Founded 1979 · Nonprofit educational institution
Quality music for the changing voice.
The Cambiata Institute of America for Early Adolescent Vocal Music promotes the Cambiata Concept, a comprehensive philosophy and methodology for teaching vocal music to early adolescents. Special emphasis is placed on the unique qualities of the male changing voice and on the development of music literacy skills.
Explore the Institute
Resources for middle-level choral educators
Resources
Articles, repertoire lists, free choral scores, and presentations by Dr. Alan McClung and Dr. Don L. Collins.
Conference Videos
Performance choirs and presenter sessions from the 2018 MS National Conference on choral music.
Cambiata Press
An established publishing company committed to quality music for the changing voice.
Our story
Keeping the Cambiata Concept alive
Irvin Cooper, Professor of Music Education at Florida State University (1950–1971), was the originator of the Cambiata Concept. In spring 1979, his former doctoral student Dr. Don L. Collins founded the Cambiata Vocal Institute of America. Since then the concept has proliferated in the classrooms of thousands of music educators and church musicians throughout the world.
The Institute’s primary purpose has always been to promote quality music for the changing voice and to offer vocal/choral music educators a sound training into the comprehensive philosophy and methodology of the cambiata concept.
Director
Dr. Alan C. McClung
University of North Texas Associate Professor Emeritus, author of Movable Tonic: A Sequenced Sight-Singing Method, and organizing chair for four national conferences on middle school choral music (2012, 2014, 2016, and 2018).