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A creative project week from 13 to 17 October 2025 in St. Georgen im Attergau with Irene Troi

The NHZ sent 100 children aged 6 to 12 on a trip around the world to Africa, Australia, South America, Germany, England and Sicily on flight NH4880. They sang, danced, painted and played together.

The closing party on Friday, 17 October 2025 in the Attergauhalle thrilled the whole school, parents and grandparents!

Nikolaus Harnoncourt always embellished music-making with vivid imagery. This five-day trip around the world takes us to several countries and languages, with singing, painting and dancing – a holistic immersion in artistic worlds of fantasy. The central goal is to live out imagination and joy of playing, to develop one’s own personality and self-confidence, to be a constructive part of a group and to be accepted without judgement or pressure to perform. Making music and discovering the world are exciting tasks! Every child is unique!

Many thanks to the St. Georgen i.A. primary school for their active support!

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During the NHZ music project week from 26 to 30 January 2026 at the Oberhofen am Irrsee primary school, 84 children and their teachers were sent on a world tour with Alice and Nikolaus Harnoncourt by Concentus Musicus violinist Irene Troi. Singing, painting, dancing, dreaming, playing… Flight NH4893 took us through songs and pieces of music from Oberhofen to Hamburg, London, Las Vegas, New York, Buenos Aires, Australia and Sicily! On Friday, it all ended with a big party with the parents in the gym!

Next dates:

23-28 March 2026 Niederthalheim

28 September–3 October 2026 St. Georgen im Attergau

19–23 October 2026 Bad Leonfelden

16–20 November 2026 Regau

With encouragement from Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Ernst Smole (Nikolaus Harnoncourt Forum) developed the performance internship for Styrian music schools in the 1990s – a concept for avoiding performance anxiety and promoting personal development, for which he was awarded the Nikolaus Harnoncourt Prize of the Canton of Zurich in 2008.

In partnership with the St. Georgen im Attergau regional music school and the Upper Austrian regional music school organisation, the NHZ is implementing the performance internship in an adapted form as a pilot project for Upper Austria. Together with music physiology and motivation courses, the free programme is aimed at all age groups and instruments.

This hublz tour is an innovative city walk through St. Georgen i.A. that takes families, school classes and curious adults on an exciting journey through the life and work of the famous conductor and musician Nikolaus Harnoncourt and his wife Alice. The hublz smartphone app allows visitors to interactively explore and experience cultural content. Exciting information is discovered, music is heard and puzzles are solved at several stations in the municipality.

You can find out more about Nikolaus and Alice Harnoncourt, what traces they left behind in St. Georgen im Attergau, and how they themselves embarked on a lifelong musical treasure hunt.

Where and when can you take this tour?

On site: The starting point is Nikolaus-Harnoncourt-Platz. There are two ways to start the tour on site:

• You can download the Hublz app in advance from the Apple App Store or Google Play, open the app, select the location on the map and start the tour.
• Click on the ‘Hublz’ article on the information board at the Nikolaus Harnoncourt Centre and scan the Hublz QR code displayed there. If you have not yet installed the app, the Apple App Store or Google Play will open. If you have already installed the app, the tour will open and you can start.

Duration: 60-90 minutes

Online tip: It is also possible to visit the stations online only and from any location. Go to ‘Entdecken’ in the app and find us! in German only

Old and new – baroque and modern string instruments: what’s the difference? Why is it important at all?

Prof Elisabeth Wiesbauer from the Bruckner University in Linz explains it to you in this video in German: