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Founded in 1961, ACDA Eastern Region serves 3,000+ choral directors in 11 states. www.acdaeast.org

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20 days ago

We mean you!!! Link below! 📌 by @acda_east

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2 months ago

Meet the ACDA East Engagement & Outreach Team! 🎶

Connection doesn’t just happen. It takes people working behind the scenes to keep our Eastern Region informed, engaged, and connected. Meet the team helping make that happen:

🤝 Timothy Little Trân | Engagement & Outreach Chair
Timothy leads the team and helps bring together membership, communication, social media, and digital engagement—all with the goal of strengthening connections across the Eastern Region.

👥 Edryn J. Coleman | Membership
Edryn helps keep our members at the heart of ACDA East, strengthening connections with the singers, conductors, educators, students, and professionals who make up our region.

📱 Emma Forest | Social Media
Emma helps tell the story of ACDA East—sharing opportunities, resources, events, and celebrations while connecting our choral community across social media.

💻 Mark A. Boyle | Web Manager
Mark creates and maintains the digital spaces that keep ACDA East accessible and connected, from our website to our app and other online resources.

Together, this team helps turn a region into a community. 💙

https://acdaeast.org/about_us/engagement-outreach/ by @acda_east

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2 months ago

Presenting your 2026-2028 ACDA Eastern Region Executive Board!

https://acdaeast.org/about_us/leadership-2026-2028/ by @acda_east

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2 months ago

Greetings to you, our ACDA Eastern Region Friends and Colleagues!

Let me (re-) introduce myself: Penelope Cruz, your Eastern Region President for 2026-2028.

I am energized and motivated to go into a second term as your Eastern Region President. I want to capitalize on the work begun in my 2020-2022 term, much of it necessitated by and in response to the sea changes brought on by Covid-19 pandemic and the long-needed racial reckoning following the murder of George Floyd—work that was continued by Presidents Christopher Kiver and Amanda Hanzlik and their teams since then. As we face today’s societal challenges, we once again must examine what our role and responsibilities are as choral directors, particularly to those we make music with. I believe our best response is to DO OUR WORK with joy, thoughtfulness, and skill, thus providing a safe (though not always comfortable) place of music-making where all can actualize their best selves to find personal expression and satisfaction. Let us aim to strengthen our practice so that we all find that sense of confidence, purpose, and ease that makes our hard work result in joy and pride for all.

I am excited to work alongside an Executive Board, Engagement & Outreach Team, Repertoire & Resource Team, and Conference Committee, populated by exemplary practitioners and tremendous human beings ready to serve and be a voice for all of us. We are ready to hear from you about your hopes and needs and to anticipate and provide that which you didn’t even know you needed!

https://acdaeast.org/2026/07/13/2026-a-message-from-penelope-cruz/ by @acda_east

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3 months ago

Join us Friday, July 31 for our invited panel session with @acda_east President @mzkwooz, Past-President @amandahanzlik, and Global Music and Culture Chair @lutetu!

The strength of ACDA does not begin at the national level. It begins in classrooms, community choirs, churches, colleges, and state chapters.

This conversation introduces three ACDA Eastern Region leaders and explores how connection between state chapters and regional leadership can drive change, establish new priorities, and influence the future of the profession.

Register today at acdavoicesunited.ludus.com.

#acdavoicesunited #voicesunited2026 #acda #choir #chorus taken in First Baptist Church of the City of Washington, DC by @acda_east

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3 months ago

A Message from @amandahanzlik

As I conclude my term as President of the ACDA Eastern Region, I do so with a heart overflowing with gratitude. Serving this extraordinary region over the past two years has been one of the greatest joys and privileges of my professional life.
I am deeply thankful for the opportunity to work alongside exceptional people, who have given so generously of their time, talents, and hearts. Together, we have celebrated tremendous successes, navigated unexpected challenges, dreamed boldly, and continued to move our region forward with creativity, compassion, and hope.
Through it all, I have been continually reminded that leadership is never about one person; it is about relationships, collaborative vision, and the remarkable things that happen when passionate people come together in service of something larger than themselves.
What I will treasure most from this experience are the people who create our community! Visiting our state chapters was, without question, one of the very best parts of this journey. I had the privilege of visiting nine of our eleven chapters (Maine and Vermont, I promise, I am still coming for you!) Everywhere I traveled, I encountered extraordinary artistry, innovative thinking, joyful music-making, and, most importantly, deep and abiding care for one another. I left every visit deeply inspired and so proud of our community.
Thank you for allowing me the privilege of leading, learning and creating alongside you these past two years. Serving as your President has certainly changed me for the better, and I leave this role more hopeful than ever because of each of you.
Thank you, 24–26 Executive Board, R&R Team and Conference Committee, we are forever bonded by this experience and I am just so grateful for all of you.
My sincere gratitude and well wishes to incoming President Penelope Cruz, President-Elect Libby Gopal and the 26–28 team as they step into their new roles!

With Gratitude and Love,
Amanda Hanzlik

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@stephanietubiolo @robynhilger @mzkwooz by @acda_east

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4 months ago

ACDA EAST celebrates PRIDE! by @acda_east

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4 months ago

Registration for the annual ACDA-PA summer conference as well as the Choir for All Honor Choir for ages 8-98 is now open! Visit acdapa.org for details and links to register. #singandserve2026 #summerconference #choirforall #honorchoir #choraldirectors taken in Lebanon Valley College by @acda_east

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6 months ago

Make sure to fill out the post conference survey!
Look for an email from membership@acda.org 📩 by @acda_east

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6 months ago

Thank you to our amazing conference sponsors!

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Gretchen Beinecke CharitableTrust by @acda_east

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6 months ago

ENVISION GRATITUDE: HEADLINING CHOIR - NYCGMC

Thank you, John Atorino and the New York City Gay Men’s Chorus @nycgmc for bringing unspeakable joy and artistry to ACDA East - we are so grateful!
Thank you to @scotthoying for your special collaboration with the NYCGMC!
NY-ACDA

#choir #acdaeast #galachoruses #choralmusic by @acda_east

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6 months ago