Summa Cum Laude (SCL) International Youth Music Festival

International Music Festival

VIENNA, AUSTRIA | July 4 - 9, 2025 & July 3-8, 2026

The Summa Cum Laude (SCL) Youth Music Festival provides a unique platform for the world’s most talented youth choirs, bands and orchestras to perform in Vienna’s magnificent Musikverein and includes both the prestigious “SCL Competition” and the non-competitive “SCL Celebration”. Top professionals from the international juries teach the SCL Festival Academy program at the Vienna University of Music. Enjoy interactive workshops and educational lectures, festival concerts with local audiences, and pre-and post-concert tours in Europe. The festival offers a truly international environment where thousands of young musicians enjoy the intercultural exchanges and build bridges that span continents.