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2026 Jun 21 2026 Jun 26 highlighted
Rome Choral Festival
Published: Jan 10,2025
Rome, Italy, June 21-26, 2026
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Salzburg Choral Festival, Jubilate Mozart!
Published: Jan 10,2025
Salzburg, Austria, June 24-28, 2026
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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 Dec 31
Message from Emily Kuo Vong, IFCM President
Published: Dec 31,2024
Dear Friends, as we welcome the New Year 2025, I am delighted to take a moment on behalf of the International Federation of Choral Music (IFCM) to extend our warmest wishes to each of you. May this year bring you and your loved ones good health, joy, and fulfillment in all aspects of your lives!
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2024 Dec 31
A look back at the World Choral Day 2024
Published: Dec 31,2024
How did you choose to celebrate World Choral Day / Dia Mundial del Canto Coral this year? Many of you chose to celebrate it with a concert dedicated to this year's theme Voices Uniting the Planet.
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2024 Dec 31
Conductors Beyond Borders in Cameroon
Published: Dec 31,2024
In 2021, the first session in Cameroon of the IFCM Project Conductors Without Borders (recently renamed Conductors Beyond Borders) was organised in Douala, thanks to the collaboration of À Cœur Joie International, FECAMUCH-ACJ (Choral Federation À Cœur Joie of Cameroon), and IFCM. It was the first session of a three-year programme, based on the rate of one week per semester.
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2024 Dec 31
Musica International’s Monthly FAVOURITE PIECE Could Be YOURS!
Published: Dec 31,2024
If you were going to a desert island, what is the one choral piece you would take with you? This is the whole idea of Musica International’s monthly Favourite Piece!
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2024 Dec 19
YOUNG IFCM Committee meets in Istanbul
Published: Dec 19,2024
Sam Nicholson, Oceania representative on the YOUNG IFCM Committee of the International Federation for Choral Music, recently travelled to Türkiye for the committee's first in-person meeting in Istanbul. Read Sam’s reflections on the committee’s work and the many highlights of his trip on an article that he recently wrote for eBreve, the monthly newsletter of the New Zealand Choral Federation.
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2024 Dec 18
European Choral Association: EUROPA CANTAT Festival is back!
Published: Dec 18,2024
Liepāja to host the next edition in August 2027. The European Choral Association is delighted to officially announce the 22nd EUROPA CANTAT Festival, ECA’s major event designated to singers, choirs, and all choral lovers across Europe and beyond.
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2024 Nov 29
YOUNG, Youth International Cultural Management Programme 2025, Munich, Germany
Published: Nov 29,2024
YOUNG, Youth International Culturel Management Programme organised in the frame of the 45th International Congress of Pueri Cantores, (16-20 July 2025), Munich, Germany. Application process is open from 1 December 2024 to 31 January 2025
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2024 Nov 29
Watch the last online café dedicated to three Latin-American composers
Published: Nov 29,2024
On 9 November 2024, the IFCM online café focused on the art of choral composition. Three well-known Latin American composers shared their ideas on how to create choral music for ensembles today, using their own compositions as illustrations: César Alejandro Carrillo (Venezuela), Julio César Morales Pineda (Mexico), and Mónica Pacheco (Argentina).
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2024 Nov 29
IFCM welcomes a new choir member: The Choir of World Culture (Chor der Weltkultur Bühne)
Published: Nov 29,2024
The Choir of World Culture is a unique singing ensemble dedicated to uniting literature and music in a harmonious way.
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2024 Nov 29
Conductors Beyond Borders with Schola Cantorum de Venezuela in Mérida and San Cristóbal, Venezuela
Published: Nov 29,2024
¡Cantemos! con La Schola, 20-24 November 2024. Following their first program ¡Cantemos! on the Margarita Island, the Schola Cantorum de Venezuela, conducted by Maria Guinand and Luimar Arismendi, brought their program to yet another part of Venezuela. This time to Mérida and San Cristóbal. ¡Cantemos! Is designed to encourage the participation and development of more choral groups through meetings, workshops, seminars and concerts.
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2024 Oct 31
World Youth Choir 2024: Watch the Documentary by Deutsche Welle on the WYC Session 2024
Published: Oct 31,2024
World Youth Choir 2024: Watch the Documentary by Deutsche Welle on the WYC Session with the Bundesjugendorchester
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2024 Oct 31
European Choral Association: Euro Choir 2024 Documentary
Published: Oct 31,2024
Eurochoir, Bulgaria, 2024 — Donka Miteva - Conductor — Mahler - Urlicht — Producer - Georgi Elenkov — Recorded by Four For Music — The organizers of the EuroChoir 2024 event are the European Choral Association, in collaboration with the Bulgarian Choral Union.
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2025 May 27 2025 Jun 01
14th European Youth Choir Festival Basel, Switzerland, 27 May-1 June 2025
Published: Jan 08,2024
European platform for highest qualified children’s and youth choirs
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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 Sep 30
Webinar organized by the African Confederation for Choral Music and Africa Cantat
Published: Sep 30,2024
Did you miss it? You have a chance to watch now! On 21 September 2024, the African Confederation for Choral Music and the Africa Cantat Festival organized a webinar on the topic: “Exploring the Legacy of Shalati Joseph Khosa in African Choral Music”.
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2024 Aug 31
American Choral Directors Association: Shout-out to Soul Children of Chicago
Published: Aug 31,2024
The American Choral Directors Association gave a Facebook shout-out to the Grammy Award-winning youth gospel choir Soul Children of Chicago and conductor Walt Whitman for their performance of a stirring gospel rendition of the U.S. National Anthem at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, which received a standing ovation.
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2024 Aug 31
New! YOUNG IFCM podcasts
Published: Aug 31,2024
Unison is a new podcast series dedicated to celebrating choral music and showcasing the diverse experiences, insights, and talents of choral musicians internationally.
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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. Publication temporarily suspended.

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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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