Stravinsky Festival 2025: Venice

The 6 concerts of this 4th edition come together under the theme "Venice". After a 3rd edition "Metropolis" which retraced Stravinsky's journey in the greatest cities where he lived, it is his final home which is staged musically.

Detailed program :

Thursday March 13, 20 p.m.
LA GONDOLA, Italian Variations
Pierre Willimann, guitar
Simon Bürki, piano
Dinu Mihailescu, piano
Works by Francisco Tárrega, Sergeï Rachmaninoff and Witold Lutosławski

Friday March 14, 20 p.m.
RAVEL AND STRAVINSKY, Crossed Tributes
Voce Quartet
Brenda Poupard, mezzo-soprano
Zofia Neugebauer and Natan Cazorzi, flute
Quentin Chartier and Panagiotis Giannakas, clarinet
François-Xavier Poizat, piano

Works by Maurice Ravel, Francis Poulenc, François Thury and Igor Stravinsky

Saturday March 15, 20 p.m.
CARNIVAL, Make way for the orchestra
Lausanne Soloists Ensemble
Xavier Phillips, cello and direction
Works by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and Astor Piazzolla

Saturday March 15, 21 p.m.
JAZZ, Big Band
Big Band of the music school
Michael Cherret, saxophone

Sunday March 16, 17 p.m.
AT THE MASKED BALL, Dances without a face
Oxy-More Duo, two pianos
Works by Constantin Silvestri, Igor Stravinsky and Francis Poulenc

Sunday March 16, 18 p.m.
KLEZMER D'ENFER, Violin and clarinets from the East
Marc Crofts Klezmer Ensemble