Join OREGON ACDA for our 2 Day Summer Workshop with Special Guest:
Dr. Angela Kasper
REGISTRATION: CLICK HERE
Workshop Schedule
Monday, August 4, 2025
8:00 am Registration Opens
9:00 am Coffee and Warm Ups
9:30 am Reading Session I: Elementary, Children’s Choirs, & Middle School
10:30 am Headliner Session I: Dr. Angela Kasper
Contests, and All-States, and Festivals! Oh my!
It’s time to discuss choral competitions and festivals. Join us as we brainstorm 1) how to improve what we already offer, and 2) imagine other “out of the box” opportunities for our choirs and choral students. We’ll examine evaluation instruments, selection criteria, and benefits/drawbacks of current practictes as we explore what other states are doing to enrich the lives of choral students and further their students’ choral education!
12:00 pm Lunch (provided)
1:30 pm Reading Session II: SA, TB, & High School
2:30 pm Headliner Session II: Dr. Angela Kasper
From Screen to Score:
Inclusive ways of introducing intermediate repertoire to our choristers that enhances focus, participation, and skill building
4:00 pm Special Interest Session
Falling to the Level of Our Systems: Systematic Implementation of Sightreading in the Secondary Choral Classroom
Terence Madlangbayan
This session presents a systematic and OSAA-compliant approach to sightreading and music literacy for both middle school and high school choral programs. Using the audience as a demonstration choir, the presenter will model a scoped and sequenced framework of practical sightreading techniques for ensembles of any skill and voicing, paired with free or low-cost resources. The session emphasizes strategies that foster music literacy skills in ways that are authentically transferable to the repertoire-learning process.
5:00 pm End of Day 1
Tuesday, August 5, 2025
8:00 am Registration Opens
9:00 am Coffee and Warm Ups
9:30 am Reading Session III: Collegiate, Community & Worship
10:30 am Headliner Session III: Dr. Angela Kasper
Collaborations with Culture Bearers
This session highlights the gifts that come from collaborations with culture
bearers as we seek to enrich our choristers’ understanding of cultures and
musical traditions from around the globe. Joined by a panel of musicians who
have served as culture bearers in choral settings as well as students who have
experienced teaching and learning from these musicians, presenters will discuss
their experiences and provide a template for other directors who wish to bring
this enriched and necessary form of learning into their own choral rehearsal
rooms.
12:00 pm Lunch (provided)
1:30 pm Reading Session IV: Vocal Jazz, Pop, A Cappella
Kathleen Hollingsworth & Karen Bohart
2:30 pm Headliner Session IV: Dr. Angela Kasper
At a time when most music performances involve dance, lighting, costume
changes, and variations in setup and positioning, we ask a lot of our audience
members to sit and observe a static choir on risers for the length of an entire
concert! In this session, we explore simple ways to add visual interest to our
choral concerts by positioning and moving our choir to enhance the music they
are performing. We will utilize entire concert spaces to explore transitions,
groupings, body facings, traditional movement, and composed movement.
3:15 pm OR-ACDA Best Practices: This Works for Me!
Come prepared to share ideas from a vocal warm up to a fun game, a way to
structure rehearsals, a new piece of music- ANYTHING that worked for you that you think can help someone else!
4:00 pm Notes from our NW President, Bill Campbell
OR-ACDA Presentation of Awards
Dr. Angela Kasper
Dr. Angela Kasper has 32 years of experience serving as Director of Choral Activities at the university level where she conducted choirs and taught undergraduate and graduate courses in conducting, choral methods, global choral traditions, and choral literature.
Dr. Kasper presents for state, regional, and national chapters of ACDA, NAfME, OAKE, and AOSA. Guest conducting engagements include honor choirs for the Eastern, Southern, Southwestern, North Central, Central, and Northwestern ACDA Division Conferences, the ACDA National Conference in Salt Lake City, numerous engagements in Asia, South America, and the Middle East, and all-state choirs in over 40 states. Dr. Kasper is passionate about sharing what she has learned over the course of her career with other practicing choral teachers. She is rediscovering and redefining for herself what makes a meaningful choral experience and how best to place this evolving view at the center of her work with her own choirs and her professional development work. The book she wrote with Mary Goetze and Ruth Boshkoff, Educating Young Singers, is published by GIA.