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2025 Dec 02 highlighted
Celebrate the World Choral Day (14 December) and Send Your Video to IFCM
Published: Dec 02,2025
Send your poster to announce your WCD concert to office@ifcm.net. Download the World Choral Day Proclamation. Recite it before, during or after your concert. After the concert, send your video to office@ifcm.net. We will publish it on the World Choral Day Facebook page.
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2025 Dec 02 highlighted
World Symposium on Choral Music 2026, Meet the Selected Choirs
Published: Dec 02,2025
For six days in August 2026, Macau will be host to one of the biggest events of the International Federation for Choral Music, held with the support of the Macau Choral Arts Association. The theme for the 2026 triennial gathering of the international choral community is Reimagining the Future and aims to attract representation from all regions in the world. WSCM 2026 will invite us to reflect on the present, considering what has changed or is in the process of changing, while also looking forward with imagination and curiosity to what the future could hold.
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2025 Dec 02 highlighted
Did you miss the IFCM Online Café, Creating, Conducting, and Inspiring Youth Ensembles
Published: Dec 02,2025
With Michael Barrett (South Africa), Maria Theresa Vizconde-Roldan (Philippines) and Lyn Williams (Australia)
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2025 Dec 02 highlighted
Peer-to-Peer Conductors Beyond Borders Exchange Programme
Published: Dec 02,2025
The Conductors Beyond Borders (CBB) Peer-to-Peer Exchange Programme is part of the Choral TIES project coordinated by the European Choral Association, co-funded by the European Union Creative Europe programme, and organised in cooperation with IFCM. Here’s a peek into some of the November exchanges made possible through the CBB Peer-to-Peer Exchange Program.
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2025 Dec 02 highlighted
IFCM Signed Policy Recommendations from the Cultural and Creative Sectors on the Future of EU-UK Cul
Published: Dec 02,2025
The Policy Recommendations are addressed to EU and UK institutions, including the EU–UK Parliamentary Partnership Assembly (PPA). They evolved from a recent forum in Brussels where EU and UK cultural organisations discussed key issues such as mobility, transnational funding, cross-border collaboration, regulation, and innovation.
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2025 Dec 02 highlighted
European Choral Association (ECA), Rewatch the Choral TIES Webinar
Published: Dec 02,2025
Rewatch the 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 Dec 02 highlighted
European Choral Association: One-on-One Online Exchange with a Singing for your Life Conductor
Published: Dec 02,2025
Opportunity: One-on-One Online Exchange with a Singing for your Life Conductor Learn about choirs for people confronted with cancer Kanker in Beeld offers a one-on-one online meeting with an experienced Dutch conductor who works with Singing for your Life choirs.
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2025 Dec 02 highlighted
The Internationaler Volkskulturkreis, Germany, Announces Two Festivals in 2026
Published: Dec 02,2025
The Internationaler Volkskulturkreis is a non-profit association that promotes encounters between people of different nationalities and cultures, especially between China and Europe. Through various events such as festivals, competitions, seminars and workshops, they organize choir and orchestra experiences.
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2025 Nov 02 highlighted
Connect & Create - Strengthening Cultural Ties Between Africa and Europe
Published: Oct 31,2025
Connect & Create is the Sub-Saharan Africa branch of the EU-funded Africa-Europe Partnerships for Cultureprogramme. Led by the Goethe-Institut and Expertise France, in partnership with the Institut français, it seeks to renew and strengthen cultural ties between Sub-Saharan Africa and the European Union through equity, inclusion, and sustainability.
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2025 Oct 31 highlighted
Musica International : End of a Huge Work on the Composers Table
Published: Oct 31,2025
The May 2025 IFCMeNEWS included a description of the benefits of using the database of 33,000 biographies of choral music composers.
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2025 Sep 29 highlighted
Call for Choirs to Apply for Conductors Beyond Borders Peer-to-Peer Exchange Programme
Published: Dec 31,2024
The Conductors Beyond Borders Peer-to-Peer Exchange Programme is a component of the Choral TIES project coordinated by the European Choral Association, co-funded by the European Union, and organised in cooperation with IFCM. This programme provides limited financial support in the form of a grant to cover international travel expenses.
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2025 Sep 11 highlighted
World Choral Day 2025: Singing for Peace, Connection, and Our Common Home
Published: Jul 31,2025
On World Choral Day 2025 (14 December 2025), voices from every corner of the globe will rise in a powerful message: peace is possible, and it begins with us. In a world too often divided by conflict, fear, and isolation, singing together is a radical act. It builds trust, opens hearts, and connects strangers. When two people sing together, they are not in conflict—they are listening, responding, and creating harmony.
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2025 May 30 highlighted
New IFCM Membership Category for Students and Young People under the Age of 25
Published: May 30,2025
The YOUNG IFCM Committee proposed the creation of a new student membership category to the IFCM Committee responsible for membership. The proposal was examined carefully, and an appropriate amount for this new category was discussed and approved by the IFCM board. IFCM hopes that this new fee will increase membership accessibility for the younger generation.
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2025 Nov 13
Cantemus Choral Institute Organises its 16th Cantemus International Choral Festival
Published: Nov 13,2025
The Cantemus Festival in Nyíregyháza, Hungary on 16-21 August 2026, offers choirs a unique opportunity to showcase their talents while creating unforgettable memories. Participants will enjoy a rich program of cultural experiences, concerts and performances, folk evenings, dance houses, competitions, and awards.
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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 Oct 31
The Promotional Campaign of the World Choral Day Has Just Started!
Published: Oct 31,2025
IFCM invites conductors, singers, and choirs worldwide to join in building an international collage of photos and stories. Together, let’s show how choral singing touches lives, strengthens communities, and unites our planet. Start sharing now your unforgettable moments when singing together truly made a difference.
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2025 Oct 31
World Youth Choir (WYC) Performing
Published: Oct 31,2025
During its session 2025 in Catalonia and France, the World Youth Choir premiered Peace, a new composition by Anna Campmany. Commissioned especially for this session, Peace was performed in renowned venues including the Palau de la Música in Barcelona and the Théâtre Antique in Vaison-la-Romaine.
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2025 Oct 31
European Choral Association (ECA), Conductors Beyond Borders Peer-to-Peer Exchange Programme
Published: Oct 31,2025
Through a Choral TIES project, a series of inspiring sessions have brought together conductors and choirs across borders, strengthening artistic and cultural connections worldwide. The programme has provided limited financial support to help cover travel expenses, enabling European conductors to collaborate with choirs from other continents, EU conductors to work in European countries outside the Union, or European choirs to host conductors from abroad.
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2025 Oct 31
15th European Youth Choir Festival Basel – CALL FOR CHOIRS!
Published: Oct 31,2025
Basel, Switzerland I 4-9 May 2027 Registration open from 1 December 2025 – 31 January 2026 The EJCF Basel ranges among the most important platforms for highly qualified children’s and youth choirs in the world.
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2025 Sep 30
Did You Miss the IFCM Online Café Beware of Vowels and Consonants!?
Published: Sep 30,2025
In this Online Café, we’ll hear from someone who knows exactly how that bridge is built. Our guest is Anastasia Kananovich, originally from Russia and now residing in France, where she is a doctoral student at the University of Strasbourg. Anastasia is perfectly qualified to explain to us why we should "Beware of Vowels and Consonants"!
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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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