 The 20-year old Patricia Zandvoort, until recently student at Wico Campus Mater Dei in Overpelt took care of the design of this year's poster. At the moment, Patricia is studying "Stories & Design" at the ArtEZ-institute in Zwolle, The Netherlands. As principal motive for our poster, she chose the mythological bird Phoenix. The bird, that as the old Greek believed was reborn again and again, was able to give people hope and courage with its singing. His feathers had a lot of colours and his tears could heal human beings. The whole range of colours in its feathers symbolizes the large amount of countries that participate at the EMJ. As everybody knows, nobody is indifferent to singing, and each year, it gives participants as well as visitors hope and courage to join the festival in Neerpelt. And just as the Phoenix, the European Music Festival for Young People revives every year. |
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Flemish EMJ-laureates at Exqi TV |
 Since 2007 the choirs or ensembles achieving the highest results during our festival are offered the opportunity to have a professional High Definition TV recording in the studios of Exqi TV in Lint. The instrumental edition of 2009 produced a lot of national and international laureates. The EMJ finally invited 4 Flemish laureates to the recording studio's in Lint. 
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 For the first time the European Parliament grants the European Citizen's Award to 37 people or associations member of the European Union. And we're very proud to be one of the chosen organisations. The price will be handed out because of our 57 year-long efforts in promoting a European integration and because of our transgressing cooperation and solidarity with countries outside the EU. It certainly is an important stimulation for us and we will certainly keep on contacting youngsters from and outside the EU through their music. |
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Bear Symphony on a worldtour |
 During this 57th European Music Festival for Young People the organising committee plans a worldtour for its Symphony Bear. The ultimate goal is to see the bear again in two years, when the next instrumental festival will take place. The bear is dressed in a EMY-T-Shirt and a EMY-backpack. During this festival it will be handed over to the conductor of a participating group of a very distant country. If the group makes contact with another group in his homecountry, it has to pass Bear Symphony to the conductor of another group.
His first trip has been announced during the proclamtion : he will be travelling to OPAVA, a musiccity in the Czech Republic. UPDATE : I even got my own Blog on this website. Great. I will keep you posted...
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 The period of registration for our 2010 festival edition has ended. 120 children- and youth choirs from 29 different countries have registered for a participation at our new vocal festival edition and are eager to enjoy the pleasant European choral culture. About 4.600 youngsters will florish the Neerpelt streets and concert halls with their singing and youthful enthousiasme. We therefore would love to invite you all for our 58th festival from April 30th until May 3rd 2010. For further questions please contact our festival secretariat. |
 Because of the rebuilding of the offices, the European Music Festival for Young People moved for one year to a new address. Our new visiting address is: Campus Z, Stationsstraat 76 bus 4 - 3910 Neerpelt. |
Dear visitor, I would like to welcome you on our website where I would like to introduce to you our 58th European Music Festival for Young People in Neerpelt. We hope to welcome again some 100 children- and youth choirs from all over the world from Friday evening April 30th until Monday morning May 3rd 2010. We hope you are able to particate at our Neerpelt festival to fraternize, and to learn to discover and appreciate each other's culture.
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 At this moment we are in the middle of preparing the 58th Festival wich will take place in May 2010. This means that all newsitems about the 2009 Festival have been moved to our archive. You will also find results, a list of participants, jurymembers, an agenda, and a complete catalogue in the Menu History 2009. Don't forget to consult the photolibrary, video's on YouTube and the press center.
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