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8-30-2010 Fall Symposium for first-year arts educators. Saturday, October 30 at Iowa Central Community College in Fort Dodge, Iowa. CLICK HERE FOR BROCHURE

8-30-2010 First annual “Real Men Sing” choir festival at Wartburg College on Saturday, Oct. 9, 2010. Registration deadline is Weds., Sept. 22. For more information email lee.nelson@wartburg.edu or call (319) 352-8412.

8-22-2010 Drake University's All-State Audition Preparation workshop (ASAP) is designed to provide your students with opportunities to learn healthy vocal techniques, get audition tips, coach (as a duet/trio/quartet) the All-State music and work on those challenging snippets of the music with Drake faculty. Saturday, Oct. 2, 8:00-12:00 noon, Cost: $15 per student. For more information contact Dr. Aimee Beckmann-Collier, aimee.beckmann-collier@drake.edu

8-21-2010 October 3 & 4 2010: University of Northern Iowa Vocal Arts Festival! Dr. David Childs, composer and conductor will be the guest clinician for the Honor Choir and Mr. Steve Woodin, retired choral conductor from Urbandale High School will be the guest clinician for the Festival Chorus. Need more information contact: Dyan Sue Meyer, Choral Music Education, UNI.

7-24-2010 WEB PAGES CHANGING In the next few weeks new web pages for ICDA will begin to appear, and several links may not work correctly at first. But keep checking back to see the progress and updated information for this upcoming year as it becomes available.

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ICDA Events

We host one annual Symposium, and both state and district choral events.

Summer Symposium

2011 Dates in Mason City July 25-28

All-State Jazz

ICDA is pleased again to sponsor the  thirteenth annual Iowa All-State Jazz Choir. Concert given in conjunction with the ICDA Summer Convention at Mason City’s NIACC Campus on Monday, July 26

Pre-All-State

Saturday, September 11


Opus

ICDA will sponsor the twenty-fifth annual Opus Honor Choir on Thursday, November 18th, 2010 at Iowa State University in Ames.

About ICDA

Iowa Choral Directors Association, Inc. exists to serve choral musicians in the state of Iowa. ICDA's 1000+ members are choral conductors at every level of learning from pre-school to. ICDA is an affiliate of the American Choral Directors Association. Click here for more information.

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