Concerts
European Youth Choir Festival
Today, the festival sees itself as a concert and meeting platform for highly qualified children's and youth choirs. In this role, it occupies a leading position worldwide.
Veranstaltungsdetails
The idea for the European Youth Choir Festival Basel EJCF is based on an "ideas competition" organized by Fonds Basel 86 on the theme "Basel - City of Encounters". The competition was launched by the Christoph Merian Foundation in 1989.
The festival was held every three years from 1992-2010. The popularity and size of the event led to the rhythm being shortened to every two years in 2010. The 20th anniversary was celebrated in 2012, and in 2016 the tenth edition was duly honored with an anniversary edition. The 2020 festival was postponed by one year due to the coronavirus pandemic. It took place in spring 2021 in a national version with workshops for Swiss children's and youth choirs. In 2023, the festival was held again in its original international form. The new program EJCF ATELIER for Swiss children's and youth choirs complemented the previous international program EJCF FESTIVAL. Since then, the EJCF has once again been held every two years, always on the days of Ascension in odd-numbered years.
Today, the festival sees itself as a concert and meeting platform for highly qualified children's and youth choirs. In this role, it occupies a leading position worldwide. Around 40,000 listeners usually attend the concerts, most of which are sold out. However, it also sees its task as bringing people together across all borders and discovering new horizons together. This applies to the singers as well as to the audience and choir conductors from all genres and scenes.
Note: This text was translated by machine translation software and not by a human translator. It may contain translation errors.
The festival was held every three years from 1992-2010. The popularity and size of the event led to the rhythm being shortened to every two years in 2010. The 20th anniversary was celebrated in 2012, and in 2016 the tenth edition was duly honored with an anniversary edition. The 2020 festival was postponed by one year due to the coronavirus pandemic. It took place in spring 2021 in a national version with workshops for Swiss children's and youth choirs. In 2023, the festival was held again in its original international form. The new program EJCF ATELIER for Swiss children's and youth choirs complemented the previous international program EJCF FESTIVAL. Since then, the EJCF has once again been held every two years, always on the days of Ascension in odd-numbered years.
Today, the festival sees itself as a concert and meeting platform for highly qualified children's and youth choirs. In this role, it occupies a leading position worldwide. Around 40,000 listeners usually attend the concerts, most of which are sold out. However, it also sees its task as bringing people together across all borders and discovering new horizons together. This applies to the singers as well as to the audience and choir conductors from all genres and scenes.
Note: This text was translated by machine translation software and not by a human translator. It may contain translation errors.