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The Austrian Choral Association
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- The Austrian Choral Association (ChVÖ) represents choral associations and societies located throughout Austria's nine provinces, a total of 3,000 individual choirs and 70,000 active singers. The ChVÖ carries out its own agenda and pursues general interests common to all choral societies.
- The ChVÖ’s principal task is to plan and organize various projects for amateur choirs all over Austria such as workshops, festivals and competitions. Special emphasis is put on musical education for children and young people. Today singing in a choir is the only chance for many children to get any kind of musical education. In the whole of Austria choral societies offer a large number of youth projects for which they engage first class choir directors and music teachers to give the young people the best possible start.
- The Austrian Youth Choral Academy held annually in Salzburg was established to provide excellent choral training for young singers. The Congress for Choral Music offers workshops and innovative concepts for both singers and conductors.
- The national choral competition “Austria Cantat” and the international choral competition “Walther von der Vogelweide” offer choirs the opportunity to compare their performances and define their positions on the choral scene.
- Today’s aim is not only to maintain tradition but to keep up to date with new and innovative tendencies and developments in the way of choral literature and performances and to raise public awareness of choral music.
- Advanced training and further development for choir directors and singers is offered at the St. Virgil symposium in Salzburg, through lectures by international choral experts and composers.
- The periodical "Chor aktuell" with contributions on various special fields is a means of presenting the ChVÖ nationally and internationally.
- The ChVÖ is a founding member of the Union of European Choral Associations (AGEC) and has intensified its international contacts in recent years. Significant in this respect is its membership in the International Federation of Choral Music (IFCM).
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