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2021 Apr 30 highlighted
IFCM Choral Composition Competition 2022
Published: Apr 30,2021
The International Federation for Choral Music has organized four international choral composition competitions since this project was created in 2010. The aim of these competitions is to promote the creation and distribution of new, innovative, and accessible choral repertoire. Also, to promote and encourage composers to creation and distribution.
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2021 Apr 29 highlighted
Announcing the WSCM2023 Theme: Changing Horizons
Published: Apr 29,2021
The WSCM2023 Planning Committee is delighted to announce the theme “Changing Horizons” for the upcoming 13thWSCM, to be held in Doha, Qatar, 30 December 2023 – 5 January 2024.
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2021 Apr 29 highlighted
Conductors Without Borders: Latin America Virtual Seminar
Published: Apr 29,2021
IFCM’s Conductors without Borders, in alliance with the choral organizations Voce in Tempore (Mexico), Fundación Schola Cantorum de Venezuela and the Faculty of Music of the Universidad Autónoma de México (UNAM) will offer a virtual seminar for conductors in order to contribute to the training of choral conductors in all countries of the region.
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2021 Apr 29 highlighted
Children are our Future! Japan Choral Association Kodomo online Chorus Festival 2021
Published: Apr 29,2021
Japan Choral Association’s annual Kodomo (Children) Online Chorus Festival was held on 28 March 2021. Sixteen children’s choirs (484 singers) shared performances online and at a concert hall in Hamamatsu City, Shizuoka, the home of world-known manufacturers of musical instruments such as Yamaha and Kawai.
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2021 Apr 29 highlighted
European Choral Association - Europa Cantat: three upcoming online events
Published: Apr 29,2021
Singing in professional choirs — Webinar, 20 May 2021, 11:00am CEST Advocacy through storytelling — Online Workshop, 11 June 2921, 3:00pm – 6:00pm CEST The SHIFT Inclusion | Interview Series
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2021 Apr 29 highlighted
News from the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA)
Published: Apr 29,2021
Recently released - Recommendations for returning to choral rehearsals. On 19 March 2021, the (mainly) U.S.-based Performing Arts Aerosol Research Study coalition released an updated and streamlined guidance document which includes an explanation of the Center for Disease Control's new distancing guidelines and what these recommendations mean in terms of safely singing together again. Read the one-pager.
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2021 Apr 29 highlighted
Obituary: Michel Thirion, Founder and President of the Festival Nancy Voix du Monde
Published: Apr 29,2021
It is with great sadness that the organizing committee of the International Choral Festival Nancy, Voix du Monde announce that its Founder and President, Michel THIRION, passed away on April 19.
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2021 Apr 29 highlighted
News from the Fondation Schola Cantorum de Venezuela
Published: Apr 29,2021
Overcoming the inevitable impact of pandemic restrictions, Fundación Schola Cantorum de Venezuela embraced the new reality and expanded its online capacity to provide ongoing contact with all the actors in the choral community. One component of this digital initiative is compiling the institutional collection of recordings, seminars, and masterclasses and making these resources available through the La Schola YouTube channel.
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2021 Mar 31 highlighted
News from The 2023 World Symposium on Choral Music (WSCM)
Published: Mar 31,2021
The Planning Committee for the 2023 World Symposium on Choral Music (WSCM) is delighted to announce the patronage by the State of Qatar’s Ministry of Culture and Sports for the 2023 WSCM. The WSCM is to be held in Doha, Qatar, 30 December 2023 to 5 January 2024.
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2021 Mar 31 highlighted
International Choral Bulletin Survey — Sondage — Encuesta — Umfrage
Published: Mar 31,2021
The International Choral Bulletin was created exactly 40 years ago. Over these years, it became a longer publication, changed to colour print, went online and is now a multilingual information tool about choir music around the world. It’s high time to ask you how YOU wish your International Choral Bulletin to develop in the coming years!
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2021 Feb 18 highlighted
Call for Videos, Tips, Ideas, Webinars for IFCM Youtube Playlist
Published: Feb 18,2021
The world is different now but, through all the changes, music has accompanied us step by step. People are singing by the windows to their neighbours, and artists are playing concerts on social media.
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2021 Jan 29 highlighted
The 2022 Regional Conferences of the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA)
Published: Jan 29,2021
ACDA's regional conferences have been scheduled for 2022!
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2020 May 28 highlighted
IFCM Youtube Playlist - Virtual Choir Projects
Published: May 28,2020
IFCM is collecting favourite virtual choral projects that have been created as a result of the current pandemic and compiling them in a YouTube. Have you also made similar videos recently?
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2021 Mar 31 highlighted
IFCM Committees: lots of Accomplishments in Three Months
Published: Mar 31,2021
IFCM is excited to bring you up to speed on the work that its committees, presented in the February IFCMeNEWS, have been doing in the past weeks. Many thanks to all the members of these committees for their enthusiasm and accomplishments! Unless otherwise indicated, committee members are IFCM board members or staff.
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2021 Feb 27 highlighted
World Symposium on Choral Music 2023, Qatar: First meetings
Published: Feb 27,2021
The first meeting of the World Symposium on Choral Music (WSCM) 2023 Organizing Committee was held on January 3, 2021. Composed of six International Federation for Choral Music (IFCM) representatives, six representatives from the Qatar National Choral Association (QNCA), and two honorary members, the team is set to work on the monumental and exciting task of bringing the WSCM to the Middle East region for the first time. To that end, the QNCA representatives are from Qatar and the Arab region. Qatar, with its ancient traditions of hospitality and contemporary global outlook, offers a unique and welcoming setting for voices from around the world to mix, mingle, and share their unique choral traditions and knowledge.
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2021 Feb 27 highlighted
News from Africa Cantat Festival
Published: Feb 27,2021
The Africa Cantat International Committee met on 13 February 2021 to evaluate the current situation of the coronavirus pandemic and its impact on the organization of the Africa Cantat festival, planned for the summer of 2021 after the 2020 edition had to be replaced by an online event.
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2021 Feb 24 highlighted
IFCM is Looking for Translators
Published: Feb 24,2021
The International Choral Bulletin (ICB), the professional, scholarly journal/magazine edited by the International Federation for Choral Music IFCM) is looking for volunteer translators from English to French, German to French and Spanish to French.
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2020 Dec 18 highlighted
ECA-EC Addressing Second Wave of Covid-19 and the impact on choirs and vocal ensembles across Europe
Published: Dec 18,2020
Please find attached the press release issued on 15 December 2020 by the General Secretariat of the European Choral Association - Europa Cantat addressing the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic and the impact on choirs and vocal ensembles across Europe.
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2020 Nov 30 highlighted
Conductors Without Borders: New Guidelines and Application Forms
Published: Nov 30,2020
Conductors without Borders (CWB) is one of the most significant projects of IFCM. For the past 13 years, CWB has organized many professional development events in parts of the world where choral music education is still not available to everyone. There have been successful sessions in Africa and Latin & Central America. Following a review of the CWB project in early 2020, the IFCM board approved a new, improved structure which will expand CWB even more. The new structure provides a mechanism through which anyone can apply to organize a CWB project in their country and can even become one of the conductors.
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2020 Nov 30 highlighted
European Choral Association — Europa Cantat: Brochure 2021
Published: Nov 30,2020
Hopeful and joyful, the European Choral Association - Europa Cantat released its Brochure of Choral Activities 2021, a selection of choral events open to singers, conductors, composers, and all choral lovers around Europe and beyond. In this brochure, you will find a careful selection of international activities organized, co-organised, or promoted by ECA-EC. Members of the association benefit from reduced prices in most events, which is yet another reason to join the biggest European choral network.
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ICB Bulletin

Official magazine of the International Federation for Choral Music, the International Choral Bulletin 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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