Leuven beKOORt 2024
6,000 x thanks!
The second edition of our choir festival ‘Leuven beKOORt’ was an overwhelming success!
Our warm thanks go to
- all 50 choirs and their conductors,
- the more than 80 volunteers,
- our partners, sponsors and helping hands
- and the enthusiastic and massively present audience.
'Leuven beKOORt 2024' was the dreamlike opening of our cultural season 2024-2025.
The countdown to edition 3 in September 2026 can already begin!
Retrospect on 2024
Check out the many beautiful photos by our photographers on our Facebook page or watch the reports by VTM, VRT and ROB-tv.
Leuven beKOORt 2024
Sunday, September 22 - 50 choirs - 22 locations - free festival
Sing, listen, watch, experience and stroll during the second edition of Leuven beKOORt.
We join forces with KOORUWEL again for a city full of choral sounds.
50 choirs will perform on 22 stages on one Sunday afternoon. They come from Leuven, Brabant, Flanders, Wallonia and the Netherlands. Between 1:30 pm and 5 pm, each choir will sing two 30-minute concerts on two different stages in the city centre. The stages are within walking distance, between the ‘boarding stations’ town hall, Olevodroom and Damiaanplein.
All the choirs will gather on the Grote Markt at 5:30 pm as a closing event. Together, they will sing a new composition written for Leuven beKOORt by Pieter Nevejans, the conductor of Kooruwel.
You can attend these 100 concerts free of charge. As a visitor, you can choose from very diverse styles and sounds: from Gregorian chant and classical over world music to pop and rock. Also discover surprising venues, inside and outside, in the Leuven city centre. Relaxing with a drink and eating a bite is also part of this polyphonic day!
Every two years, Leuven beKOORt opens the cultural season of 30CC.
The choir festival is thus a new tradition and is already planning its third edition in September 2026.
Welcome, see them sing.
Programme schedule
Who is singing where and when? Our handy schedule will set you on the right track!
Practical info
Discover all locations and our practical tips to fully enjoy this singing Sunday!
Participating choirs
An alphabetical overview of all 50 participating choirs, in all possible styles.
Credits 2024
organisation 30CC & KOORUWEL
in cooperation with the city of Leuven, 80 volunteers, 50 choirs and more than 1,500 singers
with thanks to the Damiaancentrum, Holy Trinity College, Holland College, Irish College, KU Leuven, Paridaens Institute, PhotoTWENS, arts centre STUK, Dijlehof residential care home, SLAC word department and Water Group
with the support of Koor&Stem vzw, De Zondag and Stella Artois