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World Symposium on Choral Music, 23-28 August 2026, Macau, China, Let’s Meet the Presenters
Published: Dec 31,2025

Participation has been confirmed by 40 selected presenters, who will deliver 35 lectures and workshops: David Buley (Canada), Francis Cathlina (USA), Kai-Young Chan (Hong Kong China), Saunder Choi (USA), Marleen De Boo and Jeroen Keymeulen (Belgium), Robert Delgado (The Philippines), Seán Doherty (Ireland), Ildikó Ferencziné Ács (Hungary), Tine Fris-Ronsfeld and Kristoffer Fynbo Thorning (Denmark), Sonja Greiner for the European Choral Association (Germany), Joshua Habermann (USA), Masahiro Inukai (Japan), Peder Karlsson (Sweden), Kirsi Kaunismäki-Suhonen and Merzi Rajala (Finland) for the Choirs for Ecocide Law, Ieva Krivickaitė (Lithuania), Ambroise Kua-Nzambi Toko (DR Congo), Mali Liu (Taiwan) and Joy Tavas Nilo (The Philippines), Tanner Munson (USA), Brian C. Murray (USA), Bengt Ollén (Sweden), Timothy Pallett (South Africa), Vladimir Pereira Silva (Brazil), Jonas Rasmussen (Denmark), Marques Jerrell Ruff (USA), Santiago Ruiz (Argentina), Vahram Sarkissian (Armenia), Kym Scott (USA), Beverly Shangkuan-Cheng (The Philippines), Karmina Šilec (Slovenia), Toomas Siitan (Estonia), Ryan Sullivan (USA), Yu Hang Tan (Malaysia), Masahiro Taniguchi and Taku Sato (Japan), Kenneth Tay (Singapore) and Jeremy Wiggins (USA).

More on the content of their presentations in a later IFCMeNEWS. Stay tuned!

 

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