Michele Tadini appointed Artistic Director of the Music Department
The appointment was approved by the Biennale Board for the two-year period 2027-2028.
Biennale Musica 2026
70th International Festival of Contemporary Music
The 70th International Festival of Contemporary Music ran from 10-24 October 2026, directed by Caterina Barbieri. The programme featured several daily events with international soloists and ensembles as well as the actvities of the Biennale College Musica dedicated to new projects that were included the Festival’s programme.
Caterina Barbieri (1990) is an Italian musician and composer based in Berlin. She earned diplomas in classical guitar and electroacoustic composition – as well as Modern literature – in Bologna, and studied at the Royal College of Music and the Elektronmusikstudion in Stockholm. She has participated in some of the most important international music festivals.
All the concerts of the 70th International Festival of Contemporary Music, A CHILD OF SOUND.
A polyphonic celebration of Brazilian baloeiros culture; an installation-labyrinth combining sounds from Venice and Vancouver; a live Keiji Haino performance recorded in a video by Invernomuto; the new venue ORIGINE conceived a space for deep listening, encounter, and exchange; ARCADIA, a sonic playgrond; and Masaru Hatanaka’s legendary Bar Nightingale revisited as a dream-like space.
Marta De Pascalis
Stoma
Sarah Davachi
The Head as Form’d in the Crier’s Choir - The Will of Tongues
100_ve
Life/Vita
DJ Anderson do Paraíso
funk mineiro
Mechatok
FRUITS
Biennale College / alys(alys)alys
parameters of drift
Walter Zanetti
El Decamerón Negro
Gigi Masin - The Wind Trio
Wind
The Tallis Scholars
Alif Hilal
Hymnal
Alif Hilal, Mohammad Reza Mortazavi, Islam El-Ghazouly
In the threshold of your love
Surgeon
DJ set
Polygonia
DJ set
PMCE - Parco della Musica Contemporanea Ensemble
Walter Zanetti
Cantos yoruba de Cuba, El Decamerón Negro
Biennale College / Talullah Calderwood
Vitula
Livwutang
DJ set
Keiji Haino
It has become something like this
Kara-Lis Coverdale
Changes in Air
Laraaji
Alignment
Andrea La Pietra
Thru Extremities
KMRU, Nick Verstand, Mareike Bode
As Nature
Joy Guidry
Five Prayers in Five Movements
Carrier
Corrupt Patterns
Clarissa Connelly
Canons
ONCEIM
For Orchestra
Non puoi contare l’infinito
Jay Mitta, DJ Travella, Pili Pili Girls
singeli DJ set
Francesco Messina
Prati bagnati del monte Analogo - Le api dell’invisibile
Biennale College / Lara Dâmaso
Through wood, through flesh, dancing on a string, attached to nothing
Nídia, Helviofox, DJ Firmeza
Celebração Príncipe
Grand River
Temporary
ML Buch
Live set
Loidis
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