The 35th Aberdeen International Youth Festival will be launched on the 21st June. The world's leading festival of youth arts offers a unique platform for young talent and a celebration of youthful creativity and innovation. The Festival attracts an astonishing array of talent from across the world and offers you unmissable chance to experience high quality and diverse performances.

Highlights for 2007 include:

* One of the world's most celebrated young orchestras *
Jose Serebrier brings the exciting and impressive Spanish National Youth Orchestra and soloist Javier Perianes

* Award winning young soloists *
The winners of the prestigious Guzik Foundation Awards come to Aberdeen via San Francisco, Moscow, New York and Paris

* International names *
Julian Lloyd Webber will be appearing as guest soloist with Edinburgh Youth Orchestra and Jacqui Dankworth with the National Youth Jazz Orchestra of Scotland

* Exciting young artists *
Upcoming new talent, including David Buckingham, O Duo and Bajaly Suso

* Cultural variety *
Performers from across the world, including talented dance companies from China, Slovenia, USA and Belarus

* Innovative new productions *
A new production of the opera Hansel and Gretel and two new theatre commissions

* A wealth of Scottish and local talent *
AIYF's ground breaking Trad Music Big Band Ceol Mor, top dancers from the Dance Summer School, our new regional Grampian Youth Orchestra and YMK:UK's Studio and their production of Great Expectations.

Programmes will be available for download from the website on 21st June, or make sure we have your address details and you will be sent a copy.

Julian Moss is the tutor in Contemporary Dance at the Festival's Dance Summer School.

A soloist of London Contemporary Dance Theatre, Goteborg Ballet and Ballet Met and currently guest professor at Stockholm University College of Dance, Julian is currently the guest teacher at Ballet Pécs in Hungary. Julian is currently teaching his choreography 'without a leg to stand on' created especially for Ballet Pécs.

For more information and pictures from the rehearsals visit the Ballet Pécs website.

Renowned conductor and composer José Serebrier will be bringing the National Youth Orchestra of Spain to the Festival.

With more than one hundred recordings to his name, and eight Grammy nominations, José Serebrier is one of the busiest conductors around. His career has been cosmopolitan, even by the colourful standards of his profession.

Click on the link below to read an interview with José Serebrier.