State Youth Choir
In Germany and Austria , the State Youth Choir ( LJC ) is a youth choir that was set up to promote talented young singers in the respective federal state. Such a choir usually consists of a selection of singers aged around 15-26 years.
Due to the often larger catchment area of the individual singers, most of the state youth choirs are project choirs . Instead of holding weekly rehearsals, they meet a few times a year for a few days (“work phases”) or in the form of a choir week to rehearse for special performances or concerts.
Germany
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There are state youth choirs in almost all federal states . The sponsor is usually the regional music council of the respective country or an institution commissioned by it.
There were several spurts of founding: At the beginning of the 1980s, the youth choirs emerged in the states of Baden-Württemberg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Lower Saxony, Rhineland-Palatinate and, somewhat delayed, in Schleswig-Holstein. After German reunification , there were other foundings in the eastern German states of Brandenburg, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia in the 1990s. The last wave of start-ups occurred at the end of the 2000s when Bavaria, Hesse, Saxony, Saarland, Berlin and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania set up an LJC. Only the two smallest states, Bremen and Hamburg, remain without such a selection choir.
Austria
In Austria, regional youth choirs have existed for a long time in eight of the nine federal states , to which the most recent establishment in 2009 was the regional youth choir Vienna . The state youth choirs are sponsored by the respective choir associations of the Austrian federal states. Annual regional youth singing is organized in cooperation with the Austrian Choir Association .