“Lift Every Voice” Symposium 2025 October 21-24, 2025
“Lift Every Voice,” sponsored by the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA), is an all-expenses-paid mentor program for talented young choral conductors from under-represented groups. The 2025 program will bring six young female conductors and ACDA members nearing the end of their undergraduate music study to the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus to work with an outstanding guest faculty of experienced conductor-teachers and University of Illinois faculty.