Ligatura Festival 2026

Why “Ligatura”? The ligature is a particular construct of medieval musical notation, in which two or more sounds are grouped into a single musical gesture, allowing ever longer and more complex articulations of musical thought. It may seem a gamble for a contemporary music festival to take its name from such an ancient expressive device, but it is precisely the RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SOUNDS that we want to explore. Indeed, in every era, if we think about it, music has always lived BETWEEN the notes: in the proportion of phrases, in the relationship of timbres, in the tension of a high note that finds release in the roar of applause, just as in the twilight of a pianissimo that dissolves into silence. LIGATURA is also a fil rouge running through styles and eras, past and present, giving voice to the plurilingualism of today’s society, which embraces many artistic languages, alive and present, to which each of us can give our own meaning, welcoming freedom of expression. Never a single sound object, always a passage, a transformation, a call, a bond, defining a path; everything beginning, precisely, with a LIGATURA.a