"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."

----- Dr. Michael Häupl, mayor of Vienna
 
"We hope that this festival will encourage especially the younger generation to use music as a universally understandable language to close ranks. They will discover the connecting power of singing together and the fact that music is able to give us a more open-minded and tolerant future."

----- Mag. Barbara Prammer, president of national parliament, Austria
 
"I have attended the World Peace Choral Festival from its beginning till now, since 3 years. I am impressed by the festival's activities and I watch that the participants are increasing continuously. This means that the music as a bridge for communicating between the people and a strong tool for enhancing the world peace is accepted by more and more people..."

----- Prof. Brigitte Weissengruber, director of music education, Federal Ministry of Education, Arts and Culture, Austria
 
"A great festival, wonderful friends!"
 
"A wonderful and professional team managed and organized one of the biggest music festivals in the world. We had a wonderful time in Vienna. We sang, we danced and we made many friends - as written in the festival anthem 'Coming together to sing, singing for a better future!'"

----- Unison Children's Choir, Romania
 
"I personally and the children from Vlastarele were very pleased by the special program, the warm reception and hospitality and above all the bonding between so many cultures. There is one thing we realized: that indeed peace can be expressed trough music and that music is the universal language for all of us. Another special moment for us was the concert at the UN and in the Golden Hall of Musikverein. We are very happy that three of our kids were selected for the World Peace Choir."

----- Prof. Petru Androne Eli, Vlastarele Orastiei, Romania
 
"Despite the great amount of choirs from different countries, the World Peace Choral Festival was organized almost perfectly. For next year's World Peace Choral Festival we are looking forward to seeing an even bigger variety of choirs from all over the world! We were very pleased to spend these days in Vienna and to be a part of the WPCF - we were especially honored to sing in the Musikverein."

----- Nadezda Averina, Children's Choir Vesna, Russia
 
"The workshops with the musical directors of the Vienna Boys' Choir were very interesting and fruitful. The barbecue party was nice for the kids, keep it as it was."

----- Narcis Cardona and Jose Vincente de Sousa, Divisi, Valencia, Spain
 
"Thanks for giving me the best summer of my life!"

----- Raquel Torrente Machí­, participant and solo performer of Divisi Valencia choir, Spain