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21th EUROTREFF: 03.-07.09.2025
The EUROTREFF is an international children’s and youth choir festival, which has been held every two years in Wolfenbüttel since 1989.
Children’s and youth choirs from all over the world come together for four days to sing together and get to know their cultural and individual similarities and differences. In workshops, the choirs work on a repertoire of pieces with a specific festival theme under the guidance of renowned international choirmasters. The results of the workshops are presented to a large audience at the final concert. The choirs also present pieces from their home countries in encounter concerts.
TOGETHER! – Guiding theme of the EUROTREFF 2025
Together! This encompasses many aspects of music-making and choral music in general, but it also takes account of social developments and aims to set an example of cohesion, community and solidarity in the best sense of the word and make a contribution to mindful and respectful coexistence in the international community. Networking with the Wolfenbüttel region and the state of Lower Saxony is an important aspect of this. This creates opportunities for encounters in social institutions, in host families, in churches and on the streets.
One festival – three goals.
1. to provide new musical impulses for young choirs
2. encounters between cultures, encounters on site in Wolfenbüttel and encounters with themselves as young musicians
3. participatory development of an umbrella organisation protection concept for the AMJ
Preparations are ongoing.
Children’s and youth choirs can apply to take part in EUROTREFF 2025 until 30 November 2024. This is very easy via the link on this website. The exact programme of the EUROTREFF with concert announcements and participation opportunities for interested listeners will follow in the coming months.
FAQ
The choir repertoire that you have brought with you will be sung at the opening concert in the Lindenhalle in Wolfenbüttel on Wednesday, 3rd September 2025. The smaller church concerts on 4th and 5th will be performed with only two choir groups per concert at different churches in Wolfenbüttel and in the surrounding area. On 4th, 5th and on the Saturday afternoon on 6th September, the choir groups, together with their choir group conductors (German: Atelier-groups), will be intensively rehearsing their new repertoire. On 6th September in the evening, there will be the large final concert in the Lindenhalle, where all choir groups will be performing their rehearsed repertoire. The Member of Parliament for Lower Saxony will also be attending. On the morning of the 6th, the individual choirs will be singing outside in the medieval old town of Wolfenbüttel. On the morning of the last day, on the 7th September, the choirs will give a short concert during the church service or at a social institution in Wolfenbüttel. Departure is at about midday on 7th.
All the EUROTREFF participants will be accommodated in youth hostels, host families and sports halls of the schools in Wolfenbüttel. For the participants staying in the sports halls, air beds, sleeping bag, sheet and pillow will be provided by the German Red Cross for the international participants. German participants are asked to bring their own. The youth hostel in Braunschweig and in Wolfenbüttel are booked out completely for EUROTREFF participants. The youth hostel in Wolfenbüttel (Jugendgästehaus in Seeligerpark) and the youth hostel in Braunschweig (DJH Jugendherberge in Wendenstraße) are super.
Every participant pays a fee of 150, 130 or 100 euros depending on their country of origin. Please look at the back of our flyer for the detailed list of countries and their respective fee.
No. Travel to and from EUROTREFF has to be paid for by the choir participants themselves.
- EUROTREFF is a wonderful chance to learn new repertoire with great choir conductors
- At the final concert in the Lindenhalle, the atmosphere with about 500 singers from all over Europe is an extremely special and unique experience
- International get-togethers make international friendships