SFDC News:

SANTA FE — The American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) has invited Santa Fe Desert Chorale to give the closing performance at the 2025 National Conference at 8 p.m. CDT, Saturday, March 22, 2025, at the Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas, TX.

The Desert Chorale is honored to have been selected to participate in the 62nd National Conference, which takes place March 18-22, 2025. During “Finale to the Future,” the grand finale concert of the conference, the Chorale will perform an abbreviated version of their 2023 program The American Immigrant Experience, which was well received in Santa Fe two summers ago.

This concert will also include Earth Symphony by Jake Runestad, a major work to be performed by Baylor University Symphony Orchestra and a consortium of collegiate Texas choirs. The Desert Chorale has commissioned Runestad in the past, and they look forward to sharing the stage in Dallas when Runestad conducts his piece.

“The Desert Chorale is honored by this invitation” Artistic Director Joshua Habermann said, “and looks forward to sharing a bit of Santa Fe with audiences in Dallas, and conference attendees from around the world.”

Held every other year, the ACDA National Conference brings together choral directors, singers, composers, and choral conducting students from across the country. The theme of this year’s conference is “Celebrating the Choral Art: Past, Present, Future.” ACDA explains, “The 2025 National Conference will highlight our rich choral heritage, celebrate the music and expertise of our present-day choral colleagues, and look with excitement to the next generation.”

Santa Fe Desert Chorale last performed at the ACDA National Conference held in Salt Lake City in 2015. This performance was later broadcast by Minnesota Public Radio. The Chorale also gave invitational performances at regional ACDA conferences in Los Angeles and Chicago during the 2017-2018 season.

From 2017 through February 2020, the Desert Chorale presented regular concerts in the Dallas area.