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2024 Oct 04 2024 Oct 06
International Choral Festival Flanders-Genk, Belgium, 4-6 October 2024
Published: Sep 18,2023
From Friday 04 Oct '24 to Sunday 06 Oct '24, Genk - in the heart of Limburg - will once again host the 17th International Choir Festival Flanders-Genk. On the C-mine site, where the past and the charm of old mine buildings go hand in hand with contemporary art and creativity, more than 1,000 voices will echo for three days!
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2024 May 13
ACDA Publication: Women Conductors of College Men’s Choirs – Redefining the “Brotherhood”
Published: May 13,2024
The International Journal of Research in Choral Singing (IJRCS) is ACDA’s scholarly publication that welcomes research studies that apply rigorous, systematically grounded methodologies, either quantitative or qualitative, to investigate phenomena of potential interest to all who sing in, work with, or are otherwise interested in choral ensembles. Here is the abstract from an article written by Marci L. Major and Elizabeth Cassidy Parker titled: “Disrupting the choral class system: A journey of one high school choral program.”
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2024 May 08
☕️ Did you miss the IFCM Members' Cafe on Repertoire?
Published: May 08,2024
The recording of the IFCM Members Online Cafe "On the Discovery of New Repertoire, Part 2" (28 April 2024) is now available.
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2024 Apr 25
The African Confederation for Choral Music presents the first African Choral Night virtual concert
Published: Apr 25,2024
On 13 April 2024, the first African Choral Night virtual concert showcased the richness and diversity of African choral music. Choirs, ensembles, and vocal groups from Africa and its diaspora were brought together on the digital stage. Through this unique virtual experience, treasures of talent and authenticity were presented, offering an exceptional panorama of varied repertoire ranging from the traditional to the modern. Entitled In the Moonlight, this first edition of African Choral Night focused on traditional African repertoire through video performances by nine choirs from the four corners of the African continent. The concert was broadcast on the ACCM YouTube channel.
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2024 Apr 25
IFCM Member running a survey for her thesis: take part in it!
Published: Apr 25,2024
IFCM member Anastasia Kananovich (France) is a first year PhD student in Linguistics at the University of Strasbourg (France). She invites you to participate in the survey that will form the basis of her thesis.
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2024 Mar 29
Update on the International Choral Magazine
Published: Mar 29,2024
New development on the publication of the International Choral Magazine created more than 40 years ago.
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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
Recommendations for fair remuneration at international choral events
Published: Mar 25,2024
The European Choral Association is a member of the European and International Music Councils (EMC and IMC, respectively) and subscribes to the Five Music Rights developed by IMC. The fifth right is the right for all musical artists “to obtain just recognition and fair remuneration for their work”. In the past, this right has often not been fully respected in the choral sector.
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2024 Mar 25
American Choral Directors Association Career Center
Published: Mar 25,2024
The American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) presents the ACDA Career Center, which offers resources for finding the perfect job and advancing one's career within the USA.
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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
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
One of the most fascinating fragments in the history of music
Published: Feb 21,2024
The remnants of Mozart's Requiem serve to inspire! Since the composer's death in 1791, many attempts have been made to complete this great work of music history. The British composer and choral conductor Howard Arman has now published his own new complete version at Carus-Verlag, offering a fresh perspective on Mozart's masterpiece.
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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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2023 Dec 26
CHORAL TIES project (European Choral Association) is launched!
Published: Dec 26,2023
The Choral TIES project, coordinated by the European Choral Association and co-funded by the European Union, kicked off at the beginning of December!
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2023 Dec 26
European Choral Association: Website Accessibility Guidelines
Published: Dec 26,2023
In the framework of the EU-funded project IGNITE, the European Choral Association designed guidelines for website accessibility to empower everyone involved in the web development process with the knowledge and tools necessary to make the first steps towards accessible and inclusive websites.
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2023 Nov 28
IFCM Choral Composition Competition 2023-2024: The Winners are…
Published: Nov 28,2023
In March 2023, IFCM launched its Sixth International Choral Composition Competition to promote new works in choral music and to encourage innovation in choral writing that fits the needs of a 21st-century choir. The criteria emphasized compositions that combine originality, imagination, and creativity within the context of contemporary global themes.
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2023 Nov 16
Conductors Without Borders, Continuation of a Training Cycle for Young Choral Directors in DR Congo
Published: Nov 16,2023
Continuation of a Training Cycle for Young Choral Directors, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, 30 October – 4 November 2023
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2023 Nov 09
The IFCM online Cafes — International and National
Published: Nov 09,2023
Following the enthusiastic response to the online cafes organized in the past few months, the International Federation for Choral Music is announcing five more of them in the upcoming months! International Cafes will be for IFCM members only while National Cafes will be open to everyone, members or not. These sessions will be informative but also enriched by your active participation.
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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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