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2020 May 28 highlighted
News from the International Music Council
Published: May 28,2020
Ensuring Culture Fulfills its Potential in Responding to the Covid-19 Pandemic
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2020 Apr 30 highlighted
And the next EUROPA CANTAT Junior Festival will take place in....
Published: Apr 30,2020
And the next EUROPA CANTAT Junior Festival will take place in… Early July 2023, the streets of Ghent, Belgium will be filled with music and joy. Why, you ask? Because the EUROPA CANTAT Junior Festival 2023 will be in the great hands of Koor&Stem, the choral organisation in Flanders.
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2020 Apr 30 highlighted
ECA-EC Survey on the Current Situation in the Choral World
Published: Apr 30,2020
This is a challenging time for us all, with the worldwide outbreak of COVID-19 having far-reaching and diverse impacts that continue to emerge
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2020 Apr 05 highlighted
Special message from IFCM | COVID 19
Published: Apr 05,2020
Dear singers, conductors, composers, choral friends from all over the world! We have a truly important message to share with you! Today, we are facing one of the biggest pandemic in more than 50 years, and all cultural and social events are being canceled all over the world.
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2020 Mar 26 highlighted
Call for articles in the International Choral Bulletin (ICB)
Published: Aug 30,2019
Would you like to be published in an international choral journal distributed to thousands of IFCM members and associates around the world? Send us your article!
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2020 Mar 26 highlighted
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Published: Mar 26,2020
Please follow us on Instagram to make sure you don’t miss our important choral news and content.
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2020 Feb 18 highlighted
IFCM Choral Composition award-winning piece Nur was premiered in Ankara
Published: Feb 18,2020
IFCM Choral Composition award-winning piece Nur by Juan Manuel Conejo was premiered in Ankara, Turkey by the Turkish State Choir under the direction of Josep Vila i Casanas on 25th January 2020 and with the introduction and presentation by IFCM Vice President Gábor Móczár and IFCM Board Member Burak Onur Erdem.
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2019 Aug 05 highlighted
European Choral Association - Europa Cantat (ECA-EC): Check the ECA-EC brochure of choral activities
Published: May 31,2019
Check the ECA-EC brochure of choral activities 2020: A selection of activities open to singers, conductors, composers and all choral lovers around Europe and beyond.
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2020 Jul 31
News from the European Choral Association - Europa Cantat
Published: Jul 31,2020
Training Leading Voices Survey, Statement on Covid-19 and Collective Singing, Europa Cantat Junior, see what's going on with ECA-EC for the moment.
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2020 Jul 31
Message from the WSCM2020 Team
Published: Jul 31,2020
Two weeks ago, on July 11, we were going to welcome the choral world to Auckland. That afternoon you would have picked up your bag and lanyard at registration, learnt how to use the conference app, and oriented yourself in the main Symposium hub. You might also have strolled around the city and the harbour – and yes, it was a mild, sunny day! Later that day, you would have been treated to a spectacular, theatrical opening concert that was to showcase Aotearoa New Zealand in song.
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2020 Jul 31
Asia Pacific Youth Choir 2020 is Postponed to 2021
Published: Jul 31,2020
The new coronavirus (COVID-19) is continuing to spread all over the world and we are witness to this worldwide pandemic which has caused the cancellation or postponement of international choral events. We checked the COVID-19 situation in the countries represented in the APYC, and several countries are beginning to see a second wave although the situation in Malaysia is improving. The Working Committee of the Asia Pacific Choral Council decided yesterday to postpone the APYC2020 session in Kuala Lumpur to November 2021.
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2020 Jul 31
Obituary: Darinka Matić Marović
Published: Jul 31,2020
Professor Emeritus Darinka Matić Marović was a Serbian conductor, former rector of the University of Arts in Belgrade and dean of the Faculty of Music.
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2020 Jul 11
12th World Symposium on Choral Music should have started today!
Published: Jul 11,2020
Wish you were here! Today we were going to welcome the choral world to Auckland. It's been hard coming to terms with the fact that WSCM2020 will now not happen, but we haven’t given up on our dream to host the choral world here in Aotearoa.
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2020 Jun 29
IFCM Partners with Jeunesses Musicales International on the World Music Day
Published: Jun 29,2020
Building on the long-standing partnership between IFCM and Jeunesses Musicales International (JMI) and the European Choral Association – Europa Cantat as the founding patrons of the World Youth, JMI recently invited IFCM to participate in its 2020 World Music Day Pop-up Festival (June 20-21).
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2020 Jun 29
News from the European Choral Association - Europa Cantat
Published: Jun 29,2020
Learning Doesn't Stop -- Upcoming ECA-EC Webinar Supporting Initiative to Help the Choral World, Online platform: Digital Stage New US-based Covid-19 Study Supported by Performing Arts Organisations Covid-19 Resources Document: consistently updated
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2020 May 28
News from the World Youth Choir Foundation
Published: May 28,2020
The World Youth Choir Foundation (WYCF) continues to add documentaries about former World Youth Choir sessions to its YouTube channel. Since the 2020 World Youth Choir session with the German National Youth Orchestra has been cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic, the WYCF is featuring a documentary to mark the 10th anniversary of the 2010 World Youth Choir in Spain.
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2020 Apr 30
68th European Music Festival for Young People (Neerpelt, Belgium) Postponed
Published: Mar 27,2020
For the safety and wellbeing of all participants, visitors, and staff, the 68th European Music Festival for Young People, initially planned 30 April-4 May, then postponed to 11-14 September 200, is now scheduled to occur around 1 May 2021.
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2020 Apr 30
The 12th European Festival of Youth Choirs Basel to Take Place on 12-16 May 2021
Published: Mar 27,2020
The board of the association European Festival of Youth Choirs Basel is pleased to announce that the 12th European Festival of Youth Choirs Basel has been successfully rescheduled to take place 12-16 May 2021, instead of the originally planned 20-24 May 2020
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2020 Apr 30
World Youth Choir Videos
Published: Apr 30,2020
The World Youth Choir (WYC) has recently updated its video collection of WYC performances during the past two decades.
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2020 Apr 30
Conversation with ACDA: What do Science and Data say about the Near Term Future of Singing?
Published: Apr 30,2020
REGISTER NOW for this FREE webinar next Tuesday afternoon, May 5 (4-6 Central Time). ACDA Team will be asking medical experts the questions we are all asking.
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ICB Bulletin

Official magazine of the International Federation for Choral Music, the International Choral Bulletin 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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