Welcome to the Festival Concert – a musical experience beyond the ordinary! When the massive choirs and orchestras of the international music camp Side by Side come together in Scandinavium, it becomes a concert like no other, a powerful manifestation of music’s immense power. This year’s concert offers a historic experience as all 2000 participants, together with Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, perform the finale from Augusta Holmès’ Ode Triomphale, a piece not performed since its world premiere at the Paris World’s Fair in 1889 – 137 years ago!
The programme also features a specially commissioned ABBA arrangement, film music from The Mandalorian, Emil of Lönneberga, Mission: Impossible, Frozen and much more.
Festival Concert is the culmination of Side by Side, a music camp that creates meeting places where children and young people from different cultures and backgrounds can play and sing together, side by side with professional musicians. Side by Side is organized by Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra every summer and is open to participants aged 7-23. The camp promotes the spread of classical music and works for tolerance, cooperation, and equality.
Don’t miss this year’s most magnificent musical experience – a concert where past and present meet, and where the musicians of the future make history together!
Arrive in good time to Scandinavium
All audience members will be checked. Preferably arrive 1 hour before the concert and leave your bag at home for smoother entry.
