The Vocal Arts Ensemble has been selected to perform at these conventions and conferences of the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA)
ACDA Southern Division Convention in Chattanooga, TN, in March 2016
ACDA Southern Division Convention in Winston-Salem, NC, in March 2012
ACDA Southern Division Convention in Louisville, KY, in March 2008
ACDA National Convention in Los Angeles, in February 2005
ACDA Southern Division Convention in Nashville, in February 2004
North Carolina ACDA Fall Conference at UNC-Greensboro, in October 2002
ACDA Southern Division Convention in Orlando, in March 2000
"This chorus under this conductor knows how to sing from a whisper to overwhelming intensity, how to shape a phrase, how to build to a climax, how to sing so well pitched that they take the audience into realms of possibility beyond the ordinary. The concert was simply choral music at its best sung as it should be sung: artfully, precisely, meaningfully."
– Ken Hoover, CVNC
“The VAE chorus of thirty-four was perfect… the ensemble was light and nimble enough for busy, complex contrapuntal passages, yet there was enough power in reserve to turn up the amp to eleven when needed.”
– Jeff Rossman, CVNC