 The festival started with the symphonic concerts of the Internationale Junge Orchesterakademie and now its program ranges from symphonic and chamber orchestra concerts to organ music, festival brass, jazz and salonorchestra concerts.In 2007 the genre opera has been added to the festival’s program for the first time, with Antonio Salieri’s “Prima la musica e poi le parole”.Musical Director and conductor of the opera was Christoph Ulrich Meier.