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Latest from the World Symposium on Choral Music 2020
Published: Dec 31,2019
It’s time to talk to the boss! Trying to figure out how to present WSCM2020 attendance as professional development to your employer, committee, management or board? No spin required! Let us make the case for you!
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WSCM2020 Trade Expo
Published: Dec 31,2019
The WSCM2020 Trade Expo is a great opportunity to showcase your products and services to a large and targeted audience. With many hundreds of international choral leaders, decision-makers and administrators in attendance, WSCM2020 will be an exceptional opportunity to get in front of the right people, from right across the globe, at the same time.
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Meet the WSCM2020 Choirs
Published: Dec 31,2019
Introducing the Hamilton Children's Choir, NOTUS Contemporary Vocal Ensemble, and the Cantabile Youth Singers of Silicon Valley
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IFCM Choral Composition Competition 2019: Press Release
Published: Dec 31,2019
The fourth edition of the IFCM Choral Composition Competition has reached its conclusion. Organised by the International Federation for Choral (IFCM), the aims of the competition are to promote the creation and wide distribution of new and innovative choral repertoire and to recognize contemporary choral composers and their creative work.
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European Choral Association - Europa Cantat: Beethoven Anniversary Year Started!
Published: Dec 31,2019
All throughout 2020, concerts, festivals, and a range of other cultural events will be held in and around Bonn, Germany, in honour of Ludwig van Beethoven's 250th anniversary of birth. This Anniversary Year commences on 16 December 2019, the (probable) 249th birthday of arguably the most famous son of the city of Bonn. The Anniversary Year will come to a close on 17 December 2020, the 250th anniversary of Beethoven's Baptism.
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2019 Dec 08 highlighted
World Choral Day: Reminder
Published: Nov 29,2019
World Choral Day is happening again this year on the second Sunday of December (December 8, 2019) with the possibility to join with your choral events during the entire month of December. We are happy that more than 100 concerts are already registered on the website, coming from 30 countries around the world. Please remember you can register your concert any time between now and the end of December to join the celebration.
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2019 Nov 29 highlighted
News from the World Symposium on Choral Music 2020
Published: Nov 29,2019
Take it from the top... Whether WSCM2020 is your first time, or you've been attending for decades, the Symposium is for you.
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Update on the First Africa Cantat Festival, Nairobi, Kenya, 22-29 August 2020
Published: Nov 29,2019
During this inaugural Africa Cantat, three-hour workshops will be presented by guest conductors. The repertoire of each workshop will be performed during the final festival concert. The Africa Cantat programme will take you on an exciting musical safari through various cultural areas, repertoires and choral practices around the world under the direction of some famous conductors.
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2020 World Youth Choir Auditions: Reminder
Published: Nov 29,2019
A reminder that there is still time for you or your choristers/students to audition for the 2020 World Youth Choir session to be held in Europe next summer. See World Youth Choir website for details about how to audition.
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New, extended deadline to apply to the European Youth Choir
Published: Nov 29,2019
In December 2020, young singers between ages 18 and 30 will have the unique opportunity to sing on stage with Daniel Barenboim and the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra! ECA-EC is auditioning a European Youth Choir for the closing concert of the Beethoven Anniversary Year 2020 in Bonn, Germany.
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2019 Oct 31 highlighted
News from the American Choral Directors Association ACDA
Published: Aug 07,2019
Registration Open! Children's Choir Conductor Retreat - Jan. 18-19, 2020 (Atlanta, GA). Early Bird registration (5) ends Dec. 1. On that day, the price rises to 0.
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2019 Oct 31 highlighted
News from the International Music Council
Published: Oct 31,2019
On 28 September 2019, members of the International Music Council gathered in Paris for the organisation’s 38th General Assembly where they elected a new leadership team and adopted an ambitious work plan for the next two years. Alfons Karabuda (Sweden), composer and President of ECSA (European Composer & Songwriter Alliance) and SKAP (Swedish Association of Composers, Songwriters and Lyricists), was elected President. The IMC General Assembly also elected a new Executive Board composed of Roula Abou Baker (Lebanon), Charles Binam Bikoi (Cameroon), Paul Dujardin (Belgium), Martí Ferrer (Catalunia/Spain), Ardavan Jafarian (Iran), Jacques Moreau (France), Naomi Pohl (UK), Sheila Woodward (South Africa/USA), and Xiaogang Ye (China). Sheila Woodward will serve as Executive Vice-President, joined by Charles Binam Bikoi and Xiaogang Ye as Vice-Presidents and Martí Ferrer as Treasurer.
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World Symposium on Choral Music — Update
Published: Oct 31,2019
Take it from the top, WSCM regulars Debra Shearer-Dirie and Sonja Greiner had a chat with the WSCM2020 team. Also, meet a few more of the WSCM2020 Choirs.
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IFCM Donates Prize at the 9th International Competition for Young Conductors
Published: Oct 31,2019
The 9th International Competition for Young Conductors was organized last week in Paris by the Institut Français d'art Choral (IFAC) in partnership with the European Choral Association - Europa Cantat (ECA-EC). The International Federation for Choral Music (IFCM) was pleased to donate the 3rd Prize Award (750 Euros) to Jonas Rasmussen from Denmark.
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2019 Oct 31 highlighted
World Choral Day — A new Hymn by Alberto Grau for 2019
Published: Oct 31,2019
World Choral Day, a singing tradition since 1990, as already published in our previous eNews will happen again this year on the second Sunday of December (December 8, 2019) with the possibility to join with your choral events during the entire month of December.
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2020 World Youth Choir Auditions
Published: Oct 31,2019
Are you or any of your choristers/students... between 17 and 26 years old on July 1, 2020, a passionate choral singer, from a background of basic or semi-professional music education, ready to meet new friends all over the world, able to speak English at an intermediate level, seeking a different professional challenge, and eager to learn in a multicultural environment?
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News from A Coeur Joie International: Update on the Recent Choralies
Published: Oct 31,2019
The Choralies Festival 2019: a great success The 23rd edition of this unique festival offered a week of choral singing to all those who love to sing and listen to choral music. More than 4,000 participants came to Vaison-la-Romaine, France, for jam-packed days of singing, concerts, and summer warmth. Everyone left with their ears overflowing with magnificent music, their eyes brimming with smiles, their brains exhausted, and their muscles aching.
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European Choral Association - Europa Cantat: EuroChoir!
Published: Oct 31,2019
There are many choirs in Europe, but only one EuroChoir! For over 20 years, this project has allowed singers from all over Europe to join their voices and share their passion and dedication for singing.
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2019 Oct 22 highlighted
Looking for a Concert Tour in China in July/August 2020? Here is an Exclusive Opportunity!
Published: Sep 20,2019
IFCM is collaborating with partners in China on a set of international choral festivals in July and August 2020 and is calling for high-level choirs interested in being featured in one, two, or even all three of these festivals: • The 15th China International Chorus Festival, in Beijing, 23-29 July. • The International Folk Song Choral Festival and IFCM Voices Conference, in Kaili, 31 July-4 August. • The China Inner Mongolia International Choral Week, in Hohhot, 6-9 August.
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2019 Oct 08 highlighted
Further information on World Symposium on Choral Music 2023 Doha, Qatar
Published: Oct 08,2019
One of the largest and most significant IFCM projects, World Symposium on Choral Music (WSCM), is entering its final preparations for 2020. Next summer (July 11-18, 2020), the central focus of the international choral community will be in Auckland, New Zealand. At the moment, all choral eyes and ears are turned on New Zealand in anticipation of the extraordinary gathering they are planning. In the meantime, IFCM has already begun preparations for the next edition of WSCM in 2023.
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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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