🔗 2025 State Festival Nomination Form & PD Registration 🔗
The MEACDA State Festival is a nomination-based honors choir festival for students in elementary and middle school. We seek to use the honor choir experience to help inspire students to return and invest more in their home choirs, and to serve our mission.
- Date: Saturday, March 29, 2025
- Location: Cony Middle & High School – Augusta, ME
- Choir Structure:
- Acadia Choir – grades 4-6, treble voices
- Hattie Skvorak, manager
- Cadillac Choir – grades 6-9, cambiata/tenor/bass
- Benjamin Holbrook, manager
- Katahdin Choir – grades 7-9, treble voices
- Camille Saucier, manager
- Acadia Choir – grades 4-6, treble voices
Three festival choirs allow us to meet the needs of all advanced singers during different stages of vocal development.
Expert guest conductors bring new ideas, diverse programming, sound vocal pedagogy to singers, and professional development to teachers.
Using a nomination-based selection process allows teachers to advocate for students who may otherwise by hesitant to audition during this time of rapid change.
An affordable fee structure removes barriers and promotes equity among Maine’s singing communities.
Including grades 4-9 allows us to promote ensemble leadership and build bridges across school levels, ensuring all students in the state of Maine have access to a state-wide honors festival.
View/Download the Brochure
Stay tuned for the release of our professional development sessions!
Past State Festival Conductors:
- 2017 – Dr. Judy Bowers
- 2018 – Dr. Patrick Freer
- 2019 – Dr. Henry Leck (elementary) & Dr. Jessica Nápoles (middle school)
- 2022 – Elena Efthimiou
- 2023 – Emily Ellsworth (elementary) & Dr. Rollo Dillworth (middle school)
- 2024 – Krystal Morin (Acadia), Kenneth Griffith (Katahdin), & Matthew Murray (Cadillac)
- 2025 – Sophia Miller (Acadia), Kirsten Oberoi (Katahdin), & Rob Finch (Cadillac)