5th Messiah – Choir Festival Salzburg

April 30 – May 3, 2015

Thursday, 30.04.2015
Individual arrival at your booked accommodation.
04:00pm doors open rehearsal room, duration 2 hrs
05:00pm Messiah Rehearsal
Choir and Piano. Conducted by Jan S. Bechtold.
07:30pm Singers Club
Singers meet for a relaxed evening together.
Overnight at your booked accommodation.

Friday, 01.05.2015
Buffet breakfast at your booked Hotel.
10:00am meeting point at Mirabell place with your licensed city guide for a 2 h walking
sightseeing tour
Time at leisure.
12:15 doors open, duration 2 hrs.
01:00pm Messiah Rehearsal
Choir and Piano. Conducted by and Jan S. Bechtold.
07:00pm International Festival – Choir Concert
The participating choirs present themselves here one after the other. 10 minutes per choir.
Compulsory Final Piece: G.F. Handel: “Lift up your heads” from “Messiah”
08:30pm Singers Club
Singers meet for a relaxed evening together.
Overnight at your booked accommodation.

Saturday, 02.05.2015
Buffet breakfast at your booked Hotel.
9:30am doors open duration approx. 3 hrs.
10:00am Messiah General Rehearsal.
Choir, Soloists and Orchestra. Conducted by Jan S. Bechtold.
06:00pm doors open;
07:00pm „Messiah“ Concert
With hundreds of singers from around the world, soloists and „Members of the University
Orchestra Salzburg“.
Conductors: Jan S. Bechtold.
10:15pm Messiah – Choir-Festival – Party – light dinner is incl.
Get – Together for all Participants.
Overnight at your booked accommodation.

Sunday, 03.05.2015
Buffet breakfast at your booked Hotel.
Good bye until the 6th Messiah-Festival 2016.

Changes may occur.

Information for singers
Choir and individual singers are both invited. Singers should have sung „Messiah“ before.
Please bring vocal scores of Handel’s „Messiah“ in English with you. Every English edition can
be used, instructions however refer to the Bärenreiter edition.
Dress Code: Ladies in black with a „friendly–coloured“ accessories. Gentlemen wear a dinner
jacket, white shirt and a coloured tie.

The following choral pieces will be sung in the order of Leonard Bernstein’s version (1956):
* And The Glory Of The Lord * And He Shall Purify * O Thou That Tellest Good Tidings To
Zion * For Unto Us A Child Is Born * Glory To God * Lift Up Your Heads * Let All The Angels
Of God Worship Him * Their Sound Is Gone Out * Let Us Break Their Bonds Asunder *
Hallelujah * Behold The Lamb Of God * Surely He Hath Borne Our Griefs * And With His
Stripes * All We Like Sheep * He Trusted In God * Since By Man Came Death * O Death,
Where Is Thy Sting - But Thanks Be To God * Worthy Is The Lamb That Was Slain * Amen

June 2014.

Package rate per person in 3*hotel or Gasthof in the surrounding, min. 35 pers. travelling:
In double/twins from Euro 185,--
In single room on request

Package rate per person in 3*/4* hotel, min. 35 persons travelling:

In double/twins from Euro 225,--
In single room on request

Package rate per person in 4*hotel, min. 35 persons travelling:

In double/twins from Euro 250,--
In single room on request

Above mentioned package rates are net in Euro to us and include the following services:
+ the Festival participation fee
+ 3 nights at the booked accommodation
+ 3 x buffet-breakfast
+ Farewell party with snack-buffet after the concert
+ licensed guide for walking tour of Salzburg
+ Messiah assistant in Salzburg

This offer is NOT including any

transportation, however – please
always use your own bus or request
additional fee! If you need any help
to organize some more nights,
sightseeing program or more
concerts.
We offer an discount of Euro 15,-- for
your booked arrangement for non
singers and include an concert ticket.