14th European Youth Choir Festival Basel

Between the ESC and the European Women's Championship, the EJCF sets off a firework display of choral music

Between the Eurovision Song Contest ESC and the European Women's Championship, the EJCF 2025 will provide an offer that also appeals to those sections of the population who prefer to avoid the hustle and bustle of this year's Basel mega-events. With its aim of touching people's hearts with unamplified choral music and strengthening the feeling of togetherness through collective singing, it reaches not only choral fans but also people who are inspired by an atmospheric atmosphere and a lot of youthful singing.

A richly loaded program

A visit to the Youth Choir Festival in Basel is worthwhile for choir-loving concert-goers, but also for musicians with a professional eye. The countless festival concerts with the best children's and youth choirs from all over Europe and Cameroon touch, inspire and entertain, but are also a source of ideas for new repertoire, for ideas for the realization of music on stage and in the concert hall and for new concert concepts.

Anyone looking for an overview of the festival events will travel to the opening show "Fulminantes Chorspektakel" on the Wednesday before Ascension Day. 900 young people from all over Europe and 400 singers from grammar schools in the Basel region will present themselves and their country of origin with a powerful choral work, perform a choreography by Daniel Raaflaub to the piece "Dona nobis pacem" by Susanna Lindmark and perform a new composition for 1000-voice choir and electronics by James Varghese. Federal Councillor Beat Jans will give the welcoming address. Concert lovers are spoiled for choice. Over 30 concerts cover everything from playful to traditional choral concerts at the most beautiful concert venues in the Basel region. Singing enthusiasts can attend the Sing mit! events with Patrick Barrett and Flavia Walder at Theater Basel, take part in workshops with choirs from France, Norway or Spain on the choir ship or enjoy spontaneous loop singing with Anders Edenroth in "The Big Sing" on Münsterplatz. If you are traveling to Basel with children, it is best to visit the "Singe uf dr Strooss" on five open-air stages in Basel's city centre on Saturday afternoon or enjoy a carousel ride on Barfüsserplatz in the afternoon, accompanied by live music. And last but not least, anyone who has not yet registered for the 14th Swiss Choir Conductors' Meeting should do so as soon as possible. So much further training and encounters with like-minded people are rarely available in Switzerland.

Off to Basel for the festival of choral music! Advance ticket sales for the concerts have already begun. All information can be found at www.ejcf.ch.