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2024 Feb 21 highlighted
2024 Asia Pacific Youth Choir, Daegu, South Korea, 14 — 20 July 2024
Published: Feb 21,2024
The members of the Asia Pacific Youth Choir Artistic Committee are pleased to announce that they received 87 applicants for the 2024 Asia Pacific Youth Choir Audition and have selected 30 singers from 11 countries/regions.
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2025 Mar 18 2025 Mar 25 highlighted
American Choral Directors Association announces its 2025 convention
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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2023 Sep 28 highlighted
Musica International, a goldmine of choral repertoire with unrestricted access for the IFCM members
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 Jul 02 2024 Jul 04
Florence FUN & Music Festival (FUN), 2-4 July 2024
Published: Sep 28,2023
Make your music resonate in the marvelous venues in the most beautiful stage of the Renaissance, the city of Florence.
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2024 Jul 05 2024 Jul 10
Summa Cum Laude International Youth Music Festival, Vienna, Austria, 5-10 July 2024
Published: Nov 14,2023
The Summa Cum Laude Festival Vienna is a global youth music festival for choirs, bands and orchestras. It takes place in Vienna’s most important and most beautiful concert venues
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2024 Jul 15 2024 Jul 19
Exclusive opportunity to discover China and sing in Beijing
Published: Nov 22,2023
The 17th China International Chorus Festival is scheduled to be held in Beijing from 15 to 19 July 2024. During these five days, the festival will feature a wide range of choral activities, including opening and closing ceremonies, choral forums, choir evaluation, high-level concerts featuring both Chinese and international choirs, master classes (workshops), and public welfare activities. These vibrant choral events aim to provide the best platform for global choir enthusiasts to exchange skills and exhibit talents.
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2024 Jul 18 2024 Jul 21
Miltenberg International Choir Competition, Bavaria, Germany
Published: Aug 07,2023
The International Choir Competition Miltenberg announces that the next competition will take place 18-21 July 2024 in the district of Miltenberg, Bavaria, Germany
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2024 Jul 23 2024 Jul 26
Florence International Choir & Orchestra Festival (FICF), 23-26 July 2024
Published: Sep 28,2023
The unique and the original Florence Choir Festival, also open to orchestras and bands, takes place in the wonderful city of Florence, Italy.
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2024 May 21
Have you missed the last webinars of the European Choral Association? Check them out!
Published: May 21,2024
Webinar "Are you paid fairly? Recommendations on fair pay at international collective singing events"
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2024 May 20
World Youth Choir Alumni Session 2024, St. John's, Canada: Secure your Tickets
Published: May 21,2024
The World Youth Choir will gather in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, from 28 June to 5 July 2024 for an Alumni Session as part of the HarbourVOICES International Festival of Collective Singing Traditions
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2024 May 13
ACDA Publication: Women Conductors of College Men’s Choirs – Redefining the “Brotherhood”
Published: May 13,2024
The International Journal of Research in Choral Singing (IJRCS) is ACDA’s scholarly publication that welcomes research studies that apply rigorous, systematically grounded methodologies, either quantitative or qualitative, to investigate phenomena of potential interest to all who sing in, work with, or are otherwise interested in choral ensembles. Here is the abstract from an article written by Marci L. Major and Elizabeth Cassidy Parker titled: “Disrupting the choral class system: A journey of one high school choral program.”
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2024 May 08
☕️ Did you miss the IFCM Members' Cafe on Repertoire?
Published: May 08,2024
The recording of the IFCM Members Online Cafe "On the Discovery of New Repertoire, Part 2" (28 April 2024) is now available.
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2024 Apr 25 2024 Apr 26
Symposium for Research in Choral Singing, 25-26 April  2024, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Published: Jul 28,2023
ACDA is pleased to announce the fourth International Symposium on Research in Choral Singing, a forum for the dissemination of research and scholarly activity.
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2024 Apr 25
The African Confederation for Choral Music presents the first African Choral Night virtual concert
Published: Apr 25,2024
On 13 April 2024, the first African Choral Night virtual concert showcased the richness and diversity of African choral music. Choirs, ensembles, and vocal groups from Africa and its diaspora were brought together on the digital stage. Through this unique virtual experience, treasures of talent and authenticity were presented, offering an exceptional panorama of varied repertoire ranging from the traditional to the modern. Entitled In the Moonlight, this first edition of African Choral Night focused on traditional African repertoire through video performances by nine choirs from the four corners of the African continent. The concert was broadcast on the ACCM YouTube channel.
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2024 Apr 25
IFCM Member running a survey for her thesis: take part in it!
Published: Apr 25,2024
IFCM member Anastasia Kananovich (France) is a first year PhD student in Linguistics at the University of Strasbourg (France). She invites you to participate in the survey that will form the basis of her thesis.
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2024 Apr 23
Swedish Youth Choir visits Japan for the first time and interacts with Japanese youth choirs
Published: Apr 23,2024
The Swedish Youth Choir (SYC) and its conductor, Maria Goundorina, arrived in Tokyo, Japan, in the morning of 2 April 2024. Although they had just been on an overnight flight, the choir had a rehearsal that evening during which they interacted through choral singing with the Japan Choral Association's Youth Special Choir. On the following day, 3 April, a joint concert was held at the Saitama Arts Theatre Concert Hall. Each choir performed their own exceptional repertoire, and the concert ended with a joint performance. As anticipated, both choirs charmed the audience which included the Swedish Ambassador, Pereric Högberg, and the President of the Japan Choral Association (JCA), Saeko Hasegawa.
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2024 Apr 18
Looking for a Wonderful Tour Experience in one of the most Beautiful Provinces in China?
Published: Apr 18,2024
Great opportunity! IFCM is cooperating with the Qiandongnan People's Government of Guizhou Province and is calling for choirs interested in joining the International Folk Song Festival in Kaili, Guizhou Province, 20-25 July 2024. During five days, participants will share their cultures, make friends and meet colleagues, and spread the love of choral folk songs to people from around the world.
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2024 Apr 16
Berkshire Choral International Announces New Artistic Leadership Team
Published: Apr 16,2024
Berkshire Choral International (BCI) has appointed its new artistic leadership team. Anthony Trecek-King (IFCM board member) will assume the new role of Artistic Director, providing leadership to the organization for strategic direction and long-term artistic vision. Having served as a frequent BCI faculty member over the past decade, Sean Taylor will expand his role at BCI, becoming the Director of Music.
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2024 Apr 04 2024 Apr 08
Misatango Choir Festival Berlin
Published: Apr 04,2023
Under the baton of Maestro Saul Zaks, with composer Martín Palmeri at the piano and international soloists, participating choirs will jointly rehearse and perform the famous “Misa a Buenos Aires”, a contemporary roman mass in an authentic Argentinean tango style, as well as the world premiere of a new piece by Martín Palmeri in the fantastic modern venue of the Berlin Philharmonie.
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2024 Mar 29
Update on the International Choral Magazine
Published: Mar 29,2024
New development on the publication of the International Choral Magazine created more than 40 years ago.
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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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