The European Orchestra Festival has been organized every third year for more than 30 years.The festival has been arranged all over Europe by members of the European Orchestra Federation (EOFed), and its predecessor, the Europäische Vereinigung von Liebhaberorchestern (EVL)/European Associations of Amateur Orchestras (EAAO). Each time, the festival moves to another country and is hosted by one of the national member organizations of EOFed or by a local orchestra/music organization.

 

1985 United Nations Year of Music, and founding assembly of the EVL. The Assembly decided to organize a European Orchestra Festival every third year.

• 1988 The first Festival is held in Friedrichshafen, Germany
• 1991 Solothurn, Switzerland
• 1994 Brno, Czech Republic
• 1997 Leiden, The Netherlands
• 2000 Lyon, France
• 2003 Vaduz/Werdenberg,  Liechtenstein/Switzerland
• 2006 Chemnitz, Germany
• 2009 Dalfsen, The Netherlands
• 2012 Tallinn, Estonia
• 2015 Cremona, Italy
• 2018 Bergen, Norway
• 2022 Plovdiv, Bulgaria
• 2025 Avignon, France