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2024 Jan 31 highlighted
American Choral Directors Association announces its 2025 convention
Published: Jan 31,2024
Dallas, Texas, will be the host city of the 2025 National Convention of the American Choral Directors Association:Celebrating the Choral Art: Past-Present-Future (18-22 March 2025).
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2024 Jul 14 2024 Jul 20 highlighted
Asia Pacific Youth Choir (APYC) 2024
Published: Oct 19,2023
The next session of the Asia Pacific Youth Choir will be held in Daegu, South Korea, from July 14 to 20, 2024.
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2024 Oct 18 2024 Oct 20 highlighted
3rd Fosco Corti International Competition for choral conductors, Turin, Italy, 18-20 October 2024
Published: Mar 06,2024
The city of Turin will host the third edition of this important competition for choral conductors which is open to participants from all over the world. The competition is a project presented by Feniarco, Conservatorio G. Verdi of Torino, and Associazione Cori Piemontesi under the label of European Choral Association.
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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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2025 Mar 18 2025 Mar 25 highlighted
American Choral Directors Association announces its 2025 convention
Published: Jan 31,2024
Dallas, Texas, will be the host city of the 2025 National Convention of the American Choral Directors Association:Celebrating the Choral Art: Past-Present-Future (18-22 March 2025).
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2024 Apr 25 2024 Apr 26
Symposium for Research in Choral Singing, 25-26 April  2024, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Published: Jul 28,2023
ACDA is pleased to announce the fourth International Symposium on Research in Choral Singing, a forum for the dissemination of research and scholarly activity.
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2024 Apr 26 2024 Apr 29
72nd European Music Festival for Young People (EMJ) 2024, Neerpelt, Belgium
Published: Sep 14,2023
From April 26-29, 2024, about 100 children and youth choirs, with 4.000 youngsters up to the age of 28 from all over the world, will participate in the 72nd European Music Festival for Young People.
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2024 Apr 29 2024 May 02
Cork International Choral Festival, Ireland, 29 April - 2 May 2024
Published: Aug 28,2023
Founded in 1954, the Cork International Choral Festival is one of Europe’s premier international choral festivals. Overall, the Festival attracts some 5,000 participants and 50,000 people who bring Cork to life with song over the five days.
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2024 Apr 04 2024 Apr 08
Misatango Choir Festival Berlin
Published: Apr 04,2023
Under the baton of Maestro Saul Zaks, with composer Martín Palmeri at the piano and international soloists, participating choirs will jointly rehearse and perform the famous “Misa a Buenos Aires”, a contemporary roman mass in an authentic Argentinean tango style, as well as the world premiere of a new piece by Martín Palmeri in the fantastic modern venue of the Berlin Philharmonie.
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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 21 2024 Mar 24
17th Fukushima Vocal Ensemble Competition 2024 co-organized by Japan Choral Association
Published: Aug 11,2023
The Fukushima Vocal Ensemble Competition, 21-24 March 2024, co-organized with JCA, is calling for participating groups
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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 Jun 01 2024 Jun 02
Namur en Choeurs, Namur, Belgium, 1-2 June 2024
Published: Feb 21,2024
Organized by the Choral Federation Wallonia-Brussels - A Coeur Joie Belgium, Namur en Choeurs will make the city of Namur sing for a whole weekend with 100 concerts throughout the city center.
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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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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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