LagoMaggioreMusica Festival, the summer event signed by Gioventù Musicale d'Italia that enchants audiences each year with the best of emerging musical talent, is back. From July 25 to Aug. 23, the festival lights up extraordinary places in one of Italy's most scenic territories with notes, bringing to the stage young Italian and international musicians who have already been awarded in the most prestigious competitions and critically acclaimed.
Now in its thirty-first edition, the Festival transforms the two shores of Lake Maggiore into a diffuse stage where great classical music meets innovation, in a living dialogue between the masterpieces of the chamber music tradition, the twentieth century and new experimentation. It all takes place in breathtaking locations: cloisters, historic palaces, abbeys and hermitages open to the public for a unique experience that blends art, landscape and talent.

Promoting the festival for years is the Fondazione Gioventù Musicale d'Italia, which has always been at the forefront of supporting young musicians in the delicate transition from training to professional career. A clear and passionate mission: to transform talent into the future, offering concrete opportunities for growth and visibility.
Spreading music among young people thanks to young people: this is one of the main goals of the Foundation, which continues to discover and enhance emerging excellence in the music scene. A commitment made even more solid by the historic link with the Fédération Mondiale des Concours Internationaux de Musique (FMCIM).

The Lombardy Shore

The Lombard shore welcomes festival audiences on Sunday, July 27, in Sesto Calende, with the Rilke Quartet. Founded in 2022, in a short time the ensemble has already received several awards, most recently the prestigious title "Ensemble of the Year 2023" from Le Dimore del Quartetto, with the related award of the Fondazione Gioventù Musicale d'Italia prize, consisting of the realization of concerts within the 2024-2025 season. Beginning this Lombard part of the review is music by Haydn, Puccini and Verdi.

On Saturday, Aug. 2, in Laveno Mombello, the young and already established pianist Gabriele Strata, Silver Medalist at the prestigious Concours Musical International de Montréal 2024, will enchant the audience with a recital dedicated to the immortal pages of Frédéric Chopin after a guided tour of MIDeC - Museo Internazionale del Design Ceramico and the exhibition "IPEROGGETTI" - Works and Projects by Marco Oggian (*).

Space for the energy and brilliance of the Canaja Brass Quintet the following day, Sunday, August 3, back in Sesto Calende. Erika Patrucco, Michele Tarabbia, Federico Armari, Nicolò Bombelli and Marina Boselli have on their program music by Silvestri, Hurwitz, Zimmer, Ellington, Miller and Gershwin, with a repertoire that spans film, jazz and musicals.

On Wednesday, Aug. 6, in Gavirate, Trio Zazel, with Francesco Gemo on violin, Mattia Geracitano on cello and Riccardo Pugliese on accordion, winner of First Prize in the 16th Edition of the National Arts Prize, offers a sonic journey from Haydn to Gubajdulina to the intensity of Piazzolla.

Thursday, Aug. 7 , is the turn of Duo Fedone in Leggiuno. Federica Franchi (violin) and Simone Gramaglia (viola) have planned an evening with music by Mozart, Rolla and Halvorsen, moving between the 18th and 20th centuries.

Laveno Mombello welcomes the sax of Jacopo Taddei and the accordion of Samuele Telari on Saturday, Aug. 9. The program ranges from Vivaldi and Paganini to John Williams, Chick Corea and Iorio, mixing jazz and cultured music.

Sunday, Aug. 10, Angera will feature the Sheliak Trio, a group that won First Prize at the 2022 Filippo Nicosia International Competition and the 2024 Italian Music Critics' Farulli Prize. The chamber program by Emanuele Brilli, Matilde Michelozzi and Sergio Costa includes music by Haydn, Martinů and Ravel.

On Wednesday, Aug. 13, in Leggiuno, the Trio Mirages, with Claudia Piga on flute, Marta Premoli on cello and Morgana Rudan on harp, will offer a fascinating sound journey through the atmospheres of French music, with works by Fauré, Franck, Debussy, Jolivet, Ibert and Damase.

It is a double date on Saturday, August 16, in Laveno Mombello with the Fibonacci Quartet, First Prize at the Borciani International Competition in Reggio Emilia 2024. One of the best emerging string quartets in Europe brings to the public pages by Grime, Janáček and Smetana after a guided tour of MIDeC - Museo Internazionale del Design Ceramico and the exhibition "IPEROGGETTI" - Works and Projects by Marco Oggian (*).

Gavirate, on Wednesday, August 20, is the stage for the Alinde Quintet, winners of First Prize at the ARD Munich International Competition 2024. The five promising Czech musicians-Ana Talácková (flute), Barbora Trnčíková (oboe), David Šimeček (clarinet), Kryštof Koska (French horn) and Petr Sedlák (bassoon)-will perform music by Zemlinsky, Dvořák, Novák and Hallam.

Thursday, Aug. 21, Angera will feature The Bass Gang, the double bass quartet formed by Amerigo Bernardi, Alberto Bocini, Andrea Pighi and Antonio Sciancalepore, among the best double bassists in Europe and first parts of the world's most prestigious orchestras. The program is a true musical specttacle, including pieces by Pighi, Hisaishi, Brubeck, Tchaikovsky, Lloyd Webber, Morricone, Vivaldi, Santana and many others.

The summer festival on Lake Maggiore closes on Saturday, August 23, in Laveno Mombello with a special evening: from 7:30 p.m., the public will be treated to a tasting with wines from Cascina Piano di Angera and delicacies from I BALDI - Dal forno alla cantina di Laveno, followed at 9 p.m. by a concert by the wind septet L'Usignolo. The ensemble has for years been pursuing a project of rediscovering tradition by revisiting the musical practice of "wind concerts" from Barco (Reggio Emilia) and reworking dance music scores from the late 19th century.
For the final evening of the Festival, the Nightingale Ensemble presents us with La Traviata ballabile, a reinterpretation for winds of Verdi's music transcribed by Fabio Codeluppi, which enhances its popular and sentimental matrix.

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