Our Sing Along Concerts in Vienna and Salzburg offer individual singers and choirs the opportunity to perform an important work of choral music in Vienna’s St. Stephen’s Cathedral or Salzburg Cathedral in a professionally organized concert. For 20 years, individual amateur singers and choirs from all over the world come to Austria to be part of this unique Sing Along experience.
Under the direction of a renowned choirmaster you will be studying the relevant piece for several days in rehearsals during the Sing Along! Choir Festival. As part of the Sing Along! Festival Choir newly formed for each piece, you will then perform the work together with your fellow international singers, the Cathedral Orchestra and renowned soloists in a festive final concert in front of a broad audience in Vienna's St. Stephen’s Cathedral.
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Sing Along! Gospel Edition
19 to 21 November 2026 | St. Stephen's Cathedral, Vienna
Sing together, experience together: The ‘Sing mit! Gospel Edition’ is all about the joy of singing. Under the direction of the internationally renowned gospel icon Kim Cooper, a thrilling concert experience takes shape. The songs are rehearsed together in a relaxed atmosphere – no prior experience is necessary. The focus is on energy, community and the raw power of gospel music.
You will work on the songs together with Kom Cooper over several days in workshops. You will then perform them as part of the ‘Sing Mit!’ gospel choir, which will have been formed over the course of those days, accompanied by a jazz ensemble and with Kim Cooper as lead singer, in a grand evening concert at St Stephen’s Cathedral in Vienna.
The grand finale of the 48th Sing Along! Choir Festival is the performance of the rehearsed Gospel songs in St. Stephen's Cathedral. In this way, you continue the tradition of music in the cathedral and follow in the footsteps of great composers. It was in St. Stephen's Cathedral that Joseph and his brother Michael Haydn received extensive musical training as choirboys. Joseph Haydn married here, as did Johann Strauss and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. For Mozart, St. Stephen's Cathedral played an important role throughout his life, especially when he lived in the nearby Figaro House, but also after his death: He married Constanze Weber here, had two of his children baptized in the cathedral and a few months before his death, Mozart applied for the position of music director adjunct at St. Stephen's. Mozart's name can be found both in the record of his death and in the cathedral's Book of Death Fees. Apart from Mozart, Antonio Vivaldi, Christoph Willibald Gluck, Antonio Salieri, Franz Schubert and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart are also recorded here in the Book of the Dead.L. v. Beethoven: Mass in C major
8 to 10 July 2027 | St. Stephen's Cathedral, Vienna
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In the Beethoven Year 2027, come and sing his Mass in C major as part of the ‘Sing Mit!’ Festival Choir at St Stephen’s Cathedral in Vienna. To mark the 200th anniversary of L. v. Beethoven’s birth, you will rehearse the very work of which Beethoven himself said it treated the text ‘in a way that has rarely been done before’. It is precisely in Prince Esterházy’s initial rejection that the revolutionary character of the Mass in C major is expressed.
You will work on the piece during the ‘Sing Along!’ choir festival in workshops lasting several days, led by Erasmus Baumgartner, and will then perform it together with the Vienna Cathedral Orchestra and renowned soloists as a gala closing concert at St Stephen’s Cathedral in Vienna.
The Vienna Cathedral Orchestra is made up of musicians from all the major Viennese orchestras. The spectrum ranges from chamber music ensembles to the romantic symphony orchestra. At the Sunday High Masses, at many other services organized by the Cathedral Music, at special events and at the concerts of the Cathedral Music, the Cathedral Orchestra is the partner of soloists and choir.
The grand finale of the 49th Sing Along! Choir Festival is the performance of the Mass in C major in St. Stephen's Cathedral. In this way, you continue the tradition of music in the cathedral and follow in the footsteps of great composers. It was in St. Stephen's Cathedral that Joseph and his brother Michael Haydn received extensive musical training as choirboys. Joseph Haydn married here, as did Johann Strauss and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. For Mozart, St. Stephen's Cathedral played an important role throughout his life, especially when he lived in the nearby Figaro House, but also after his death: He married Constanze Weber here, had two of his children baptized in the cathedral and a few months before his death, Mozart applied for the position of music director adjunct at St. Stephen's. Mozart's name can be found both in the record of his death and in the cathedral's Book of Death Fees. Apart from Mozart, Antonio Vivaldi, Christoph Willibald Gluck, Antonio Salieri, Franz Schubert and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart are also recorded here in the Book of the Dead.Sing Along! History
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Artistic Director Sing Along! Choir Festivals 2006-2022
Co-Founder Sing Along! Choir Festivals
Since the Mozart Year 2006, singers from all over the world have come together every year to rehearse a great work of music history in joint workshops and to perform it in St. Stephen's Cathedral with soloists, choir and orchestra and to contribute to its preservation. The basic idea of the founders Theresa Konrad-Karsten, Herbert Konrad and Gerald Wirth was to offer every singer the opportunity to present a major choral work with a professional orchestra and renowned soloists in Austria's landmarks, St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna and Salzburg Cathedral.
The project was very well received right from the start. Many singers are already real “veterans”. They have been participating for many years in a row. So far, choirs and individual singers from Germany, Greece, China, Malta, Liechtenstein, New Zealand, Australia, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Italy, Ireland, Japan, the USA, Switzerland and from all over Austria have been welcomed. Gerald Wirth went into well-deserved retirement in 2024. He will continue to support us with his tireless commitment to choral music and his conviction that anyone and everyone can sing.
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