The Vienna Girls‘ Choir (conductor: Stefan Foidl) is the independent girls’ choir of the Vienna Boys' Choir. What began in 2004 with a handful of female singers is now a professional chamber choir of 26 dedicated young ladies aged between ten and 14. The girls are trained according to the methods of the Vienna Boys' Choir. Singing is a school subject. The choir girls rehearse for two hours every day, plus individual voice training and solo rehearsals. A three-week summer camp is an essential part of the training, as are public performances.
The choir girls sing their own concerts. Occasionally they perform together with the choirboys; most recently at Christmas in Vienna, at the Vienna Philharmonic's New Year's Concert 2023 and at the reopening of the restored Austrian Parliament. The girls are also requested for choral-symphonic works: for example, they sang in a performance of Carl Orff's Carmina burana with the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra in summer 2024 and - at the wien modern festival in 2023 - the children's voices in Mark Andre's ambitious oratorio rwh.
In autumn 2024, the programme includes a performance of Arthur Honegger's ‘Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher’ with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra at the Vienna Musikverein, and at the end of the year, the choir girls will sing a New Year's Eve concert at the Brucknerhaus Linz. A highlight of the season is their participation in the Vienna Boys' Choir's Mother's Day concert on 11 May 2025 at the Vienna Musikverein.
In June 2024, the Vienna Girls‘ Choir was awarded the European Culture Prize together with the Vienna Boys’ Choir at the Luxembourg Philharmonic Hall.
Since autumn of this year, the choir girls have been attending the Vienna Boys' Choir's secondary school and, like the boys, are to go on tours at home and abroad. The choir girls' first major tour will take them through Austria, Germany, Slovenia and Switzerland in early summer 2025.