News and events
2023 Aug 28
Published: Aug 28,2023
During the World Symposium on Choral Music 2023 in İstanbul, Jean Sturm, Executive Director of Musica International (www.musicanet.org), presented "Building a concert program using online choral resources: the Musica project". Interesting questions came up, such as "Can I search for sad pieces in Musica?" On Facebook, a choir conductor was looking for “a piece that would convey anxiety/worries”. Another conductor needed a happy song to end a middle-school choir concert.
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2023 Aug 09
Published: Aug 09,2023
Conductors Without Borders is a core project of IFCM that aims to build bridges between choral communities around the world by providing access to quality choral music instruction to those who may not have easy access to it. As a volunteer choral teacher, you will help realize this goal by sharing your knowledge, skills, and experience in choral music and conducting.
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2023 Jul 28
Published: Jul 28,2023
The idea of creating an IFCM Youth Committee came after a successful program for young choral and cultural managers at the World Choral EXPO in 2022. Noticing the interest of these young participants for IFCM and recognizing the benefits that IFCM could gain from their feedback and vision, the IFCM Board of Directors decided to establish a YOUNG IFCM - youth committee.
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2023 Jul 28
Published: Jul 28,2023
Training Leading Voices, a project in partnership with the European Choral Association, came to an end last month! The project developed interventions for the professionalization of vocal and choral leaders in Europe and the internationalization of their careers.
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2023 Jun 20
Published: Jun 20,2023
IFCM Board restructures its committees in order to better serve the choral community. During their third meeting on 25 May 2023, newly-elected Board members worked positively and actively to confirm the new structure of the working committees responsible for managing the various matters of IFCM.
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2023 May 30
Published: May 31,2023
Message from the Director of the World Symposium on Choral Music 2023, Istanbul, Türkiye, 25-30 April 2023.
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2023 Mar 28
Published: Mar 28,2023
IFCM is deeply saddened about the passing of our long-time friend Ricardo Denegri in La Plata, Argentina, on 4 March 2023, at the age of 78. Thirty years ago, Ricardo founded the Sociedad de los Encuentros Corales and, together with his friend and colleague Oscar Escalada, created the Argentine Association for Choral Music (AAMCANT) and the Festival America Cantat.
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2023 Feb 27
Published: Feb 27,2023
Do you have an extensive collection of choral scores? Do you manage easily to find your way around the collection? Do you have sufficient information on each piece in your current catalogue?
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2022 Dec 30
Published: Dec 30,2022
Are you a composer or an arranger of choral music? If so, are you referenced in Musica International choral database?
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2022 Nov 30
Published: Nov 30,2022
The IFCM International Choral Magazine (ICM) is still looking for volunteer translators
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2022 Feb 28
Published: Feb 28,2022
In conversations with choral leaders and in writings about the activities of choirs worldwide, it is apparent that the topic of diversity in choral repertoire planning is a special interest and focus. Evidence of the importance of this heightened interest in diversity is an increased Inclusion of works by female composers in concert programs. It is not surprising that there is a myriad of extraordinary pieces written by women, for all choral settings and for any type of concert theme. These compositions are simply not known widely.
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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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