[1][2] The association is officially headquartered in Ghent, Belgium with an office in Brussels in the European House for Culture.
Vice presidents are Jan Briers from Flanders[3] and Michael Herrmann, founder and director of the Rheingau Musik Festival.
[5] The rapid growth of festival events since the 1980s has put pressure on the towns and cities that compete for public funding and competition for better known performers has raised their prices.
[8] International Festival Wratislavia Cantans is held in the Polish city of Wroclaw focusing on oratorios and cantatas from Bach to Handel and their contemporary Pawel Mykietyn.
[9] For 2011, some of the projects include the Ars Nova meeting for new music experts in Belgium, a meeting of the Associations Collective and Affiliate Members, the General Assembly and Conference, the Ateliers for Young Festival Managers in Singapore and Izmir, Turkey, two new books to publish and joint projects with the European House for Culture in Brussels.