International Viola d'amore Congresses

The International Viola d’amore Society e.V. holds a congress every two years. These musical occasions are attended by viola d’amore players, music scientists, teachers and violin makers from all over the world. The society organises concerts, talks, and exhibitions of instruments and music at the congresses:

International Viola d’amore Congresses

Organizer 1982-2012: Viola d’amore Society of America
From 2014: International Viola d’amore Society e.V.

No.	Year	Town and area	Country	Host
1	1982 June 29 -July 1	Laramie, Wyoming	USA	University of Wyoming Dr. Gordon Childs †
2	1984 June 28-30	Pittsburg, Kansas	USA	Pittsburg State University Mary Elliott James †
3	1986 July 10-12	Austin, Texas	USA	University of Texas David G. Troutman
4	1988 August 22-24	Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg	Germany	Internationale Bachakademie Stuttgart Arnt Martin †
5	1990 July 7-9	Vermillion, South Dakota	USA	University of South Dakota, Allison Alcorn The Shrine to Music Museum, Dr. Andre Larson
6	1992 June 24-26	Grantham, Lincolnshire	United Kingdom	Harlaxtan College Gordon Maxwell Tonson-Ward †
7	1994 July 25-27	Dayton, Ohio	USA	Kettering 7th Day Adventist Church Dr. Kenneth and Sally Christman
8	1996 July 25-27	Michaelstein, Sachsen-Anhalt	Germany	Institut für Aufführungspraxis der Musik des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts Marianne Rônez-Kubitschek
9	1998 June 25-27	Orem, Utah	USA	Utah Valley State College Dr. Gordon Childs †
10	2000 July 5-9	Trossingen, Baden-Württemberg	Germany	Bundesakademie für musikalische Jugendbildung Günter Ojstersek †, Heinz Berck † and Hans Lauerer
11	2002 June 7-14	Radziejowice, Mazowsze	Poland	Pałac w Radziejowicach Mazowieckie Centrum Kultury i Sztuki and Polskie towarzystwo muzyki dawnej, Warszawa Artur Paciorkiewicz
12	2004 June 16-19	Ephraim, Utah	USA	Snow College Magdalena Ondrasova and Dr. Gordon Childs †
13	2006 June 21-24	Rendsburg, Schleswig-Holstein	Germany	Nordkolleg Rendsburg Wolfgang Anton, Doritha and Hans-Henning Schwier
14	2008 June 18-24	Ochsenhausen, Baden-Württemberg	Germany	Landesakademie für die musizierende Jugend in Baden-Württemberg Rüdiger Müller-Nübling and Hans Lauerer
15	2010 June 21-24	Evanston, Illinois	USA	Music Institute of Chicago Rachel Barton Pine
16	2012 June 14-17	Innsbruck, Tirol	Austria	Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum Marianne Rônez-Kubitschek
No.	Year	Town and area	Country	Host
17	2014 June 25-29	Budapest and Kaposvár, Somogy	Hungary	Franz-Liszt-Musikschule Kaposvár Margit Urbanetz-Vig
18	2016 June 13-19	Lusławice, Malopolska	Poland	Europejskie Centrum Muzyki Krzysztof Pendereckiego Artur Paciorkiewicz
19	2018 June 4-10	Sondershausen, Thüringen	Germany	Landesmusikakademie Thüringen Anne Schumann and Klaus Voigt
	2020 June 15-20 This congress was cancelled due to the Covid pandemic.	Sigulda, Vidzeme	Latvia	Baltais Flīɠelis = White Grand Piano Concert Hall and Music School Karlīna Īvāne and Aleksandrs Vališevskis
20	2022 June 5-12	Rheinsberg, Brandenburg	Germany	Rheinsberg Music Academy Antje Gobel and Hans Lauerer Link to program: Congress program
21	2024 October 6-13	Palermo, Sicily	Italy	Conservatorio Alessandro Scarlatti Palermo Sabin Costa-Lang and Salvatore Costa Link to registration form: Registration form