Featuring Dr. Jonathan Talberg, Headline Clinician Wednesday, July 17

8–9 Registration • Kilworth Steps

9–9:10 Welcome • Anne Lyman, President • KU

9:10–10

General Session: Warmups in ReviewBarbara Tappa, President-Elect • KU

10:15–11:15

Reading SessionsKU: Elementary & Community Youth • Kaity Cassio IgariKD: Mixed Sacred (Easy/Moderate) • Philip TschoppInterest Session • TFAdjudication: Preparing Your Students for Feedback Monika Tabor

11:30–12:30

Reading SessionsKU: Mixed Secular (Easy) • Mike Scott KD: Tried and True • Karen Fulmer & Allan AndrewsInterest Session • TFNetworking for Sacred Musicians David Gardner

12:30–1:45 Roundtable Lunch • KQ

1:45–3General SessionApproching Cultures through ChoirDr. Melyssa Stone • KU

3:10–4:10

Reading SessionsKU: Middle School • Sarah EdwardsKD: Mixed Sacred (Advanced) • David Gardner

4:20–5:20

Reading SessionsKU: Community Adult • Heather Garbes & Julie ParsonsKD: Tenor/Bass • Jeffrey BoenInterest Session • TFBuilding a Support System in Your First Year(s) of Teaching • Rachel Wulff

5:30–5:50

Announcements & Regional Conference Presentation • KUAnne Lyman, Brian Galante, & Tim Westerhaus

6–8 Salmon Dinner • KQ

8–10 Interest Session: Musicians of Color Social Kassey Castro, presider • TF

Thursday, July 18

6am Running/Walking with Rhonda! • Wheelock Patio

8–9 Registration • Kilworth Steps

8:45–10:45

Headliner Sessions • Jonathan Talberg • KU8:45: On Beauty: Aesthetics and the Choral Art9:45: Music that Moves Horizontally

11–12 Headliner Reading Session: New Music, Something for Everyone! • KU

12–1:30

Lunch (Wheelock Center or on your own)Lunchtime Breakout SessionsWH201: Mentoring Q&A • Aly Henninger & Kyle Sauer WH Murray Board Room: From Nuclear Reactors to River Boats: Performing in Non-Traditional Spaces • Justin Raffa & Reg Unterseher

1:30–2:30

Reading SessionsKU: Soprano/Alto • Sandra BabbKD: College & University (Starts at 1pm) • Kraig Scott & Jacob Funk

2:45–3:45

Reading Session • KUMixed Secular (Advanced) • Matt JohnsonInterest Session • KDCreating a Multi-Dimensional Choral Performance Heather Garbes

4–5

Interest Session • KUMusic Literacy in 5 Minutes a Day • Terry ShawReading Session • KDJazz • Mike Scott

5:05–6:15

Awards Presentation & WA ACDA SI Commission • KUBrian Mitchell, Judy Herrington, & Reg Unterseher

6:15–8 Dinner (on your own)

8–9:30 Conducting Masterclass • Jonathan Talberg • KU

9:30–midnight Beer Choir • The Ram, Tacoma Waterfront

Friday, July 20

8–9 Registration • Kilworth Steps

9–10:30 Headliner Session: Entering the Garden of Trust—The Choir Room as Sacred Space • KU

10:45–12

Headliner Reading Session: Conserving the Tradition—The Canon is for Everyone • KU

KU = Kilworth, UpstairsKD = Kilworth, DownstairsKQ = Karlan Quad

WH = WheelockTF = Trimble Forum

Full Descriptions Interest, Reading, and General Sessions

WA ACDA Summer Institute 2019 Headliner Sessions Jonathan Talberg, California State University, Long Beach INTEREST On Beauty: Aesthetics and the Choral Art This session frames programming, rehearsal timing, and score study within the context of the Fibonacci spiral. How do we give our choirs and audiences the best possible experience by paying attention to what makes something beautiful? How can we use nature in our rehearsal planning? What does it mean to find the heart—the emotional center—of a piece of music? . Part lecture, part slide show, and part poetry reading, this session is all about the wonder of being a choral musician. **** INTEREST Music that moves horizontally: conserving the extraordinary art of polyphony As a musical culture, we have moved away from polyphonic writing. Fewer and fewer composers (and singers) are trained in counterpoint and much of our music has become unified in its homophony and verticality. By looking at some fantastic repertoire and some great composers, I’m hoping to encourage conductors to give their singers the age-tested gift of choral polyphony. **** INTEREST Entering the Garden of Trust—the choir room as a sacred space In this conversation, we will discuss how to use repertoire to help make the choir room a welcoming, affirming, warm and loving home for your singers. We’ll talk about openness from the podium, encouraging dialogue, using music to talk about current events, and how to find music of other cultures to help to help deepen our understanding of our own. **** READING Conserving the Tradition—the canon is for everyone. This opening reading session is a reminder to all that it’s vital to include classic choral repertoire in our yearly programming. Young singers need to learn music of the greats—both familiar and unknown. The session includes familiar and unknown composers, some

new arrangement of classic tunes, and some wonderful, first-class repertoire and arrangements by canonic writers. **** READING New Music—Something for everyone! Our second reading session has new releases by composers known and unknown. With music for voicings from unison to 8 part (and everything in between), there’s all sorts of interesting, new repertoire that’s been released in the last couple of years. I’ve made a special effort to include excellent repertoire by women composers, some vocal jazz, some holiday music, and some really young, talented composers. Whether you teach elementary, middle, high school, college, church or community choir, I hope you’ll find something of value here.

**** General Interest Sessions Warm-Ups In Review: No Need to Reinvent the Wheel Barbara Tappa, WA ACDA President-Elect Join Barbara as she kicks of Summer Institute 2019 with engaging warm-ups and exercises to get us ready for the week! **** THIRD ANNUAL Washington ACDA Summer Institute Choral Commissioning Project What is Water? Composed by Judith Herrington Poetry by Hilda Conkling From the composer: “Thank you Washington ACDA for the honor of composing a work for you and your students. To compose for young singers using the poetry of a young child was inspiring and a responsibility to capture the beauty and essence of Hilda Conkling’s writing. The project became an interesting journey to discover melodies, harmonies and piano accompaniment that reflected the text and supported the vocal and artistic development of the singer.” **** Approaching Cultures through Choirs Melyssa Stone, Shorewood High School This session addresses the power of culturally-responsive teaching as a pathway for unlocking learning, and various approaches to repertoire from other cultures. Through a neuroscience and world music-focused lens, teachers will leave with tips and strategies for engaging their choirs in octavos from around the world.

**** Creating a Multi-Dimensional Choral Performance: Themes, communities and cross-platform ideas. Dr. Heather MacLaughlin Garbes, Mägi Ensemble Although having a theme to choral performances was a ground-breaking concept in the Choral Journal in 1979 (Hoekstra, Thematic Choral Programming), audiences have craved a deeper presentation of repertoire, concepts and cultures. This session will present ideas on how to create an over-arching theme, engage multi-platform arts to enhance that theme (media, visual art, food) and also how to include related communities in these performances. **** Music Literacy in 5 minutes a day Terry Shaw, Timberline High School This tried-and-true curriculum contains practical daily exercises to teach your students to read music without spending tons of class time! **** Building a Support System in Your First Year(s) of Teaching Rachel Wulff, La Venture Middle School This hands-on session will help you learn strategies for ensuring success in your first year(s) of teaching. **** Adjudication: Preparing Your Students For Feedback and Preparing to Gift Feedback Monika Tabor, Lake Stevens High School This conversation will be structured like a panel discussion, featuring a mix of adjudicators and directors ready to provide tips and answer questions. **** Mentoring Q&A Breakout Session Aly Henninger and Kyle Sauer Come and join our WA ACDA students in a lunchtime discussion based around mentoring. For students, teachers, anyone called to make sure the next generation in our profession has the tools needed to thrive. **** Musicians of Color Social

Kassey Castro, Foster High School Calling all musicians of color! Come connect with other POC members of Washington ACDA to collaborate, commiserate, and create camaraderie! **** Networking for Church Musicians David Gardner, University Presbyterian Church This roundtable discussion is designed to provide support and resources for those involved in Music in Worship, or for anyone looking to get more involved in sacred music activities. An opportunity to share ideas with other directors, accompanists, and singers to discuss common goals and issues, as well as build a network of professional who seek to serve this particular slice of the choral pie. **** From Nuclear Reactors to River Boats: Performing in Non-Traditional Spaces Justin Raffa and Reg Unterseher, Mid-Columbia Mastersingers This breakout session will focus on using non-traditional spaces as concert venues outside of schools/churches/theaters and how that can help spawn creative, unique programming concepts.

**** READING SESSIONS Elementary and Community Youth, Kaity Cassio Igari Mixed Secular Advanced, Matt Johnson Middle School, Sarah Edwards Mixed Sacred Advanced, Dr. David Gardner Mixed Sacred Easy/Moderate, Philip Tschopp Soprano/Alto, Dr. Sandra Babb Tenor/Bass, Jeffrey Boen College/University, Dr. Kraig Scott and Dr. Jacob Funk Mixed Secular Easy/Moderate, Mike Scott Community Adult, Dr. Heather McLaughlin Garbes and Julie Parsons Jazz, Mike Scott Tried and True, Karen Fulmer and Allan Andrews