CAMC-Confédération Africaine de Musique Chorale

29/09/2025

🎶 Meet the Jury of the 2025 Music Rights Award! 🌍

We are proud to introduce the distinguished members of this year's jury, representing diverse regions and expertise in the music ecosystem. These esteemed professionals have evaluated the nominations and selected the laureate of the 2025 Music Rights Award.

Stay tuned for the announcement of the laureate on International Music Day, October 1st!
More info about the Music Rights Award: https://imc-cim.org/music-rights-award-2025/



Andre Le Roux Federico Rinaldi Angharad Cooper Benon Kigozi Susana Ferreres .tan

29/09/2025

Present Your Work on the World’s Choral Stage
Be part of the global dialogue! Lectures, seminars, workshops, and roundtables—all are central to the one-week World Symposium on Choral Music 2026.

Apply now for the chance to present your session at WSCM 2026 in Macau, 23–28 August 2026, under the inspiring theme “Reimagining the Future.”

📅 Application deadline: 15 October 2025 — don’t miss it!

https://www.ifcm.net/proj.../world-symposium-on-choral-music

28/09/2025

👍🏽We wish the African choirs participating with local choirs from Mauritius in the African Asia Pacific Choir Games & Grand Prix of Nations Mauritius 2025 the best of luck!
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👍🏽Nos encouragements aux choeurs africains qui participent avec des choeurs locaux de l'Île Maurice à African Pacific Choir Games & Grand Prix of Nations Mauritius 2025.

🇨🇩 Congo American Language Institute - Kinshasa Cali Choir, Kinshasa (DRC) - Festival

🇰🇪 Strathmore University Chorale, Nairobi (Kenya) - Categorie "Youth Choir " & Categorie "Sacred Choral Music "

🇳🇦 CGALS Chamber Choir, Swakopmund (Namibie) - Categorie "Sacred Choral Music " & Categorie "Jazz, Pop, Show"

🇳🇦 Opuwo Youth Choir, Opuwo (Namibie) - Categorie "Youth Choir " & Categorie "Folklore " 02,08

🇿🇦 Paul Roos Gymnasium Choir, Stellenboch (South Africa) -Categorie "Music of Spirit & Faith" & Categorie "Folklore "

🇿🇦 The Treble Clefs Eeersterivier, Cape Town (South Africa) - Categorie "Chamber Choirs & Vocal Ensembles"

🇿🇦 URC Sarepta Ladies Choir, Cape Town (South Africa) - Categorie "Music of Spirit & Faith"

🇿🇦 URCSA Light of hope choir - "dibobolane", Gauteng (South Africa) - Categorie "Adult Choirs"

10/09/2025

🌍 ONLINE WEBINAR FREE REGISTRATION ALERT: A side event in the lead-up to MONDIACULT 2025
📅 18 September 2025 | 12:00–13:00 CEST

How can we build more sustainable frameworks for cultural cooperation across borders? What concrete solutions can address the recurring and complex visa challenges that restrict cross-border mobility? These pressing questions — and more — will be explored in this webinar.

SPEAKERS:
👉 Pierre Claver Mabiala - Espace Culturel Yaro , Republic of Congo
👉 Kellie Magnus - CaribbeanCultureFund, Jamaica
👉 Hang Nguyen - Airvine Residency Network, Vietnam

🎤 Moderation: Silja Fischer, Secretary General, International Music Council

🔗 JOIN US NOW, REGISTRATION OPEN: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/MYGf0fQCRyipVY0hOMFlfQ #/registration

🤝 An event in collaboration with On the Move , Réseau ZoneFranche , AFRICALIA , Culture et Développement , Pearle Live Performance Europe , and MobiCulture.

04/09/2025

☕️ IFCM Online Café: Beware of Vowels and Consonants!
Science and Practice of Choral Intelligibility

🗓️ 27 September 2025, 2PM Central European Summer Time (12 PM UTC).
Online via Zoom
Register on https://forms.gle/We45cDDwTCWVFwFm9

🤔 How many times have we heard that a choir sounds great, but it is just impossible to distinguish what they sing?
Anastasia Kananovich, a third-year PhD student at the University of Strasbourg, puts this question at the heart of her research on the intelligibility of choirs. During the next Online Café, Anastasia will offer an overview of main scientific findings on the intelligibility of sung texts and possible applications to choral practice. She will also update us on her own work, sharing some results of the survey she has conducted among members of the international choral community (more than 350 responses from choristers, conductors, vocal and language coaches, and choral composers from all over the world) and presenting the ongoing experimental phase of her research and its perspectives.

🎤 Guest: Anastasia Kananovich, PhD student at the University of Strasbourg, France, combines her research on choir intelligibility with language teaching and choral singing. She is currently a chorister with the Strasbourg Philharmonic Choir (conducted by Catherine Bolzinger) and has previously conducted the Council of Europe Choir in Strasbourg.

This IFCM Online Café will be moderated by Ki Adams, IFCM Board Member, Canada

04/09/2025

🌍🎶 REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN! 🎶🌍

Be part of the world’s largest choral celebration – the World Choir Games 2026 in Helsingborg, Sweden! From August 6–16, choirs from every corner of the globe will gather to sing, compete, and share unforgettable moments together.

✨ Secure your place early: Early Bird Registration Deadline is November 17, 2025.

👉 Join in and bring the SING to HelSINGborg: www.wcg2026.com!

01/09/2025

01/09/2025

Applications are now open for the inaugural IFCM Young Conductors’ Virtual Mentorship Programme!

Over 6 months, developing conductors will connect with experienced choral leaders worldwide for guidance, inspiration, and exchange.

🎶 Mentees: Under 35 and an IFCM member? Learn from an experienced conductor.
🎶 Mentors: Experienced choral conductor? Share your expertise and shape the next generation of leaders.

📅 Applications close: 21 September 2025
📅 Programme: October 2025 – April 2026
👉 Build skills. Share ideas. Make global connections.

🔗 More info and apply now: https://www.ifcm.net/projects/young-conductors--virtual-mentorship-programme

30/08/2025

04/05/2025

🎶 Choral TIES Webinar: Conducting. Youth and Children’s Choirs 🎤
📅 22 May 2025 at 2 PM Central European Summer Time (12 PM UTC).
🌍 Online via Zoom: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/pZwcYl4vQFKqtNzVQjc8vw

✨ Encouraging the creation of youth and children's choirs, giving practical inputs and tools to choral conductors and leaders. Conducting children's and youth choirs can be challenging. It requires creativity, enthusiasm, joy, and excellence. The three invited conductors, each with different, personal, and successful works, will present their ideas, strategies, and philosophies on how to choose repertoire, work on rehearsal techniques, and prepare concerts and projects for this type of ensemble.

👥 Guests:
Basilio Astulez (Basque Country, Spain)
Basilio is a choral conductor and music educator. He founded the Leioa Kantika Korala children´s choir in 2000 and the San Juan Bautista Abesbatza (SJB) mixed youth choir in 2008. The recently-founded choir school at the Leioa Municipal Music Conservatory has over 250 singers and its choral ensembles have received numerous awards.

Zimfira Poloz (Canada)
Award-winning conductor, educator, and artistic director of the Toronto Children's Chorus, Zimfira leads 300 singers across eight ensembles. Passionate about the transformative power of choral music, Zimfira is committed to developing artistic excellence and vocal integrity while, simultaneously, inspiring the next generation of musicians worldwide.

Ken Wakia (Kenya)
Motivated in the early years of his career by his membership in the World Youth Choir and his time in the United States singing with Jubilate Vocal Ensemble (Miami, Florida), Ken founded the Nairobi Chamber Chorus with a vision of enabling young Kenyans to participate in a high-quality musical forum through which they can build their careers and expand their realm of knowledge and interest in the arts.

🔗 Register here: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/pZwcYl4vQFKqtNzVQjc8vw