Classical Festival

Orbetello Piano Festival 2025 | 14th edition

The sound of the piano between sea, land, and lagoon: seven concerts with artists from around the world in the enchanting settings of the most secret Maremma.

Organized by Kaletra Contemporanea cultural association

From 4 July to 13 August '25

In Orbetello (GR)
Tuscany

Info

Guzman Terrace
Eastern Walls Street
Orbetello (GR)
Tuscany
Other places: Piazza Giovanni Paolo II, Casale della Giannella and Bosco di Patanella WWF Oasis.

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Posto unico a 15€. Single seat: €15. Reduced price for under 18s: €8.

Characteristics

Genre: Piano
Cultural landscape: Tuscan Maremma
Context: sea, villages and cities of art
Upcoming events: 7

Artistic director Giuliano Adorno

From the July 4 to August 13, 2025, the great piano music returns to animate the enchanting scenarios of the Tuscan Maremma with the 14th edition of the Orbetello Piano Festival, one of the most original and fascinating Italian piano events.

Designed by Giuliano Adorno is Beatrice Piersanti and promoted byKaletra Association, the festival is characterized by the combination of excellent music is places of extraordinary charmFrom the terraces overlooking the lagoon to the silent paths of the WWF oases, from the ancient coastal fortifications to the village squares, each concert becomes an exciting sensory experience in which art, nature and landscape merge.

Piano virtuosos from all over the world will perform in seven dates, each designed to enhance the suggestion of the place which hosts it, creating a true musical itinerary that crosses the heart of the most authentic Tuscany, between sea, land and lagoon.

"The invitation that the Orbetello Piano Festival extends to the public – comments the artistic director Giuliano Adorno – is to reconcile oneself with beauty by enjoying the wonders of a region that, in some respects, is still undiscovered. For 14 years now, we've been pursuing quality and offering events featuring true talents who come to the Tuscan lagoon, confident they'll be performing on exceptional stages. We live in an extraordinary land, and embracing it on the piano is a way to enhance its beauty."

The program

Seven events combining music and landscape make up the 2025 edition's program, a sonic journey through extraordinary locations in the Maremma.

The festival opens with the traditional “Terrace Concerts”, hosted in the spectacular Guzman Terrace, overlooking the Orbetello lagoon: at sunset the landscape merges with the notes of the piano, in three evenings of extraordinary charm:

Friday, July 4, 7:45 PM: inaugurates the festival Hubert Zavodsky, refined Slovak interpreter, with "On the lagoon edge", a recital that ranges from Bach to Mozart, from Chopin to Scriabin, up to the Slovak composer Eugen Suchoň.
Friday, July 18, 7:45 PM: it's the turn of the young and talented Simone Librale, protagonist of the recital "Etudes – Chopin and Ligeti", in a visionary dialogue between two apparently distant worlds.
Sunday, July 20, 7:45 PM: the Ukrainian pianist Oleg Poliansky proposes "Contrasts and visions", an intense and varied program that includes works by Beethoven, Franck, Debussy and Stravinsky.

The festival then moves to the green heart of the lagoon, among the WWF nature reserves.

Saturday, July 26, 9:30 PM, at the oasis of Casale della Giannella, the famous Norwegian pianist performs Ellisiv Tandberg with the concert "Music and nature": a journey that intertwines Grieg and Sinding with Mozart, Schubert, Schumann, Liszt, Chopin and Ravel, in the name of an authentically Nordic lyricism.
Thursday, July 31, 6:00 a.m., one of the most anticipated events: the Concert at dawn in Patanella forest, a musical ritual between the dawning light and the silence of nature. The protagonist is the very young Antonia De Pasquale, which will accompany the audience in a poetic awakening to the notes of Chopin and Ravel.

The festival then returns to the centre of Orbetello, with the “Concerts in the square”.

Monday, August 11, 9:30 PM, in John Paul II Square, goes on stage "Silver Light – Dedicated to the Orbetello lagoon", a choral event that combines piano, percussion, and vocals. On stage Giuliano Adorno, Yukiko Hirano, Francesco Iannitti (also author of the composition in the program), the percussionists Federico Poli is Yosuke Nomoto, with the voice of Simona ViganòA musical tribute to the lagoon and its magic.
Grand finale Wednesday, August 13, 9:30 p.m., still in John Paul II Square, with the prestigious Tbsk Orchestra Tokyo directed by Takeshi Kuse. At the piano, Danylo Saienko for an overwhelming program that crosses Gershwin, famous pages ofItalian opera and the suggestive Japanese repertoire.