EXchange!
The EXchange!, a new partnership between IFCM and The Singing Network, provided an extraordinary opportunity for World Choral EXPO (WCE) participants to learn from and with each other. For one and a half days during the WCE (July 30-31, 2019), international scholars, performers, conductors, pedagogues, and composers met to connect, create, share, and explore various aspects of collective singing. Presenters came from Argentina, Canada, China, Denmark, DR Congo, Gabon, Germany, Indonesia, Israel, Norway, Turkey, and the United States. Additional WCE participants came from many other countries, including Austria, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Costa Rica, France, Ireland, Lebanon, Lithuania, and Portugal.
In the Closing EXchange session, Sonja Greiner, Secretary-General of the European Choral Association-Europa Cantat (ECA-EC), with help from Estera Mihaila, ECA-EC’s newly-appointed Communication Manager, presented a comprehensive and entertaining reflection on the EXchange! presentations. Here are the challenging, thought-provoking topics raised during the EXchange! for consideration by IFCM and the international choral community:
Gatherings such as the EXchange! in which the international choral community engages in dialogue, interchange, and discourse are critical to a vibrant, relevant international choral community. Watch for extended articles on some of these topics in future issues of ICB.
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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