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2026 Mar 13 2026 Mar 17
34th International Franz Schubert Choir Competition & Festival, Vienna, Austria
Published: Aug 18,2025
13-17 March 2026. Festival open to all kinds of choirs from all around the world.
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2025 Jun 30
IFCM Announces the Dates of the 2026 World Symposium on Choral Music (WSCM) in Macau
Published: Jun 30,2025
IFCM is thrilled to bring the World Symposium on Choral Music to Macau SAR from 23 to 28 August 2026! It will be wonderful to immerse ourselves in the region's amazing and diverse cultures. Macau's omnipresent blend of cultural influences will provide the perfect setting for the WSCM 2026 celebration of exchange and collaboration.
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2025 Jun 30
Meet and Greet Meeting of the YOUNG 2025 and YEMPers
Published: Jun 30,2025
On 28 June 2025, IFCM and the European Choral Association (ECA) organised a 'Meet & Greet and Online Training' event for young managers participating in two training programmes within the Choral TIES project, which is co-funded by the EU's Creative Europe programme.
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2025 Jun 30
IFCM Honorary Member Lore Auerbach Awarded
Published: Jun 30,2025
On 19 June 2025, Dr. h.c. Lore Auerbach, Honorary President of the Arbeitskreis Musik in der Jugend (AMJ) and Honorary Member and long-time volunteer of IFCM, received the Hans-Lenz Medal from the Federal Association of German Orchestra Associations (BDO) in recognition of her decades of service to amateur music.
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2025 Jun 30
Musica International: A new score was just added to the Musica Database
Published: Jun 30,2025
“Alea” by David Massong, published by Helbling Musikverlag KG, is a contemporary choral work in which singers use dice to randomly shape the music. Each roll creates a new variation, illustrating the game of chance.
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2025 Jun 30
The European Choral Association invites you to give your Feedback on the last Choral TIES Webinar
Published: Jun 30,2025
How did you like the Webinar on Conducting Youth and Children’s Choirs on 22 May 2025, with Basilio Astulez, Zimfira Poloz and Ken Wakia? If you missed it, you can watch it here.
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2025 Jun 30
New Board of the European Music Council Elected
Published: Jun 30,2025
During their Annual Meeting on 26 June 2025, members of the European Music Council elected a new board for the next two years. Congratulations to EMC on their new board and to IFCM board member Niels Græsholm on being re-elected as treasurer!
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2025 Jun 30
Music is Life - Music is Blood - Music is Lifeblood (Ade Bantu) — Insights from the 2025 European Fo
Published: Jun 30,2025
On 11-12 June 2025, over 100 music sector stakeholders came together in Brussels, Belgium, for the 13th edition of the European Forum on Music (EFM) with the theme “Celebrating Musical Diversity”.
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2025 Jun 30
From Cappella Romana, Portland, Oregon, USA
Published: Jun 30,2025
For a limited time, the ensemble Cappella Romana, joined by In Medio, invites you to watch their performance of Passion & Resurrection by Ivan Moody, conducted by Alexander Lingas.
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2026 Mar 29 2026 Apr 02
19th International Choir Festival & Competition, Riva del Garda, Italy
Published: Aug 18,2025
29 March-2 April 2026. Festival open to all kinds of choirs from all around the world.
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2025 Jun 01
Unison Episode 7 welcomed Sabelo Mthembu from South Africa
Published: Jun 01,2025
Sabelo Mthembu was born in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1983. A singer, conductor and composer, he began his music career at church at a very young age. His love for choral music saw him grow his skill as a conductor and music director. After leaving the University of Johannesburg Choir in 2008, he co-founded an ensemble called Quava Vocal Group.
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2025 May 30
Did you miss the Choral TIES Webinar on Conducting Youth and Children's Choirs
Published: May 30,2025
The Choral TIES Webinar "Conducting Youth and Children’s choirs — Encouraging the creation of youth and children's choirs, giving practical inputs and tools to choral their conductors and leaders", a collaboration between IFCM and ECA, took place on Zoom on 22 May 2025.
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2025 May 30
International Music Council Music Rights Award Applications are now open
Published: May 30,2025
The International Music Council (IMC) Music Rights Award is given biennially to a programme or a project that supports, in an exemplary way, the Five Music Rights formulated and disseminated by IMC
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2025 May 16
Unison Episode 6 welcomed Lim Ai Hooi from Singapore
Published: May 16,2025
Lim Ai Hooi is a recognised and respected conductor and educator in Singapore’s choral scene. Ai Hooi graduated in 1989 from the Royal College of Music, London, majoring in Piano and Voice. Over the past 30 years, Ai Hooi has led her school choirs to achieve top honours at numerous renowned international competitions. In 2009, she founded ONE Chamber Choir. Since then, the choir has triumphed at competitions in Philippines, Wales, Hungary, Germany and South Africa, including achieving Champion of the World Choir Games in 2018.
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2025 Apr 29
Unison welcomed David Squire in its 5th episode
Published: Apr 29,2025
David Squire is one of New Zealand’s most prominent conductors. Since 2011, he has been Music Director of the New Zealand Youth Choir, the first alumnus director of the choir. David also directs the Auckland Youth Choir and international award-winning ensembles Voicemale (Westlake Boys High School), Euphony (Kristin School), and the Westlake Symphony Orchestra.
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2025 Apr 29
Unison welcomed Basilio Astulez in its 4th episode
Published: Apr 29,2025
In addition to teaching and conducting Leioa Kantika Korala children's choir and SJB mixed youth choir at the Leioa Municipal Music Conservatory, Basilio Astulez conducts Vocalia Taldea, an award-winning female chamber ensemble (Toulouse, Torrevieja, Maasmechelen, Arezzo, Tours, and Cork). He has recorded 12 albums and toured in Europe, North America, and Asia with these choirs.
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2025 Apr 29
IFCM welcomes a new member in the Choir Category: Chœur Miangaly from Madagascar
Published: Apr 29,2025
Created in 2013, Chœur Miangaly is a Malagasy secular choir composed of approximately 30 talented and passionate young singers. With its corporate status, Chœur Miangaly is the single model of choral ensemble in Madagascar.
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2025 Apr 29
Musica International:  A quick way to find information about composers of choral music
Published: Apr 30,2025
All choirs and conductors need information about the composers or arrangers of choral works in order to better introduce these pieces to both the singers and the audiences of their concerts. For example, the years of birth and death of composers in concert programmes are appreciated in order to provide an historical point of reference for the composition. Sometimes short composer biographies help to contextualise the works and enhance both printed programmes and spoken presentations during concerts.
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2025 Apr 29
The World Youth Choir is thrilled to announce its 2025 summer tour across Catalonia and France!
Published: Apr 30,2025
Under the direction of Dutch conductor Daniel Reuss (Capella Amsterdam, Rias Kammerchor, Ensemble Vocal de Lausanne), the 2025 World Youth Choir will present a rich and diverse programme of European composers, including Vaughan Williams, Vasks, Schnittke, and Martin, complemented by folk pieces and a world première by a Catalan composer — and World Youth Choir alumna — Anna Campmany Duch.
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2025 Apr 29
A Cœur Joie International presents the Choralies, 30 July-7 August 2025
Published: Apr 30,2025
Choralies, Vaison-la-Romaine, France, 30 July-7 August 2025, the French Choral Rendez-vous!
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IFCM International Online cafe

IFCM International Online Cafes are open to everyone! Recordings are available to IFCM members only. Since the first online meeting in 2023, IFCM has invited prestigious choral leaders, conductors and composers, from all over the world: Maria Guinand (Venezuela), Eric Banks (USA), Michael Ostrzyga (Germany), Tracy Wong (Malaysia/Canada), Luz Helena Peñaranda (Colombia), Joel Magus P. Navarro (Philippines), Ana María Raga (Venezuela), Carmen Acevedo (Puerto Rico), Jurģis Cābulis (Latvia), Lim Ai Hooi (Singap

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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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