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2024 Jul 24 highlighted
World’s First Conducting App Created by Carus Verlag: Now Available in English
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
European Choral Association (ECA) Brochure of Events 2025 is Out
Published: Jul 23,2024
Check the events happening next year and mark your calendar accordingly!
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2024 Apr 26 highlighted
2025 ACDA National Convention, Dallas, Texas, USA, 18-22 March 2025
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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2024 Feb 21 highlighted
Launch of the SWAN project — Singing with Additional Needs
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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2026 Jun 17 2026 Jun 21 highlighted
Dublin Choral Festival
Published: Jan 10,2025
Dublin, Ireland, June 17-21, 2026
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2026 Jun 21 2026 Jun 26 highlighted
Rome Choral Festival
Published: Jan 10,2025
Rome, Italy, June 21-26, 2026
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2026 Jun 24 2026 Jun 28 highlighted
Salzburg Choral Festival, Jubilate Mozart!
Published: Jan 10,2025
Salzburg, Austria, June 24-28, 2026
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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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2025 Apr 22 2025 May 26
Concerts-Austria: Misatango in Paris, 22-26 April 2025, a few seats left!
Published: Jan 30,2025
The Misatango Festival offers individuals and choirs the opportunity to sing Misa a Buenos Aires (Misatango) together with the Argentinian composer Martín Palmeri and choirs from all over the world in one the most wonderful venues in Paris 2025.
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2025 Jan 30
First online café 2025: Participating in festivals, competitions and choral events with your choirs
Published: Jan 30,2025
Benefit from the experience of long-standing participants and prize-winners at choral festivals and competitions. IFCM guests for the first online café 2025, Betsy Cook Weber (USA), Helene Stureborg (Sweden), and Jonathan Velasco (Philippines) explored this topic and gave valuable insights from their experiences.
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2025 Jan 30
Musica International seeks for its ‘father/mother’ to represent it in America
Published: Jan 30,2025
You are passionate about choral music? If you are using Musica international regularly to prepare (themed) concerts of choral music, you know the benefit that we are bringing to the choral world (Reminder: Musica is the most complete database for choral music in the world, for which the International Federation for Choral Music was a founding member!)
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2025 Jan 30
World Youth Choir Session 2025: the selection is done
Published: Jan 30,2025
On 23-26 January 2025, the International Jury of the World Youth Choir (WYC), together with the conductor of the 2025 session (Daniel Reuss) and the session manager, met to review all audition submissions and select the singers who will take part in the session hosted by the Federació Catalana d’Entitats Corals (FCEC) in July 2025.
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2025 Jan 30
European Choral Association (ECA): two important registration dealines
Published: Jan 30,2025
Leading Voices, 6-10 July 2025.Registrations are open until 1 March 2025. YEMP 6: Young Event Management Programme 2025. Apply here before 5 February 2025.
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2025 Jan 30
Choral Federation Wallonie-Bruxelles A Coeur Joie celebrating a week of Belgian Music
Published: Jan 30,2025
On 27 January to 2 February 2025, the Choral Federation Wallonie-Bruxelles celebrated the 5th edition of the Belgian Music Week with daily posts on their Facebook page showing performances of songs composed and arranged by Belgian composers.
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2025 May 27 2025 Jun 01
14th European Youth Choir Festival Basel, Switzerland, 27 May-1 June 2025
Published: Jan 08,2024
European platform for highest qualified children’s and youth choirs
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2024 Dec 31
Message from Emily Kuo Vong, IFCM President
Published: Dec 31,2024
Dear Friends, as we welcome the New Year 2025, I am delighted to take a moment on behalf of the International Federation of Choral Music (IFCM) to extend our warmest wishes to each of you. May this year bring you and your loved ones good health, joy, and fulfillment in all aspects of your lives!
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2024 Dec 31
A look back at the World Choral Day 2024
Published: Dec 31,2024
How did you choose to celebrate World Choral Day / Dia Mundial del Canto Coral this year? Many of you chose to celebrate it with a concert dedicated to this year's theme Voices Uniting the Planet.
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2024 Dec 31
Conductors Beyond Borders in Cameroon
Published: Dec 31,2024
In 2021, the first session in Cameroon of the IFCM Project Conductors Without Borders (recently renamed Conductors Beyond Borders) was organised in Douala, thanks to the collaboration of À Cœur Joie International, FECAMUCH-ACJ (Choral Federation À Cœur Joie of Cameroon), and IFCM. It was the first session of a three-year programme, based on the rate of one week per semester.
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2024 Dec 31
Musica International’s Monthly FAVOURITE PIECE Could Be YOURS!
Published: Dec 31,2024
If you were going to a desert island, what is the one choral piece you would take with you? This is the whole idea of Musica International’s monthly Favourite Piece!
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2024 Dec 19
YOUNG IFCM Committee meets in Istanbul
Published: Dec 19,2024
Sam Nicholson, Oceania representative on the YOUNG IFCM Committee of the International Federation for Choral Music, recently travelled to Türkiye for the committee's first in-person meeting in Istanbul. Read Sam’s reflections on the committee’s work and the many highlights of his trip on an article that he recently wrote for eBreve, the monthly newsletter of the New Zealand Choral Federation.
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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. Publication temporarily suspended.

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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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