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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?
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2024 Mar 28
IFCM is happy to welcome a new organization member : Philippine Choral Directors Association (PCDA)
Published: Mar 25,2024
The Philippine Choral Directors Association (PCDA), a national organization established by choral artists for choral artists, presents masterclasses, workshops, conventions, forums, clinics, and festivals nationwide as it aspires to develop a thriving and vibrant Filipino choral culture.
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2024 Mar 28
IFCM is happy to welcome a new business member: Uniart Culture and Media Group
Published: Mar 28,2024
Based in Austria, Uniart Culture and Media Group has a 30-year experience in the arts sector and specializes in organizing music festivals. Their flagship event is the World Peace Choral Festival and the World Orchestra Festival.
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2024 Mar 27
Report on the Webinar on the pentatonic mode in African choral music (16 March 2024)
Published: Mar 27,2024
At the initiative of African Confederation for Choral Music (ACCM) and Africa Cantat Festival, a webinar was organized on March 16, 2024, around the theme "The pentatonic mode in African choral heritage".
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2024 Mar 25
Musica International quest for a concert theme: Ecology
Published: Mar 25,2024
Musica International regularly invites its users to help develop concert themes. For the month of April, the theme focuses on ecology in choral music. A search for the keyword ecology yields 62 pieces.
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2024 Mar 25
Choirs for Ecocide Law project to be presented at the fair of the European Bauhaus Festival
Published: Mar 25,2024
From 9-13 April 2024, the European Choral Association is delighted to present the Choirs for Ecocide Law project at the fair of the New European Bauhaus Festival!
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2024 Mar 25
World Youth Choir Alumni Session 2024, St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
Published: Mar 25,2024
Meet the selected singers for the World Youth Choir (WYC) Alumni Session 2024 at HarbourVOICES International Festival of Collective Singing Traditions!
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2024 Mar 14
IFCM Members Online Café: participants delighted by the session with Joel P. Navarro
Published: Mar 14,2024
In the latest IFCM café, Joel P. Navarro presented a brief history of the evolution of conducting and rehearsal techniques based on his personal and collegiate experience and training, in particular, within the Philippine cultural context. Joel also gave an overview of Martin Behrmann's conducting technique, including preliminaries, the stance, the manual apparatus, the signal domains, and the music applications.
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2024 Feb 23
Musica International quest for a concert theme
Published: Feb 23,2024
Musica International regularly invites its users to help develop concert themes. The most recent theme is based on the words planets, stars, and space. A search for the keyword planet yields 122 pieces, while space and cosmos yield 126 and 402 pieces, respectively.
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2024 Feb 23
Looking back at World Choral Day 2023
Published: Feb 23,2024
On 10 December 2023, the second Sunday in December, the global choral community celebrated World Choral Day (WCD). Throughout the month, we saw many wonderful posts on social media demonstrating the various ways in which singing groups took part in the celebration.
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2024 Feb 23
African Youth Choir Annual Summer Camp, Dakar, Senegal, 22-28 July 2024
Published: Feb 23,2024
Get ready for an unforgettable experience at the African Youth Choir Annual Summer Camp in Dakar, Senegal, 22-28 July 2024!
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2024 Feb 21
A Cœur Joie International announces the results of the composition composition “Chanter en Français”
Published: Feb 21,2024
A Cœur Joie International is pleased to announce the results of its first composition competition "Chanter en français" (Singing in French). Forty-eight scores were submitted from Belgium, Brazil, Cameroon, Canada, Republic of Con, Canada, Republic of Congo, France, Italy, Netherlands, Senegal, Spain, Switzerland and Togo. The jury, which included Marie-Claude Remy (Belgium), Emmanuelle Pascal Falala (France), René Falquet (Switzerland), and Gautier Lemoine (France), was unable to award a 1st and 2nd prize and decided to award a 3rd prize.
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2024 Feb 12
World Symposium on Choral Music 2023, İstanbul: After Movie!
Published: Feb 12,2024
Did you miss the World Symposium on Choral Music (WSCM) in İstanbul, Türkiye, last April? You can now watch and listen to a synopsis of the fun and music shared by more than 2500 participants from 60 countries.
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2024 Jan 31
The Federació Catalana d’Entitats Corals (FCEC) Announce their Composition Competition Winners
Published: Jan 31,2024
The Federació Catalana d’Entitats Corals (FCEC) announce the winners of their two biennial competitions, one of which is organized in collaboration with the Orfeó Català.
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2024 Jan 31
IFCM Online Café: Plan a Choral Year with IFCM, Recording Available to IFCM Members
Published: Jan 31,2024
Moderated by Pelin Küçükerdoğan, Member of IFCM YOUNG from Türkiye, this session welcomed ten association members of IFCM to present choral activities in their region.
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2024 Jan 31
IFCM welcomes a new member in the choir category: University of Minnesota Morris Choir
Published: Jan 31,2024
The University of Minnesota Morris Choir (Morris, Minnesota, USA) is a non-auditioned choral ensemble comprised of students from all academic majors as well as University of Minnesota Morris faculty/staff and community members.
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2024 Jan 31
News from Voices of Singapore
Published: Jan 31,2024
Voices of Singapore (VOS) is pleased to announce its milestone collaboration with the classical recording label Naxos Records.
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2024 Jan 31
The Brochure of Choral Events 2024 of the European Choral Association
Published: Jan 31,2024
The Brochure of Choral Events 2024, published by the European Choral Association, presents a selection of events open to singers, conductors, composers, and all choral lovers around Europe and beyond.
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2024 Jan 31
Chœur la Grâce, Democratic Republic of Congo, receives honour
Published: Jan 31,2024
Founded in 1985 and IFCM member since 2000, Chœur la Grâce (Ambroise Kua-Nzambi Togo, conductor) has become one of the best-known choirs on the African continent.
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2024 Jan 31
Fifth Conductors Without Borders in Douala, Cameroon
Published: Jan 31,2024
The Federation of Choral Music of Cameroon organized its fifth session of Conductors Without Borders in Douala, 8-14 January 2024.
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IFCM International Choral Magazine

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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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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