International Piano Festival of Brescia and Bergamo

EAST AND WEST
From Chopin to Arvo Pärt

After the immersion in the folklore of the Latin countries, the Festival dedicates its 63rd edition to the repertoires and composers of Eastern and Slavic Europe. Alongside the immortal names of Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov, Prokof’ev, &Scaron’ostakovič and Scriabin, the audience will also encounter the voices of Bartók, Dvořák, Janáček and Arvo Pärt in a journey that combines tradition and contemporaneity, as the subtitle expresses.

On the stages of the two cities – in Brescia of the Teatro Grande and the Teatro Sociale, which is fully entitled to become one of the Festival venues, and in Bergamo of the Teatro Donizetti and the Sociale di Città Alta – the best pianists on the international scene will take turns: Grigory Sokolov, Mikhail Pletnëv, Jan Lisiecki, Lilya Zilberstein, as well as young talents that the Festival is proud to introduce to its audience.

The main novelty of 2026 will be a ‘long tail’ of the 63rd edition with two top appointments in the autumn. Two extraordinary events that go beyond the traditional Festival period: the return of Yuja Wang, accompanied by the Mahler Chamber Orchestra on 8 September at the Teatro Donizetti, and that of Beatrice Rana, starring in a recital at the Teatro Sociale in Brescia on 1 October.