‘Barockes Juwel’ St. Johann in Tirol

Immediately after the festive Easter season, the Baroque Music Festival will take place in St. Johann for the second time in 2026 – a highlight for music lovers and culture enthusiasts. From 6 to 26 April, St. Johann will be the venue for an impressive programme that highlights the beauty and diversity of Baroque music. The festival offers a unique opportunity to experience the works of great composers such as Johann Sebastian Bach, Dietrich Buxtehude, Henry Purcell, Ivan Hovhaness and Antonio Vivaldi in various locations in St. Johann. Renowned artists and ensembles will bring the venerable sounds of this era to life and take the audience on a musical journey into the 17th and 18th centuries. The concerts will take place in the Deanery Parish Church, the Hospital Church of St. Nicholas near Weitau and the Parish Hall. These concert venues offer the perfect acoustic and architectural ambience.

Baroque music unfolds its power especially so soon after Easter, which stands for hope and renewal. The profound and often spiritual compositions invite listeners to engage with the central themes of the season. The festival is organised by the Kitzbühel Alps St. Johann in Tirol Tourism Association, with Reinhold Wieser as artistic director.

The festival will be opened on 6 April by Helmut Fuchs (principal trumpeter of the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden) and Matthias Grünert (organist and cantor of the Frauenkirche Dresden) with the concert ‘The Magic of the Trumpet’ in the Dekanatspfarrkirche. The festival continues on 12 April with ‘Recorder Virtuoso’ in the parish hall, performed by Prof. Dorothee Oberlinger from the Mozarteum University in Salzburg, who received the ‘ECHO Klassik’ award in 2008. Another highlight is the ‘Ensemble Pongowe’ in the church in Weitau on 15 April. The small chamber orchestra from Bischofshofen is dedicated to composers such as Georg Muffat, Georg Philipp Telemann, Arcangelo Corelli and Antonio Vivaldi. On 19 April, another highlight of the festival follows with ‘Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen’ (Rejoice God in all lands) – the concert will be performed by Waltraud Nagl, Christina Eberl and Bernhard Sowa-Würtl. A regional highlight follows on 22 April, when Petra Koidl and Alena Lipka show that the hammered dulcimer is also more than suitable for Baroque music.
The festival will conclude on 26 April with the concert ‘Krönungsmesse W. A. Mozart’ (Coronation Mass by W. A. Mozart) in the Dekanatspfarrkirche – the St. Johann in Tirol church choir, Fieberbrunn & Freunde and the ChorART choir from St. Johann will all take part in this concert.

Along with culture and traditions, sporty and active leisure opportunities have been gathered together in the ‘Activities’ category – from a spring hike when you get to discover the first of spring's little flowers, to the evening snow-shoe hike ‘Find your Flow’. The OD Trails will be starting up again during Easter week in St. Johann, providing cyclists with an opportunity to experience their first trail rides again after the winter.