• Confirmed Performances

  • IFC is confirmed to sing two concerts are the following venues

  • Full 1-hour concert at St. George's Anglican Church Monday 6:00 pm

  • Full 1-hour concert at Church of Santa Maria dei Miracoli, Wednesday, 6:00 pm

  • St. Mark's Basilica - As of November 2024, the Basilica stopped receiving requests for guest choirs to sing for Mass; we pursued this as recently as January 2025, but this appears to no longer be an option; we have however scheduled a private 1-hour tour of St. Mark’s Basilica as part of our activity package

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• Confirmed Repertoire

  • Our Italy concert tour repertoire can be accessed at the link below; the link contains audio demo links as well as links to .PDF scores

  • Scores are copyrighted resources and are the property of International Festival Chorus and are not to be shared with others outside of the chorus

  • Link to repertoire: Italy Tour Repertoire

  • Our repertoire was carefully curated by our IFC Conductor, Tom Anderson, and section leaders and based on these principles:

  • Repertoire must be a mix of uniquely western and Asian pieces, as well as a select Italian Renaissance piece

  • Concert repertoire must be challenging enough that it is appealing to a sophisticated Venetian audience

  • Repertoire must be accessible enough that a group of non-professional (amateur) choristers can prepare it to a high level of excellence in the rehearsals we have at our disposal

  • Many Italy choristers come from our current IFC cohort, therefore, there are some Italy repertoire selections that overlap with our May concert season

  • ⁠⁠Italy choristers also number from our alumni, therefore, selections were chosen from past post-covid seasons

  • ⁠⁠As an international choir, our repertoire reflects a few languages and pieces from across the globe

  • ⁠⁠All the above PLUS the repertoire should be singable, beautiful, enjoyable to prepare, and when combined, form just the right compliment for a concert tour

  • Selections from current May concert season

    • Abide With Me

    • Come To Me

    • Home

    • Sing Your Way Home

    • ⁠The Road Home

    • We Rise Again

  • Selections from previous IFC seasons

    • Bridge Over Troubled Water

    • Earth Song

    • Exultate Justi

    • If Ye Love Me

    • Peace

    • The Seal Lullaby

  • New selections

    • Calon Lân

    • Cantate Domino

    • Crucifixus

    • Dahil Sa’ Iyo​

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• Performance preparation

  • All choristers – Singapore based and off-island choristers – agree to learn the music independently and join Singapore and/or Venice rehearsals in order to be prepared to concert standards

  • All IFC & guest choristers agree to learn their music to agreed-upon core standards of advance preparation

  • Concert preparation expectations are required in order for IFC to  guarantee a concert-ready standard of all choral participants - see below for these details

  • International/alumni choristers are invited to join 1-2 of the Singapore rehearsals before departing for the trip; if this is not possible, international/alumni choristers will join the singing cohort in Venice for final rehearsals

  • Confirmed rehearsals in Venice are as follows:

    • Saturday late afternoon

    • Sunday afternoon

    • Monday afternoon

    • Wednesday afternoon

    • These rehearsals are mandatory to sing the concerts

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• Concert preparation core standards

  • IFC maintains a high standard of performance excellence

  • In order to attain concert readiness from all choral participants, a stated expectation of core standards has been prepared by our conductor, Tom Anderson

  • Concert preparation core standards can be found HERE