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{{Short description|Non-profit organization}}{{Music education|usnat}}The American Choral Directors Association (ACDA), headquartered in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, is a non-profit organization with the stated purpose of promoting excellence in the field of choral music. Its membership comprises approximately 22,000 choral directors representing over a million singers.WEB, American Choral Directors Association,weblink acda.org, 2020-05-21, ACDA is organized in six regions: Midwestern, Eastern, Northwestern, Southern, Southwestern, and Western. Every year, conferences with topics pertaining to choral conductors are held. In even numbered years, a region conference is held in each region, and in odd numbered years, a national conference takes place in a major U.S. city. In 2021, ACDA organized its first virtual national conference in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2023, the organization returned to an in person conference, with Cincinnati serving as the host city. Each year, a different university hosts the yearly ACDA chapter.{{Cn|date=June 2023}}Their official publications are the Choral Journal, as well as the scientific research journal International Journal of Research in Choral Singing (online only).{{Cn|date=June 2023}}Robyn Hilger is the current executive director.NEWS, Opinion {{!, The pandemic shut down choirs. We're finding new ways to sing together.|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/05/14/pandemic-shut-down-choirs-were-finding-new-ways-sing-together/|last=Sharp|first=Tim|newspaper=Washington Post|language=en|access-date=2020-05-21}}

Brock Commission

Since 1991, the ACDA awards the "Raymond W. Brock Memorial Commission" to "a recognized composer to write a choral composition in an effort to perpetuate quality choral repertoire."WEB,weblink American Choral Directors Association, Acda.org, 2017-02-18, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20160308063227weblink">weblink 2016-03-08, {| class="wikitable"! Year !! Composer !! Title !! Orchestration !! Duration !! Notes

	Theron Kirk>	O For A Thousand Tongues >		|

	Carlisle Floyd >	A Time to Dance >		|

	Daniel E. Gawthrop >	Sing a Mighty Song >		|

	Daniel Pinkham >	Alleluia for the Waters >		|

	James Mulholland (composer)>James Mulholland	That I Shall Never Look Upon Thee More

	Stephen Paulus >	God Be With Us >		|

	Gian Carlo Menotti >	Jacob’s Prayer >		|

	Samuel Adler (composer)>Samuel Adler	A Psalm Trilogy

	Gwyneth Walker >	I Thank You God >		|

	Adolphus Hailstork >	The God of Glory Thunders >		|

	David Brunner (composer)>David Brunner	The Circles of Our Lives

	Eric Whitacre >	Leonardo Dreams of His Flying Machine >	|10 min|

	Richard Nance >	Psalm 36 >		|

	René Clausen >	Memorial >		|

	Z. Randall Stroope >	We Behold Once Again the Stars >		|

	Morten Lauridsen >	Nocturnes >		|

	Mack Wilberg >	Dances to Life >		|

	David Conte >	The Nine Muses >		|

	Eleanor Joanne Daley >	Life's Mirror >		|

	Dominick Argento >	Cenotaph >		|

	Joan Szymko >	All Works of Love >		|

	Steven Sametz >	Three Mystical Choruses >		|

	Chen Yi (composer)>Chen Yi	Distance can’t keep us two apart	A capella mixed choir	5 min	Text by Wang Bo (poet)	MAKE	TITLE=2012 BROCK COMMISSION – ACDAEAST	DATE=2012-02-17	ARCHIVE-URL=HTTPS://WEB.ARCHIVE.ORG/WEB/20161220121159/HTTP://ACDAEAST.ORG/PROVIDENCE/2012-BROCK-COMMISSION/	URL-STATUS=DEAD,

	Steven Stucky >	Take Him, Earth >|SATB choir and 9 instruments|13 min|

	Alice Parker >	The Definition of Beauty >|SSAA, unaccompanied|4:45 min|

	Jake Heggie >	Stop this Day and Night with Me >|SATBBB, unaccompanied	|

	Ola Gjeilo >	The River >				WEBSITE=OLAGJEILO.COM, 1 September 2019,

|2017

J. A. C. Redford>J.A.C. Redford|Homing|Mixed chorus and orchestra|28 min|

|2018|Tarik O'Regan|All Things Common|Acapella SATB|5 min||2019|Jake Runestad|A Silence Haunts Me|SATB choir and piano|11:30 min|Text by Todd Boss

See also

• John B. Haberlen, a past national President of the Association

References

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External links

• Official site
• International Journal of Research in Choral Singing

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