EstOvest Festival 2025

EstOvest Festival 2025 Starting from autumn 2025, EstOvest Festival renews its activity with a growing commitment to supporting creativity and musical production.Alongside its live performances, EstOvest increasingly develops projects of varied nature and wide artistic scope, exploring new forms of expression within contemporary music and beyond.The Festival aims to enhance and promote projects and formats created in recent seasons by supporting their circulation, while simultaneously encouraging the production of new musical paths and significant multidisciplinary works.In 2025, EstOvest strengthens its collaborations with leading partners in the artistic and cultural sectors — locally, nationally, and internationally.Abandoning the traditional format of a concentrated autumn festival, EstOvest now unfolds as a year-long artistic journey, offering a dynamic and evolving programme throughout the calendar year.Among the highlights of autumn 2025 is Berio a colori, a multidisciplinary project premiered on 3 October at Romaeuropa Festival. Co-produced by Tempo Reale (Florence), Nexus Factory (Bologna), and EstOvest Festival, it offers a poetic tribute to one of the most influential composers of the 20th century, Luciano Berio, celebrating the centenary of his birth.On 11 October, the virtual series Suoni per la Resistenza (“Sounds for the Resistance”) will be launched in collaboration with the Fondazione Istituto Piemontese A. Gramsci. As part of the programme Note Libere – Concerts for Resistance promoted by Sistema Musica, this initiative, entitled Canti per la Resistenza, features eight episodes with contributions from eighty cellists from around the world — internationally renowned artists, emerging young talents, and students — all united by a shared artistic and civic ideal.On 6 November, the Xenia Ensemble will perform chamber music by Haydn and Mendelssohn at the Royal Church of San Lorenzo in Turin, an event that EstOvest Festival supports with particular enthusiasm.On 8 November, the second, live stage of the “Suoni per la Resistenza” project will take place at the Scuola Holden in Turin. Entitled Suoni per la Resistenza, This Music Concerns You, it will include the premiere of a new work commissioned by the Festival — a composition for narrator, cello ensemble and electronics, Homage to the Resistance, written by Giorgio Colombo Taccani with texts by Giulia Binando Melis.On 9 November, the Alfredo Piatti Festival in Bergamo will host Suite Zero, a co-production between Nexus Factory (Bologna) and EstOvest Festival, successfully touring in several Italian and European cities since 2021.On 16 November, EstOvest Festival will be in Cuneo as part of the literary event Scrittorincittà with a two-part project titled I percorsi del Suono intelligente (“The Paths of Intelligent Sound”), a short journey between music and literature.In the second half of November, filming will begin for the first documentary dedicated to musical creations commissioned by EstOvest Festival. The project focuses on Dialogues d’ombres (Different Suites for Grand Organ and Electronics), a work for organ and electronics by Gianluca Verlingieri and Edoardo Dadone, first premiered during EstOvest Festival 2024 by French organist Tom Rioult. The film will explore the encounter between musical tradition and contemporary innovation.On 13–14 December, Berio a colori will be restaged in Florence within the dance festival La Democrazia del Corpo, under the artistic direction of Virgilio Sieni.Finally, on 21 December, EstOvest Festival returns to Piedmont to collaborate with the Associazione Il Timbro on Discoteca Olivetti – Three Centuries of New Music, held at the Olivetti heritage site of Villa Casana, recognised as a UNESCO World Heritage location.