For its closing the Sion Festival looks beyond the usual
We are nearing the end of the wonderful journey that is the 60th anniversary of the Sion Festival, and we are determined to celebrate it all the way through with joy and gratitude, happy to share these special moments with you. From Tuesday 27 August, six magnificent concerts or spectacles await us, so let’s make the most of them!
For our final rendezvous with you, dear audience, the Sion Festival will also look beyond the usual, both in terms of genres and venues: black light theatre with the IMAGE Theatre in Savièse, a fusion between jazz and Romanian music with the Preda’s Project, and virtuoso burlesque brass in Grône with the Mnozil Brass. Chamber music will take the other half of the programme: three concerts featuring Janine Jansen will explore a repertoire spanning four centuries, from Bach to Dubugnon, with a Swiss premiere to boot.
We look forward to seeing you again for one last festival week!
The team of the Fondation Sion Violon Musique
27.08, Sion Cathedral: Variations Goldberg in trio
Originally composed for harpsichord, the Goldberg Variations represent a pinnacle of Bach’s oeuvre, one that (almost) every keyboard player dreams of climbing. Following in the footsteps of Dimitry Sitkovetsky, Janine Jansen, Timothy Ridout and Daniel Blendulf have arranged this monumental work for string trio, and will perform it in Sion as a true musical feat.
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28.08, Théâtre de Valère : From the 20th to the 21th century
The following evening, Janine Jansen and her friends will explore the 20th-century chamber music repertoire, offering three masterpieces by Messiaen, Poulenc and Enescu, joined by Richard Dubugnon’s Poème élégiaque for violin, string quartet and piano. Written for Janine Jansen, it will be performed for the first time in Switzerland – in collaboration with the International Chamber Music Festival Utrecht.
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30.08 & 31.08, Le Baladin: A journey into dreamland
The IMAGE Theatre from Prague will take it on a dreamlike journey through a world of light and shadow, illusion and reality, pantomime and dance. A short version for families will be offered the following morning.
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31.08, Théâtre de Valère: Between Romanian music and jazz
Marius Preda, the first cymbalum player in the history of jazz and a multi-instrumentalist, will also invite the audience on a journey. He will be joined by his sons, Eduardo and Thomas Preda, and Iulian Nicolau to transcend musical boundaries with his Preda’s Project.
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01.09, Théâtre de Valère : Brahms and Dvořák
The third chamber music concert will bring together Janine Jansen, Timothy Ridout, Pablo Ferrández and Denis Kozhukhin to perform Brahms and Dvořák, who shared a deep friendship and mutual admiration.
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04.09, Salle Recto-Verso : Virtuoso burlesque brass
The grand finale of the 60th Sion Festival will celebrate the 30th anniversary of Mnozil Brass. This Austrian brass septet will perform some of the best sketches of its career, mixing musical virtuosity, Viennese humour and theatrical performance, while twirling from classical repertoire to jazz and from popular song to opera. A wild and memorable evening to round off an exceptional edition!
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