This year’s EUYO Summer Tour was full of celebrations, reunions, and new encounters. 2026 marks the 50th anniversary of our Orchestra’s founding; it was also the 20th anniversary of the Grafenegg Festival, in our Austrian seat. We played the Festival Finale of the renowned Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele; we were also the Grand Finale for the 100th edition of Varna Summer, Bulgaria’s oldest and largest international music festival.

We returned to Young Euro Classic, Germany’s premiere celebration of youth orchestras and an unmissable fixture of Berlin’s cultural summer since 1999. As it has been almost every year since 1983, our mid-tour Residency at Bolzano Festival Bozen was a much-loved week off the road in the UNESCO Creative City of Music, committed for decades to nurturing young musical talent thanks to the legacy of our Founding Music Director, Claudio Abbado.