The ‘Concerts Festifs’ seek to convene music and musicians from different horizons across the boundaries of culture, geography and time. A new travel-themed departure in musical programming:

Born of encounters between classical and popular music, between the history of great events and the story of everyday lives, each concert sets out on a voyage from Venice and is our guide to Vienna, Moscow, Ottawa, Paris or Buenos Aires...

Very distinguished musical performers grace the concerts by their presence, welcoming the mingling of different cultures and the serendipitous innovation it creates, serving as a reminder that music is the shortest path linking one human being to another, musicians and music lovers alike.

Fascinating encounters We seek to create opportunities for fascinating and generous encounters between artists, trained in the classical tradition or another, allowing each of them the freedom to express and pass on their common love of music. We favour voice, be it lyrical, of oral tradition or inspired by jazz.

After the hugely successful ‘Da Venezia a Buenos Aires’ and ‘Da Venezia a Ottawa’, the musical journey resumes with a new page in the history of Venice.

Noëmi Waysfeld, vocalist Thomas Savy, bass clarinet Christian-Pierre La Marca, cello Frédéric Vaysse-Knitter, piano Guillaume de Chassy, jazz piano

Before the 19th century released Russian music from western writing techniques, free to return to more specifically native popular music, the most renowned Italian composers were welcome visitors to Russia and rare Russian composers wrote Italian music. The concert centres on the prestigious presence at the Court of Catherine the Great of the Venetian composer, born on the island of Burano, Baldassare Galuppi, and the ‘return’ to Venice of Russian composers (Tchaikovski, Stravinsky), the Russian soul and popular beliefs, migrations, nostalgia and rebellion... Works by Galuppi, Stravinsky, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich, Prokofiev and some folk songs and curiosities such as a Russian tango composed in Iron Curtain times, dedicated to the dreamed of beauty of the Serenissima!

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