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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 Mar 31
Thank you, ACDA, for a wonderful Convention 2025!
Published: Mar 31,2025
IFCM President Emily Kuo Vong, IFCM YOUNG member Anne Copiaco, and IFCM member Tim Pallett had the opportunity to (re)connect with choral friends from all over the world at the Happy Hour they organised at the IFCM booth at the ACDA Convention EXPO.
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2025 Mar 31
Musica International: A new score added!
Published: Mar 31,2025
A new score has been added to the Musica International Library, making it score #205,356: Comme Une Rose (Like a Rose), words and music by Anthony Sylvestre (France) and published by Asturia Music.
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2025 Mar 31
WORLD YOUTH CHOIR 2025: Meet the Conductor
Published: Mar 31,2025
Daniel Reuss is an internationally renowned conductor, celebrated for his work with some of the world’s finest vocal ensembles. He has been the artistic director of Cappella Amsterdam since 1997 and previously led the RIAS Kammerchor in Berlin. Known for his refined interpretations and deep musical insight, Reuss has conducted prestigious ensembles and worked with major orchestras across Europe.
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2025 Mar 31
Leading Voices, Tallinn, Estonia, a few places left to attend the sessions
Published: Mar 31,2025
Various choirs, wind orchestras, and symphony orchestras (33,000 singers and musicians) will perform on the traditional shell stage in front of an audience of 58,000 spectators. While the masterclasses and labs are now full, there are still places available to participate in a variety of 40 sessions (there will be more!) and the Estonian Song Celebration.
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2025 Mar 31
International Music Council’s Invitation to the Fair Music Focus Group
Published: Mar 31,2025
The International Music Council (IMC) is coordinating Fair Music, a project co-funded by the European Union. With New Internet Media and SKAP, IMC aims to address the issue of fair remuneration and recognition in the digital environment. The idea isn't to compete with existing platforms, but to prove that an alternative, fairer system is possible.
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2025 Mar 31
European Music Council: European Forum on Music, Brussels, Belgium 11-12 June 2025
Published: Mar 31,2025
This year, the 13th European Forum on Music is celebrating the 20th anniversary of the 2005 UNESCO Convention on the Diversity of Cultural Expressions.
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2025 Jun 16 2025 Jun 20
International Children and Youth Choir Festival of Pueri Cantores, Munich, Germany, 16-20 July 2025
Published: Nov 29,2024
Approximately 5,000 young people from all over the world are expected to attend the Pueri Cantores International Choir Festival in Munich on 16-20 July 2025
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2025 Feb 28
YOUNG, Youth International Cultural Management Programme 2025
Published: Feb 28,2025
The call for young managers to take part in the YOUNG 2025 program at the International Congress of Pueri Cantores Munich 2025 has had an excellent response. IFCM received 67 applications from 27 different countries: Armenia, Australia, Bulgaria, Chile, Colombia, Croatia, DR Congo, Germany, Greece, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Japan, Kenya, Latvia, Lithuania, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Nigeria, Philippines, South Africa, Thailand, Türkiye, Uruguay, USA, and Venezuela.
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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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2025 Feb 28
WORLD YOUTH CHOIR 2025: Selected Singers
Published: Feb 28,2025
The World Youth Choir (WYC) international jury meeting for the WYC 2025 session took place in Brussels, Belgium, 26-27 January 2025. The jury’s task was to select the best singers for this particular session from 240 candidates. After many hours of listening to recordings from each singer and evaluating their applications, the jury chose 64 singers from 37 countries to be part of the World Youth Choir 2025 session. Seven additional countries are represented in the reserve list.
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2025 Feb 28
Add your project to the Swan Database: Share your inclusive singing initiatives
Published: Feb 28,2025
The SWAN project (Singing with Additional Needs) draws on best practices from different European countries to include people with additional needs in collective singing. Co-funded by the European Union, one of SWAN’s key goals is to collect and share best practices in collective singing for individuals with additional needs.
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2025 Feb 28
À Cœur Joie International and African Confederation for Choral Music launch
Published: Feb 28,2025
“One School, One Choir” is a new project recently launched in sub-Saharan Africa. Initiated by the choir Chant sur la Lowé, local organizer in Gabon and member of the African Confederation for Choral Music, and in partnership with À Cœur Joie International, “One School, One Choir” is supported by the Agence française du développement (AFD) as part of the Access to Culture project.
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2025 Feb 28
International Federation Pueri Cantores develops a Vade Mecum for choir directors
Published: Feb 28,2025
As church choir directors have a very broad range of responsibilities, a variety of skills is necessary to both lead the choir community as well as the musical activities in a beneficial way and faith-inspired way.
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2025 Feb 27
Unison - Episode 1 is now available on Spotify and YouTube!
Published: Feb 27,2025
The Young IFCM is proud to launch UNISON, a unique podcast that brings you face-to-face with some of the finest voices in choral music from around the world. Discover their inspiring experiences, sound advice, and passionate visions for the art of choral singing.
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2025 Jan 30
First online café 2025: Participating in festivals, competitions and choral events with your choirs
Published: Jan 30,2025
Benefit from the experience of long-standing participants and prize-winners at choral festivals and competitions. IFCM guests for the first online café 2025, Betsy Cook Weber (USA), Helene Stureborg (Sweden), and Jonathan Velasco (Philippines) explored this topic and gave valuable insights from their experiences.
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2025 Jan 30
Musica International seeks for its ‘father/mother’ to represent it in America
Published: Jan 30,2025
You are passionate about choral music? If you are using Musica international regularly to prepare (themed) concerts of choral music, you know the benefit that we are bringing to the choral world (Reminder: Musica is the most complete database for choral music in the world, for which the International Federation for Choral Music was a founding member!)
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2025 Jan 30
World Youth Choir Session 2025: the selection is done
Published: Jan 30,2025
On 23-26 January 2025, the International Jury of the World Youth Choir (WYC), together with the conductor of the 2025 session (Daniel Reuss) and the session manager, met to review all audition submissions and select the singers who will take part in the session hosted by the Federació Catalana d’Entitats Corals (FCEC) in July 2025.
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2025 Jan 30
European Choral Association (ECA): two important registration dealines
Published: Jan 30,2025
Leading Voices, 6-10 July 2025.Registrations are open until 1 March 2025. YEMP 6: Young Event Management Programme 2025. Apply here before 5 February 2025.
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2025 Jan 30
Choral Federation Wallonie-Bruxelles A Coeur Joie celebrating a week of Belgian Music
Published: Jan 30,2025
On 27 January to 2 February 2025, the Choral Federation Wallonie-Bruxelles celebrated the 5th edition of the Belgian Music Week with daily posts on their Facebook page showing performances of songs composed and arranged by Belgian composers.
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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. Publication temporarily suspended.

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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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