Gstaad Festival Youth Orchestra

“Gustav Mahler was a saint”, Schönberg said at the funeral service. “I don't understand his music, but he is young; perhaps he is right” Mahler said for his part about his young colleague. In our concert we will demonstrate that both breathed the same air almost simultaneously: Viennese air! We are opening the concert with another representative of the city of music par excellence: Franz Schubert. (Matthias Kuhn)

The Gstaad Festival Youth Orchestra stands out among youth orchestras. Every year, a newly formed, large symphony orchestra with young people from all over Switzerland meets in Saanenland. Together we work on wonderful symphonic music in an intensive and fruitful, serious and cheerful atmosphere, in just one week. Everyone gives their best. Together, we achieve the impressive result at the concert: an orchestra made of countless ingredients where the whole has become significantly more than the sum of the individual parts!