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2024 Dec 19 highlighted
YOUNG IFCM Committee meets in Istanbul
Published: Dec 19,2024
Sam Nicholson, Oceania representative on the YOUNG IFCM Committee of the International Federation for Choral Music, recently travelled to Türkiye for the committee's first in-person meeting in Istanbul. Read Sam’s reflections on the committee’s work and the many highlights of his trip on an article that he recently wrote for eBreve, the monthly newsletter of the New Zealand Choral Federation.
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2024 Dec 18 highlighted
European Choral Association: EUROPA CANTAT Festival is back!
Published: Dec 18,2024
Liepāja to host the next edition in August 2027. The European Choral Association is delighted to officially announce the 22nd EUROPA CANTAT Festival, ECA’s major event designated to singers, choirs, and all choral lovers across Europe and beyond.
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2024 Dec 08 2024 Dec 08 highlighted
World Choral Day 2024: Voices Uniting the Planet
Published: Oct 31,2024
IFCM is calling on millions of singers worldwide to join us and use their voices for peace through collective singing. We are confident that singing together is one of the most powerful tools we can use to contribute to achieving peace, which is currently a pressing global need.
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2024 Nov 29 highlighted
YOUNG, Youth International Cultural Management Programme 2025, Munich, Germany
Published: Nov 29,2024
YOUNG, Youth International Culturel Management Programme organised in the frame of the 45th International Congress of Pueri Cantores, (16-20 July 2025), Munich, Germany. Application process is open from 1 December 2024 to 31 January 2025
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2024 Nov 29 highlighted
Watch the Webinar "Creating Choral Music — Talking about the requirements of choral repertoire"
Published: Nov 29,2024
Watch the Webinar "Creating Choral Music — Talking about the requirements of choral repertoire" which took place on Zoom on 23 November 2024
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2024 Nov 29 highlighted
Watch the last online café dedicated to three Latin-American composers
Published: Nov 29,2024
On 9 November 2024, the IFCM online café focused on the art of choral composition. Three well-known Latin American composers shared their ideas on how to create choral music for ensembles today, using their own compositions as illustrations: César Alejandro Carrillo (Venezuela), Julio César Morales Pineda (Mexico), and Mónica Pacheco (Argentina).
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2024 Nov 29 highlighted
IFCM Online Cafés: Tell us what you think
Published: Nov 29,2024
It has been so inspiring to meet many of you this year at the monthly online cafés organised by IFCM.
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2024 Nov 29 highlighted
IFCM welcomes a new choir member: The Choir of World Culture (Chor der Weltkultur Bühne)
Published: Nov 29,2024
The Choir of World Culture is a unique singing ensemble dedicated to uniting literature and music in a harmonious way.
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2024 Nov 29 highlighted
Conductors Beyond Borders with Schola Cantorum de Venezuela in Mérida and San Cristóbal, Venezuela
Published: Nov 29,2024
¡Cantemos! con La Schola, 20-24 November 2024. Following their first program ¡Cantemos! on the Margarita Island, the Schola Cantorum de Venezuela, conducted by Maria Guinand and Luimar Arismendi, brought their program to yet another part of Venezuela. This time to Mérida and San Cristóbal. ¡Cantemos! Is designed to encourage the participation and development of more choral groups through meetings, workshops, seminars and concerts.
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2024 Oct 31 highlighted
World Choral Day 2024: Voices Uniting the Planet
Published: Oct 31,2024
IFCM is calling on millions of singers worldwide to join us and use their voices for peace through collective singing. We are confident that singing together is one of the most powerful tools we can use to contribute to achieving peace, which is currently a pressing global need.
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2024 Oct 31 highlighted
World Youth Choir calls for singers for the 2025 WYC Summer Session (13 July – 1 August 2025)
Published: Oct 31,2024
Daniel Reuss, internationally-renowned conductor (Capella Amsterdam, Rias kammerchor, Ensemble vocal de Lausanne) will be the artistic director, with a program including composers from all over Europe (Vaughan-Williams, Vasks, Ligeti, Schnittke, Martin), traditional repertoire, and a world première.
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2024 Oct 31 highlighted
World Youth Choir 2024: Watch the Documentary by Deutsche Welle on the WYC Session 2024
Published: Oct 31,2024
World Youth Choir 2024: Watch the Documentary by Deutsche Welle on the WYC Session with the Bundesjugendorchester
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2024 Oct 31 highlighted
News from Carus Verlag: Carus Digital Vocal Scores
Published: Oct 31,2024
In response to increasing demand, Carus Verlag is now offering their vocal scores in digital form.
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2025 Jun 13 2025 Jun 16 highlighted
5th End of the World Choir Festival “Trascendence”, Ushuaia, Argentina, 13-16 June 2025
Published: Oct 31,2024
The End of the World Choir Festival is a four-day event featuring concerts, workshops, lectures, and discussion forums under a specific theme that makes each edition unique. It takes place in Ushuaia both in-person and online, with professional live streaming that connects the world to a high-quality artistic and touristic experience.
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2025 Jun 16 2025 Jun 20 highlighted
International Children and Youth Choir Festival of Pueri Cantores, Munich, Germany, 16-20 July 2025
Published: Nov 29,2024
Approximately 5,000 young people from all over the world are expected to attend the Pueri Cantores International Choir Festival in Munich on 16-20 July 2025
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2025 Jul 12 2025 Jul 18 highlighted
European Choral Association International Singing Week Ghent
Published: Aug 31,2024
The International Singing Week Ghent will take place in the heart of the beautiful historical city of Ghent, 12-18 July 2025
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2024 Nov 29 highlighted
European Choral Association Membership Weekend and new Board of Directors
Published: Nov 29,2024
From 14-17 November, over 130 members of the European Choral Association (ECA) gathered in Leuven, Belgium, for the ECA Membership Weekend organized by Koor&Stem. Participants considered some of the big issues facing the choral sector, looked at what has been done so far, and shared ideas on the future of collective singing.
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2024 Nov 29 highlighted
International Music Council has a new website!
Published: Nov 29,2024
The International Music Council (IMC) is pleased to announce the launch of a new website. With this new website, IMC hopes to offer a more dynamic and fresher image of the organisation, its values, its activities, and its community.
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2024 Nov 29 highlighted
Berkshire Choral International (BCI) opens 2025 Apprentice applications
Published: Nov 29,2024
Applications are open for Berkshire Choral International’s two free educational programs for undergraduate and graduate level music students.
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2025 Feb 03 2025 Feb 05 highlighted
Choir Worldwide, 11th International Youth Arts Festival, Vienna and Berlin, 3-5 Feb 2025
Published: Nov 29,2024
"Choir Worldwide" - the 11th International Youth Arts Festival will take place in Vienna and Berlin, on 3 and 5 February 2025. We cordially invite Choirs, Orchestras and Young Bands, especially from Europe and China to participate in the upcoming events.
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Official magazine of the International Federation for Choral Music, the International Choral Magazine is published quarterly in the four official languages of IFCM: English, French, German and Spanish. It is distributed in more than 80 countries on the five continents and is the official voice of choral music around the world.

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Global Choral Calendar

Our focus at the moment is to unite the choral calendars of international choral organisations. Meanwhile please consult the calendar of choral events published by the European Choral Association - Europa Cantat here.

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