The Trento Philharmonic offers a season of classical music of the highest level, with a rich and careful programming that brings the great stars of international chamber music to the city: from Sol Gabetta to Janine Jansen, from Sabine Meyer to Jakub Józef Orliński, from Voces8 to Joshua Bell.
Alongside the main season, there are festivals designed to engage a wider audience: concerts for families, educational courses for schools, inclusive experiences, matinée and much more.
The History
Since 1795, the Trento Philharmonic Society has been a venue for the city's musical life. Founded with the aim of cultivating and spreading musical culture, it gave impetus to the birth of the city orchestra, the band, the choir, the mandolin group, the musical high school – today the "F.A. Bonporti" Conservatory – and the musical section of the municipal library.
Today the Philharmonic continues its cultural mission focusing on the organization of concerts of the highest level. Its splendid building on Via Giuseppe Verdi – which recalls the elegance of the Musikverein of the central European area – hosts a chamber music season capable of attracting the greatest interpreters of the international scene to Trento. Among the soloists, the audience was able to listen to Sol Gabetta, Janine Jansen, András Schiff, Mischa Maisky, Wayne Marshall, the Hagen Quartet, the Jerusalem Quartet, The Harmonic Garden, the Swingle Singers, the Voces8 and the Janoska brothers with their famous Janoska Ensemble...
Alongside the main Season, initiatives have developed over time designed to involve an increasingly wide and diverse audience, from Sunday matinées to projects aimed at primary and secondary schools up to the University of the Third Age, from concerts reserved for families, young people and the very young to courses dedicated to jazz.
An increasingly important strand of musicological research with Filarchiv, a centre dedicated to the history of Italian philharmonics, and with the Trentino Musicians' Series, which has over thirty publications, including the complete edition of Francesco Antonio Bonporti's work.
Numerous collaborations with the main musical and cultural institutions at international, national and local levels, in a continuous dialogue between music, history and community.
