The festival songbook is available

The special design for this year's Swiss Children's and Youth Choir Festival (SKJF) published by the Songbook is in Amriswil Publisher Swiss Songbook has been published. It contains a diverse selection of 34 songs, including choral pieces in various instrumentations as well as numerous canons with different levels of difficulty. New, previously unpublished works are also included, including commissioned compositions by Swiss composers such as Franziska Gohl, Maria Laschinger, Rudolf Lutz, Claudio Pontiggia, Carl Rütti, Beat Vögele and Geri Zumbrunn. The music commission under the direction of Bernhard Bichler has put together the Songbooks In addition to diversity and a wealth of stylistic variations, attention was also paid to the representation of all four national languages.

A highlight from this year's songbook is the piece être un oiseauwhich will be premiered by the Swiss Youth Choir. The composition for up to six voices places high demands on the 16 to 25-year-old choir singers.

Diverse Swiss choral landscape
The more than 50 participating choirs include representatives from all regions, such as the StimmWerkBande from Graubünden, which gave a joint performance with a friendly American choir in Tennessee to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. The Central Swiss youth choir Nha Fala, which launched a musical to mark its 70th anniversary, is also taking part. As will the Ticino choir Cantori della Turrita Bellinzona, which has been internationally renowned since the 1970s and has performed in over 15 countries. With sixtiinsforju, a choir from Valais is also represented with around 20 female singers aged between 13 and 19.