The Trame Sonore festival in Mantua

For the twelfth year, the palaces and streets of Mantua resound with music from morning to evening for the Trame Sonore festival, with numerous free concerts, a musical feast. In Pordenone an exceptional conductor Kirill Petrenko (Berlin Philharmonic) with the young members of the Mahler Jugendorchester that Claudio Abbado founded in 1986. In Milan, on the other hand, the ninth edition of the Latin Festival kicks off, with concerts every evening featuring the best musicians from all over South America.

From 29 May to 2 June the twelfth edition of Trame Sonore, a chamber music festival that returns to make the frescoes and architectural perspectives of Mantua, whose historic centre is part of the Unesco World Heritage, dance. 250 artists, 140 concerts, 12 'plots', red threads that guide, 16 hours a day of events in a continuous cycle from early morning to late evening in 30 different art spaces: Palazzo Ducale, Palazzo Te, Palazzo Castiglioni, Rotonda di S. Lorenzo, Teatro Bibiena, Santa Barbara, Palazzo D'Arco, Biblioteca Teresiana and even private historical residences, squares, alleys and cloisters. The artist in residence is pianist Alexander Lonquich.

On the 1st at the Teatro Verdi an exceptional concert with the start of the European tour of the Mahler Jugendorchester conducted by Kirill Petrenko, conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic, for the first time at the helm of the youth formation founded by Abbado. On the programme is a cornerstone of late Romantic symphonism, Anton Bruckner's Fifth Symphony. With this concert the orchestra concludes its first period of residence in Pordenone, where it will return from 4 to 18 August, for the ninth consecutive year.

Kirill Petrenko

On the 30th at the Blue Note a Cuban evening with the ConClave Sextet, a collective of talented Cuban musicians united by a mission to spread their culture through a variety of styles derived from Afro-Cuban music, founded in 2015 by trombonist Humberto Amésquita.

From 1 June to 15 August at Acquatica Park the Milano Latin Festival; among the first concerts are Grupo 5, Lenier, Nacho, Los Van Van, Guayacan Orquesta, Diego y su Grupo Galè, Latin Brothers & Sonora Dinamita Maria Becerra.