Festival Program 2017

Thursday, 20.04.2017
Individual arrival at your booked accommodation in Salzburg

Check into your booked accommodation.
18:00h/06:00pm 1st Messiah Rehearsal Choir and Piano. 
Conducted by Jan S. Bechtold and Erich Klug
17:15h/05:15pm doors open, duration 2 hrs.
20:30h/08:30pm Singers Club 
Singers meet for a relaxed evening together.
Overnight at your booked accommodation.






 









Friday, 21.04.2017
Buffet breakfast at your booked Hotel.
Walk through the inner-city of Salzburg or a special walk if you still 
know Salzburg.














Time at leisure.
18:00h/06:00pm 2nd Messiah Rehearsal in Salzburg
Choir, Orchestra and Piano. Conducted by Jan S. Bechtold and Erich Klug
17:15h/05:15noon doors open, duration 2 hrs  
20:00h/08:00pm "Concert Evening" in Salzburg - Choir Concert
The participating choirs present themselves; 10 minutes per choir.
Compulsory Pieces: A. Bruckner: "Locus iste" and G.F. Handel "Hallelujah" from "Messiah  
20:30h/08:30pm Singers Club 
Singers meet for a relaxed evening together.
Overnight at your booked accommodation. 



Saturday, 22.04.2017

Buffet breakfast at your booked Hotel .
10:00h/10:00am Messiah General Rehearsal
Choir, Soloists and Orchestra. Conducted by Jan S. Bechtold and Erich Klug
09:30h/09:30am doors open, duration approx. 3 hrs. 












Spare time to enjoy Salzburg.

Approx. 16:45h/04:45pm bus transfer from your Hotel to the beautiful 
Trumer lake district to Mattsee. 
Set up an short rehearsal at the Parish Church Mattsee.

19:00h/07:00pm "7th Messiah" - Gala Concert
Version by Leonard Bernstein (1956)
With hundreds of singers from around the world, choirs, solists and the 
Chamber Orchestra Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg. 
Conductor: Jan S. Bechtold and Erich Klug
18:15h/06:15pm doors open















22:15h/10:15pm Messiah – Choir-Festival – Party incl. light dinner. 
Get – Together for all Participants.
Transfer back to your hotel. Overnight.














Sunday, 23.04.2017

After breakfast, check out of your accommodation. We will be glad to arrange for any post tour throughout Austria or Europe.
Good bye until the 8th Messiah Festival.

Version of April 2016. Changes may occur.