The third edition of the festival will be held at the elaborate Reggia di Venaria and Gardens from 30 May to 2 June, where musical performances will give sound to the extraordinary venue
The Reggia di Venaria hosts the third edition of the Late Spring Music Festival, the innovative musical project designed to give voices and sounds to the extraordinary baroque spaces of the Palace.
The festival, which will be held from Friday 30 May to Monday 2 June and is conceived by the Reggia di Venaria and the artist in residence Claudio Pasceri – one of the most appreciated Italian cellists – offers an intense, exciting and multifaceted musical programme, with concerts, insights, moments of meeting, as well as events dedicated to the little ones.
The festival will hold matinee concerts, afternoon meetings, which will offer creative paths to the public, plus evening concerts of a significant duration and a more articulated programme, with internationally prestigious artists who will perform in the various iconic locations of the complex.
The architectural spaces of the Reggia will thus be the stage for a ’peaceful musical invasion,’ where each musical episode is designed specifically for the spaces that host it, interpreting eras and styles that range from the Baroque to the music of our day, passing through the greats of the Classical and Romantic periods.
The 2025 edition of the Late Spring Music Festival was conceived with the aim of placing the relationship between citizen and community at its core, between individual expression and social awareness, contributing to the inclusiveness of the extraordinary venue of the Reggia di Venaria.
The involvement of the community is manifested through numerous collective projects proposed: artists of international fame and amateur musicians, children and adults, regular attendees of musical events and curious citizens, all united by music together.
The programme, in addition to the performances of renowned international artists, also includes children from local elementary schools as stars of the opera Twice Upon by Luciano Berio, in an extraordinary Italian premiere on the occasion of the centenary of the Maestro’s birth. The concert pianist Gloria Campaner presents a creativity laboratory; while the orchestra of the Filarmonica TRT, in addition to the concert performance, allows the children present in the Reggia with their parents to discover the orchestra. Ensembles of amateur musicians will have the opportunity to perform publicly in the prestigious international context of the Festival, appearing for the first time, in their own right, among the stars.
In this edition, the prestigious concert performers come from various locations. From Finland comes the renowned pianist Olli Mustonen and the Meta4 Quartet, while from Switzerland the saxophonist Marcus Weiss. Antje Weithaas and Danusha Waskiewicz hail from Germany, while the cello virtuoso Romain Garioud is French. The violinist Yana Deshkova is Bulgarian, and Jone Kaliunaite is Estonian.
Among the Italian artists, there are prominent names such as the cellist Enrico Bronzi, the pianist Gloria Campaner, the actor Matthias Martelli and the orchestra conductor Francesco Bossaglia.
Also Italian is the composer Matteo Franceschini – a Silver Lion recipient at the Venice Biennale in 2019 and composer of the music for the film Vermiglio, nominated for the 2024 Oscars – who, as in the previous editions of the Festival with Vittorio Montalti (2023) and with Ivan Fedele (2024), has written a piece commissioned by the Reggia di Venaria which will have its first performance on 31 May.
Watch the trailer for last year’s 2024 edition here:
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