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2025 Feb 28
International Federation Pueri Cantores develops a Vade Mecum for choir directors
Published: Feb 28,2025
As church choir directors have a very broad range of responsibilities, a variety of skills is necessary to both lead the choir community as well as the musical activities in a beneficial way and faith-inspired way.
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2025 Feb 27
Unison - Episode 1 is now available on Spotify and YouTube!
Published: Feb 27,2025
The Young IFCM is proud to launch UNISON, a unique podcast that brings you face-to-face with some of the finest voices in choral music from around the world. Discover their inspiring experiences, sound advice, and passionate visions for the art of choral singing.
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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 Sep 12 2025 Sep 18
European Choral Association International Choral Study Tour in Lebanon, 12-18 September 2025
Published: Feb 28,2025
The international study tour in Lebanon will be a Mediterranean fusion of music, cuisine, and traditions. The European Choral Association, in collaboration with the Fayha National Choir, is excited to announce this year’s Choral Study Tour in Lebanon as part of the Choral Ties project, co-funded by the European Union.
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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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2025 Sep 25 2025 Sep 27
New Zealand Choral Federation (NZCF): Choral Connect 2025
Published: Feb 28,2025
Choral Connect 2025 is the New Zealand Choral Federation’s conference for leaders of all types of group singing. It will be held in Wellington, New Zealand, 25-27 September, 2025. Come along for three inspiring days of masterclasses, presentations, concerts, and more!
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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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2024 Dec 18
European Choral Association: EUROPA CANTAT Festival is back!
Published: Dec 18,2024
Liepāja to host the next edition in August 2027. The European Choral Association is delighted to officially announce the 22nd EUROPA CANTAT Festival, ECA’s major event designated to singers, choirs, and all choral lovers across Europe and beyond.
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2024 Nov 29
YOUNG, Youth International Cultural Management Programme 2025, Munich, Germany
Published: Nov 29,2024
YOUNG, Youth International Culturel Management Programme organised in the frame of the 45th International Congress of Pueri Cantores, (16-20 July 2025), Munich, Germany. Application process is open from 1 December 2024 to 31 January 2025
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2024 Nov 29
Watch the last online café dedicated to three Latin-American composers
Published: Nov 29,2024
On 9 November 2024, the IFCM online café focused on the art of choral composition. Three well-known Latin American composers shared their ideas on how to create choral music for ensembles today, using their own compositions as illustrations: César Alejandro Carrillo (Venezuela), Julio César Morales Pineda (Mexico), and Mónica Pacheco (Argentina).
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2024 Nov 29
IFCM welcomes a new choir member: The Choir of World Culture (Chor der Weltkultur Bühne)
Published: Nov 29,2024
The Choir of World Culture is a unique singing ensemble dedicated to uniting literature and music in a harmonious way.
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2024 Nov 29
Conductors Beyond Borders with Schola Cantorum de Venezuela in Mérida and San Cristóbal, Venezuela
Published: Nov 29,2024
¡Cantemos! con La Schola, 20-24 November 2024. Following their first program ¡Cantemos! on the Margarita Island, the Schola Cantorum de Venezuela, conducted by Maria Guinand and Luimar Arismendi, brought their program to yet another part of Venezuela. This time to Mérida and San Cristóbal. ¡Cantemos! Is designed to encourage the participation and development of more choral groups through meetings, workshops, seminars and concerts.
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2024 Oct 31
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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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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