The festival also featured several Chinese choirs, including the National Symphony Orchestra Choir and the NCPA Choir. The NCPA Choir, under the baton of Li Xincao, closed the festival on Aug 13.

The APZ Tone Tomsic Concert is the festival’s opening event on Aug 2, performed by Slovenia’s Akademski pevski zbor v Ljubljani (Academic Choir of the University of Ljubljana) founded in 1926 by France Marolt. At first an all-male choir, female voices were added after World War II.

From the Alps to the Danube, the voices of Austria came alive at the festival with a performance by the Wilten Boys Choir on Aug 5. The choir was founded in the mid-13th century. The youngest members are 6 years old. Since 1991, Johannes Stecher has served as the choir's art director.

Turandot returns to Beijing with the NCPA’s version of the Puccini opera performed Aug 5 through Aug 7 at the opera house of the National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing. Hao Weiya, the young Chinese composer, entrusted by National Center for the Performing Arts, to become the third composer internationally and the first in China to complete Puccini's Turandot.