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2024 Aug 08 highlighted
Published: Aug 08,2024
On 7 July 2024, Schola Cantorum of Venezuela joined Schola Juvenil of Venezuela to offer a concert under the direction of a young conductor, Juan Carlos Villalba, who was one of the guests of the recent YOUNG IFCM Online Café. Juan conducted this concert as part of his qualification for the UNEARTE Bachelor’s degree in music (Universidad Nacional Experimental de las Artes, Caracas, Venezuela).
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2025 Mar 18 2025 Mar 25 highlighted
Published: Jan 31,2024
Dallas, Texas, will be the host city of the 2025 National Convention of the American Choral Directors Association:Celebrating the Choral Art: Past-Present-Future (18-22 March 2025).
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2024 Jul 31 highlighted
Published: Jul 31,2024
Musica International is announcing its next workshop that will take place 21-26 October 2024 at the Institute of Phonetics of the Strasbourg University, France. Conductors, musicologists, publishers, and music documentalists are invited to participate.
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2025 Mar 20 2025 Mar 23 highlighted
Published: Aug 14,2024
The Fukushima Vocal Ensemble Competition (20-23 March 2025, Fukushima City, Japan)), co-organized with the Japan Choral Association, is calling for groups to participate.
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2024 Jul 25 highlighted
Published: Jun 17,2024
On 6-10 July 2025, Tallinn will host Leading Voices, an event of the European Choral Association organised in cooperation with the Estonian Choral Association and the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre.
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2024 Jul 25 highlighted
Published: Jul 18,2024
Kati Yetu means between us in Swahili. During Seven days, on 22-28 July 2024, 23 singers from seven countries (Benin, Cameroon, DRC, Gabon, Gambia, Ivory Coast, Senegal) met and sang under the direction of Jean Benoit Bakhoum from Senegal, the new conductor (2024-2025) succeeding to Ken Wakia from Kenya and Pierre Kouame from Ivory Coast (2019-2023).
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2024 Jul 24 highlighted
Published: Jul 24,2024
A clear conducting technique, the ability to lead lively rehearsals and a sound knowledge of vocal training are all essential attributes for any successful choral conductor. Carus-Verlag offers the ideal toolkit for all aspiring choral conductors. Conductor’s Coach, The App is the first tool for aspiring choir conductors to practice, hone and professionalize their technique.
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2024 Jul 23 highlighted
Published: Jul 23,2024
Check the events happening next year and mark your calendar accordingly!
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2024 Apr 26 highlighted
Published: Apr 26,2024
The 2025 ACDA National Conference will highlight the United States of America’s rich choral heritage, celebrate the music and expertise of our present-day choral colleagues, and look with excitement to the next generation.
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2025 Jul 06 2025 Jul 10 highlighted
Published: Jun 17,2024
From 6-10 July 2025, Tallinn will host Leading Voices 2025, an event of the European Choral Association organised in cooperation with the Estonian Choral Association and the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre.
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2025 Jul 07 2025 Jul 13 highlighted
Published: Jul 31,2024
FCEC’s International Choral Music Festival (7-13 July 2025) offers an international singing week: six days of workshops and concerts in the heart of Barcelona surrounded by music and cultures from around the world.
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2025 Jul 12 2025 Jul 18 highlighted
Published: Aug 31,2024
The International Singing Week Ghent will take place in the heart of the beautiful historical city of Ghent, 12-18 July 2025
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2025 Jul 16 2025 Jul 20 highlighted
Published: Jun 27,2024
In July 2025, approximately 4,500 young singers from all over the world are invited to Munich to pray, celebrate, and sing for peace together. The third largest city in Germany offers a multitude of churches, a beautiful old town, and numerous tourist attractions.
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2025 Jul 17 2025 Jul 20 highlighted
Published: Aug 31,2024
2025 Jul 29 2025 Aug 02 highlighted
Published: Jul 25,2024
The 14th Bali International Choir Festival, 29 July-2 August 2025 provides a range of services and resources for choirs and solo singers, including clinics and workshops, evaluation performances, friendship concerts, and competitions in several categories.
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2024 Feb 21 highlighted
Published: Feb 21,2024
Together with the project coordinator Norsk Sangerforum and the other project partners, the European Choral association is delighted to announce the start of the EU-funded project SWAN.
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2025 Sep 03 2025 Sep 07 highlighted
Published: Sep 30,2024
Announcing the 21st EUROTREFF to be held 3-7 September 2025 in Wolfenbüttel, Germany. Over 500 young choristers of choirs from all over Europe will come together to create lasting memories through music. The official motto is for this year is “Together”.
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2023 Sep 28 highlighted
Published: Sep 28,2023
Musica International is a multilingual collaborative database of choral repertoire which references comprehensively more than 200,000 choral titles and of which IFCM is a founding member. The IFCM members globally get unrestricted privileged access to the Musica database through the website www.ifcm.net. But what does it mean?
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2024 Oct 04 2024 Oct 06
Published: Sep 18,2023
From Friday 04 Oct '24 to Sunday 06 Oct '24, Genk - in the heart of Limburg - will once again host the 17th International Choir Festival Flanders-Genk. On the C-mine site, where the past and the charm of old mine buildings go hand in hand with contemporary art and creativity, more than 1,000 voices will echo for three days!
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2024 Aug 31
Published: Aug 31,2024
The American Choral Directors Association gave a Facebook shout-out to the Grammy Award-winning youth gospel choir Soul Children of Chicago and conductor Walt Whitman for their performance of a stirring gospel rendition of the U.S. National Anthem at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, which received a standing ovation.
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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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