International Audi Youth Choir Festival

This year, for the first time, the festival will also feature the International Audi Youth Choir Festival from July 13 – 15 (Audi Jugendchor Festival).

Participating in the festival will be the Audi Academic Youth Choir from Ingolstadt, as well as the Ingolstadt Youth Chamber Choir, the Chamber Choir of South Africa, the womens’ youth choir Pražska kantiléna from the Czech Republic, the Taipei men’s youth choir from Taiwan and BALSIS.  The special guests at this festival will be The King’s Singers from Great Britain!

The festival will open on July 11 with a Bavarian Radio - Klassik broadcast from the Audi Auto Museum (Audi Museum Mobile) with a panel discussion „Youth Sings!” and will feature a performance by BALSIS.

All choirs will perform solo concerts as part of the festival, presenting both sacred and contemporary repertoire, but the festival will conclude on July 15with a performance of the Brahms German Requiem, featuring all 200 singers, soloists and the Georgian Chamber Orchestra of Ingolstadt (Georgisches Kammerorchester Ingolstadt), under the direction of Martin Steidler.

Until then, BALSIS is busy rehearsing this beautiful and massive masterwork!