The Vienna Boys Choir Sponsored By: Sandusky Concert Association

The Vienna Boys Choir has been singing at the court of the Holy Roman Emperor since the early 15th century. Until 1918, the choir sang exclusively for the imperial court, at mass, and on state occasions. Today there are around 100 choristers between the ages of ten and fourteen, divided into four touring choirs. The four choirs give around 300 concerts and performances each year in front fo almost half a million people. Each group spends nine to eleven weeks of the school year on tour. They visit virtually all European countries, and they are frequent guests in Asia, Australia and the Americas. The choir's repertoire includes eerything from medieval to contemporary and experimental music. Motets and lieder for boys' choir form the core of the touring repertoire as well as the choir's own arrangements of quintessentially Viennese music, waltzes and polkas by Strauss, Lanner, and Lehar.