CALL FOR PERFORMING CHOIRS AT THE WCDA CONFERENCE – JANUARY 11-12, 2019
Share your music-making with a most appreciative and learned audience!
Help your colleagues grow by allowing us to experience your choir’s musical journey!
Let us Hear Your Voice!
Apply to perform at the Wisconsin Choral Directors Association’s State Conference!
We welcome and encourage all types of choirs and proposed programs. Invitations to choirs for the WCDA Conference performances are based on the quality of musical performances as demonstrated in the submitted recordings. We encourage submissions from members with a wide variety of experience. Below are some guiding questions we are developing for focus areas for the conference. Programs relating to any of these themes are especially welcomed.
Perhaps we are already endeavoring in all of these areas or perhaps we can be more intentional about including varied voices in our choral experiences. By including a wider range of voices in our choral art, I am certain we can find even deeper connections, bridge diverse perspectives, and honor and celebrate our human differences.
AUDITION GUIDELINES FOR ENSEMBLE PERFORMANCE
WCDA State Conference, January 11-12, 2019 Appleton, Wisconsin
ELIGIBILITY
ITEMS REQUIRED FOR APPLICATION SUBMISSION:
PDF #1 – General Information
Director’s name, home address, phone, e-mail address, ACDA member number and expiration date. Name of institution, address, name of choir, number of singers, voicing, age level, and classifications (reference all that apply).
*Children’s Choirs are defined as unchanged voices and may include elementary school choirs, community choirs, boy choirs, and church choirs. Youth choirs are defined as community groups including singers ages 12-18, pre-college level, and may include treble voicing, mixed voicing (including unchanged voices), and male voices (including unchanged voices). This category does not include choirs from Junior, Middle or High Schools.
** Choirs comprised of members 18 years of age and older – adult mixed groups or single gender choirs.
PDF #2 – Proposed Program for Performance at the WCDA Conference
PDF #3 – Group Description
Please provide a brief description of the group, which may include context for the ensemble (school/community, auditioned, non-auditioned, etc., mission statement, if applicable, and demographics). Please only include group/conductor identifiable information in the file title, not in the document itself.
PDF #4, #5, #6 – Sample Programs
Please upload three sample programs from the 2016-2017 and 2017-2018 academic years (seasons). These will not be included in the anonymous deliberation process.
PDF #7 – MP3 Information
Title, Composer, Recording location (live, unedited only) for each of the submitted uploads. Please only include group/conductor identifiable information in the file title, not in the document itself.
Recordings in MP3 format to be uploaded
The recordings will be heard by a team of ACDA members comprising a range of experiences and backgrounds, and each recording will remain anonymous to the listeners. All audition materials will become the property of WCDA.
The deadline for submissions is July 1, 2018.
If you are unable to make submissions through this form, you can email them as an attachment to Rebecca Renee Winnie, Convention Chair, at rwinnie@wischoral.org.
WCDA will provide a piano, risers, podium, music stands, and a microphone at the performance site for performing groups.
Direct questions to Rebecca Renee Winnie at rwinnie@wischoral.orgor to the WCDA Office: (920) 358-3730.
2019 WCDA Conference Audition for Performance
Help your colleagues grow by allowing us to experience your choir’s musical journey!
Let us Hear Your Voice!
Apply to perform at the Wisconsin Choral Directors Association’s State Conference!
We welcome and encourage all types of choirs and proposed programs. Invitations to choirs for the WCDA Conference performances are based on the quality of musical performances as demonstrated in the submitted recordings. We encourage submissions from members with a wide variety of experience. Below are some guiding questions we are developing for focus areas for the conference. Programs relating to any of these themes are especially welcomed.
- What if we programmed as much historical music as we do recently composed music?
- What if we presented programs in which half of the pieces were composed by women?
- What if we studied more music by composers of different ethnic and racial backgrounds?
- How can we explore and honor music of different cultures?
- How can we help our singers feel that they are “seen” in what they sing?
- How can we support one another as we strive to be resilient in the midst of the challenges in this profession and continue to experience the joy of our choral art?
Perhaps we are already endeavoring in all of these areas or perhaps we can be more intentional about including varied voices in our choral experiences. By including a wider range of voices in our choral art, I am certain we can find even deeper connections, bridge diverse perspectives, and honor and celebrate our human differences.
AUDITION GUIDELINES FOR ENSEMBLE PERFORMANCE
WCDA State Conference, January 11-12, 2019 Appleton, Wisconsin
ELIGIBILITY
- Conductors must be current members of WCDA/ACDA and must have been employed in the same position with the same choir since the fall of 2016.
- No choral ensemble or conductor may appear on successive WCDA conferences.
- It is understood that WCDA will not assume financial responsibility for travel, food, or lodging for performance groups. Choirs invited to perform at the 2019 WCDA State Convention will be responsible for all financial expenses associated with this event. This application implies that the submitted ensemble is prepared to travel and perform at the conference if accepted.
ITEMS REQUIRED FOR APPLICATION SUBMISSION:
PDF #1 – General Information
Director’s name, home address, phone, e-mail address, ACDA member number and expiration date. Name of institution, address, name of choir, number of singers, voicing, age level, and classifications (reference all that apply).
- Youth
- Children’s or Community Youth*
- Junior High/Middle School
- Senior High School
- Collegiate
- Lifelong**
- Community
- Music and Worship
- Repertoire Specific Information
- Mixed Choir [SA(T)B]
- Bass Clef Choir [T(TB)B]
- Treble Clef Choir [S(SA)A]
- Vocal Jazz, Contemporary A Cappella, Show Choir
- Other
*Children’s Choirs are defined as unchanged voices and may include elementary school choirs, community choirs, boy choirs, and church choirs. Youth choirs are defined as community groups including singers ages 12-18, pre-college level, and may include treble voicing, mixed voicing (including unchanged voices), and male voices (including unchanged voices). This category does not include choirs from Junior, Middle or High Schools.
** Choirs comprised of members 18 years of age and older – adult mixed groups or single gender choirs.
PDF #2 – Proposed Program for Performance at the WCDA Conference
- Please include title, composer, and approximate performance time in minutes and seconds.
- Programs that include diverse repertoire (i.e., music from various style periods and locations around the world, music by minority composers, women composers, etc.) are encouraged, unless proposing a concert by a single composer or genre. One manuscript (unpublished) piece may be included.
- The total program time may not exceed 25 minutes including entrance, exit, and applause.
- There is a 10-12-minute performance time option for Children’s & Community Youth, Junior High/Middle School, or Senior High Schools of fewer than 500 students for WCDA Conference performances. Please indicate if you are applying for this time option.
- Please only include group/conductor identifiable information in the file title, not in the document itself.
PDF #3 – Group Description
Please provide a brief description of the group, which may include context for the ensemble (school/community, auditioned, non-auditioned, etc., mission statement, if applicable, and demographics). Please only include group/conductor identifiable information in the file title, not in the document itself.
PDF #4, #5, #6 – Sample Programs
Please upload three sample programs from the 2016-2017 and 2017-2018 academic years (seasons). These will not be included in the anonymous deliberation process.
PDF #7 – MP3 Information
Title, Composer, Recording location (live, unedited only) for each of the submitted uploads. Please only include group/conductor identifiable information in the file title, not in the document itself.
Recordings in MP3 format to be uploaded
- Three selections, by the conductor and choir submitting the application, to be drawn from live, unedited performances in the 2016-2017 and 2017-2018 academic years (seasons).
- Total length of music submitted should not exceed 15 minutes and each selection must be a complete work or a complete movement of a larger work.
- Please only include group/conductor identifiable information in the file title, not in the recording itself (no verbal introductions, etc.).
The recordings will be heard by a team of ACDA members comprising a range of experiences and backgrounds, and each recording will remain anonymous to the listeners. All audition materials will become the property of WCDA.
The deadline for submissions is July 1, 2018.
If you are unable to make submissions through this form, you can email them as an attachment to Rebecca Renee Winnie, Convention Chair, at rwinnie@wischoral.org.
WCDA will provide a piano, risers, podium, music stands, and a microphone at the performance site for performing groups.
Direct questions to Rebecca Renee Winnie at rwinnie@wischoral.orgor to the WCDA Office: (920) 358-3730.
2019 WCDA Conference Audition for Performance