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2025 Dec 31
Dr. Jordi Roch Passed Away: Obituary by the International Music Council
Published: Dec 31,2025
The International Music Council is profoundly saddened to learn of the passing of Dr. Jordi Roch i Bosch, a tireless advocate for music as a universal force for connection and understanding.
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2025 Dec 31
European Choral Association: Rewatch the last Choral TIES webinar Designing International Events
Published: Dec 31,2025
Rewatch the last Choral TIES webinar Designing International Events: From Preparation to Evaluation How do you bring an international choral event to life, from the first idea to the final evaluation?
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2025 Nov 03
Summa Cum Laude Youth Music Festival, Vienna, Austria, announces its next dates 2026 & 2027
Published: Nov 03,2025
The Summa Cum Laude (SCL) Youth Music Festival, held every July in Vienna – the world’s capital of music – brings together young musicians from all continents to perform and learn together.
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2025 Aug 29
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
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 12
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 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 Mar 31
Unison – Two more episodes are ready on Spotify and YouTube
Published: Mar 31,2025
Since the last publication of the IFCMeNEWS, YOUNG IFCM members have interviewed two other personalities of the choral scene.
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2025 Feb 28
Musica International: Repertoire for Children’s Choir
Published: Feb 28,2025
In order to best catalogue choral music from around the world and provide access to all choral musical culture, Musica International not only offers descriptions of scores for mixed-voices and equal-voices adult choirs but also includes repertoire for children's choirs at all levels.
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2024 Nov 29
Watch the last online café dedicated to three Latin-American composers
Published: Nov 29,2024
On 9 November 2024, the IFCM online café focused on the art of choral composition. Three well-known Latin American composers shared their ideas on how to create choral music for ensembles today, using their own compositions as illustrations: César Alejandro Carrillo (Venezuela), Julio César Morales Pineda (Mexico), and Mónica Pacheco (Argentina).
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2024 Oct 31
News from Carus Verlag: Carus Digital Vocal Scores
Published: Oct 31,2024
In response to increasing demand, Carus Verlag is now offering their vocal scores in digital form.
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2024 Aug 31
Carus-Verlag: Choral Music Composed by Women
Published: Aug 31,2024
A real novelty: Choral Music Composed by Women features a total of 47 works for mixed choir. Numerous hidden gems for mixed choir are ready and waiting to be performed in concerts and church services.
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2024 Jun 21
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.
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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
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 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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2023 Sep 28
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?
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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 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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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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