Late Spring Music Festival

From Friday 30 May to Monday 2 June, third edition of the international exhibition that offers various events over the course of the four days dedicated to great music: a peaceful invasion of the Reggia and of the Gardens accompanied by shared moments and appointments dedicated to children.

From the matinée-concerts to the afternoon appointments, which will offer further creative paths to the audience, to Night Sounds (I Suoni della Sera), concerts with a more significant duration and a more articulated programme.

The Late Spring Music Festival was conceived by the Consortium of the Royal Residences of the House of Savoy in collaboration with Claudio Pasceri, as artist-in-residence, one of the most appreciated Italian cellists and former artistic director of prestigious festivals.

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In this edition, the Festival wants to extend and diversify the involvement of the community: internationally renowned artists and amateur musicians, children and adults, regulars at musical events and curious citizens, all together. The aim was to convey the message that music belongs to everyone and should be shared and valued as much as possible in its various forms and expressions. 

Thus, over the four days of the festival, children from local primary schools will be the protagonists of Luciano Berio's opera Twice Upon, in an extraordinary Italian première performance.
The concert pianist Gloria Campaner proposes a creativity workshop, a gym of emotions open to all, upon reservation (write to [email protected]).
The Orchestra Filarmonica TRT, in addition to the concert performance, will introduce the orchestra to the children present at the Reggia with their parents through the well-tested format called The Voice of Instruments (La Voce degli strumenti).
On the last day of the event, 2 June Republic Day, the spaces of the Reggia will resound at the same time. Some ensembles of amateur musicians, selected through the La Repubblica della Musica call for proposals, will have the opportunity to perform publicly in the context of the Late Spring Music Festival.

The protagonists are artists of international prestige who will perform in the iconic places of the complex: the evocative Hall of Diana and the Church of St. Hubert, the grandiose Gardens and the majestic Great Gallery.

Twice Upon

Twice Upon (C'era due volte) is the event in collaboration with the Centro Studi Luciano Berio with which the Festival opens, a theatre without words for six groups of children by Luciano Berio, for the first time in Italy. A great connoisseur of the 20th century and contemporary repertoire such as Francesco Bossaglia will direct the performance. Participating with him will be actor Matthias Martelli, accordionist Massimo Pitzianti, violinist Piergiorgio Rosso, trombonist Alessandro Pogliani, students from the ‘G. Verdi’ Conservatory of Turin and, above all, some classes from the ‘E. De Amicis' of Venaria and ‘R. Levi Montalcini’ of Fiano elementary school.

The concerts

The first matinee-concert is dedicated to J. S. Bach and the Suites for cello solo, performed by Enrico Bronzi, one of Italy's most sought-after and brilliant musicians.

The great Finnish pianist Olli Mustonen offers a recital of extraordinary musical quality, Robert Schumann and Sergei Prokofiev.

The evening concert on 31 May features the viola of Danusha Waskiewicz, formerly a member of Claudio Abbado's Berliner Philarmoniker, the concerto for cello and orchestra commissioned by the Reggia of Venaria for the Late Spring Music Festival 2025 to composer Matteo Franceschini, Silver Lion at the Venice Biennale 2019, performed by the Orchestra Filarmonica TRT and Claudio Pasceri, and finally one of the most talented transalpine cellists, Romain Garioud, together with Bulgarian violin virtuoso Yana Deshkova.

The day of 1 June opens with ‘serenely evocative’ music from a surprise repertoire with pianist Gloria Campaner, viola by Danusha Waskiewicz and cellos by Enrico Bronzi and Claudio Pasceri.

FOR THE LITTLE ONES
For the The Voice of Instruments (La Voce degli Strumenti), the event dedicated to children, the Orchestra Filarmonica TRT will introduce “the orchestral organism,” to the children and then immerse itself in a programme completely dedicated to the Brandenburg Concertos by J S Bach and suitable for an audience of all ages.                

The concert on the evening of 1 June features two solo moments, saxophone first, with Swiss saxophonist Marcus Weiss, and violin later, with German violinist Antje Weithaas set between two quartets with musicians from the Finnish ensemble Meta4 Quartet.

On the afternoon of 2 June, the great Swiss virtuoso Marcus Weiss returns with Luciano Berio's Sequenza IXb.

The concert entitled All the Music in the World (Tutte le Musiche del Mondo) concludes the third edition of the Late Spring Music Festival in which Antje Weithaas, Danusha Waskiewicz and Enrico Bronzi will perform together in trio for the first time, followed by Claudio Pasceri, with Luciano Berio's Sequenza XIV for cello. Olli Mustonen, will star on this occasion in the dual role of performer, together with the Meta4 Quartet, and composer in his Quintet for piano and strings.

The guest of Honour

In 2025 the Guest of Honour is one of the most significant figures in the world of dance, Virgilio Sieni, who has proven himself on countless occasions to be a profound connoisseur in the field of music. His performances have showcased music that is very different in time and style, from J S Bach to Salvatore Sciarrino.

The meetings

The various days of the Late Spring Music Festival are studded with stimulating and often unprecedented appointments, the Tales around Music.
The meetings will be attended by Finnish pianist and composer Olli Mustonen, maestro Marco Angius, one of the most appreciated interpreters and proponents of the music of our time, Claudio Pasceri, and François Lazarevitch, one of the finest performers of ancient and baroque music on the international scene, the musicologists Talia Pecker Berio and Angela Ida De Benedictis, honorary president and scientific director of the Centro Studi Luciano Berio, Cecilia Balestra, director of the important Milano Musica festival, the new artistic director of the Filarmonica Romana, Domenico Turi, and Vincenzo Casale, the artistic director of ARTONOV, an evocative multidisciplinary festival in Brussels; finally, the composer and teacher Matteo Manzitti in dialogue with Daniele Luzzo, in the dual role of cultural anthropologist and clinical psychologist.

Aperitif with the artists

To contribute to the atmosphere of sharing and celebration in music, a small convivial episode was introduced. In anticipation of the evening concerts, each day includes an Aperitif with the artists.