Amongst present-day choirs, no idea has had such an effective and long-term success as the ancient
Olympic Idea of peaceful competition and bringing together the peoples of the world applied to today's international choir movement. Since the choir Olympic Bell has called the choirs of the nations together to international choral world.

So fa over 90 nations, thousands of choirs and hundreds of thousands of singers have made the Choir Olympic Idea - "participation is the highest honour" - their own. This idea grows from year to year, fascinating governments and politicians just as much as choral associations, institutions and cities - and most of all choirs, conductors and choral singers, of course.
The success story of the Choir Olympic will find its worthy continuation in Graz.