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2025 Jul 31
Did You Miss the IFCM Online Café, 26 July 2025, 2PM CEST: Creating Choral Music
Published: Jul 31,2025
The Online Café "Creating Choral Music: Exploring the Art of Choral Composition” took place on Zoom on 26 July 2025.
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2025 Jul 31
YOUNG Programme 2025, Pueri Cantores Festival, Munich (14–21 July 2025)
Published: Jul 31,2025
The third edition of the IFCM YOUNG programme was successfully held in Munich from 14 to 21 July 2025, as part of the Pueri Cantores International Festival. This year’s program gathered eight emerging choral managers from Europe and around the world, offering them a unique opportunity to gain hands-on experience in organizing a large-scale international choral event.
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2025 Jul 31
Conductors Beyond Borders, Douala, Cameroon, 21-28 June 2025
Published: Jul 31,2025
This training session marks the end of a three-year Conductors Beyond Borders (CBB) programme (2021–2024), with a week of training taking place each semester. The 2025 session, led by Thierry Thiébaut, Président of A Cœur Joie International and IFCM previous Vice-President, culminated in a concert conducted by two of the six choir conductors who have graduated from the programme.
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2025 Jul 31
IFCM Welcomes a New Member in the Local Organisation Category St Peters Chorale, Brisbane, Australia
Published: Jul 31,2025
St Peters Chorale, from St Peters Lutheran College (Indooroopilly), is a mixed voice choir of students in Years 9 - 12. Founded by Graeme Morton in 1983, the choir has developed a national and international reputation as an outstanding youth choir and is well known for its championing of Australian choral composers.
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2025 Jul 31
IFCM Welcomes a New Member in the Choir Category Vox Humanis & Vox Libera, Sanliurfa, Türkiye
Published: Jul 31,2025
Located at Harran University in Şanlıurfa, the Vox Humanis Polyphonic Choir comprises twenty-four voices under the direction of Dr Fırat Altun. Its repertoire ranges from Renaissance motets and Turkish premières to vibrant Anatolian polyphony—embracing Komitas’s and Ganatchian’s folk harmonisations, Mozart’s Ave verum corpus, Hasan Ferit Alnar’s modal works, and Karl Jenkins’s globally inflected oratorios.
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2025 Jul 31
Musica International at Leading Voices
Published: Jul 31,2025
Musica International attended Leading Voices (6–10 July, Tallinn, Estonia), where its director, Jean Sturm, held a reading session in collaboration with Linas Balandis, a conductor from Vilnius, Lithuania.
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2025 Jul 31
European Choral Association: Leading Voices Was a Success!
Published: Jul 31,2025
From 6-10 July 2025, the second edition of Leading Voices brought more than 800 people to Tallinn from 38 countries. The event began with the main concert of the Estonian Song Celebration. The programme of Leading Voices included 55 sessions by 40 session leaders, 128 individual lessons on conducting and singing, and 10 concerts. The main venue of the event was the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre.
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2025 Jul 31
45th International Congress of Pueri Cantores, Munich, Germany, 16-20 July 2025
Published: Jul 31,2025
After four days of intense encounters and deeply moving musical experiences, the 45th Pueri Cantores International Choir Festival in Munich came to an end with a festive Closing Service with Cardinal Reinhard Marx on Marienplatz.
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2025 Jun 30
IFCM Announces the Dates of the 2026 World Symposium on Choral Music (WSCM) in Macau
Published: Jun 30,2025
IFCM is thrilled to bring the World Symposium on Choral Music to Macau SAR from 23 to 28 August 2026! It will be wonderful to immerse ourselves in the region's amazing and diverse cultures. Macau's omnipresent blend of cultural influences will provide the perfect setting for the WSCM 2026 celebration of exchange and collaboration.
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2025 Jun 30
Meet and Greet Meeting of the YOUNG 2025 and YEMPers
Published: Jun 30,2025
On 28 June 2025, IFCM and the European Choral Association (ECA) organised a 'Meet & Greet and Online Training' event for young managers participating in two training programmes within the Choral TIES project, which is co-funded by the EU's Creative Europe programme.
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2025 Jun 30
IFCM Honorary Member Lore Auerbach Awarded
Published: Jun 30,2025
On 19 June 2025, Dr. h.c. Lore Auerbach, Honorary President of the Arbeitskreis Musik in der Jugend (AMJ) and Honorary Member and long-time volunteer of IFCM, received the Hans-Lenz Medal from the Federal Association of German Orchestra Associations (BDO) in recognition of her decades of service to amateur music.
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2025 Jun 30
Musica International: A new score was just added to the Musica Database
Published: Jun 30,2025
“Alea” by David Massong, published by Helbling Musikverlag KG, is a contemporary choral work in which singers use dice to randomly shape the music. Each roll creates a new variation, illustrating the game of chance.
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2025 Jun 30
The European Choral Association invites you to give your Feedback on the last Choral TIES Webinar
Published: Jun 30,2025
How did you like the Webinar on Conducting Youth and Children’s Choirs on 22 May 2025, with Basilio Astulez, Zimfira Poloz and Ken Wakia? If you missed it, you can watch it here.
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2025 Jun 30
New Board of the European Music Council Elected
Published: Jun 30,2025
During their Annual Meeting on 26 June 2025, members of the European Music Council elected a new board for the next two years. Congratulations to EMC on their new board and to IFCM board member Niels Græsholm on being re-elected as treasurer!
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2025 Jun 30
Music is Life - Music is Blood - Music is Lifeblood (Ade Bantu) — Insights from the 2025 European Fo
Published: Jun 30,2025
On 11-12 June 2025, over 100 music sector stakeholders came together in Brussels, Belgium, for the 13th edition of the European Forum on Music (EFM) with the theme “Celebrating Musical Diversity”.
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2025 Jun 30
From Cappella Romana, Portland, Oregon, USA
Published: Jun 30,2025
For a limited time, the ensemble Cappella Romana, joined by In Medio, invites you to watch their performance of Passion & Resurrection by Ivan Moody, conducted by Alexander Lingas.
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2025 Jun 01
Unison Episode 7 welcomed Sabelo Mthembu from South Africa
Published: Jun 01,2025
Sabelo Mthembu was born in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1983. A singer, conductor and composer, he began his music career at church at a very young age. His love for choral music saw him grow his skill as a conductor and music director. After leaving the University of Johannesburg Choir in 2008, he co-founded an ensemble called Quava Vocal Group.
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2025 May 30
Did you miss the Choral TIES Webinar on Conducting Youth and Children's Choirs
Published: May 30,2025
The Choral TIES Webinar "Conducting Youth and Children’s choirs — Encouraging the creation of youth and children's choirs, giving practical inputs and tools to choral their conductors and leaders", a collaboration between IFCM and ECA, took place on Zoom on 22 May 2025.
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2025 May 30
International Music Council Music Rights Award Applications are now open
Published: May 30,2025
The International Music Council (IMC) Music Rights Award is given biennially to a programme or a project that supports, in an exemplary way, the Five Music Rights formulated and disseminated by IMC
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2025 May 16
Unison Episode 6 welcomed Lim Ai Hooi from Singapore
Published: May 16,2025
Lim Ai Hooi is a recognised and respected conductor and educator in Singapore’s choral scene. Ai Hooi graduated in 1989 from the Royal College of Music, London, majoring in Piano and Voice. Over the past 30 years, Ai Hooi has led her school choirs to achieve top honours at numerous renowned international competitions. In 2009, she founded ONE Chamber Choir. Since then, the choir has triumphed at competitions in Philippines, Wales, Hungary, Germany and South Africa, including achieving Champion of the World Choir Games in 2018.
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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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