

The Club of “The Friends of the Vienna Boys Choir”
Time & Location
27 Jan 2024, 19:00 – 28 Jan 2024, 19:00
Beijing China
About the event
The club of “The Friends of the Vienna Boys Choir” was established in the Austrian
Embassy in China on October 28th 2013. It was initiated by the Chinese choral experts,
music teachers as well as personalities contributing to the choral and artistic exchanges
between China and other countries, and supported by the Vienna Boys Choir, the
Austrian Embassy in China, The World Organization for Promoting Music and Arts
Education, The Association for Promoting Arts Education of the Ministry of Education of
PR China, the national chorus association “Chorus China”. The club aims to enhance
exchanges and cooperation between the Vienna Boys Choir and the Chinese side, and
to support the development of choral education for Chinese children.
The English name the club “The Friends of the Vienna Boys Choir” was written by
Gerald Wirth, the president and the artistic director of the Vienna Boys Choir (at that
time).
The famous artist of the Chinese calligraphy and painting, Mr. DU Benji, who wrote the
Chinese calligraphy “One World, One Dream” for the “2008 Beijing Olympic Games”
and the guidance shields for all participating countries during the opening
ceremony,sponsored the Chinese name of the club “The Friends of the Vienna Boys
Choir” with his beautiful calligraphic art.
Till now, the club “The Friends of the Vienna Boys Choir” have been established in
Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Chengdu in China,with more than 30,000 music
experts, music teachers, parents and kids, students, schools, NGOs, enterprises etc.