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Seasons greetings
The IFCM wishes you every success and happiness in 2014.
REMEMBER that 2014 is the year of the 10th World Symposim on Choral Music – have you booked your place yet?
August 6 – 13, Seoul, South Korea
A sample of participating Choirs
The Muungano National Choir of Kenya was founded in 1979 by Boniface Mganga producing an effortlessly beautiful sound, whether singing Western music or Kenyan tribal songs. The songs spring from a fusion of the rich and varied rhythmic and melodic traditional and neo-traditional African tunes infused with movement and song in a truly African way. The Choir came to international prominence with their recording of Missa Luba and their appearance in 1999 at the IFCM World Choral Symposium in Rotterdam, Netherlands.
The USC Thornton Chamber Singers are the premiere choral ensemble at the University of Southern California and are conducted by Jo-Michael Scheibe. Since being founded more than 50 years ago they have been consistently hailed as a model for excellence in choral performance. The choir has appeared through the West Coast of the USA as well as tours in Europe and Asia. They won the Grand Prize in Varna in the 1999 International Choral Competition. Their repertoire spans the range of Renaissance to the music of today.
Vale Dolf Rabus (April 4, 1946 - December 18, 2013)
 It is with great sadness that we inform you that former IFCM Treasurer, colleague, and friend Dolf Rabus has passed away. Dolf added so much to IFCM through the years and was instrumental in building, and documenting many significant world choral projects. Michael J. Anderson IFCM President
On December 18th we received the sad news that Dolf Rabus passed away after a long fight against his illness. Dolf Rabus was a grand figure in the choral world, not only physically. He was Secretary General of Europa Cantat from 1995 to 1999 and served among others as member of the Music Commission of Europa Cantat, former President and member of the executive Board of Musica International, Board Member and Treasurer of the International Federation for Choral Music (IFCM) and member of the music commissions of various World Symposia on Choral Music in his long and intensive career in the international choral world. Furthermore, Dolf had multiple functions in Germany with the German Music Council and the Arbeitskreis Musik in der Jugend as well as with the umbrella organisation Bundesvereinigung Deutscher Chorverbände - BDC. Most of all he was the founder and director and even partly architect of the Bavarian Music Academy in Marktoberdorf and the founder of the International Chamber-Choir Competition Marktoberdorf and the festival Musica Sacra International as well as of the Choral Festival Network - CFN. Most recently he helped shape the programme of the Mediterranean Voices Conference in Girona as member of its Artistic Committee and he participated in the conference with his wife Hildegard, sharing his experience and material from many Musica Sacra festivals. The choral world shall greatly miss Dolf Rabus, a grand visionary who made changes, a fighter, and somebody who truly believed in the peace-making power of (choral) music.
(from ECA-EC newsletter)
The international choral world lost one of its major figures and visionaries on 18 December 2013 when Dolf Rabus died following a long battle with cancer, bravely borne. Dolf was known far and wide, mainly as Director of the International Choir Competition, and Musica Sacra Festival in Marktoberdorf, Germany, but also for the contribution he made to the IFCM, Musica International, the Choral Festival Network, World Symposia on Choral Music, among many other activities too numerous to mention. He was a visionary in both his ideas and in what he achieved over many years. He was a big man in every way – a big character, big in his ideas, his vision, his mind, his intellect, his personality, and his generosity of heart. While his achievements are many, and his contribution to the choral world at international level immense, it is the memory of Dolf, the person, with his huge spirit that will always remain with us. We have all lost a dear, and generous friend. The Cork International Choral Festival extends its deepest sympathy to his wife, Hildegard, his family and his many friends.
Cork International Choral Festival, Ireland
It is with sadness that we all bid farewell to Dolf. My association with him goes back many years when we worked together for the advancement of the Federation. In addition, I observed on numerous occasions the superb work he did at Marktoberdorf in bringing together choirs from throughout the world...in concerts, offering classes...but above all, breaking down cultural and political barriers through the choral art. Dolf leaves a legacy that will continue long after he is gone. And all of us...his friends...are the "More Rich" having known him. Thank you, Dolf.
Royce Saltzman, former IFCM President
World Youth Choir 2014 season auditions 2013/2014 are now closed
Meanwhile… Preparations for the 2014/2015 auditions are underway and need even greater support from all relevant individuals and institutions all over the world. Your INVOLVMENT is required! Are you the next one to join and help us recruit talented singers in your country? You can make a difference! Contact us if interested info@worldyouthchoir.org
Calling World Youth Choir session hosts in 2015 and beyond
Host a project for peace, a youth musical showcase of the highest quality. Build new horizons for young, talented musicians keen to learn singing - build new social, communal, artistic capacities chorally. Support exchange, education and interaction with individuals and groups, schools, universities. Gain recognition hosting the choir as a powerful marketing tool locally and worldwide and at the same time interacting with the world youth choir patron organizations offering the biggest range of opportunities a young person can strive for. Read the full press release if interested contact us at info@worldyouthchoir.org
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What's on in our choral world inJanuary 2014
- 2 Jan Call for Original Scores: Orthodox Liturgical Choral Music for performance at the 2014 Pan-Orthodox Liturgical Music Symposium, Cincinnati, USA −www.orthodoxchoralmusic.com
- 4 Jan New Year's International Choir Festival Vienna 2014, Austria −www.eventtours.nl
- 4-9 Winter Fairy-tale! Vienna, Austria, Teplice & Prague, Czech Republic, Dresden & Berlin, Germany − www.children-festivals.com or www.advent-in-prague.cz
- 6 Jan Choral Espoo International Choir Composition Competition, Finland −www.kuoroespoo.fi
- 15 Jan World Peace Choir, Global project − www.worldpeacechoir.net
- 20-26 China Meets America, New York, USA − info@master-music.cn
- 22-25 London A Cappella Festival 2014 Kings Place, London, UK −www.londonacappellafestival.co.uk
- 23-26 20th International Choir Festival, Paris, France − www.choirfestivalparis.com
- 24-25 1st International Youth and Children´s Choral Festival IUVENTUS IN PRAGA CANTAT, Prague, Czech Republic − www.orfea.cz/festivalova-kancelar
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