The südtirol festival merano . meran is proud to present a rich variety of finest performances including classical and baroque music, jazz and world music, chamber and vocal music and concert films.
The programme for the 2025 festival season will be published in January.
To the programme, concerts and tickets please scroll down!
Viaggio dell'Anima
Claudio Monteverdi, Alessandro Grandi, Lodovico Grossi da Viadana, Giulio Caccini
The Big B's
Bach, Brahms, Beethoven & Co. in "Janoska Style"
Marcello Fera: Follephonia Doppia
Johann Sebastian Bach: Concerto for piano and orchestra n. 5 BWV 1056
Peter Tchaikovsky: Souvenir de Florence
Arash Safaian: ÜberBach
One's for sorrow, two's for joy
Songs between cultures and times
Sergej Rachmaninoff: Concerto for piano and orchestra n. 3
Gustav Mahler: Symphony n. 1
Northern Lights
Karin Rehnqvist: Natt över jordan
Karin Rehnqvist: Jag lyfter mina händer
Wilhelm Stenhammar: Three choral songs
Traditional: Till Österland
Gregorio Allegri: Miserere
Bent Sørensen: In Paradisum
Thomas Tallis: Lamentations of Jeremiah
James MacMillan: Miserere
südtirol baroque
Johann Prader: Toccata in g
Leopold von Plawenn: Salve mi Jesu; domine si adhuc populo tuo, Potestis biber calicem, Ave o Jesu
Johann Jakob Walther: Fuga in C
Ingenuin Molitor: O anima, Gaude, laetare
Romanus Weichlein: Sonata III
Leopold von Plawenn: Salve suavissime Jesu, Fuga Secunda, O mea salus unica
Ingenuin Molitor: Canzon in g
Leopold von Plawenn: O felix, o fausta dies
Aurora: Meditation of Light in Music
Samuel Barber, Laura Crescini, Ēriks Ešenvalds, Edward Elgar, Ola Gjeilo, Morten Lauridsen, Arvo Pärt, Pēteris Vasks, Eric Whitacre, Hans Zimmer
Visions of Venus
Female sounds of classic, avantgarde, jazz, indie rock, art pop, world music, ...
Sergej Rachmaninoff: Concerto for piano and orchestra n. 2
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony n. 3 "Eroica"
Timeless
Folk music from the Baltic region and a cappella popular songs
Charles Burney European Tour
Music by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Charles Burney, Antonio Vivaldi, Johann Adolph Hasse
Anecdotes and texts in German by Charles Burney
Time Traveler
A journey through 45 successful years of Ute Lemper's life
Ludwig van Beethoven: Overture "The Creatures of Prometheus"
Ludwig van Beethoven: Concert for piano and orchestra n. 4 op. 58
Robert Schumann: Symphony n. 4 op. 120
Songs of hope
James MacMillan, James Whitbourn, Max Baumann, Don Mcdonald, Knut Nystedt, Thomas Jennefelt, Heikki Valpola, Ēriks Ešenvalds, Afro-American Spirituals, ...
The discovery of heaven . religion in progress
Music: Silvius Leopold Weiss, Traditional Angelos, Georg Philipp Telemann, Marin Marais, Francois Couperin, Traditional Sefardi, Gaspar Sanz, Johann Sebastian Bach, Jean-Philippe Rameau
Texts in German: Johann Beer, Heinrich von Kleist, Norbert C. Kaser, Ernst Jandl, Mano Dayak, Navid Kermani, Thomas Mann, August von Platen, Raoul Schrott, Harry Mulisch, Johann Forkel, Friedrich Schiller, Rainer Maria Rilke, Johann von Goethe, Friedrich Hebbel, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, ...
Dance
Christoph Willibald Gluck, Anonymous, Georg Friedrich Händel, Evaristo Dall'Abaco, Nicola Conforto, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Franz Schubert, Georges Bizet, Béla Bartók, Erwin Schulhoff, Traditional, Florence Price, Wojciech Kilar, Peter Tchaikovsky, Jacques Offenbach, Camille Saint-Saëns, Sergei Prokofiev, Astor Piazzolla
Jubelei
30 years MNOZIL BRASS
Jörg Widmann: Con brio
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Concerto for 2 pianos and orchestra n. 10 KV 365
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony n. 5
Georg Friedrich Händel: Ouverture "Rinaldo", Tornami a vagheggiar, Sulla ruota di fortuna, Lascia ch'io pianga, The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba, Bel piacere, Il vostro maggio, Venti turbini
Gottfried Finger: Division on a Ground
Arcangelo Corelli: Sonate op. 15/10
Robert Carr: Italian Ground
Anonymous: Greensleeves to a Ground, Faronells Ground
Peter Tchaikovsky: Concerto for piano and orchestra n. 1
Béla Bartók: Concerto for orchestra
The symphonic programme is the centre piece of the südtirol festival merano . meran. Here the performance starts already on the subtropical Kurhaus esplanade where festive music is playing while you are walking over the red Kurhaus carpet toward the magnificent Kursaal. The Kursaal is one of the most beautiful concert halls in the Alps which is also why renowned orchestras, musicians and top music ensembles have been gathering here for four decades to write musical history.
The liaison of südtirol festival merano . meran and baroque music has existed ever since the beginnings of the festival. In the year 2000, in the course of his Bach Cantata Pilgrimage, John Eliot Gardiner performed in the Municipal Parish Church together with the English Baroque Soloists and the Monteverdi Choir; he played Bach cantatas for the Archiv record label of the Deutsche Grammophon. Cecilia Bartoli also visited the südtirol festivall with her Vivaldi programme. Today an entire concert series, held in the most suggestive locations of Merano and environs, is dedicated to barocco.
The presence of jazz and world music during the südtirol festival merano . meran opens up new doors for a variety of exciting musical landscapes. The musical programme offered in the art-nouveau style Theatre and the Kursaal ranges from international and alpine folk to tango and rock 'n' roll and hosting world stars such as Cameron Carpenter, Tommy Emmanuel, Giora Feidman, Egberto Gismonti, Martin Grubinger, Friedrich Gulda, Roger Hodgson, Daniel Hope, Nigel Kennedy, Gidon Kremer, Ute Lemper, Bobby McFerrin, Noa, Michael Nyman, Joja Wendt, Joe Zawinul.
Refined chamber music in outstanding ambience: on Saturday morning the südtirol festival merano . meran offers the ideal way to start the weekend. Then the Pavillon des Fleurs or, in case of high demand, the nearby Kursaal host matinées and musical readings. Some of the performers so far: Klaus Maria Brandauer, Bruno Ganz, the Emerson, Hagen and Tokyo String Quartet, Fazil Say, Patricia Kopatchinskaja, the guitar legend Pepe Romero and the outstanding violinist Daniel Hope.
Mysterious, touching and devotional: Magical, religious and spiritual sounds in the churches of the Merano area.
A feast for the voice: The südtirol festival merano . meran dedicates this concert series to a cappella music and invites top ensembles from all over the world. If you want to enjoy vocal music in a very special atmosphere, these südtirol festival merano . meran concerts are just the thing for you. After all, this series takes place in extraordinary concert venues in the Merano region, such as the large Knights' Hall at Tyrol Castle, the Painting Hall at Scena Castle, Castel Katzenzungen or the parish church in Niederlana with its impressive Schnatterpeck altar, which is one of the most important art treasures of South Tyrol's late Gothic period.
Young ensembles and soloists present different programs at attractive venues and come in conversation with the audience.
Every Thursday in mid-summer the ancestral castle of the Counts of Tyrol is brought to life, opening up its doors for music from all the world. The Soirees celebrated their debut in 1990, in occasion of the 850th anniversary of Tirol Castle. Ever since, all major music ensembles have performed here. Today, the Soirees offer all kinds of musical styles, ranging from medieval music to jazz. The premises are unique due to their extraordinary acoustics: the concert hall is set in a free-hanging wooden structure, creating a sound quality, similar to that of a string instrument.
