EVENTS 2025
TGDA Guitar Directors' Summer Conference 2025
Friday & Saturday, August 1 & 2, 2024
Host: Travis Early College High School, Austin ISD
Susan Rozanc, Director, Travis HS Guitar Program
Location: Austin, Texas
Registration is NOW OPEN - click here - TGDA Summer Conference 2025
SCHEDULE:
Friday, August 1, 2025
12:30pm -- Check-in
1:00 pm -- Rehearsal / Ensemble Reading Session --
(Directors rate each ensemble after playing)
2:00 -- BREAK
2:30 pm -- Rehearsal (cont'd) / PML Consultation and Review Committee
3:30 pm -- Select Pieces for Saturday Recording as a Group
(Same conductors as reading session)
4:00 pm -- Keynote Speaker: Dr. Jay Kacherski, Professor of Guitar at Corpus Christi Del Mar.
6:00 pm -- Dinner, Local Restaurant
Saturday, August 2, 2025
9:00 am -- Conducting Workshop, Warm-ups and Sight-Reading for Ensemble
10:00 am – Guitar Ensemble Repertoire for All Levels
11:30 am -- LUNCH BREAK
1:00 pm -- "Composing and Arranging for Guitar Ensemble"
2:00 pm -- TGDA Annual Session Topics 2025
2:30 pm -- Final Rehearsal (pieces selected on Friday)
4:00 pm -- Final Performance (with audio and video recording)
Questions about the Conference?
Please Contact Us or email us at: texasguitardirectors@gmail.com
Ready to REGISTER? Please click here: TGDA Summer Conference 2025
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KEYNOTE SPEAKER:
Dr. Jay Kacherski, Professor of Guitar.
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ANNUAL EVENTS (Check the website links below for more details)
TMEA -- February 12-15, 2025 -- San Antonio, Texas (TGDA Booth 020 in Exhibit Hall and Annual Session, 8:00am, Sat. Feb. 15 at the TMEA Convention).
Collin College Guitar Festival, February 6-7, 2025 -- Plano, Texas -- FREE. Featuring: Dr. Olga Amelkina-Vera, Dr. Fernand Vera
Texas Guitar Competition and Festival -- UT Dallas -- March 6-8, 2025.
Southwest Guitar Symposium -- UT San Antonio -- March 14-16, 2025.
The Brownsville Guitar Ensemble Festival -- March 28-30, 2025. With a competition component (up to 3 ensembles per school). Brownsville, TX.
Hill Country Guitar Ensemble Festival -- Texas State University in San Marcos -- March 28, 29, 2025. (Competition event for duos, trios, quartets or large ensembles).
Edinburg Guitar Ensemble Festival -- UTRGV Edinburg, TX, April 5, 2025
Mountainview Guitar Festival -- Dallas College. May 2, 3, 2025
The Houston Classical Guitar Festival -- June 9-14, 2025.
The Summer Guitar Conservatory, in Houston, June 16-26, 2025 -- 8-days, free for students, all levels. There is an Advanced Ensemble that students can audition for. In addition, the SGC has a teacher-training program (with up to 14 hours of TGDA CPE credits) and an adult guitar student program, for adults that want to practice their ensemble and solo chops.
Austin Classical Guitar/GuitarCurriculum Teacher Summit - July 23-24 (Rosette, Austin) -- 2-day intensive workshop designed to prepare teachers who are new to the guitar classroom and to improve the playing and instruction of experienced guitar teachers. Expert faculty also assist music teachers in developing their guitar-playing skills.
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VIRTUAL meet-and-greet
Your Town, Texas (Online Video Streaming)
We are pleased to invite local directors to request a virtual happy hour gathering for you and the guitar teachers in your area in order to get to know more about TGDA.
Contact Us to schedule an online meetup.
We will talk about issues that are important to you and meaningful for your students. Come talk about guitar education with board members and other directors in Texas. We look forward to seeing you there!