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2025 Aug 29 highlighted
IFCM Online Café, 27 September 2025, 2PM CEST, Beware of Vowels and Consonants!
Published: Aug 29,2025
IFCM Online Café, 27 September 2025, 2PM CEST, Beware of Vowels and Consonants! Science and Practice of Choral Intelligibility How many times have we heard that a choir sounds great, but it is just impossible to distinguish what they sing? Anastasia Kananovich, a third-year PhD student at the University of Strasbourg, puts this question at the heart of her research on the intelligibility of choirs.
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2025 Aug 29 highlighted
World Symposium on Choral Music 2026: Call for choirs and Presenters
Published: Aug 29,2025
The theme of the World Symposium on Choral Music 2026 is Reimagining the Future Choirs and Vocal Ensembles, and Presenters: Apply Now! See how to Appl
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2025 Aug 29 highlighted
World Symposium on Choral Music 2026, Meet the Committees
Published: Aug 29,2025
Meet the members of the Administrative and Artistic Committees of the World Symposium on Choral Music 2026
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2025 Aug 29 highlighted
Musica International — New Piece Added to the Library
Published: Aug 29,2025
A new choral work has been added to Musica International, the multimedia, multilingual, and collaborative database of choral repertoire.
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2025 Aug 29 highlighted
Federació Catalana d'Entitats Corals (FCEC) Announces the 61st International Choral Music Festival
Published: Aug 29,2025
From 6–12 July 2026, the Federació Catalana d'Entitats Corals (FCEC) invites choirs from around the globe to Barcelona for its 61st International Choral Music Festival—a week of singing, cultural exchange, and unforgettable performances.
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2025 Aug 29 highlighted
19th Fukushima Vocal Ensemble Competition 2026 Co-organized with Japan Choral Association
Published: Aug 29,2025
The Fukushima Vocal Ensemble Competition (19-22 March 2026, Fukushima City, Japan) co-organized with the Japan Choral Association (JCA), is now calling for participants.
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2025 Aug 29 highlighted
The European Music Festival for Young People, Neerpelt, Belgium, celebrates its 75th Anniversary
Published: Aug 29,2025
Join the European Music Festival for Young People (EMJ) in Neerpelt, Belgium, 4-10 May 2027, for an unforgettable musical adventure. During these six days, the city will come alive with song, friendship, and international exchange.
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2025 Aug 29 highlighted
InChoral International Choral Festival Network — New Season of Festivals and Competitions
Published: Aug 29,2025
Meeting Music, based in Germany and part of the InChoral International Choral Festival Network, is pleased to announce its new season of international choral festivals and competitions.
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2025 Aug 28 highlighted
News from the European Choral Association (ECA): SWAN Survey & New Brochure
Published: Aug 29,2025
Add your project to the Swan Database: Share your inclusive singing initiatives The ECA Brochure 2026 is out
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2025 Aug 20 highlighted
YOUNG IFCM Launching Young Conductors’ Virtual Mentorship Programme
Published: Aug 20,2025
This new initiative from the IFCM YOUNG Committee is designed to connect developing choral conductors with experienced choral directors around the world. Our goal is to foster meaningful, cross-cultural connections that inspire the next generation of conductors, exchange knowledge and ideas, and strengthen the global choral community.
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2025 Aug 20 highlighted
Call for Mentors and Mentees: Young Conductors’ Virtual Mentorship Programme
Published: Aug 20,2025
Applications are now open for the inaugural IFCM Young Conductors’ Virtual Mentorship Programme, a new initiative from the IFCM YOUNG Committee designed to connect developing choral conductors with experienced choral directors around the world.
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2025 Aug 12 highlighted
Carus Verlag: Beethoven 2027 — Pure Choral Joy!
Published: Aug 12,2025
Ludwig van Beethoven stands as one of the most influential composers in music history. In 2027, we will commemorate the 200th anniversary of his death. Through the Beethoven vocal Project, Carus has made Beethoven's rich choral repertoire accessible to choirs worldwide: including the Missa solemnis, which Beethoven himself regarded as one of his greatest achievements, alongside the magnificent Mass in C major.
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2025 Jul 31 highlighted
World Choral Day 2025: Singing for Peace, Connection, and Our Common Home
Published: Jul 31,2025
On World Choral Day 2025 (14 December 2025), voices from every corner of the globe will rise in a powerful message: peace is possible, and it begins with us. In a world too often divided by conflict, fear, and isolation, singing together is a radical act. It builds trust, opens hearts, and connects strangers. When two people sing together, they are not in conflict—they are listening, responding, and creating harmony.
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2025 Oct 10 2025 Oct 12 highlighted
Tenso Network Europe and Turkish State Choir Present the Re:CONNECT Conference
Published: Aug 29,2025
The European Network for Professional Chamber Choirs (Tenso Network Europe) is concluding its EU-supported Tenso CONNECT project with the Re:CONNECT Conference in Ankara, Türkiye from 10 to 12 October 2025
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2025 May 30 highlighted
New IFCM Membership Category for Students and Young People under the Age of 25
Published: May 30,2025
The YOUNG IFCM Committee proposed the creation of a new student membership category to the IFCM Committee responsible for membership. The proposal was examined carefully, and an appropriate amount for this new category was discussed and approved by the IFCM board. IFCM hopes that this new fee will increase membership accessibility for the younger generation.
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2025 Dec 14 2025 Dec 14 highlighted
World Choral Day 2025: Singing for Peace, Connection, and Our Common Home
Published: Jul 31,2025
On World Choral Day 2025 (14 December 2025), voices from every corner of the globe will rise in a powerful message: peace is possible, and it begins with us. In a world too often divided by conflict, fear, and isolation, singing together is a radical act. It builds trust, opens hearts, and connects strangers. When two people sing together, they are not in conflict—they are listening, responding, and creating harmony.
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2024 Dec 31 highlighted
Call for Choirs to Apply for Conductors Beyond Borders Peer-to-Peer Exchange Programme
Published: Dec 31,2024
The Conductors Beyond Borders Peer-to-Peer Exchange Programme is a component of the Choral TIES project coordinated by the European Choral Association, co-funded by the European Union, and organised in cooperation with IFCM. This programme provides limited financial support in the form of a grant to cover international travel expenses.
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International Youth Chamber Choir Meeting 2026
Published: Jun 24,2025
The International Youth Chamber Choir Meeting, on 14-23 August 2026, is a unique choral experience in a truly special place, the beautiful island of Usedom, Germany, right by the sea.
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World Symposium on Choral Music, Macau, China, 23-28 August 2026
Published: Aug 05,2025
World Symposium on Choral Music 2026, Macau China, 23-28 August 2026 The WSCM promotes artistic excellence, cooperation, and exchange by bringing together the finest choirs and choral leaders for performances, seminars, workshops, exhibitions, and choral reading sessions.
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2025 Jul 31
World Youth Choir 2025, Until They Meet Again
Published: Jul 31,2025
The World Youth Choir Summer Session 2025 officially began in Barcelona on 14 July, bringing together 62 talented young singers from 36 countries for several weeks of music, learning, and connection.
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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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