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2020 Dec 31 highlighted
ACDA National Conference - "Diversity in Music" – 18-20 March 2021
Published: Nov 30,2020
Early Registration ends 27 January 2021! ACDA Virtual National Conference - "Diversity in Music" – 18-20 March 2021. Don't miss the best prices - registration costs will rise on 28 January 2021. The conference is shaping up to be our most accessible conference yet, with content available to all registrants on demand after the event!
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2020 Dec 28 highlighted
IFCM President, Emily Kuo Vong, and Board and Staff Members wish you a Happy New Year!
Published: Dec 28,2020
Best wishes from IFCM President, Emily Kuo Vong, Board and Staff Members for a better and brighter year 2021!
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2020 Dec 16 highlighted
The Europa Cantat Festival 2021 has opened the registration!
Published: Dec 16,2020
The 21st edition of the Europa Cantat Festival, that is taking place in charming capital of Slovenia, Ljubljana, has opened the registration for everyone who wants to join this amazing event. You can register until February 15, 2021.
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2020 Dec 05 highlighted
IFCM 2020 General Assembly and Elections: Press Release
Published: Dec 05,2020
The International Federation for Choral Music (IFCM) held its first online General Assembly on 3 December 2020. Prior to the General Assembly, the Election of the new Board of Directors was fully organized online (1-15 November 2020). We can proudly say that this event has a historical significance in our association since this is the first time we have had the opportunity to connect virtually with our members from all over the world.
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2020 Dec 01 highlighted
International Federation for Choral Music, Freelance Positions
Published: Dec 01,2020
The International Federation for Choral Music (IFCM) is an organization that largely operates thanks to the volunteer time of all its board members and collaborators. IFCM also has two permanent full-time positions and two freelance part-time positions. The health of the organization relies, in great part, on the periodic review of all these positions. Board members serve three-year terms with limited re-elections, and staff positions are reviewed based on the mission, vision, and needs of the organization. This process is an institutional one, is overseen by the board of directors, and is driven by the board’s commitment to its role as stewards of the organization.
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2020 Nov 30 highlighted
Conductors Without Borders: New Guidelines and Application Forms
Published: Nov 30,2020
Conductors without Borders (CWB) is one of the most significant projects of IFCM. For the past 13 years, CWB has organized many professional development events in parts of the world where choral music education is still not available to everyone. There have been successful sessions in Africa and Latin & Central America. Following a review of the CWB project in early 2020, the IFCM board approved a new, improved structure which will expand CWB even more. The new structure provides a mechanism through which anyone can apply to organize a CWB project in their country and can even become one of the conductors.
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2020 Nov 30 highlighted
Thank you to IFCMeNEWS Translators and Readers
Published: Nov 30,2020
Our deepest gratitude to our committed IFCMeNEWS Translators who made it possible for a lot of us to read this enews in our own language in 2020: Lore Auerbach (German), Anna Bobrikova and her Team (Russian), Jacob Chang (Korean), Carlo Leonardi (Italian), Nadine Robin (French), Shuhei Sanada (Japanese), Ariel Vertzman (Spanish), Jieling Wang and Vienna Gu (Chinese).
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2020 Sep 30 highlighted
World Choral Day 2020: Celebrating 30th Anniversary
Published: Sep 30,2020
We are all thir(s)ty for singing! In 2020 one of IFCM’s most significant projects, World Choral Day, will celebrate its 30th anniversary.
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2021 Jun 25 2021 Jun 27 highlighted
Fosco Corti International Competition for conductors 2021 (FENIARCO)
Published: Jan 07,2021
Fosco Corti International Competition for conductors 2021, Turin, Italy, 25-27 June 2021
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2021 Jul 16 2021 Jul 25 highlighted
The Europa Cantat Festival 2021 has opened the registration!
Published: Dec 16,2020
The 21st Europa Cantat Festival, that is taking place in charming capital of Slovenia, Ljubljana, has opened the registration for everyone who wants to join this amazing event. You can register until February 15, 2021.
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2021 Jul 24 2021 Jul 31 highlighted
Choralp, 10th International Choral Meeting, Briançon, France, 24-31 July 2021
Published: Nov 30,2020
The celebration for the 10th anniversary of CHORALP, an international choir festival in the Southern Alps, was planned for 2020. CHORALP and À Cœur Joie International now offer you the opportunity to participate in a belated anniversary celebration in 2021! From 24-31July 2021, CHORALP will be held in Briançon, France, the heart of the Southern Alps.
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2020 May 28 highlighted
IFCM Youtube Playlist - Virtual Choir Projects
Published: May 28,2020
IFCM is collecting favourite virtual choral projects that have been created as a result of the current pandemic and compiling them in a YouTube. Have you also made similar videos recently?
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2020 Dec 18 highlighted
ECA-EC Addressing Second Wave of Covid-19 and the impact on choirs and vocal ensembles across Europe
Published: Dec 18,2020
Please find attached the press release issued on 15 December 2020 by the General Secretariat of the European Choral Association - Europa Cantat addressing the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic and the impact on choirs and vocal ensembles across Europe.
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2020 Nov 30 highlighted
European Choral Association - Europa Cantat: the European Video Award
Published: Nov 30,2020
The European Video Award on the Benefits of Collective Singing 2021 is an exciting initiative of the Youth Committee of ECA-EC. The aim of the award is to highlight inspiring and encouraging stories about collective singing and its impact on society, environment, promotion of physical & mental health, access to music education, facilitation of social inclusion, and cultural exchange between different age/social groups… and much more!
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2020 Nov 30 highlighted
European Choral Association — Europa Cantat: Brochure 2021
Published: Nov 30,2020
Hopeful and joyful, the European Choral Association - Europa Cantat released its Brochure of Choral Activities 2021, a selection of choral events open to singers, conductors, composers, and all choral lovers around Europe and beyond. In this brochure, you will find a careful selection of international activities organized, co-organised, or promoted by ECA-EC. Members of the association benefit from reduced prices in most events, which is yet another reason to join the biggest European choral network.
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2020 Nov 30 highlighted
News from ADICORA, the Association of Choral Conductors from Republic of Argentina
Published: Nov 30,2020
n this unusual, complex year of 2020, choral conductors in Asociación de Directores de Coro de la República Argentina(ADICORA) have dedicated themselves to working within the new reality.
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2021 Apr 15 2021 Apr 18 highlighted
17th Tallinn International Choral Festival, April 15-18, 2021
Published: Feb 01,2019
The Choral Festival includes a choir competition in all categories and a series of concerts in the churches and concert halls of Tallinn.
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2020 Oct 29 highlighted
News from the World Symposium on Choral Music in Doha, Qatar
Published: Oct 29,2020
The Qatar choral team developing an Arabic transliteration system for non-Arab choral singers seeks additional collaborators. The Qatar Concert Choir is developing a system for adapting IPA Arabic (standardized and dialect) to vocal music, with the goal of making Arabic pronunciation more accurate and accessible to non-Arabic speaking singers. They are currently collaborating with a number of choral leaders and linguists in the region but are seeking to connect with others who have experience in this area and would like to contribute to the project.
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2020 Oct 29 highlighted
News from the China International Chorus Festival
Published: Oct 29,2020
The 15th China International Chorus Festival pivoted to an online festival in 2020 amid the Covid-19 pandemic. However, the move seems to have actually helped to increase its popularity. The opening ceremony, which was streamed online on 5 October 2020, received more than 120 million views, the highest number in the history of the festival. More than 20 top choruses from China and abroad participated in 2020 festival, including the Vienna Boys Choir, Estonian Voices, and the Beijing Philharmonic Choir.
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2020 Oct 29 highlighted
News from A Coeur Joie International
Published: Oct 29,2020
The choral association A Coeur Joie International has now its website: www.acoeurjoieinternational.org
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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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