European Student Orchestra Festival

European Student Orchestra Festival vzw (ESOF vzw) is a Leuven-based non profit organization that organises the European Student Orchestra Festival™. The European Student Orchestra Festival (or ESOF) unites student symphony orchestras from all over Europe. The first three editions took place in Leuven (2012, 2015, 2017) and were a great success with participants from all over Europe. In 2018, ESOF went abroad for the very first time and had a fantastic fourth symhonic edition in Strasbourg and a choir festival in Tallinn in 2019. Our next festival will be in June 2022, Toulouse. Future projects will include more festivals as well as new initiatives. ESOF works closely with the Orchestre Universitaire de Strasbourg, the European Network of University Orchestras, the Tallinn University Symphony Orchestra and the Universiteit van Amsterdam Sweelinckorkest, with whom ESOF has entered into an official partnership called "MUSE - Music at Universities for Students in Europe"​) under the European Commission's Creative Europe programme.