About us

The Youth Arts Festival, organised by the International Volkskulturkreis e.V., is a cultural event that aims to promote art and music. It includes choir, orchestra, dance and painting. The festival takes place mainly in Europe (Germany and Austria), but also in Asia (China and Japan) and the USA. The theme of the spring event is the International Youth Arts Festival, while the summer event is the World Youth Arts Festival.

The Art Changes the World

Since 2011, choruses, orchestras, dance groups and young painters from all over the world have gathered in Europe for music and art communication under the leadership of the famous conductor Jörg-Hannes Hahn. In 2016, Professor Hahn took the 57-member Stuttgart Bach Choir on a 10-day concert tour of cities such as Beijing, Xi’an and Shanghai. Making friends through music has become a tradition of the festival. In the new year of 2017, the Junger Kammerchor Boeblingen again visited China for a week with a group of 20 members, and gave concerts in Hong Kong and Macao.

The success of musical communication depends greatly on the guidance of masters. Besides the master classes at the festival, we also invite German musicians to China every spring and autumn to teach young musicians.

The Youth Arts and Culture Festival, rich and colourful in content, is an artistic feast that leaves each participant with an unforgettable exotic musical experience.

Arts Directors

Professor Jörg-Hannes Hahn studied church music, organ, piano and conduct from Werner Jacob, Ludger Lohmann and Marie-ClaireAlain in Paris. In 1992, he acquired the Nuremberg International Organ Week Music Festival Prize.

Born in Leipzig and trained as a professional dancer, Andreas Mitschke studied musicology, history of art and church – music before focusing on conducting.

Our Jurys

As a music educator (LA) and cultural and media educator (BA), he engages in the school and extracurricular field of cultural, music and media education. Heimsch works in the SWR Choral Management, is Deputy Music Director of the Choir Youth in the SCV and presenter / producer of the radio program “Vocals On Air”.

Michael Čulo was born in 1980 in Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany.

In 2010 he was Music Director of the Lutheran World Federation Eleventh Assembly and in 2010 he was appointed Associate Conductor with the Stuttgart´s Boys Choir “Collegium Iuvenum”.

Since July 2013 he is the follower of Friedemann Keck as the official Conductor of the Boyschoir.

Mr.Bruno Seitz is the head of wind music association of Baden-Württemberg. He graduated from Stuttgart State University of Music and Performing Arts. In 2007, he was the president of Metzingen Conservatory.

Stuttgart Children’s Dance School is a professional college teaching children ballet, jazz and tap dance, in possess of hundreds of dancers. The president Sabine Bloehs has been teaching ballet, jazz and tap dance for more than 20 years in Stuttgart.

He was born in Deborne, Heiko Schultz in 1970, and started his first instrument education, with major in trumpet, baritone and piano, in the youth wind ensemble of Espenheim School.

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