IFCM - International Federation for Choral Music

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

2023 Feb 27

Musica International: Manage your holdings directly in Musica International database

Published: Feb 27,2023

Do you have an extensive collection of choral scores? Do you manage easily to find your way around the collection? Do you have sufficient information on each piece in your current catalogue?

2022 Dec 30

Musica International: Are you a composer or an arranger of choral music?

Published: Dec 30,2022

Are you a composer or an arranger of choral music? If so, are you referenced in Musica International choral database?

2022 Feb 28

Musica International: Programming Female Composers' Pieces

Published: Feb 28,2022

In conversations with choral leaders and in writings about the activities of choirs worldwide, it is apparent that the topic of diversity in choral repertoire planning is a special interest and focus. Evidence of the importance of this heightened interest in diversity is an increased Inclusion of works by female composers in concert programs. It is not surprising that there is a myriad of extraordinary pieces written by women, for all choral settings and for any type of concert theme. These compositions are simply not known widely.