| Festival name
|
Location
|
Years
|
Notes
|
| International Stasys Šimkus choir competition |
Klaipėda, Lithuania |
1976–present |
Competition is open to mixed, male, female, youth, children‘s choirs, sacred music, vocal ensembles, folk choirs.
|
| Festival de Música Coral Renascentista Gil de Roca Sales |
Brazil |
2017–present |
Choirs performing "a capella" renaissance music in Porto Alegre in honoring the conductor Gil de Roca Sales.
|
| Festival de Coros del Fin del Mundo
|
Ushuaia, Argentina
|
2019 - present
|
International Choral Festival. Concerts, workshops, conferences and forums with professional live broadcastings.
|
| American Music Performance Invitational for Mixed Choirs |
United States |
2011–present |
series of music festivals for top school choirs
|
| Cincinnati May Festival |
Cincinnati, United States |
1873–present |
festival roots go back to the 1840s
|
| Cork International Choral Festival |
Cork, Ireland |
1954–present |
features choirs from all over the world
|
| Festival 500 |
St. John's, Canada |
1997–2013 |
International biennial non-competitive choral music festival
|
| Ihlombé!
|
Cape Town, Johannesburg, Pretoria, Soweto, South Africa
|
2009-present
|
Organized by Classical Movements
|
| Intervarsity Choral Festival (Australia) |
Australia |
1950–present |
members of university choirs from all state capitals of Australia meet for two weeks
|
| InterVarsity Choral Festival (Canada) |
Canada |
1949–present |
university choirs from Ontario and Quebec, Canada, meet up and perform a combined concert.
|
| Corearte Festival |
Barcelona, Spain |
2007–present |
International Corearte Choir Festival Barcelona , every year in October.
|
| Lago di Garda Music Festival |
Lago di Garda, Italy |
2007–present |
International Festival is non-competitive
|
| MasterWorks Festival |
Cedarville, United States |
1997–present |
month-long summer training program for classical performing artists
|
| Nordic Student Singers' Summit |
Scandinavia |
1987–present |
arranged every third year in a Nordic or Baltic country.
|
| Ohrid Choir Festival |
Ohrid, North Macedonia |
|
held in the second half of August
|
| PICCFEST |
Eugene, United States |
1998–present |
treble choir festival held in conjunction with Oregon Bach Festival
|
| Three Choirs Festival |
United Kingdom |
1719–present |
Alternates between three churches
|
| Universitas Cantat |
Poznań, Poland |
1998–present |
International Festival of University Choirs is non-competitive
|
| Nordic-Baltic Choral Festival |
Europe |
1995–2015 |
Music festival for Nordic and Baltic choirs. Nominally biennial, but only eight held in the period.
|
| Musica Orbis Prague Festival
|
Prague, Czech Republic
|
2019–present
|
International festival for non-professional choirs and orchestras, every year at the turn of June and July.
|
| Summa Cum Laude Festival |
Vienna, Austria |
2007–present |
International Festival for Choirs and Orchestras, every year in early July with a competition in the Wiener Musikverein
|
| International Habaneras and Polyphony Contest of Torrevieja |
Torrevieja, Spain |
1955–present |
International annual choral competition held in July specialized in habaneras and polyphony. It also holds a junior contest.
|
| World Choir Games
|
Worldwide
|
2000 - present
|
Largest worldwide choral festival and competition held biennially in a preselected host city, organised by the Interkultur Foundation
|
