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2024 Mar 25
Musica International quest for a concert theme: Ecology
Published: Mar 25,2024
Musica International regularly invites its users to help develop concert themes. For the month of April, the theme focuses on ecology in choral music. A search for the keyword ecology yields 62 pieces.
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2024 Mar 25
Recommendations for fair remuneration at international choral events
Published: Mar 25,2024
The European Choral Association is a member of the European and International Music Councils (EMC and IMC, respectively) and subscribes to the Five Music Rights developed by IMC. The fifth right is the right for all musical artists “to obtain just recognition and fair remuneration for their work”. In the past, this right has often not been fully respected in the choral sector.
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2024 Mar 25
American Choral Directors Association Career Center
Published: Mar 25,2024
The American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) presents the ACDA Career Center, which offers resources for finding the perfect job and advancing one's career within the USA.
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2024 Mar 14
IFCM Members Online Café: participants delighted by the session with Joel P. Navarro
Published: Mar 14,2024
In the latest IFCM café, Joel P. Navarro presented a brief history of the evolution of conducting and rehearsal techniques based on his personal and collegiate experience and training, in particular, within the Philippine cultural context. Joel also gave an overview of Martin Behrmann's conducting technique, including preliminaries, the stance, the manual apparatus, the signal domains, and the music applications.
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2024 Feb 23
Musica International quest for a concert theme
Published: Feb 23,2024
Musica International regularly invites its users to help develop concert themes. The most recent theme is based on the words planets, stars, and space. A search for the keyword planet yields 122 pieces, while space and cosmos yield 126 and 402 pieces, respectively.
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2024 Feb 23
African Youth Choir Annual Summer Camp, Dakar, Senegal, 22-28 July 2024
Published: Feb 23,2024
Get ready for an unforgettable experience at the African Youth Choir Annual Summer Camp in Dakar, Senegal, 22-28 July 2024!
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2024 Feb 21
One of the most fascinating fragments in the history of music
Published: Feb 21,2024
The remnants of Mozart's Requiem serve to inspire! Since the composer's death in 1791, many attempts have been made to complete this great work of music history. The British composer and choral conductor Howard Arman has now published his own new complete version at Carus-Verlag, offering a fresh perspective on Mozart's masterpiece.
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2024 Feb 12
World Symposium on Choral Music 2023, İstanbul: After Movie!
Published: Feb 12,2024
Did you miss the World Symposium on Choral Music (WSCM) in İstanbul, Türkiye, last April? You can now watch and listen to a synopsis of the fun and music shared by more than 2500 participants from 60 countries.
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2023 Dec 26
CHORAL TIES project (European Choral Association) is launched!
Published: Dec 26,2023
The Choral TIES project, coordinated by the European Choral Association and co-funded by the European Union, kicked off at the beginning of December!
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2023 Dec 26
European Choral Association: Website Accessibility Guidelines
Published: Dec 26,2023
In the framework of the EU-funded project IGNITE, the European Choral Association designed guidelines for website accessibility to empower everyone involved in the web development process with the knowledge and tools necessary to make the first steps towards accessible and inclusive websites.
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2023 Nov 28
IFCM Choral Composition Competition 2023-2024: The Winners are…
Published: Nov 28,2023
In March 2023, IFCM launched its Sixth International Choral Composition Competition to promote new works in choral music and to encourage innovation in choral writing that fits the needs of a 21st-century choir. The criteria emphasized compositions that combine originality, imagination, and creativity within the context of contemporary global themes.
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2023 Nov 16
Conductors Without Borders, Continuation of a Training Cycle for Young Choral Directors in DR Congo
Published: Nov 16,2023
Continuation of a Training Cycle for Young Choral Directors, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, 30 October – 4 November 2023
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2023 Nov 09
The IFCM online Cafes — International and National
Published: Nov 09,2023
Following the enthusiastic response to the online cafes organized in the past few months, the International Federation for Choral Music is announcing five more of them in the upcoming months! International Cafes will be for IFCM members only while National Cafes will be open to everyone, members or not. These sessions will be informative but also enriched by your active participation.
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2023 Nov 03
America Cantat through the eyes of Sofía María Torres Valenzuela
Published: Nov 03,2023
Sofía María Torres Valenzuela is one of the YOUNG IFCM committee members. She is from Chile and recently participated in the America Cantat 10 in La Plata (11-15 October 2023)
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2023 Nov 02
Carus-Verlag's New Choral Collection on Swiss Choral Music
Published: Nov 02,2023
Swiss up you choir! Mountains, cheese, chocolate – are those the first things that come to mind when you think of Switzerland?
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2023 Sep 28
Empowering the Future of Choral Music: The Vision of YOUNG IFCM
Published: Sep 28,2023
Over the past couple of meetings, YOUNG IFCM has passionately deliberated on its role in shaping the future of choral music. After engaging in comprehensive discussions on the subject, we reached a consensus on the missions we aspire to achieve in and beyond our term.
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2023 Sep 28
Africa Cantat 2023 Recap Video
Published: Sep 28,2023
It has already been over a month since the celebration of music during the second edition of the Africa Cantat Festival. It was a journey filled with unforgettable musical moments, heartwarming emotions, and the chance to connect with amazing people from all corners of the continent.
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2023 Aug 28
Musica International: Let's Get Emotional!
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
Volunteer for Conductors Without Borders
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
YOUNG IFCM
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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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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