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2024 Dec 08 2024 Dec 08 highlighted
World Choral Day 2024: Voices Uniting the Planet
Published: Oct 31,2024
The theme of the World Choral Day 2024 is Voices Uniting the Planet. IFCM is calling on millions of singers worldwide to join us and use their voices for peace through collective singing. We are confident that this is one of the most powerful tools we can use to contribute to achieving peace – an essential and pressing global necessity.
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2024 Oct 31 highlighted
World Choral Day 2024: Voices Uniting the Planet
Published: Oct 31,2024
The theme of the World Choral Day 2024 is Voices Uniting the Planet. IFCM is calling on millions of singers worldwide to join us and use their voices for peace through collective singing. We are confident that this is one of the most powerful tools we can use to contribute to achieving peace – an essential and pressing global necessity.
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2024 Oct 31 highlighted
Welcome to a new IFCM member: Music at the End of the World Foundation, Ushuaia, Argentina
Published: Oct 31,2024
IFCM welcomes a new member in the category National Organization: Music at the End of the World Foundation, Ushuaia, Argentina
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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 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
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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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 Sep 30 highlighted
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 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
Online webinar: Creating Choral Music: Talking about the Requirements of Choral Repertoire
Published: Sep 30,2024
Saturday, 23 November 2024, online, 8pm CET The Webinar “Creating Choral Music — Talking about the requirements of choral repertoire” will focus on three well-known composers representing different global regions. These composers will share some of their compositions and their ideas on creating choral music for ensembles.
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2025 Jun 13 2025 Jun 16 highlighted
5th End of the World Choir Festival “Trascendence”, Ushuaia, Argentina, 13-16 June 2025
Published: Oct 31,2024
The End of the World Choir Festival is a four-day event featuring concerts, workshops, lectures, and discussion forums under a specific theme that makes each edition unique. It takes place in Ushuaia both in-person and online, with professional live streaming that connects the world to a high-quality artistic and touristic experience.
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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
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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2024 Sep 09 highlighted
Signature of a Memorandum between IFCM and CAEG that will take the Symposium to... Beijing in 2026!
Published: Sep 09,2024
On September 8, 2024, Mr. Li Jinsheng, Chairman of China Arts and Entertainment Group (CAEG), visited the headquarters of the International Federation for Choral Music (IFCM) at the Palacete dos Condes de Monte Real and held in-depth discussions with Mrs. Emily Kuo, President of IFCM, exploring potential avenues for mutually beneficial collaboration and joint development in this national historical and cultural heritage building in Lisbon, Portugal.
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2024 Aug 31 highlighted
Carus-Verlag: Choral Music Composed by Women
Published: Aug 31,2024
A real novelty: Choral Music Composed by Women features a total of 47 works for mixed choir. Numerous hidden gems for mixed choir are ready and waiting to be performed in concerts and church services.
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2024 Aug 26 highlighted
IFCM welcomes a new member: the Peabody Conservatory of The Johns Hopkins University
Published: Aug 23,2024
The Choral Conducting Program at Peabody Conservatory offers forward-thinking instruction and hands-on training in conducting technique and leadership of varied vocal and vocal-instrumental ensembles.
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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.

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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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