The European Youth Choir (EYC, formerly known as EuroChoir) is an international European choir, organised by the European Choral Association (ECA). The choir was created in 1982 by the Federation of European Choral Associations (AGEC). The AGEC merged in 2011 to form the European Choral Association, which has organized it since in collaboration with local partners. From 2025, the choir was renamed to European Youth Choir.
The EYC is a project choir, composed of around 60 young adults (aged between 18 and 30) from various different European countries. They are led by two conductors and a vocal coach. Each year they rehearse for a week during the summer holidays in one of the participating countries, ending with a series of concerts.
Editions As early as 1971 the AGEC decided to create a European youth choir, the first edition of which took place in Helsinki in 1975. Beyond that, a number of ad hoc youth choirs were organised in The Hague in 1975 and in Delft in 1980. In 1982, Eurochor (as it was called back then) was created. #YearCity / citiesCountriesConductor(s)11982InnsbruckAustria21983HamburgGermany31984VaduzLiechtenstein41985BolzanoItaly1986WarsawPolandDid not take place51987ArnhemNetherlands61988BerlinGermany71989WarschauPoland81990Zeillern / LinzAustria91991ArnhemNetherlandsOane Wierdsma and 101992PoeldijkNetherlands111993KoksijdeBelgiumVic Nees, and 121994 / InterlakenSwitzerland and Andé Ducret131995Trossingen / FreiburgGermany141996BudapestHungary151997BolzanoItaly161998GrazAustria171999WaldfischbachGermany182000Budapest / VisegrádHungary192001OlsztynPolandBenedykt Błoński202002BruggeBelgium and Luc Anthonis212003BerlinGermany and Luc Anthonis222004LucerneSwitzerland and Rainer Held232005ViennaAustria and 242006DresdenGermanyGunter Berger and 252007MechelenBelgium and 262008BrixenItalyErwin Ortner272009PomázHungary and Éva Kollár282010NišSerbia and Božidar Crnjanski292011ArcoItaly and 302012Lomnice nad PopelkouCzech Republic and 312013PécsHungary and Alessandro Cadario322014SaintesFrance and Geoffroy Jourdain2015Did not take place332016San Vito al TagliamentoItaly and 342017UtrechtNetherlands and 352018Helsinki / TallinnFinland / Estonia and 362019Vaison-la-RomaineFrance2020LimerickIreland; cancelled due to COVID-19 and Bernie Sherlock372021LjubljanaSlovenia and Bernie Sherlock382022Basel / Flims / RheinauSwitzerland and 2023Did not take place392024Varna / Sozopol / SofiaBulgariaDonka Miteva and 402025ValenciaSpainDonka Miteva and Francesc Valldecabres Sanmartín412026MontpellierFranceDonka Miteva and Pierre-Louis Delaporte
European Youth Choir (1994–2001) Besides the EuroChoir organised by the AGEC at the time, there was also an earlier European Youth Choir organized by Europa Cantat – European Federation of Young Choirs (the other predecessor of the ECA). In 2002 it was eventually decided that the overlap of interest in it and the World Youth Choir was too big, so it was stopped that year. YearSessionTourConductor1994Ghent, BelgiumBelgium, Germany and DenmarkJohan Duijck1995Saint-Léger-sous-Beuvray, FranceFrance and LuxembourgJohan Duijck1996Marktoberdorf, GermanyGermany, Switzerland, Austria and ItalyJohan Duijck1997Veszprém, HungaryHungary, Slovenia and Austria1998Vitoria, SpainSpain and France1999Trossingen, GermanyGermany, Switzerland and France2000Saint-Léger-sous-Beuvray, FranceFrance, Belgium and Germany (at World Expo in Hanover)Frieder Bernius2001Hamar, NorwayNorway and SwedenCarl Høgset
Revoice After the session in Pécs in 2013, a new choir was set up with the participants of that edition, named REVOICE!. The choir is led by the 5 conductors and EuroChoir alumni Fabien Aubé, Balázs Porcsalmy, Lucia Bérešová, Taum Karni and Xavier García Cardona and gives a number of concerts each year throughout Europe. In 2015, REVOICE collaborated with EuroChoir to perform at Expo 2015 in Milan.
References
External links
European Youth Choir - Official website