IFCM Board NEWS
IFCM Board meets in Legnano, Italy, June 2012
IFCM press release
The full board of the IFCM met for its first gathering of 2012 as guests of Francesco and Carlo Leonardi and the ‘La Fa…Read More →
Engaging with Arabic Choral Music
John D. Perkins
Though Arabic choral music has a long history in the Arab world, the non-Arab world is just beginning to engage with the genre.[1] I wish to open a discussion about t…Read More →
A Choral Storm in Cincinnati
Some Reflections on the Seventh Edition of the World Choir Games
Aurelio Porfiri, choral conductor and teacher
Between July 4 and 14, 2012, the ‘great city of Cincinnati’ (as the Amer…Read More →
A Look at the IFCM Finances
IFCM treasurer, Håkan Wickström, in interview with Andrea Angelini, ICB Managing Editor
Andrea Angelini: A couple of years ago the financial situation of IFCM was not in a very flourishing condi…Read More →
Reports and Reflections From the 11th China International Chorus Festival and IFCM World Choral Summit
Beijing, July 2012
On 16th and 17th July 2012, the IFCM World Choral Summit was held in Beijing. Many choral experts from 24 countries and regions came to China to get together and communic…Read More →
International Choral Competition ‘Ave Verum’, Baden bei Wien
An Auspicious Motet!
Andrea Angelini, ICB Managing Editor, conductor and teacher
The name Baden immediately brings to mind imperial and upper-middle-class life in the 18th century. It…Read More →
Choral Courage
Approaching contemporary choral music development – with open ears and alert minds
Stephen Leek, IFCM Vice President and composer
We all know that a choral program needs to embrace ma…Read More →
Editorial
Andrea Angelini, ICB Managing Editor
Dear readers,
It has to be said, thirty years of activity is a wonderful achievement. A great deal has happened since that distant August in 1982 when 45 countries…Read More →