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2024 Nov 29 highlighted
YOUNG, Youth International Cultural Management Program 2025, Munich Germany
Published: Nov 29,2024
YOUNG, Youth International Culturel Management Program 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 highlighted
Watch the Webinar "Creating Choral Music — Talking about the requirements of choral repertoire"
Published: Nov 29,2024
Watch the Webinar "Creating Choral Music — Talking about the requirements of choral repertoire" which took place on Zoom on 23 November 2024
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2024 Nov 29 highlighted
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 highlighted
IFCM Online Cafés: Tell us what you think
Published: Nov 29,2024
It has been so inspiring to meet many of you this year at the monthly online cafés organised by IFCM.
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2024 Nov 29 highlighted
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 highlighted
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 highlighted
World Choral Day 2024: Voices Uniting the Planet
Published: Oct 31,2024
IFCM is calling on millions of singers worldwide to join us and use their voices for peace through collective singing. We are confident that singing together is one of the most powerful tools we can use to contribute to achieving peace, which is currently a pressing global need.
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2024 Oct 31 highlighted
World Youth Choir calls for singers for the 2025 WYC Summer Session (13 July – 1 August 2025)
Published: Oct 31,2024
Daniel Reuss, internationally-renowned conductor (Capella Amsterdam, Rias kammerchor, Ensemble vocal de Lausanne) will be the artistic director, with a program including composers from all over Europe (Vaughan-Williams, Vasks, Ligeti, Schnittke, Martin), traditional repertoire, and a world première.
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2024 Oct 31 highlighted
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 highlighted
News from Carus Verlag: Carus Digital Vocal Scores
Published: Oct 31,2024
In response to increasing demand, Carus Verlag is now offering their vocal scores in digital form.
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2024 Nov 29 highlighted
European Choral Association Membership Weekend and new Board of Directors
Published: Nov 29,2024
From 14-17 November, over 130 members of the European Choral Association (ECA) gathered in Leuven, Belgium, for the ECA Membership Weekend organized by Koor&Stem. Participants considered some of the big issues facing the choral sector, looked at what has been done so far, and shared ideas on the future of collective singing.
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2024 Nov 29 highlighted
International Music Council has a new website!
Published: Nov 29,2024
The International Music Council (IMC) is pleased to announce the launch of a new website. With this new website, IMC hopes to offer a more dynamic and fresher image of the organisation, its values, its activities, and its community.
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2024 Nov 29 highlighted
Berkshire Choral International (BCI) opens 2025 Apprentice applications
Published: Nov 29,2024
Applications are open for Berkshire Choral International’s two free educational programs for undergraduate and graduate level music students.
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2024 Oct 31 highlighted
Welcome to a new IFCM member: Jeune Chœur de Guadeloupe
Published: Oct 31,2024
The association oversees the activities of several vocal ensembles, including children's choirs comprising three age groups (4-14 years), a women's choir, and a youth choir (18-25 years). The youth choir, Jeune Chœur de Guadeloupe, was originally founded by the Carib'Opera collective.
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2024 Sep 30 highlighted
Federació Catalana d’Entitats Corals: Catalunya Prizes for Choral Compositions 2025
Published: Sep 30,2024
The 10th International Prizes “Catalunya” for Choral Composition of the Federació Catalana d’Entitats Corals (FCEC) is open until 31 January 2025. Composers can enter compositions based on Catalan texts and harmonizations of traditional Catalan songs in two categories: mixed voices and equal voices.
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2024 Sep 30 highlighted
The new IFCM podcast ‘Unison’ is about to start!
Published: Sep 30,2024
Unison aims to bring together diverse voices and experiences with a dedicated online platform that provides the opportunity for IFCM to reach as many corners of the globe as possible. Through Unison, IFCM seeks to celebrate the global diversity of choral music and to gather voices from around the world in a common online space.
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2024 Sep 30 highlighted
Conductors Without Borders becomes Conductors Beyond Borders
Published: Sep 30,2024
At its summer board meeting, IFCM Board of Directors approved a new name for its international conducting project: Conductors Beyond Borders (CBB). In view of the program’s many initiatives that facilitate connections between conductors from different geographical regions and/or between conductors and singers from neighboring countries, the new title is more appropriate and descriptive.
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2024 Sep 30 highlighted
World Youth Choir Summer Session: An unforgettable journey!
Published: Sep 30,2024
Joining forces with the National Youth Orchestra of Germany – Bundesjugendorchester (BJO), the World Youth Choir (WYC) performed 11 breathtaking concerts across three different countries (Germany, the Netherlands, Italy) under the masterful direction of Tan Dun (USA) and Jörn Hinnerk Andresen (Austria) in August and September 2024.
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2024 Sep 30 highlighted
Tribute: Nobuaki Tanaka (1 January 1928 – 12 September 2024)
Published: Sep 30,2024
Nobuaki Tanaka, longtime leader within the Japanese choral world, Conductor Laureate of the Tokyo Philharmonic Chorus, and a Person of Cultural Merit, has died at the age of 96.
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2024 Sep 30 highlighted
Online Webinar
Published: Sep 30,2024
Do we want everyone to have access to the psychological, physical, social, and educational benefits of collective singing? Do we want everyone to be able to advance their skills and achieve the highest possible level of artistic quality?
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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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