On the afternoon of July 30th (local time), the choirs from all over the world came to the Schonbrunn which is the Princess Sissi's Royal Summer House. In the broad square before the pavilion,
The master classes of World Peace Choral Festival were held in the classrooms of Schubert-Saal and Mozart-Saal in Augarten Palais as scheduled at 9:00 am, July 30th (local time).
A highlight of World Peace Festival this year is that choral competitions of all the choirs are newly added.
The Fourth World Peace Choral Festival opened in Vienna, Austria on July 29th, 2013 (local time). The youth and children's choirs from all over the world got together in Vienna-the music capital of the world at the call of the slogan "Coming together to sing, Singing for a better future".
The grand opening ceremony of the Fourth World Peace Choral Festival will be held in the Vienna City Hall tomorrow when the youth choirs from all over the world gather in Vienna” the music capital of the world
The world famous Vienna Boys' Choir will take part in the World Peace Choral Festival 2013 again. It will be the 4th time of their participation in the festival.
The United Nations headquarters in Vienna continues their strong support to the World Peace Choral Festival and invites all choirs to participate in the festival this year to perform in the UN headquarters in Vienna.
The performance of the World Peace Choir at the New Year's gala broadcasted by CCTV 15 was a huge success and gained broad attention from the Chinese audience.
After the great success of the World Peace Choir Festival 2012, Gerald Wirth, artistic director of the Vienna Boys' Choir and the World Peace Choral Festival organizers have agreed on extending their excellent collaboration in the upcoming festival in 2013.
The UN City is promoting the festival, why do you think the promoting is so important?
"Music is not only an essential part of our art and culture, music expresses the joy of living and acts as an international language for intercultural communication."
"Thanks for giving me the best summer of my life!", said Raquel Torrente Machí, a participant of the World Peace Choral Festival 2012 and a solo performer of the Divisi Valencia Choir from Spain.