Zurich hosts the sixth World Youth Music Festival
From July 6 to 10, 2017, the World Youth Music Festival (WJMF) will take place in Zurich for the 6th time - with more participants than ever before: 3700 young people and over 80 orchestras from all over the world.
The more than 80 participating orchestras come from 12 different countries, including Japan, China, the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Bulgaria, Hungary and Switzerland. The orchestras compete in the categories of concert, parade music, show, percussion and big band. They will be judged by experts from Canada, Germany, Austria, Belgium and Switzerland.
On 6 July 2017, the National Youth Wind Orchestra and the Symphonic Wind Orchestra of the Swiss Armed Forces will showcase the level of music-making in Switzerland in Theater 11. To kick off the festival weekend, around 3,700 participating young people will march into the Hallenstadion with their national flags on Friday evening, July 7, 2017. On Saturday morning, July 8, 2017, more than 80 youth orchestras from all over the world will parade through Zurich's Old Town.
The central festival site is the Münsterhof, where there is a Chilbi throughout the weekend. The free "Young talents on stage" concerts by international youth orchestras will also take place here and in many other places in the city. The festival ends on Sunday afternoon, July 9, 2017, in the Hallenstadion with the closing ceremony, including the eagerly awaited award ceremony.
Around 400 volunteers make it possible to stage this major event, which first brought together musicians aged between 9 and 25 in 1985. Over the past 30 years, 170 orchestras from 40 countries have met for a musical competition.
Info: www.wjmf.ch
