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FESTIVAL

Highlights

• The opening ceremony held in St. Stephen’s Cathedral, Austria’s landmark and a symbol of Austrian identity
  
• Workshops and seminars held in the University of Music in Vienna, one of the largest arts universities in the world
  
• The Gala Winner’s concert, held in the sold out (2000 + audience) Golden Hall of the Musikverein, witnessed by 300 youths from 41 countries participating in the Global Young Leader’s Conference
• The closing ceremony held in the magnificent Festival Hall of Vienna’s City Hall, hosted by the Lord Mayor of Vienna
• For the first time in 2009 donations received at the additional concerts in the Neusiedlerseeregion will go towards „Licht ins Dunkel”, Austria’s largest humanitarian aid organization, supported by the Austrian broadcasting corporation
  
  
  Additional concerts held in some of Vienna’s most reputable cultural institutions such as:
  
  
• The Austrian National Library, featuring the largest baroque library in Europe and one of the most beautiful historical libraries in the world; accompanying the festival is an exhibition of some of the library’s most precious pieces related to music
• The Liechtenstein Museum, housing one of Europe’s most important private art collections
• The „Haus der Musik”, an interactive discovery museum located in the former Palais of Archduke Charles and awarded the Austrian Museum Prize for innovative design
• The SCL festival cooperates with the „Wiener Ferienspiel”, the city’s biggest children’s holiday program; festival performances take place at the opening with over 30.000 children and youths; participants of the Ferienspiel get the opportunity to visit the festival’s venues and are instructed by students specialized in music education
• The Imperial Festival Palace in Schlosshof, a magnificent baroque complex only recently rebuilt in one of Austria’s most ambitious post-war cultural projects
• St. Charles Church, another of Vienna’s greatest buildings and the most beautiful and interesting baroque cathedral north of the Alps
• The „Hofburg”, the Habsburg’s former imperial residence, today’s seat of the Austrian Federal President