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Leading Voices 2025, Tallin, Estonia, 6-10 July 2025, Sign Up for the Newsletter

Published: Jun 17,2024

On 6-10 July 2025, Tallinn will host Leading Voices, an event of the European Choral Association organised in cooperation with the Estonian Choral Association and the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre.

2024 Jul 25 highlighted

Kati Yetu! African Youth Choir Annual Summer Camp, Island of Gorée, Dakar, Senegal, 22-28 July 2024

Published: Jul 18,2024

Kati Yetu means between us in Swahili. During Seven days, on 22-28 July 2024, 23 singers from seven countries (Benin, Cameroon, DRC, Gabon, Gambia, Ivory Coast, Senegal) met and sang under the direction of Jean Benoit Bakhoum from Senegal, the new conductor (2024-2025) succeeding to Ken Wakia from Kenya and Pierre Kouame from Ivory Coast (2019-2023).

2024 Jul 24 highlighted

World’s First Conducting App Created by Carus Verlag: Now Available in English

Published: Jul 24,2024

A clear conducting technique, the ability to lead lively rehearsals and a sound knowledge of vocal training are all essential attributes for any successful choral conductor. Carus-Verlag offers the ideal toolkit for all aspiring choral conductors. Conductor’s Coach, The App is the first tool for aspiring choir conductors to practice, hone and professionalize their technique.

2024 Jul 24 highlighted

Le Chant sur la Lowé, Gabon, Paid Tribute to Black Music Icons

Published: Jul 24,2024

Les Grandes Icones de la Musique Noire is a show by the vocal group Le Chant Sur La Lowé at the Institut Français du Gabon in Libreville. There are so many stars in the music world... Some have left us, others are still with us. It's impossible to list them all, and it's a bit ambitious to try to sing like them. However, Le Chant Sur La Lowé decided to honor them in a special way with a few of their most iconic songs in two shows on July 19 and 22, 2024.

2024 Jul 23 highlighted

The European Choral Association Brochure of Events 2025 is Out

Published: Jul 23,2024

Check the events happening next year and mark your calendar accordingly!

2024 Jul 15 highlighted

2024 China Qiandongnan International Folk Song Festival and World Voices Conference is forthcoming!

Published: Jul 15,2024

2024 China Qiandongnan International Folk Song Festival and World Voices Conference, July 20-24, 2024 Qiandongnan is renowned as the land of song and dance worldwide, boasting a rich and diverse ethnic culture and unique folk arts, including the Dong Grand Song, a UNESCO intangible cultural heritage, and the Miao Flying Song, a national-level intangible cultural heritage.

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World Youth Choir Concert Tour 2024: Secure your Tickets

Published: Apr 26,2024

As part of the World Youth Choir 2024 concert tour, the choir will join the National Youth Orchestra of Germany —Bundesjugendorchester — for a program featuring Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 and a commissioned work by Tan Dun entitled Nine - Ode to Compassion.

2024 Jun 28 highlighted

Corearte Acción Cultural: check out their festivals

Published: Jun 28,2024

Since 2007, Corearte Acción Cultural has stood out as a leader in promoting choral and orchestral events worldwide. Symbolizing its growth, the Festival Corearte Barcelona has witnessed the participation of over 260 choirs from diverse backgrounds during its 18-year history.

2024 Jun 21 highlighted

Musica International: Find the translations of choral texts

Published: Jun 21,2024

A good understanding of what you're singing is essential for optimal interpretation. This is particularly true when singing in a foreign language, including the Latin for sacred works. In its quest for comprehensive information, the Musica database offers you not only the complete texts of the choral pieces you are considering (76,000 references have a text link), but also their translations in one or more languages (50,000 references linked to translations of the text), in French and/or English and/or German and/or Spanish, or even another language if it seems useful.

2024 Sep 03 2024 Sep 03 highlighted

Don't miss the next "Choirs for Ecocide Law" online webinar

Published: Jul 24,2024

Register and join online on September 3, 2024, at 18.30 CEST Do you wish to combine choral music and environmental impact? Then you need to check the Choirs for Ecocide Law project, an artistic choral project, whose main purpose is to spread awareness about the need to make large-scale environmental destruction (ecocide) an international crime.

2025 Jul 06 2025 Jul 10 highlighted

Leading Voices 2025, 6-10 July 2025, Tallinn, Estonia

Published: Jun 17,2024

From 6-10 July 2025, Tallinn will host Leading Voices 2025, an event of the European Choral Association organised in cooperation with the Estonian Choral Association and the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre.

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45th International Congress PUERI CANTORES, Munich, Germany, 16-20 July 2025

Published: Jun 27,2024

In July 2025, approximately 4,500 young singers from all over the world are invited to Munich to pray, celebrate, and sing for peace together. The third largest city in Germany offers a multitude of churches, a beautiful old town, and numerous tourist attractions.

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The Bandung Choral Society Announces its 14th Bali International Choir Festival

Published: Jul 25,2024

The 14th Bali International Choir Festival (BICF — 29 July-2 August 2025) provides a range of services and resources for choirs and solo singers, including clinics and workshops, evaluation performances, friendship concerts, and competitions in several categories.

2024 Jun 28 highlighted

Choral Federation Wallonia-Brussels, A Coeur Joie Belgium, presents its brochure of activities 2024-

Published: Jun 28,2024

The 2024-2025 new season is almost here at the Choral Federation Wallonia-Brussels, A Coeur Joie Belgium (ACJ.be). It will be a season filled with activities for all ages. Training courses, singing days, weekends, or weeks. Select the option that best suits your needs and enjoy the benefits!

2024 Apr 26 highlighted

2025 ACDA National Convention, Dallas, Texas, USA, 18-22 March 2025

Published: Apr 26,2024

The 2025 ACDA National Conference will highlight the United States of America’s rich choral heritage, celebrate the music and expertise of our present-day choral colleagues, and look with excitement to the next generation.

2024 Feb 21 highlighted

Launch of the SWAN project — Singing with Additional Needs

Published: Feb 21,2024

Together with the project coordinator Norsk Sangerforum and the other project partners, the European Choral association is delighted to announce the start of the EU-funded project SWAN.

2025 Mar 18 2025 Mar 25 highlighted

American Choral Directors Association announces its 2025 convention

Published: Jan 31,2024

Dallas, Texas, will be the host city of the 2025 National Convention of the American Choral Directors Association:Celebrating the Choral Art: Past-Present-Future (18-22 March 2025).

2023 Sep 28 highlighted

Musica International, a goldmine of choral repertoire with unrestricted access for the IFCM members

Published: Sep 28,2023

Musica International is a multilingual collaborative database of choral repertoire which references comprehensively more than 200,000 choral titles and of which IFCM is a founding member. The IFCM members globally get unrestricted privileged access to the Musica database through the website www.ifcm.net. But what does it mean?

2024 May 31

Schola Cantorum Foundation of Venezuela: New Training Program

Published: May 31,2024

In recent days, the Schola Cantorum Foundation of Venezuela has launched a new program, called ¡Cantemos!, through which it continues to fulfill its mission of training in values and musical education of young directors, students and singers.

2024 May 21

Have you missed the last webinars of the European Choral Association? Check them out!

Published: May 21,2024

Webinar "Are you paid fairly? Recommendations on fair pay at international collective singing events"