Massachusetts ACDA members. Conference participants will have the opportunity to sing with our annual Conference Chorus conducted by Ben Parry. For our younger singers, we will feature for the first time, a Youth Chorus Festival on July 16th, led by Pamela Mindell, Reagan Paras, and Kevin Neel.
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Please note that registration includes the cost of dinner Sunday, all lunches, and snacks, in addition to the sheet music for the Conference Chorus. If you are staying overnight, you will also be provided breakfast for each night you stay. Dinner on Monday will be on your own.
Registration opens at 2:30 pm on Sunday, and dinner begins that night at 4:30 pm.
PDP will be available for no additional cost. You will need to sign in at each of the sessions and will receive a certificate at the end, indicating how many hours you attended. For an additional cost, graduate credit will be available through Westfield State. You will need to complete 15 hours of sessions and provide a written submission of extra evidence to receive 1 credit, and you will need 25 hours of sessions, and a written submission of extra evidence for 2 credit hours.

2025 MassACDA Summer Conference
2025-08-14 08:00 - 2025-08-16 17:00 | The Boston Conservatory at Berklee, 8 Fenway, Boston, MA, 02215, United States
The 2025 Massachusetts ACDA Conference will be held August 14th–16th at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee in Boston. The conference will feature Ethan Sperry and Sophia Miller as headliners, and engaging one-hour interest sessions offered by MassACDA members. Participants will also have the option to sing in the popular conference chorus.
Calling all Boston Community Choir Singers!
We are excited to announce that for this year’s summer conference, we are opening up our Saturday schedule to interested singers to attend sessions.
Come attend sessions by our headliner, Ethan Sperry, sessions on voice building, a presentation by Cambridge Common Voices (Directed by Andrew Clark). After a group dinner, singers are invited to attend our conference presentation of the conductor’s chorus, conducted by Dr. Sperry, a performance by Cambridge Common Voices, followed by a community sing lead by Lisa Graham.
Come for the community sing, the afternoon, or the full day- each option will gear you up to get back into the concert season with some inspiration. Repertoire to include excerpts from Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Britten’s Choruses from Glorianna, and Ralph Vaughan Williams Towards the Unknown Region.
We look forward to seeing you in August!
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2026 MassACDA Collegiate Big Sing
2026-02-21 11:30 - 22:00 | Harvard University – Sanders Theatre, 45 Quincy St, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02138
Come perform the Beethoven Mass in C Major, Op. 86 at Harvard University’s Sanders Theatre on Saturday, February 21, 2026! Under the direction of Dr. Hana Cai, the work will be performed in a newly commissioned arrangement for chorus, piano four-hands, and harmonium by musicologist Michael Ostrzyga. Collegiate ensembles as well as individual singers are invited to attend!
Registration is $30 per person and dinner is included. In addition to rehearsals preparing the Beethoven, the day will include a private “sing and share” in which participating collegiate ensembles will have the opportunity to perform for each other.
Professional Development Points (PDPs) are available for in-service MA educators.
Please register by Monday, January 26. Click here to register!

2026 MassACDA Summer Conference
2026-08-18 09:00 - 2026-08-19 18:00 | The Boston Conservatory at Berklee, 8 Fenway, Boston, MA, 02215, United States
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Connect and collaborate with your choral colleagues for this exciting two-day conference!
ACDA Members and Non-Members are welcome to attend.
Deadlines: Early-bird registration available until July 1st at 11:45pm. After July 1st, full conference registration for members increases to $249. Registration will be available until the conference days, including day-of registration on site.
Overview: The 2026 Massachusetts ACDA Summer Conference, Heart, Brain, Body: Building Mindful Choral Spaces, will be held August 18-19th on the Boston Conservatory at Berklee campus in Boston, MA. The conference will feature the fantastic Sharon J. Paul and Anthony Trecek-King as conference headliners. You can read more about their incredible and visionary work below.
The conference will feature engaging sessions from our guest headliners and additional one-hour interest sessions featuring topics of research and expertise by Massachusetts ACDA members. Conference participants will also have the opportunity to sing and share in reading sessions, roundtable discussions, meals, and a conducting masterclass.
Meals: Please note that registration includes the cost of dinner on Tuesday, lunch on Wednesday, and coffee each day.
Lodging: Registration does not including lodging. For nearby options, we recommend Citizen M Hotel, Hotel Commonwealth, Hilton Back Bay, and Sheraton Prudential Center.

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