IFCM - International Federation for Choral Music

2024 Jul 25 highlighted

Leading Voices 2025, Tallin, Estonia, 6-10 July 2025, Sign Up for the Newsletter

Published: Jun 17,2024

On 6-10 July 2025, Tallinn will host Leading Voices, an event of the European Choral Association organised in cooperation with the Estonian Choral Association and the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre.

2024 Jul 25 highlighted

Kati Yetu! African Youth Choir Annual Summer Camp, Island of Gorée, Dakar, Senegal, 22-28 July 2024

Published: Jul 18,2024

Kati Yetu means between us in Swahili. During Seven days, on 22-28 July 2024, 23 singers from seven countries (Benin, Cameroon, DRC, Gabon, Gambia, Ivory Coast, Senegal) met and sang under the direction of Jean Benoit Bakhoum from Senegal, the new conductor (2024-2025) succeeding to Ken Wakia from Kenya and Pierre Kouame from Ivory Coast (2019-2023).

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.

2024 Jul 24 highlighted

Le Chant sur la Lowé, Gabon, Paid Tribute to Black Music Icons

Published: Jul 24,2024

Les Grandes Icones de la Musique Noire is a show by the vocal group Le Chant Sur La Lowé at the Institut Français du Gabon in Libreville. There are so many stars in the music world... Some have left us, others are still with us. It's impossible to list them all, and it's a bit ambitious to try to sing like them. However, Le Chant Sur La Lowé decided to honor them in a special way with a few of their most iconic songs in two shows on July 19 and 22, 2024.

2024 Jul 23 highlighted

The European Choral Association Brochure of Events 2025 is Out

Published: Jul 23,2024

Check the events happening next year and mark your calendar accordingly!

2024 Jul 15 highlighted

2024 China Qiandongnan International Folk Song Festival and World Voices Conference is forthcoming!

Published: Jul 15,2024

2024 China Qiandongnan International Folk Song Festival and World Voices Conference, July 20-24, 2024 Qiandongnan is renowned as the land of song and dance worldwide, boasting a rich and diverse ethnic culture and unique folk arts, including the Dong Grand Song, a UNESCO intangible cultural heritage, and the Miao Flying Song, a national-level intangible cultural heritage.

2024 Jun 28 highlighted

Corearte Acción Cultural: check out their festivals

Published: Jun 28,2024

Since 2007, Corearte Acción Cultural has stood out as a leader in promoting choral and orchestral events worldwide. Symbolizing its growth, the Festival Corearte Barcelona has witnessed the participation of over 260 choirs from diverse backgrounds during its 18-year history.

2024 Jun 21 highlighted

Musica International: Find the translations of choral texts

Published: Jun 21,2024

A good understanding of what you're singing is essential for optimal interpretation. This is particularly true when singing in a foreign language, including the Latin for sacred works. In its quest for comprehensive information, the Musica database offers you not only the complete texts of the choral pieces you are considering (76,000 references have a text link), but also their translations in one or more languages (50,000 references linked to translations of the text), in French and/or English and/or German and/or Spanish, or even another language if it seems useful.

2024 Jun 28 highlighted

Choral Federation Wallonia-Brussels, A Coeur Joie Belgium, presents its brochure of activities 2024-

Published: Jun 28,2024

The 2024-2025 new season is almost here at the Choral Federation Wallonia-Brussels, A Coeur Joie Belgium (ACJ.be). It will be a season filled with activities for all ages. Training courses, singing days, weekends, or weeks. Select the option that best suits your needs and enjoy the benefits!

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.

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.

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?

2024 May 31

Schola Cantorum Foundation of Venezuela: New Training Program

Published: May 31,2024

In recent days, the Schola Cantorum Foundation of Venezuela has launched a new program, called ¡Cantemos!, through which it continues to fulfill its mission of training in values and musical education of young directors, students and singers.

2024 May 21

Have you missed the last webinars of the European Choral Association? Check them out!

Published: May 21,2024

Webinar "Are you paid fairly? Recommendations on fair pay at international collective singing events"

2024 May 13

ACDA Publication: Women Conductors of College Men’s Choirs – Redefining the “Brotherhood”

Published: May 13,2024

The International Journal of Research in Choral Singing (IJRCS) is ACDA’s scholarly publication that welcomes research studies that apply rigorous, systematically grounded methodologies, either quantitative or qualitative, to investigate phenomena of potential interest to all who sing in, work with, or are otherwise interested in choral ensembles. Here is the abstract from an article written by Marci L. Major and Elizabeth Cassidy Parker titled: “Disrupting the choral class system: A journey of one high school choral program.”

2024 May 08

☕️ Did you miss the IFCM Members' Cafe on Repertoire?

Published: May 08,2024

The recording of the IFCM Members Online Cafe "On the Discovery of New Repertoire, Part 2" (28 April 2024) is now available.

2024 Apr 25

The African Confederation for Choral Music presents the first African Choral Night virtual concert

Published: Apr 25,2024

On 13 April 2024, the first African Choral Night virtual concert showcased the richness and diversity of African choral music. Choirs, ensembles, and vocal groups from Africa and its diaspora were brought together on the digital stage. Through this unique virtual experience, treasures of talent and authenticity were presented, offering an exceptional panorama of varied repertoire ranging from the traditional to the modern. Entitled In the Moonlight, this first edition of African Choral Night focused on traditional African repertoire through video performances by nine choirs from the four corners of the African continent. The concert was broadcast on the ACCM YouTube channel.

2024 Apr 25

IFCM Member running a survey for her thesis: take part in it!

Published: Apr 25,2024

IFCM member Anastasia Kananovich (France) is a first year PhD student in Linguistics at the University of Strasbourg (France). She invites you to participate in the survey that will form the basis of her thesis.

2024 Mar 29

Update on the International Choral Magazine

Published: Mar 29,2024

New development on the publication of the International Choral Magazine created more than 40 years ago.

2024 Mar 27

Report on the Webinar on the pentatonic mode in African choral music (16 March 2024)

Published: Mar 27,2024

At the initiative of African Confederation for Choral Music (ACCM) and Africa Cantat Festival, a webinar was organized on March 16, 2024, around the theme "The pentatonic mode in African choral heritage".