Carinthian Summer Music Festival
Carinthian Summer Music Festival
The team of the Carinthian Summer Music Festival is looking forward to offering you an exciting festival program again in 2023. Join for in discovering the diversity and unsurpassed quality of music from every conceivable genre and style at Carinthian Summer Music Festival: be it classical, jazz, folk and world music, music of the 21st century, the Lebenszeichen, CS under 30, Stars & Strings or Perspektiven formats and much more.
In the 51st year since his first appearance at the Carinthian Summer Music Festival, Rudolf Buchbinder continues his decades-long exploration of Beethoven’s piano works.
The Orchestra della Svizzera italiana and its principal conductor Markus Poschner devote their concert not only to the Swiss national hero, but also to Maurice Ravel’s jazzy G major piano concerto and a highlight of Russian symphonic music.
With funky sounds and blood-pumping pop rhythms, Vince Mendoza and the WDR Big Band present highlights from the diverse oeuvre of music icon Prince.
About the Carinthian Summer Music Festival
The Carinthian Summer Music Festival is the most important music and cultural festival in the Austrian province of Carinthia and has been held annually since 1969 in the summer months of July and August in Ossiach, the city of Villach and also at other venues in Carinthia.
The special atmosphere of the Carinthian Summer Music Festival with its diverse venues attracts artists and audiences from all over the world every year in July and August. The main focus is on musical diversity. In addition to chamber and orchestral music as well as church opera, music from the fields of jazz and crossover, Rock/Pop music and the experimental area is also offered as part of the festival programme to inspire audiences of all ages. The Rising Stars concerts promote young artists and integrate them into the festival. For example, the winners of the International Hans Gabor Belvedere Singing Competition will have the opportunity to present themselves to a large audience.
After Helmut Wobisch, Gerda Fröhlich and Thomas Daniel Schlee, Holger Bleck is now the artistic and managing director of the Carinthian Summer since 1 January 2016.