- MUSIC
Keiji Haino and Sarah Davachi are the Lion award winners at the 2026 Biennale Musica
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In her second edition as curator, Caterina Barbieri awards the Golden Lion to Keiji Haino, a poet of noise, for his pioneering contribution to the languages of improvisation and contemporary experimentation, while the Silver Lion goes to the Canadian composer and organist Sarah Davachi, one of the most compelling and consistent voices on the contemporary music scene.
Keiji Haino and Sarah Davachi are the Lion award winners at the 2026 Biennale Musica
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From February 21 to May 16, Venice and Mestre share the stage for Jazz&
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Bru Zane creates a dialogue between cinema and French romanticism
Interview with Maxime Denuc, protagonist of the Biennale Musica with the installation Elevations
A one-of-a-kind line-up plays for Tomaso Cavanna
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- FESTIVAL
10 October 2026
24 October 2026
Second edition directed by Caterina Barbieri, following the 2025 debut with La stella dentro, an edition that explored the world of cosmic music with a…
TEATRO ALLE TESE
TEATRO PICCOLO ARSENALE
- CONCERT
In collaboration with Candiani Groove, at the Auditorium Candiani, an unprecedented musical encounter brings together Ernst Reijseger—a brilliant cellist and explorer of musical genres and…
Sunday
15 March 2026
alle 18:30
CENTRO CULTURALE CANDIANI
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Closing the Early Music Seminar, the Sala dei Cipressi at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini hosts a concert featuring young singers and musicians selected through an…
Thursday
19 March 2026
alle 18:00
FONDAZIONE GIORGIO CINI
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New Echo System 2026
Choreographer Jasmine Morand develops a research practice that brings together dance, visual arts, and spatial composition, creating hybrid and immersive works. After a career as…
Friday
20 March 2026
alle 21:00
PALAZZO TREVISAN DEGLI ULIVI
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A new appointment in the Students’ Concert Series presents an evening devoted entirely to the Lied repertoire and to the close relationship between music and…
Friday
20 March 2026
alle 18:00
CONSERVATORIO BENEDETTO MARCELLO
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The Students’ Concert Series continues with a programme spanning different periods and musical languages, from late Romantic chamber music to early twentieth-century experimentation and the…
Friday
27 March 2026
alle 21:00
CONSERVATORIO BENEDETTO MARCELLO
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Jazz& 2026
At the Sale Apollinee del Teatro La Fenice, David Helbock, a leading figure in Austrian jazz, joins the versatile Viennese electric bassist and cellist Julia…
Saturday
28 March 2026
alle 19:00
TEATRO LA FENICE – SALE APOLLINEE
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Friday Concerts
The Students’ Concert Series opens April with a programme highlighting the richness of French repertoire and the piano transcription of major orchestral works. This event…
Friday
3 April 2026
alle 18:00
CONSERVATORIO BENEDETTO MARCELLO
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Jazz& 2026
At the Sale Apollinee del Teatro La Fenice, the trio of Danny Grissett takes the stage — a pianist and composer of rare elegance, known…
Saturday
11 April 2026
alle 19:00
TEATRO LA FENICE – SALE APOLLINEE
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Jazz& 2026
Yumi Ito, a Swiss composer, vocalist and pianist of Polish and Japanese origins and one of the most original interpreters of vocal improvisation, returns in…
Sunday
12 April 2026
alle 18:30















