Agrigento 2025: Capitale Italiana della Cultura

Open Call Concert

Entitled "New Music – New Horizons", Klangforum Wien and the Fondazione Agrigento 2025 published a call for scores focussing on the subject of sound, architecture and identity of the Mediterranean region. Ultimately, selected compositions of the Call shall be performed as part of this year's festival programme for the Italian Capital of Culture. Having received about 210 submissions, the jury finally selected seven composers whose works will be performed at the Open Call concert at the Teatro Pirandello on 26 April.

Urban Interactions

In a process of mutual encounter and connection, the musicians of Klangforum Wien will be present all over Agrigento’s historic center on 1 March. At the city’s many characteristic spots, they will intervene musically and thus create a city map of sounds that involves the entire urban population.

Symposion

The Symposion takes up the theme of intoxication culture, going back to antiquity. This ancient social practice (cf. Plato’s Symposion)inspired an evening with music of our time, perceived in the slowly changing conditions of collective, relaxed inebriation. The musical programme of this evening on 3 May involves works by Martin Smolka, Lisa Streich, Wolfgang Mitterer, Rebecca Saunders, Terry Riley, and more.

The programme at a glance

Open Call Concert:

26 April, 2025, Teatro Pirandello, Agrigento (IT)

Urban Interactions:

1 May, 2025, Historic Center, Agrigento (IT)

Symposion:

3 May, 2025, Teatro Efebo, Agrigento (IT)