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2025 Aug 20 highlighted
YOUNG IFCM Launching Young Conductors’ Virtual Mentorship Programme
Published: Aug 20,2025
This new initiative from the IFCM YOUNG Committee is designed to connect developing choral conductors with experienced choral directors around the world. Our goal is to foster meaningful, cross-cultural connections that inspire the next generation of conductors, exchange knowledge and ideas, and strengthen the global choral community.
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2025 Aug 20 highlighted
Call for Mentors and Mentees: Young Conductors’ Virtual Mentorship Programme
Published: Aug 20,2025
Applications are now open for the inaugural IFCM Young Conductors’ Virtual Mentorship Programme, a new initiative from the IFCM YOUNG Committee designed to connect developing choral conductors with experienced choral directors around the world.
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2025 Aug 12 highlighted
Carus Verlag: Beethoven 2027 — Pure Choral Joy!
Published: Aug 12,2025
Ludwig van Beethoven stands as one of the most influential composers in music history. In 2027, we will commemorate the 200th anniversary of his death. Through the Beethoven vocal Project, Carus has made Beethoven's rich choral repertoire accessible to choirs worldwide: including the Missa solemnis, which Beethoven himself regarded as one of his greatest achievements, alongside the magnificent Mass in C major.
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2025 Aug 05 highlighted
World Symposium on Choral Music 2026, Logo Unveiled, Calls Open!
Published: Aug 05,2025
World Symposium on Choral Music 2026, Macau China, 23-28 August 2026 Reimagining the Future: Be Part of the WSCM 2026 Artistic Programme & Discover Its New Logo The WSCM promotes artistic excellence, cooperation, and exchange by bringing together the finest choirs and choral leaders for performances, seminars, workshops, exhibitions, and choral reading sessions.
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2025 Jul 31 highlighted
World Youth Choir 2025, Until They Meet Again
Published: Jul 31,2025
The World Youth Choir Summer Session 2025 officially began in Barcelona on 14 July, bringing together 62 talented young singers from 36 countries for several weeks of music, learning, and connection.
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2025 Jul 31 highlighted
World Choral Day 2025: Singing for Peace, Connection, and Our Common Home
Published: Jul 31,2025
On World Choral Day 2025 (14 December 2025), voices from every corner of the globe will rise in a powerful message: peace is possible, and it begins with us. In a world too often divided by conflict, fear, and isolation, singing together is a radical act. It builds trust, opens hearts, and connects strangers. When two people sing together, they are not in conflict—they are listening, responding, and creating harmony.
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2025 Jul 31 highlighted
Did You Miss the IFCM Online Café, 26 July 2025, 2PM CEST: Creating Choral Music
Published: Jul 31,2025
The Online Café "Creating Choral Music: Exploring the Art of Choral Composition” took place on Zoom on 26 July 2025.
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2025 Jul 31 highlighted
YOUNG Programme 2025, Pueri Cantores Festival, Munich (14–21 July 2025)
Published: Jul 31,2025
The third edition of the IFCM YOUNG programme was successfully held in Munich from 14 to 21 July 2025, as part of the Pueri Cantores International Festival. This year’s program gathered eight emerging choral managers from Europe and around the world, offering them a unique opportunity to gain hands-on experience in organizing a large-scale international choral event.
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2025 Jul 31 highlighted
Conductors Beyond Borders, Douala, Cameroon, 21-28 June 2025
Published: Jul 31,2025
This training session marks the end of a three-year Conductors Beyond Borders (CBB) programme (2021–2024), with a week of training taking place each semester. The 2025 session, led by Thierry Thiébaut, Président of A Cœur Joie International and IFCM previous Vice-President, culminated in a concert conducted by two of the six choir conductors who have graduated from the programme.
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2025 Jul 31 highlighted
IFCM Welcomes a New Member in the Local Organisation Category St Peters Chorale, Brisbane, Australia
Published: Jul 31,2025
St Peters Chorale, from St Peters Lutheran College (Indooroopilly), is a mixed voice choir of students in Years 9 - 12. Founded by Graeme Morton in 1983, the choir has developed a national and international reputation as an outstanding youth choir and is well known for its championing of Australian choral composers.
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2025 Jul 31 highlighted
IFCM Welcomes a New Member in the Choir Category Vox Humanis & Vox Libera, Sanliurfa, Türkiye
Published: Jul 31,2025
Located at Harran University in Şanlıurfa, the Vox Humanis Polyphonic Choir comprises twenty-four voices under the direction of Dr Fırat Altun. Its repertoire ranges from Renaissance motets and Turkish premières to vibrant Anatolian polyphony—embracing Komitas’s and Ganatchian’s folk harmonisations, Mozart’s Ave verum corpus, Hasan Ferit Alnar’s modal works, and Karl Jenkins’s globally inflected oratorios.
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2025 Jul 31 highlighted
Musica International at Leading Voices
Published: Jul 31,2025
Musica International attended Leading Voices (6–10 July, Tallinn, Estonia), where its director, Jean Sturm, held a reading session in collaboration with Linas Balandis, a conductor from Vilnius, Lithuania.
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2025 Jul 31 highlighted
European Choral Association: Leading Voices Was a Success!
Published: Jul 31,2025
From 6-10 July 2025, the second edition of Leading Voices brought more than 800 people to Tallinn from 38 countries. The event began with the main concert of the Estonian Song Celebration. The programme of Leading Voices included 55 sessions by 40 session leaders, 128 individual lessons on conducting and singing, and 10 concerts. The main venue of the event was the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre.
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2025 Jul 31 highlighted
45th International Congress of Pueri Cantores, Munich, Germany, 16-20 July 2025
Published: Jul 31,2025
After four days of intense encounters and deeply moving musical experiences, the 45th Pueri Cantores International Choir Festival in Munich came to an end with a festive Closing Service with Cardinal Reinhard Marx on Marienplatz.
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2025 Jun 30 highlighted
IFCM Announces the Dates of the 2026 World Symposium on Choral Music (WSCM) in Macau
Published: Jun 30,2025
IFCM is thrilled to bring the World Symposium on Choral Music to Macau SAR from 23 to 28 August 2026! It will be wonderful to immerse ourselves in the region's amazing and diverse cultures. Macau's omnipresent blend of cultural influences will provide the perfect setting for the WSCM 2026 celebration of exchange and collaboration.
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2025 May 30 highlighted
New IFCM Membership Category for Students and Young People under the Age of 25
Published: May 30,2025
The YOUNG IFCM Committee proposed the creation of a new student membership category to the IFCM Committee responsible for membership. The proposal was examined carefully, and an appropriate amount for this new category was discussed and approved by the IFCM board. IFCM hopes that this new fee will increase membership accessibility for the younger generation.
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2025 Dec 14 2025 Dec 14 highlighted
World Choral Day 2025: Singing for Peace, Connection, and Our Common Home
Published: Jul 31,2025
On World Choral Day 2025 (14 December 2025), voices from every corner of the globe will rise in a powerful message: peace is possible, and it begins with us. In a world too often divided by conflict, fear, and isolation, singing together is a radical act. It builds trust, opens hearts, and connects strangers. When two people sing together, they are not in conflict—they are listening, responding, and creating harmony.
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2024 Dec 31 highlighted
Call for Choirs to Apply for Conductors Beyond Borders Peer-to-Peer Exchange Programme
Published: Dec 31,2024
The Conductors Beyond Borders Peer-to-Peer Exchange Programme is a component of the Choral TIES project coordinated by the European Choral Association, co-funded by the European Union, and organised in cooperation with IFCM. This programme provides limited financial support in the form of a grant to cover international travel expenses.
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International Youth Chamber Choir Meeting 2026
Published: Jun 24,2025
The International Youth Chamber Choir Meeting, on 14-23 August 2026, is a unique choral experience in a truly special place, the beautiful island of Usedom, Germany, right by the sea.
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2025 Jul 31 highlighted
Join the European Music Council (EMC) for the Green Beat Workshop, 11 September 2025, 9:30-16:00 CES
Published: Jul 31,2025
As part of the SHIP Festival—a dynamic showcase and music conference in Šibenik, Croatia—the EMC invites you to take part in Green Beat, a full-day workshop dedicated to advancing the green transition in the music sector.
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IFCM International Online cafe

IFCM International Online Cafes are open to everyone! Recordings are available to IFCM members only. Since the first online meeting in 2023, IFCM has invited prestigious choral leaders, conductors and composers, from all over the world: Maria Guinand (Venezuela), Eric Banks (USA), Michael Ostrzyga (Germany), Tracy Wong (Malaysia/Canada), Luz Helena Peñaranda (Colombia), Joel Magus P. Navarro (Philippines), Ana María Raga (Venezuela), Carmen Acevedo (Puerto Rico), Jurģis Cābulis (Latvia), Lim Ai Hooi (Singap

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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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